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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About
student. These entities include all for-profit and nonprofit businesses and social enterprises, as well as venture capital funds, private equity funds, hedge funds, search funds, and other investment vehicles. A faculty venture is any... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
opportunity to differentiate the company and its products. It can also elicit positive reactions from government officials and regulators on important business issues. Q: It's clear that nonprofits get financial benefits from partnering... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
themselves from individual liability. Since the Free Software Foundation was founded in 1985, a number of new nonprofit foundations have formed, often around specific technologies, to serve the interests of programmers. HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 16 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Leadership Fellows Program?
graduates can experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public sector organizations (for one year) at a competitive salary. We checked in with the Social Enterprise Initiative’s Director of Programs, Margot Dushin, to... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
When Reynold Levy took over as president of New York's Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in 2002, he faced a classic challenge for any nonprofit leader navigating a complex environment: staying relevant to the next generation. Levy... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Leveraging the HBS platform to enter social enterprise
professors and fellow students. But I’m also very excited to have the time to truly explore the wide variety of career opportunities out there. Though I go back and forth almost every day, I think that my “dream job” lies somewhere within either the social... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
through the HBS Leadership Fellows program, a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a select group of graduating HBS students to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public-sector organizations for one year at a... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Gerald Chertavian
Gerald Chertavian takes the adage “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger” to heart. “Within adversity are the seeds of resilience,” says the son of a dentist who grew up in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Chertavian’s philosophy is at the core of Year Up, the... View Details
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?
was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and founding CEO of the nonprofit E-Rate program that... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
business, government, and nonprofit organizations, through which they will contribute significantly to the well-being of society. About Nanako Yano Nanako Yano grew up in Tokyo, Japan and attended Pomona College in California. After... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Arvind Chandrababu
best approaches for pursuing my career. Initially, I thought building schools would be a nonprofit enterprise. But studying things like the rise of microfinance really changed my mind. When people develop commercial models, they can make... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
by my internship. Although HBS incorporates social impact throughout the first-year curriculum, I enjoyed spending a summer with nonprofit entrepreneurs whose sole purpose is social impact and whose problem-solving approach is often very... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
how much good the donation will achieve. “That gives you some moral wiggle room to pursue the more selfish action,” says Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. Her research attempts to improve the performance of View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Education Pioneers
their skills. Education Pioneers (EP) is a national nonprofit that recruits, develops, and connects talented professionals from diverse backgrounds—including graduate students—to work for K-12 school districts, charter schools, and other... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Erik Dyson
Erik Dyson (MBA 1999) uses the management skills he learned at HBS to lead All Hands Volunteers, a nonprofit that coordinates volunteers around the world to help communities affected by natural disasters. View Details
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Lindsay Steinmetz
Why was earning your MBA here important to you? After working for a small, entrepreneurial organization I wanted to build a stronger foundation in general management. HBS expanded my knowledge of industries, types of organizations, and how finance, operations and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
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Kanwaljit Bakshi
It is often said that two years at HBS prepares its graduates to lead a wide range of organizations and endeavors and to find solutions to a host of business and social challenges. Still, Kanwaljit Bakshi (MBA/JD 1999), known to friends and colleagues as Kayla Brochu,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Matt…
HBS alum, Matt Segneri, MBA 2010, provides an update on his career post-HBS. Check out his original profile at graduation. Current Position: Government Innovation at Bloomberg Philanthropies Current Location: New York Cit Tell us what you’re up to these days.After two... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 22 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
The National Park Services: A Mini-Business with a Twist
My internship with the National Park Service has given me a unique perspective on park operations. In my view, each park unit (there are 417 in the U.S.!) runs like a mini-business, with a twist. Generally, each park has the following divisions: Resource Management,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 20 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee
In November of 2015 I sat in the upper deck of Faneuil Hall in Boston, looking on as300 people from 80 countries congregated to take their oath as the newest crop of US citizens. Among them was my girlfriend, now fiancé, who had navigated her own journey to the US as... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government