Volunteer - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

of damage caps on settlements, the propensity of men and women to initiate negotiations, and the readiness of each gender to volunteer for, and work on “nonpromotable tasks.” Linda won this award, however, not only for her path‐breaking... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2006
News

The Producers

who volunteers to teach dance in the New York City public schools. “I want to make movies that are entertaining and commercially successful but also have the potential to change someone’s outlook on life and make a difference in a good... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

03 Jul 2024
News

Surviving the Iditarod

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Sunny Stroeer: Many folks have heard of the Iditarod Sled Dog race, which is the last great race on earth where mushers compete to cover the distance from Anchorage to Nome as quickly as possible. The... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

Inside Intel

and the collateral sales that business generated was at stake. Now the message did indeed get through to the West Coast, and “the executive staff meeting the following Tuesday couldn’t have been more unpleasant.” Davidow “either View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Hanna, Julia; technology; manufacturing; innovation; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

offerings. It has also organized a volunteer group of investors, mentors, and advisors for weekly "office hours" to review pitch decks and offer workshops on recruiting, negotiating, and presenting, among other skills. "When Amal told me... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

increasing the welfare of poor people in poor countries. Nongovernmental organizations are largely staffed by altruistic employees and volunteers working towards ideological, rather than financial, ends. Their founders are often intense,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

kids being kids, he often had to negotiate peace on the field. “I had to keep people from fighting,” he says, “because I couldn’t fight everyone.” Eamer is also even-keeled, a quality that is perhaps equal parts nature and nurture. While on a View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

01 Dec 2020
News

In Review

those with no experience get ready (thank heavens for the early investments we made in HBX, now HBS Online). Our IT team did wonders to get everyone the technology and connectivity to teach, learn, and work from home. Staff across the School View Details

17 Dec 2017
News

How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression

Heaney talks about his unique path from entrepreneurship and investment banking at Goldman Sachs to taking up the fight for free speech. READ MORE April White: Hunter, take me back to the sort of first spark that became the Voice Project. You were View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

decade. Coverage of School- and alumni-sponsored community outreach programs were featured in the early 1970s, including several pieces on volunteer consulting projects. In addition, in a special 1979 Bulletin essay on "Ethics in Business... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

serving as a volunteer football coach at Western Maryland College, a student complained to him that there were "no opportunities left in America." A survivor of childhood poverty who became a millionaire by age 35 through nursing-home and... View Details

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

about to turn 60. And I was starting to think, "Maybe I'm on the coast into, you know, volunteering and that kind of thing." And then I read David Sinclair's book, Lifespan. And I've got a bit obsessed with this whole field [laughs] and... View Details

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

Marketing is important in campaigning. It is equally important in governing. In 2008, Barack Obama won the presidency with an uplifting call for hope and change. He leveraged online media to attract volunteers and donors, building a swell... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

a large margin, and a non-financial reward, respectively. The analysis yields three main findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract, and are also... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

controversial) shift in its business model from "retail" projects involving individual volunteers to "wholesale" projects with for-profit partners from the San Francisco Bay Area. Its CEO has to decide whether and how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1996
News

Keepers of the Flame

what's going on with the security people, concessions, merchandise, and on and on. You can learn something from virtually any event. "Then yesterday, by contrast," she continues, "I spent two hours huddling with our advisory group on disability access, a group of View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

Strategic Services in 1944 to train European resistors, this is the essential handbook to help stamp out unintentional sabotage in any working group, from major corporations to volunteer PTA committees. While the manual was written... View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Mission Possible

professional skills, college credits, an educational stipend, and corporate apprenticeships leading to full-time employment. Courtesy Year Up As a young Wall Street banker in the 1980s, Gerald Chertavian volunteered as a Big Brother,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

establishments, written by volunteer Internet users and read by 20 million people per month. However, the company made meager profits. The CEO needs to decide between two options to increase the revenue. First, the company can maintain... View Details