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- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
“Indigenous peoples’ relationship with fire was instrumental in their life,” Sprinkles explains. “It meant protection, a way to cook their food, and formed the orientation for their social organization. “People who attend the fires come... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
New Alliances: Forming For-Profit and Nonprofit Partnerships Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently for-profit firms and nonprofit recipients have begun to join forces to better... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
focus and confidence to start Edify. Funded largely on donations, the organization provides the funds to help build simple cement-block classrooms with a $10,000 loan and serve students such as 14-year-old Delphine, who lives in Ghana,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
participate in a panel discussion with seven leaders in the field of humanitarian relief and development was handed a packet of oral-rehydration salts. The January 15 panel, one of a series of presentations in the School's "Rising to the Challenge" program View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Photos by Chris Taggart Mishka Pitter-Armand (MBA 2003) was never a Girl Scout; but she is a go-getter, an innovator, a risk taker, and a leader. “When you bring those four words together,” Pitter-Armand says, “they form the acronym... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Harvard-Westlake. I started thinking about all the low-income kids and inner-city kids in Los Angeles whose parents who couldn’t help them go to private school, take them on trips around the country, give them SAT prep, and help with their essays. I decided to View Details
- 04 Apr 2018
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
Mishka Pitter-Armand (MBA 2003) was never a Girl Scout; but she is a go-getter, an innovator, a risk taker, and a leader. “When you bring those four words together,” Pitter-Armand says, “they form the acronym G.I.R.L.” In late 2016,... View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead
don't have to make all your own opportunities. There are some that we've made for you. You can depend that they are there. And let's reward the organizations that have really moved forward. “You have to pay it forward. Always. And that's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Power of Prayer
region. The Collective Banking Group is a national organization of African-American churches that agrees to conduct its business with partnering banks and encourages parishioners to do the same. The CBG was View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
estimated $6 trillion will flow directly to social enterprise organizations. Concurrently, a new generation of business leaders and philanthropists is experimenting with hybrid forms of social enterprises while demanding more transparency... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
evidence that links organizational success or failure to “primal leadership.” They argue that a leader’s emotions are contagious and must resonate energy and enthusiasm if an organization is to thrive. Cultivating Communities of Practice:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
Somerville, Massachusetts, needed advice on how to make the nonprofit more cost-effective, he might have considered attending business school. But he didn’t have to. Harvard Business School came to him in the form of alumni who have... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; CAP; HBS; nonprofits; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Bringing New Life to an Iconic Magazine
Growing up in Washington, DC, David Bradley (MBA 1977) aspired to be a politician, not a businessman, but figured he should have a strong financial base in order to launch his political career. In 1979, he formed the Research Counsel of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Now, the former Air Force officer is drawing on his military, White House, State Department, and humanitarian aid experience as cofounder and CEO of Executives Without Borders, an organization that matches business leaders who volunteer... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
job was in grocery retail and I knew the food space was where I wanted to be long-term. Food forms such a foundational part of life and I immediately found it meaningful to be part of the industry providing for people’s basic needs.” What... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
Illustration by Dave Cutler At the peak of his career as CEO of Bain & Company, Tom Tierney (MBA ’80) quit his job to form a nonprofit professional services organization. Frustrated by the plodding pace of Alzheimer’s research,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Start-Up Success
When the HBS student soccer team had to pull out of the National MBA Soccer Tournament two weeks before it was scheduled to begin last February, defending the School's honor fell to a group of HBS alumni booters. Not to worry — the recently View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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Talent: The Best Employee Perk?
“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that win today’s competitive races.... View Details
- 13 May 2013
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The Power of Three
Perhaps it was because they had worked together at Goldman Sachs before business school, or because two of them had been roommates at HBS. But whatever held them together remained in force when Anne Dias Griffin, Julie Frist, and Teresa Teague View Details
- 04 Feb 2020
- News
In Harmony
life plan), and CEO of the AT&T Performing Arts Center in Dallas. Today Weinstein is the president and CEO of the Brevard Music Center, an institute and summer festival for young musicians in Brevard, North Carolina. It’s here that Weinstein oversees the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon