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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
moving story about her own bout with cancer, an experience that led her to switch from a fast-track investment-banking job to the nonprofit world as head of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations. On Being There Excerpts... View Details
- 04 Apr 2019
- News
Promoting Diversity at Sundance and Beyond
Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) was in the midst of a successful career in investment management with the $1.7 trillion Capital Group Companies when he cofounded the Blackhouse Foundation, a nonprofit aimed at advancing the careers of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
the Colorado field office of B Lab, a nonprofit organization that seeks to redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations—companies that meet certain prescribed... View Details
- 16 Sep 2016
- News
Gaining Ground on ALS
If you are one of the 17 million people who participated in the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the money you raised may be helping to fund a first-of-its kind clinical collaboration between a nonprofit patient/disease advocacy organization and... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Adoption
When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned home from Russia in 1998 with their adopted daughter, Christina, they brought with them a desire to make the process easier for other families. They created Pathways for Little Feet, a View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: On May 29, a fresh crop of MBAs will receive their diplomas and go off into the world to begin a new chapter in their lives. But before they walk across the stage on Baker Lawn, Dean Srikant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
structured things. COURTNEY HUGHES, 26 Needham, Massachusetts BS, Information Systems; BS Biochemistry/Biophysics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Started a nonprofit initiative, Balanced Attack, to promote the development of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
don’t see a repeat of 1989,” he adds. In fact, overpricing, not overbuilding, is the market’s biggest problem, says Joseph O’Connor (MBA ’70), the founder and president of Singleton Associates, a real estate development firm based in Boston, and former chairman of the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Two Alumnae Among Time’s Most Influential of 2019
Aileen Lee (photo by Carlos Chavarría) Lee is the founder of All Raise, a nonprofit that is “dedicated to diversity in founders and funders.” Her entry is written by Kirsten Green, founding partner of both the VC firm Forerunner Ventures... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging MBA Skills for the Public Good
nonprofit organizations. A lot of things are accomplished for free that tax dollars would have been used for otherwise. And I had the flexibility to raise my family. I was fortunate to be able to do that.” (Published August 2015) View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
In Brief
however, entrepreneur Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993) has launched a nonprofit emergency response service that has saved thousands of lives and is destined to spread nationwide. Editor’s Note; Letters to the Editor; Deferred-Admission... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
our students disconnected from the mainstream economy; it prevents our businesses from growing.” —Gerald Chertavian (MBA ’92), founder and CEO of Year Up, a nonprofit providing urban young adults with technical and professional skills... View Details
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- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
being’s life. Then the authors go much deeper—analyzing the roles of both nonprofits and for-profit companies in making significant impacts, and offering conclusive data-supported proof of the approaches that are working. “We’re simply... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Steven Rogers
nonprofit boards (including that of ABC). While serving as an entrepreneur-in-residence at the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, he created the Entrepreneur Internship Program. Rogers is devoted to promoting entrepreneurship among... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
notions of poverty; emerging markets; and the roles of business, government, and the nonprofit sector. “The IXP program is all about active learning,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, who serves as faculty chair of the program.... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
says. One was Fisher’s 2011 launch of WaterRev, an investment company focusing on technologies for sustainable water-use practices. Another idea, currently in early pilot testing, is FitMoney, a nonprofit K–12 financial literacy program... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
fundraising, IP, patent law, and the ins and outs of FDA and HIPAA regulations. Tecco and Gross refined their vision for Rock Health in a field study with HBS senior lecturer Bob Higgins. But first, Tecco had the experience of founding Yoga Bear, a View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
Traill’s story about leaving Macquarie Bank “to become the founding CEO of Social Ventures Australia, a nonprofit that provides evidence-based funding, investment, and advice to support its cross-sector partners.” The Crown Maple Guide to... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
how it changed things for you. Switz: I was in a role as a vice president in a nonprofit and there was a lot of international travel required. And when I was trying to explain to the CEO, why I couldn't do as much international travel as... View Details