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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Minding Families' Business
business who have found a way to endure over time," de Gaspé Beaubien notes. "There is a discipline, and there are successful practices. The Institute for Family Enterprise is committed to seeing that those successful practices are... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Alumni Luminaries Discuss Careers, Values with HBS Students
Inc., an enterprise she began in her garage and grew into a $20 million operation with twelve hundred employees. She is the first African-American woman to earn an MBA at HBS. Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64), cofounder, former chairman and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
A Remarkable Life Story
with the strong backing of Dean George P. Baker. The Road to Someplace Better charts Lambert’s life from her humble upbringing on a Virginia farm (which didn’t get electricity until she was eight) to her founding of Centennial One Inc., a janitorial-services firm she... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
in partnership with HBS Alumni Programs, the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), and the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI), the virtual event was held on two different dates to accommodate a combined global audience of close... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
participants develop a network of support for their organizations, the reunion at the Social Enterprise Greenhouse in Providence included a social hour and a panel featuring the club’s four 2017 SPNM graduates. David Beauchesne, from the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Jun 2015
- News
Michael Porter on America's Historic Energy Opportunity
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
How ENGOs Can Support Corporate Climate Change Efforts
- 01 Nov 2018
- News
A Passion for Organization
Cheryl Vance (PLDA 18, 2014) is founder and principal of the VictorLee Group, a management consulting firm in Virginia. In this video, she talks about applying her knowledge of organizations and productivity to her efforts as a volunteer. “I have spent my career... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Prof’s Dream Comes True
Tufano Tax refunds can now be channeled into the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds, a policy victory for HBS professor Peter Tufano (left), founder and president of the nonprofit Doorway to Dreams Fund (D2D) that has worked for years to restore the purchase option. It was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
We Invest in HBS Because...
Suzan and Terry Kramer (MBA 1986). Terry is a former Vodafone executive and US Ambassador to the World Conference on International Telecommunications. "We invest in HBS because we want to create opportunity. At HBS, you learn so much—how to think about problems and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
survey notes, more than half of HBS alumni launch a business. In this conversation, professors Tom Eisenmann and Bill Kerr discuss HBS’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, which empowers students to create an enterprise that has impact. Eisenmann... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Jan 2019
- News
Working to Improve the End of Life
Laurie Leonard (MBA 1977) is executive director of End of Life Choices New York, a nonprofit advocacy, counseling, and educational organization. In the following interview, she discusses the group’s mission and her reasons for serving. “When I got to be in my 40s, I... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: In 2008, Jim Langford (MBA 1984) became the executive director of the Georgia Meth Project, a nonprofit that blanketed his native state with a graphic, disturbing ad campaign dedicated to... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
Why is the mission of ArtLifting so important? “We’re demonstrating how something as simple as optimism can change lives and create jobs. This is very powerful and very personal to me. My older brother has a rare metabolic disorder that caused him to have disabilities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Students Take Aim at Foreclosures
Last spring four HBS students traveled to Minneapolis to visit the nonprofit Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), which counsels people who are facing foreclosure on their homes. Meeting with HPF officials, the students discussed the nonprofit’s strategy,... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
credits venture capital firms 5am Ventures and New Enterprise Associates for critical early support. “There were a lot of things still in the process of coming together,” he says, “and I had never been a CEO before. They took a risk on me... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
mentorship and financially or personally, to those in need or to groups and institutions whose missions they value. True to the values it teaches, the program donates all its profits to Thistle Farms, a social enterprise organization... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
hundreds of CEOs and entrepreneurs to strip away the differences between startups that grow into multibillion-dollar enterprises and those that disappear altogether. Here, Yeh talks about the techniques outlined in their new book,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
(iStock) The startup shorthand for the year-old G8 Rocket (pronounced “gate rocket”) is SAP meets Square—an enterprise platform designed for local vendors. In G8 Rocket’s case, those vendors are typically high-school athletic departments,... View Details