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- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered: What's the best way to report nonfinancial metrics? How can nonprofit... View Details
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- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
Innovation happens fast and slowly. The GPS applications so prevalent today to guide us from Point A to Point B took their first baby steps nearly three decades ago when President Ronald Reagan encouraged the release of military GPS signals free of charge. Will a key... View Details
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Interorganizational Cooperation between Not-for-profit Organizations: A Relational Analysis
By: Julie Battilana and Metin Sengul
Battilana, Julie, and Metin Sengul. "Interorganizational Cooperation between Not-for-profit Organizations: A Relational Analysis." In Relational Perspectives in Organization Studies: A Research Companion, edited by Olympia Kyriakidou and Mustafa F. Özbilgin, 197–220. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2006.
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth
Duke-based colleague Beth Battle Anderson found that many nonprofits that had expanded or were considering doing so preferred the branch model, even though it is characterized by slower growth. To learn more, Baker Library’s Carla Tishler... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians
Slavet, a nonprofit arts entrepreneur and partner in a real estate development and management firm. “But we want to be more than that. Through our radio show, Web site, education programs, and upcoming TV special, we’re establishing an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Reaching New Heights
nonprofit to help build schools and libraries in Nepal and supply them with books, the Harbus reported. With expansion into Southeast Asia and soon into Latin America and Africa, Wood’s Room to Read has established 3,600 libraries, built... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Start Me Up
business or a social enterprise track, the fledgling companies pitched everything from early-stage Alzheimer's diagnosis technology to environmentally friendly lodging. Below, the four that the competition's alumni judges—plucked from the start-up and View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
(MBA 1980), president and CEO of the Washington, D.C.–based nonprofit Green America, leverages the economic power of consumers, investors, and businesses to create systems-level solutions. “On climate, it’s simple,” says Gravitz, “Stop... View Details
- Fast Answer
Transforming Education Through Social Entrepreneurship
digitization in education. Company/Organizational and Fund Profiles GuideStar Pro - Information about the missions, programs, and finances of more than 1.7 million nonprofit organizations. Foundation Directory Online -... 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
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
Although she had nearly thirty years of on-the-job experience, Deborah Richardson still was thrilled to be selected for a weeklong HBS Executive Education course for nonprofit leaders in July 2003. “I had many ‘eureka’ moments when I was... View Details
- Profile
Michael Schrader
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Starting a company for the first time was an intimidating task for me, perhaps even too intimidating without the tools that HBS provided. First, HBS provided confidence by introducing me to a host of entrepreneurs and... View Details
- October 2015 (Revised August 2019)
- Background Note
Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times
By: William C. Kirby, Joycelyn W. Eby and Yuanzhuo Wang
The rapid growth in quantity and quality of universities in China since 1978 is the most recent evolution in a long history of higher education. From as early as the Tang Dynasty, academies existed to prepare scholars for the civil service examination, but by the... View Details
Keywords: Non-profit Management; University Administration; University Faculty; University Curriculum; Education Reform; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Higher Education; History; Governance; Education Industry; China
Kirby, William C., Joycelyn W. Eby, and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Higher Education in China: Internationalization in Turbulent Times." Harvard Business School Background Note 316-066, October 2015. (Revised August 2019.)
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
host of Web-based social enterprises (WEBSEs): nonprofit information hubs, online giving directories, click-to-donate sites, workplace-giving centers, charity shopping malls and auctions, and volunteer clearinghouses. These start-ups are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a nonprofit group of businesspeople who believe that sound environmental policy and economic progress are not mutually exclusive. With about four hundred members nationwide, E2 works directly with the... View Details
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Alumni Clubs Supporting & Connecting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Alumni Clubs Supporting & Connecting Local and regional HBS alumni clubs offer a range of opportunities to support and connect with the local nonprofit community. Alumni clubs in a number of cities have established pro-bono consulting... View Details
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Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship | MBA
Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship Additional Harvard Funding The Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship gives awards of approximately $10,000 to seven to ten (7–10) MBA students who have exhibited leadership and an extraordinary commitment to working in the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A social enterprise visionary
Believing that there was a pressing need for management education that would prepare leaders for the nonprofit sector, the late Wall Street executive John C. Whitehead (MBA 1947, LLD 1995) inspired and supported the creation of the Social... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Building Community in the Bay Area
Last fall, over eighty HBS alumni and nonprofit leaders gathered in Menlo Park, California, to hear HBS senior lecturer Reynold Levy discuss the relationship between nonprofit CEOs and their boards. Levy,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
left each meeting feeling like a better person,” Letelier recalls. Letelier launched SITAWI Finance for Good in 2008 to recapture that feeling—and to introduce new financial tools into Brazil’s nonprofit and impact sectors. “If you think... View Details