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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Changing Old Systems to Provide New Chances for Young Americans
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992), founder and CEO of Year Up, is working to change education, business, and government to provide new opportunities for America's young people. In this video, he explores the reasons to reconnect young people to mainstream society and... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
Merkl: Managing water resources for a sustainable future. Photo Courtesy of Andreas Merkl They say all rivers lead to the sea. If that is true, then it's only fitting that Andreas Merkl (MBA 1989) should find himself today at the helm of Ocean Conservancy... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
Might I Suggest We also reached out to alumni on social media to ask about the books and podcasts that have been keeping them most informed and best entertained over the last year. My sectionmate Wendy Lim... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
teams applied to the New Ventures Competition (NVC), competing in one of three tracks—Alumni, Social Enterprise, and Student Business. While student teams prepared on campus, alumni teams battled it out in 11 regional competitions around... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
Courtesy Steve Payne The Arctic Ice Project is pursuing a radical solution to climate change: restoring the Arctic ice. “The project’s scientists believe that a thin layer of hollow glass microspheres—spread in strategic, limited locations on the brittle new ice that... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
Courtesy Steve Payne Courtesy Steve Payne The Arctic ice pack is melting. For more than a decade, Steve Payne (MBA 1985), chair of the board of the Arctic Ice Project, has patiently explained the problem to anyone willing to listen: The disappearing ice is a harbinger... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
Whitehead (MBA 11/’47), Chairman, AEA Investors, Inc.; Founder, HBS Social Enterprise Initiative “Focus has always been Job One in my success. Globalization goes against that. International operations can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Alums Help Jailhouse Entrepreneurs Go Straight
Whether it’s an upfront enterprise on Main Street or illegal dealings on Mean Street, competition, risk management, and profitability are primary concerns in both business venues. That’s the theory behind the nonprofit Prison... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Thoren believes there doesn’t need to be a divide between for-profit and nonprofit missions. In December 2020, she joined outdoor-clothing brand Patagonia as director of Environmental Action and Initiatives, EMEA, a position that unites business goals and View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
were unveiled: the smaller “junior,” the regular size, and the larger “grand.” “There was an insight that a lot of the social media chatter around the junior Big Mac was actually being driven by women. So we... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
arena.” Related Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-Ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters In the process of teaming up with fellow students to write business plans, working with their... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of childhood poverty in America. Madrick examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
The Social Transformation of American Business Schools and the Unfulfilled Promise of Management as a Profession (Princeton University Press), HBS associate professor Rakesh Khurana builds a case for the systemic argument. He also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
fashionable and custom-fitted bras to fuller-sized customers and the 85 percent of women who wear the wrong size. In the social enterprise track, the winner was India Info Village, a team featuring Rita... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
and can help uncover the racial bias in algorithms used by social media platforms, which may have coded rules that alter which faces are seen by users. A. Chyei Vinluan, Postdoctoral Fellow of Business... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Dec 2021
- News
HBS OnBoard: Effective Fundraising with Professor F. Warren McFarlan
- 13 Jun 2021
- News
Leading Systemic Change
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Working with a Giver’s Spirit
Manny Ayala (MBA 1992) is managing director of Endeavor Philippines, a branch of the global Endeavor organization, which fights poverty by finding and supporting high-impact entrepreneurs. “Our mission statement is to create an economic multiplier effect in markets... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Turnaround Situation
Marty Cordova (MBA 1974), a Vietnam vet who has seen good days and bad, is dedicating himself to helping other vets get their lives back together. Cordova is finance director of Rehabilitation Services and Veterans Programs (RS&VP), a nonprofit corporation... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley