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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Derek Ferguson
business program at the age of 16. Initially, Ferguson was against the idea of continuing on to get his MBA. “I thought I was going to be an entrepreneur and didn’t want to spend all that money,” he explains. Seeing the effect of HBS on a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
performances of daughter, Heidi, a professional opera singer Recommended Reading Emotional Intelligence, by Daniel Goleman "Goleman shows that integrity, the ability to communicate and influence, self-motivation, empathy, and social... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
unpopular social issues, enabling spirituality, redistributing wealth to the needy, supporting cultural activities, and effectively and efficiently providing long-term solutions for View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
assisting, there are three others in the New York area without legal help. The need is staggering, but the path to meeting that need effectively would be familiar to any business leader, says Leimsider. Leimsider began his career at the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
much sought-after speaker on social marketing and nonprofit management issues. "Breast cancer creates tremendous fear and panic and claims far too many lives," Langer observes. "But a lot can be done to equip and empower women and their... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
work, nonprofit fellows contribute to and witness transformations in the lives of others — with lasting effects on their own lives as well. One day last August in rural Kharagpur, India, Neera Nundy (HBS '02) accompanied a middle-aged... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
them came in having already done that. “I was an older student than many. I was married and had lived in the area. I went in knowing I wanted to work in the social sector, wanted to stay in Boston, and wanted to have a balanced life while... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
part of the problem, is increasingly being called on to be part of the solution. How business can do this most effectively is the focus of the GPP’s research and scholarly activity. While GPP faculty note that it is too early to declare... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
fundamental problem. The Medicare prescription drug program that went into effect last year bars the federal government from negotiating with drug companies over the prices seniors pay. The new Democratic majority in Congress has vowed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
best thinking to the task of building stronger and more effective nonprofit organizations,” says Tierney. “Think of it as a Bain & Company for the nonprofit sector.” Bridgespan’s services focus on three main objectives: to increase View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
Since 2009, HBS has given special recognition to seven social-impact organizations by awarding Social Entrepreneurship Fellowships (SEF) to their young alumni founders. Here's a status report on how the fellows and their ventures are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
society actually works.” A more effective response, he contends, is a “strategy of emergence.” By this he means that relief agencies should first provide resources for survivors to manage their own recovery. For example, Curran helped... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they select local nonprofit leaders to receive scholarships to attend one of... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
debris toward Brooklyn. The smell of smoke remained in the air for weeks as charred pieces of office documents and personal effects drifted down onto his rooftop garden. “I remember spending long moments staring out of our windows toward... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
the coming decades, but rather on targeting innovations that will make health care both more affordable and more effective in the future. “Disruptive innovation” is a term you’ve used in your analyses of other industries, but what does it... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
achieve financial stability. One faculty member who has been particularly interested in these questions is HBS professor Regina E. Herzlinger, a member of the HBS Social Enterprise Interest Group who has published extensively in areas... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Feb 2015
- News
Remembering John Whitehead (MBA 1947)
later as deputy secretary of state; guided the citizens of New York City through the protracted process of rebuilding and revitalizing following the terrorist attacks of 2001; and applied his philanthropic principles and vision at HBS in establishing the View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
organizations develop sustainable strategies for effecting social change. With offices in Boston and San Francisco, the organization is developing plans to expand to Chicago and London. What brought you to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business (Harvard Business Review... View Details