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Loan Assistance Programs - Alumni

throughout your career to pursue your passions wherever they may lead. Eligible Loans To be considered for any of the three HBS loan reduction programs (Loan Reduction for Private Sector Employees, Rock Center Loan Reduction for... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Books

and become mere purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Moral ideals that once inspired business schools have been replaced by the view that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits.... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

July 2017 (Revised November 2017)
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Propel

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra

In 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the... View Details

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Prizes & Benefits | New Venture Competition

& Executive Summary synopsis and for semi-finalists and finalist teams the opportunity to present. Feedback from expert judges at multiple stages in the process to help strengthen and develop ideas within the competition and beyond. Past judges have come from leading... View Details

13 Aug 2021
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Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

a general management skillset that transcended sectors – private, non-profit, and public. Our most urgent social issues require a multi-faceted approach that spans these View Details

13 Nov 2007
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Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

innovation and the opportunity to participate in the "white coat" economy and life sciences revolution of the 21st century. Writes a new social contract based on real family values, creating fair and flexible workplaces that are... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2023
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Turning Up the Volume

every sector and every community,” says Goldman. While LEDA has been successful finding and developing leaders, the nonprofit is also still relatively young. Launched in 2003 by Gary Simons, founder of New York City’s highly regarded Prep... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship | MBA

Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959) to encourage students from the nonprofit sector to pursue an MBA at HBS. Mr. Menschel, a former director of the Foundation and Limited Partner, Goldman Sachs, was an early... View Details

17 Jul 2019
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Tech for the People

free disaster-relief housing to neighbors in need. “It’s the first program of its kind in the US,” he notes. “I’m grateful to have had the chance to help add another resource to San José’s robust emergency response program.” That chance had come by way of a fellowship... View Details

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Porter Prize South Korea - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

of shared value by recognizing creative economic and social problem-solving. Public and private sector organizations can apply by showing how they harmonize social values,... View Details

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Career Tools & Resources | MBA

interview tips, research tools for international roles, resume tips for international positions, work authorization support, and more. Loan Reduction HBS offers a loan reduction program for graduates working in the private sector with... View Details

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Hayling Price

sector "that would enable economic opportunity and mobility in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty." But while his career experiences in the nonprofit sector were rewarding, they were also... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Nonprofit/Government/Education

14 Feb 2018
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Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Verdell Walker, Sesame Workshop

one word, what is the Leadership Fellows Program to you? Mission. The HBS Leadership Fellows Program is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for a select group of graduating students to experience high-impact management positions in nonprofit and public View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Roniesha Copeland

legend, Magic Johnson. “He talked about his urban development enterprise,” Roniesha says. “He partnered with businesses that put storefronts in neighborhoods they previously didn’t think would be profitable. His talk gave me a window into the role the private View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Additional alumni books for your consideration.

Resisting the impulse for drastic change, Bhidé offers a blueprint for correcting the historic misalignment between the numbers-driven financial sector and the innovation-driven “real economy.” He advocates tough, straightforward limits... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

08 Jan 2016
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Investing in Sustainability

new—and increasingly popular—model for doing good and making money. As a venture capitalist nonprofit, Sustainable America is funding entrepreneurs who will make the food and fuel sectors more sustainable and anticipating returns that... View Details

Keywords: April White; Agriculture

01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era

function. One important element will be time-based pricing that stimulates demand when renewables are producing abundant electricity. Additionally, electrification of whole new sectors such as transportation (through electric vehicles) or... View Details

19 Jan 2024
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Blockchain for Good

sharp declines in cash use and other major disruptions to small businesses and personal livelihoods. Enter Millicent, the blockchain-based digital financial venture Dyer cofounded a year ago. Both a financial network and a social impact... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Preparing Global Leaders

and long-term value creation. In addition to this, he is cofounder and chairman of Voxtra, a social impact investment firm that focuses on improving the livelihoods of those in the agriculture sector in East... View Details

15 Sep 2016
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For the Good of Society

granted today—the nonprofit sector and philanthropy—didn’t exist in the mid-‘90s. The idea of being of service to others, to help break cycles of intergenerational poverty, has felt to me as the highest possible calling. What a privilege... View Details

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