nonprofits - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium

nonprofits to the managerial emphasison unregulated pro forma earnings, to teamwork in health-care organizations. Synopses of three of the presentations follow. Pay Check: Equity-Based Compensation and Incentives In 2000, CEOs were... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies

satellites can set eyes on disaster sites that are unsafe for people to visit or even fly over, and she hopes to expand the company’s outreach to nonprofits and NGOs to help them streamline emergency response operations. There have been... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

01 Dec 2014
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Ask the Expert: A Fair Share

Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service RelayRides and executive director of... View Details

27 Apr 2023
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Life Preserver

led to the creation of the Organ Preservation Alliance, a nonprofit established to advocate for additional funding for research into cryopreservation and connect scientists in the field. Giwa served as founding CEO of what he calls a... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

low-income youth and companies needing skilled labor. His yearlong training program offers 18 through 24-year-olds the technical, professional, and communications skills needed to transition into careers and college. The award-winning View Details

01 Mar 2013
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Commitment to Leadership

and Neil P. Simpkins (both MBA 1992) Miyoung Lee and Neil Simpkins stepped up early in their class's 20th Reunion Campaign with a generous gift to establish a fellowship fund for students involved in the nonprofit sector. As members of... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

aspirations, serve as stewards who know the organization in all its dimensions, and make decisions that create value for all stakeholders—owners, employees, customers, and society. The goal is not just achieving short-term success but ensuring that the company or View Details

01 Dec 2020
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

handful of educators, nonprofit leaders, and criminal justice reformers to find pathways to success for these young people. In the author's words, “As a juror in a criminal trial, your vote is one of 12 determining whether the accused... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

nonprofit focused on improving urban economies, and ICV Partners, a Black-owned private equity firm focused on companies in the lower middle market. Willie Woods is cofounder, president, and managing director of ICV Partners, and in this... View Details

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

time in this world taken away and then given back, you want to use it in the very best way you can.” Looking back on his childhood, the friendly, unassuming Massie, who is executive director of the nonprofit Coalition for Environmentally... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

15 Dec 2024
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Back at the Ranch

will know exactly what’s being asked and how to do it safely. Minden founded the nonprofit in 2019, as a second act after his own military career. He’d gone straight from his New Jersey high school to West Point, then commissioned as an... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photos by Adler and Vance Jacobs; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

05 Feb 2019
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Protecting the Power Grid

feared—but Japanese emergency crews were able to replenish the spent-fuel pool water in the nick of time, preventing massive evacuation of Tokyo. US regulators took notice. In 2012, Popik and Mott cofounded the nonprofit Foundation for... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; terrorism; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

17 May 2018
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Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs

HBS alumni in New York to participate in a voluntary outreach program to help local nonprofit institutions. Bhargava and Misra, who had found early success as an investment executive and founder or three tech startups, quickly became good... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Mar 2004
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HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania

exploited for centuries, and a better understanding of the Maasai who grace the covers of so many books about the continent. A second academic component centers on a lively case discussion about Tanzanian coffee production with representatives from TechnoServe, a View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Nov 2020
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The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

case and why? “One case that stands out is the case on Daily Table from my second-year retailing class. I was already exploring mission-driven food organizations at that point and had the opportunity to work with Daily Table during my first year at HBS. Daily Table is... View Details

27 Mar 2023
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A Sporting Chance

it is now known, assists 1,500 people a year, with a budget of over 1 million and six full-time employees. Balancing his work life, nonprofit life, and family life (Perez de Leza got married two years after HBS and has two daughters) is... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Dec 2008
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Letters to the Editor

barely spoke during those years. In 1967 I became president of Emerson College, where the General’s wife was a trustee! Doriot and I got reacquainted, which led to a long-delayed sharing of his immense goodwill and deep understanding of the subtleties of View Details

01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

topic and, in 1994, to found the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC), a nonprofit organization that aims to catalyze innercity business development across the United States. In frequent talks around the country, Porter... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

for all of its activities, it raises the clubs’ profile in the larger New York community, which attracts new members, more volunteers and more potential nonprofits to serve. “It really ends up being a fantastic thing,” says Peeters, who... View Details