volunteer work - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

graduates who want access to the School's renowned inventory of management information. A new Web portal, HBS Working Knowledge (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu), was launched in October, bringing together a wealth of information from... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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Meditations on the Bottom Line

to this unusual business challenge, however, it's Bothwick. "Most of my career since leaving HBS has focused on the 'people' aspect of business," she explains. Bothwick spent eighteen years at International Paper Company, where she worked... View Details

08 Nov 2024
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Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

SEI and how HBS alumni continue to work together to shape and impact Atlanta’s business community. But it was also an opportunity for outreach and re-connection. We celebrated the many people and volunteers... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 2000
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HBS Community Reaches Out

The School's longtime commitment to public service was once again demonstrated at this year's annual Project Outreach. On Saturday, March 25, more than four hundred HBS students, partners, faculty, and staff volunteered to perform... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Straddling Two Worlds

Tierney, who moved into this comparatively luxurious setting with his wife, Susan, after he served as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural Chile for two years. But the difference between being a student at HBS and View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

07 Sep 2021
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Embracing Activism for Social Change

needed,” Mendu says. A third component of the initiative pairs mental health clinicians with outreach workers for the homeless to head off potential crises before they happen. “Our model was a program we researched in Houston that’s View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2020
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Well Matched

Her interests leaned more in the direction of strategy—and sports. Rapaport found plenty of outlets in both areas at HBS, where she was president of the Business of Sports Club. She also volunteered for Crossover into Business, an HBS... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; venture capital; diversity; inclusion; tennis; leadership; women; Finance

01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

eighteen-year exercise in volunteer service at the HBS Club of Greater New York, where Burton and Dick Wedemeyer (MBA '63) would meet twice a month to assist alumni with job and career issues. "Often," recalls Burton, "these men and women... View Details

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

16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice

Deserve Gender Equity campaign in New York City, an effort to shift the harsh disciplinary policies that have disproportionately led to girls and gender-nonconforming students of color being pushed out of schools. In Massachusetts, the organization View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2002
News

The Campaign for Harvard Business School

Historic in many ways, the campaign is enabling work that is essential to the School’s core purposes: transformative teaching in both MBA and Executive Education classrooms; deep research to impact business practice; and the dissemination... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight

garden, offered picture-postcard views of the World Trade Center less than a mile away. Cooper, who has a strong artistic bent, spent many of his off hours working in glass and teaching novice glassblowers. Leaving home that morning, he... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2006
News

Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

resilience in the face of difficult challenges. “However,” he added, “I think we should all be deeply troubled about the way our political system is functioning.” Rubin also urged the HBS audience, well known for its pro bono and View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Changing Lives One Computer at a Time

otherwise have access them. Working through Dell's TechKnow initiative, HBSAAA volunteers in the New York metropolitan area are helping to teach middle-school students how to take apart, reassemble, and use... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

with extracurricular activities ranging from student government, to volunteer work with local schoolchildren, to rock music. On the occasion of the 1996 HBS Commencement, we salute these students and their... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Giving back after gaining so much

Lynwood P. Randolph (PMD 43, 1982), retired from NASA, reflects on his career and his volunteer work for Harvard Business School's Alumni Board. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Dec 2020
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HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years

have responded so swiftly and effectively without the HBS Fund. JONES: Some alumni wonder why the School needs their HBS Fund gifts each year. We spend a lot of our volunteer time educating alumni about the endowment. While HBS has been... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Project outreach

Devon E. Winey (MBA '98) prepares to paint a hallway at Second Step Transitional Living Center, a home for victims of domestic violence. Three students plant flowers at Boston Senior Home Care. A group of enthusiastic students spent the day View Details

18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference

five historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the Atlanta area, but the only college in Georgia founded solely by African-American patronage. The school lost its accreditation in 2004, but has worked diligently since then... View Details