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- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Building Platforms of Life for the World’s Poorest Children
Kevin Jenkins (MBA 1985) is president and CEO of the nonprofit World Vision International, a global Christian humanitarian relief, development, and advocacy organization. In this video, he talks about the organization’s mission and his... View Details
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide
In August, 2014, a horrific ISIS attack on Yazidi towns in Northern Iraq created a humanitarian crisis that Canadian executive Michel Aziza (MBA 1991) couldn’t ignore. “This is the latest chapter in a long history of persecution for the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
board. But he never gave up his ambition to have an international impact. For the last half century, DeFehr has circled the globe—141 countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to complicated View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Goodwin Illustration by Jack Unruh Over the past two decades, Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007) has made a career of getting involved in complex and intractable global crises, from helping to rebuild the Iraqi Ministry of Health to directing View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
When More Is Better
books. Some of you are incredible adventurers. Others concentrate on humanitarian and philanthropic endeavors. Apart from my personal reading pleasure, there’s a higher purpose at work. My colleagues here at the Bulletin and I are... View Details
Keywords: meta
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
Dan Curran (MBA ’00), administrative director of the School’s Humanitarian Leadership Program. Most importantly, centralized recovery planning should take a backseat to helping survivors with immediate recovery needs, such as clearing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
political issues for students, so it fits well with the LCA curriculum.” Cipla’s CEO, Dr. Yusef Hamied, figures prominently in the case. A Cambridge University–educated chemist, Hamied is revered by some for his humanitarian projects... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals at the grassroots level around... View Details
- 29 Apr 2019
- News
A Global Mission
countries by his count—looking for places where his business expertise could reshape response to complicated humanitarian crises. His first project was in Bangladesh in the 1970s, when he led a project on agricultural restoration after... View Details
- 23 Aug 2018
- News
Healthcare Alumni Keep Learning Through Virtual Programming
about.” HBS Club of Connecticut Wins Award for Community Partners Impact The HBS Club of Connecticut will receive the 2018 Christel Truglia Humanitarian Award for the work of its Community Partners program. “We can’t think of a more... View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- News
Minding God’s Money
a global humanitarian organization. As CFO of TDJ Enterprises, Thomas oversees the finances of Jakes’s separate for-profit business, a $400 million, faith- and family-oriented media and entertainment venture that offers inspiration to... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- News
Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China
Chinese officials, members of his own administration, and the owner and president of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990), for the successful collaboration across public and private sectors. “It is an honor for our family to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
The flow of refugees from Syria following years of civil war has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in modern times. Working in collaboration with HBS’s global research centers, two HBS professors have brought a better... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- News
Sewn with Love
Hanazawa, who also founded Fashion Girls for Humanity (FGFH), a nonprofit that provides humanitarian services and funds to victims of natural disasters, began to study a medical gown given to her by a friend in the medical profession. She... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
longtime supporters of multiple Harvard initiatives, including scholarships at Harvard College (from which Jeannie also graduated) and a training program for humanitarian relief workers at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2024
- News
Generosity Multiplied
There’s little doubt that James Reed (MBA 1990) loves his job. After all, he’s the chairman and CEO of Reed, the United Kingdom’s first and largest jobs website, and he takes the company’s slogan—“Love Mondays”—to heart. Even so, he admits he has a side hustle. When... View Details
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Natalie Margulies | MBA
donor matches and optimizing humanitarian relief after natural disasters through data. However, my time at Facebook also showed me the tremendous potential for misuse in data analytics; I watched Facebook’s ad-targeting technology exclude... View Details
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Lavinia Teodorescu | MBA
and undocumented individuals can live safely during these difficult times. As a founding member of ImmigrationHelp, I was able to provide access to humanitarian legal services for low-income people, using the power of technology. I have... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
There’s no problem the business world can’t solve. That’s the thinking of Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2008), who believes companies—and the great minds who run them—can find sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises. “For whatever reason,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
multiplies the gifts’ impact. The Reed Foundation launched the Big Give in 2007, and since then, it has raised nearly £200 million for 10,000 charities that address a range of causes, from climate change and cancer research to food insecurity and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley