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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Survey Spotlights HBS Experience
percent serve on an average of 2.3 boards of for-profit companies where they are not currently employed. And 35 percent show their broader commitment to society by serving on an average of 2 nonprofit boards. Friendships made at HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Mickey Herbert (MBA 1969)
graduating from HBS, I worked briefly as a management consultant in New York City before getting laid off. An opening at a nonprofit health-policy research firm lured me to Minneapolis, where I learned about health maintenance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
governance in Asia, and measuring performance in nonprofit organizations. As always, there was ample opportunity for networking and socializing with participants and speakers from across the Harvard University community and beyond. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
nonprofit and social sector. Greg Dees, Kash Rangan, and others were instrumental in this effort, which told students that they could be entrepreneurs. It was validation that it was important and even urgent for them to do so. Nowadays... View Details
- 21 Jun 2020
- News
Rooting out Racism
Racism and Third-Degree Racism,” published in The Atlantic, John Rice (MBA 1992) proposes a way forward. We can end racism, he writes, by increasing its cost. The founder and CEO of the nonprofit Management Leadership for Tomorrow, where... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- News
Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
societal challenges. In today’s landscape, there are many ways in which to have an impact, including board service and volunteering; for-profit ventures with a social mission; nonprofit leadership; venture philanthropy; and impact... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources
year, gives alumni exclusive access to hundreds of positions, and it is searchable by industry, region, salary, and more. This year the Job Bank will add a much wider range of opportunities specifically for more senior executives, second-career seekers, and those... View Details
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
the marketing visionary who helped Amazon.com expand its horizons beyond books, Risher is now putting his imagination to work on finding better ways to bring books to children worldwide. As cofounder of the nonprofit Worldreader, the... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
nor would it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, it would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that would benefit economically... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
working my way up in finance or private industry, and then I’d move into nonprofit work on women’s education in the developing world.” How she’s fulfilling that goal instead: Leading all-women expeditions and speaking out about life as a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Whitehead Institute is an independent, nonprofit research and teaching organization and one of the largest participants in the Human Genome Project through the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research. Pratt notes that because the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
money. But refunds are many families’ best opportunity to put away a few dollars for their children and their futures. For the past three years, a team comprising researchers, the nonprofit Doorways to Dreams Fund (which I cofounded),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
four years “to fight racial injustice and inequity in our world and to promote health and wellbeing for all.” Peloton will focus on five areas: increasing hourly wages for its workforce; investing in learning and development programs for hourly workers; investing in... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
students with specific backgrounds and interests, such as in the nonprofit and the health care sectors, and even those who do not receive need-based aid may apply. Our newest one is the John C. Phelan (MBA 1990) Forward Fellowship, which... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
nonprofit that develops national networks of volunteer mental health professionals who can provide free, confidential care to individuals experiencing an acute or chronic need for help. Our initial focus was veterans and their families,... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Turning Point: Crossover
school, and as a volunteer coach for the Bay Area Warriors, a nonprofit I cofounded that draws inner-city players like those I had in Chicago. Many of the challenges are the same too: In 2010, one of our players was shot and killed on a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
while open-spirited, curiosity-driven, person-to-person connections lead to discovery, growth, and often amazing results. Through personal stories, innovative suggestions, and inspiring examples, they show nonprofit leaders how to build a... View Details
- 04 May 2017
- News
Going the Distance
temperature. These are among the moments and lessons he has brought, post-adventure, to speaking engagements in boardrooms, classrooms, startups, sales meetings, and nonprofits across the world. “I love helping people realize they can do... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
also funds programs that bring clean drinking water, medicine, and literacy programs to rural Indian villages. He runs the nonprofit EMRI like he does any of his other myriad enterprises, by driving the staff hard and carefully measuring... View Details