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- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020.... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
development in Louisiana, a prime vantage point at the intersection of the public and private sectors that allowed him to “envision a future state and bring it to life.” In his new role at VEDP, he was in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A champion for First Nations
Blaine Favel (MBA 2001) was trained to be a public servant from childhood. Having grown up in a family of Native American Cree chiefs, Favel has spent a lifetime shoring up employment opportunities for his people. As chancellor at the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
promoter of development? Foreign investment will play a small part, possibly a catalytic one, but at the end of the day, countries will get richer due to the activity of their domestic private sector. That said, to a large extent, countries are poor because they lack... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Nonprofit Management ("Bringing It Back Home"), which draws nonprofit leaders from around the world to the HBS campus. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim teaches in the program; his research on quantifying results in the nonprofit sector... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Visionary of the Year
HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter was named the Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year in 2002 by the Intelligent Community Forum. The award recognizes an individual or group that has taken a leadership role in promoting broadband technology as an essential... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
RHEA, WITH FRIENDS: Bringing financial skills from the private sector to public housing. Who’s the Big Apple’s biggest landlord? That would be John Rhea (MBA ’92), who oversees 178,000 apartments in 2,600... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
could look like.” —Sara Marcus (MBA 2019), Co-President, Social Enterprise Club Leadership Fellows Program Since 2001, the Leadership Fellows program has placed 173 recent graduates in high-impact management positions with 72 nonprofit and View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
wants to understand the barriers to effecting change on global issues such as health care." Under Ray Gilmartin's leadership, Merck has launched an unprecedented number of new drugs and forged partnerships with the public and nonprofit... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
Veteran entrepreneur and public education innovator Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) is on a mission to get kids excited about math. In addition to his profit-sector job as executive chairman of ANC Sports Enterprises, Daugherty has been the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths; 111 men, 9 women; average age: 45 Enjoys: international cooking, theater, baseball... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
an exciting time for opportunity in the logistics industry. “It’s going to raise a lot of questions, none of which are without consequence for the Postal Service,” he says. Through his consulting practice and now as director and strategic advisor in PWC’s View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers
Regina Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, has been studying the health care sector for nearly half a century. In that time, she has seen significant innovation in the field—and she has also seen the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Health Care: Telemedicine Has Arrived
percent were virtual visits. And Teladoc, the largest private sector telemedicine company, reported more than 300,000 virtual visits in the second quarter of 2017, a 55 percent increase over the same quarter in 2016. Patients are becoming... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
management positions in the public and private sectors, the program exposes participants to the best management practices from around the globe through case studies, lectures, study groups, and team workshops. The four-week program takes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
December 2015 Deconstructing Draper Re: Golden State of Mind I admire Tim Draper (MBA 1984) for his sustained interest in rebooting public education in California. Too few HBS alums are engaged with public... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
San José Mayor Sam Liccardo Henry Tsai and San José Mayor Sam Liccardo That chance had come by way of a fellowship offered through HBS’s Social Enterprise Initiative that provides competitive salaries to graduating MBAs who work for a year in nonprofit and View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
educating them to invent a difference in the world as public leaders and as people who collaborate with them. “I would love it if, a decade from now and maybe sooner, people thought about becoming public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
HBS alumni often describe the MBA Program as a transformational experience. That observation especially rings true for students such as Meredith Weenick, Neera Nundy, Abdu Mukhtar, and Jonathan Hodgson who participate in the Nonprofit and View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
achieve its social mission? "Social entrepreneurship is hard to define, but you know it when you see it," says Georgia Levenson Keohane (MBA 2000). There's a lot to see in it these days, as a kind of social entrepreneurship revolution has exploded across the nonprofit,... View Details