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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

To inspire and support alumni serving on nonprofit boards 41% of HBS alumni currently serve on a nonprofit board 1 , and many more have or will serve on a board at some point in their career. To support this... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

nonprofit organization, DKMS German Bone Marrow Donor Database, that currently has 650,000 registered potential donors, the largest bone marrow donor bank in the world. While Harf's wife did not survive, thousands of others have, thanks... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

Poor’s, Morningstar, and Fitch Ratings already comb EDGAR’s data to assess nonprofit hospitals’ debt and for-profit hospitals’ financial instruments. These analysts can communicate with investors and patients, including those who can’t... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

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Industry Information - Alumni

analysis of news and media from Pew, a nonprofit focused on informing the public about current issues and trends facing the world. Publishers Weekly Top industry publication catering to book publishers and booksellers. Some content is for... View Details

31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

who has always been comfortable spending time alone with her own thoughts. The last thing I thought I’d do is start a nonprofit with complete strangers.” Origin story: “In 2016, I was shattered by the shooting deaths of Alton Sterling and... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

partners include IBM, Shell Energy, SC Johnson, Aldi, Henkel and more. Professor Manuel Maqueda is an expert on plastic pollution and the cofounder and CEO of Single-Use Plastic Elimination or Reduction (SUPER),a nonprofit enabling... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Feb 2022
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Nikki Philip

with the goal of working for an East Africa-based nonprofit organization after graduation. My plan was to work on the ground for a nonprofit and then pursue an MBA to combine business principals with social... View Details

25 Jan 2017
HBS Case

How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?

explains, the prejudice seems to have a deeper impact on women, whose worth is more often judged by society on their appearance. (This is obvious from matrimonial ads that seek brides who are “fair and beautiful.”) Founders of Women of Worth (WOW), a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Beauty & Cosmetics

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

healthcare in a range of leadership and advisory roles that have put her HBS and HKS education into practice. Her work has spanned the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and has made an impact on how healthcare is delivered across the... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

From Big Pharma to Startup

Hunter Goble (MBA 2022) did not enroll in Harvard Business School with dreams of becoming an entrepreneur. After earning his MBA, Goble intended to return to Eli Lilly to continue to work building brands and launching products. He envisioned himself leading a big,... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

Campbell and Shang constructed a dataset of reviews from more than 4,000 publicly traded firms between 2008 and 2016, extracting a vocabulary of 11,772 unique words used in the reviews. At the same time, they obtained a database assembled by the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Government, Business, and Nonprofit Leaders Early-Career Professionals Learn how to evaluate, measure, and manage sustainable investment opportunities with cutting-edge frameworks, strategies, and techniques. The course content is well... View Details

23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Garantia S.A. is sold to Credit Suisse First Boston 1999 Acquires Ibmec with other investors 2004 Through a donation, Ibmec São Paulo becomes a nonprofit institution 2009 Ibmec renamed Insper 2010 Insper accredited by AACSB 2015 Steps... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Profile

Phillip Jones

of business and public service, including electoral leadership at the local level, and ultimately a cabinet position in D.C. “In the future,” he believes, “issues will be solved by people who can speak to industry, as well as have a firm grasp on View Details

July 2011
Case

Teach Plus: Mobilizing a New Generation of Teacher Leaders

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary

This case profiles the evolution of Teach Plus, a non-profit organization founded on the premise that in order for public schools to continuously improve urban student achievement, teaching must become a career that motivates and retains effective early career... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Decision Making; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Teaching; Cambridge; Boston

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01 Jun 2023
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An Engine of Innovation

innovative ideas across private, public, and nonprofit sectors; and supports more than 700 venture teams each semester. As the Harvard i-lab has evolved, so too has the approach to furthering students’ entrepreneurial journeys. How does... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

innovations that connect it to a larger management literature. The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance Over the past 20 years, there has been an explosion in methodologies and tools for... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

27 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets

organizations? Khanna: Leaders interviewed for the Emerging Markets project are generally considered to be iconic stewards of their society. They may be great business people, they may be prominent regulators, they may be people who built important View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Affiliated Organizations & Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

City ICIC is a nonprofit research and strategy organization and the leading authority on U.S. inner city economies and the businesses that thrive there. U.S. Cluster Mapping Project The U.S. Cluster Mapping Project is a national economic... View Details

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Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation