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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
sleeping under his desk at the AKDN’s offices. (Thanks to a lack of rentable space, post-Taliban landlords could demand a full year of highly inflated rent up front.) At the time, much of AKDN’s work was focused on nonprofit agencies and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
and HBS professor Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit and for-profit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Ink: Framing the Full Picture
completion of my arc. It just took me a long time.” This is a bit of a departure from your comic-book work. How did you get here? It’s different from most of what I’m known for, but I did a lot of nonprofit work and was very active in... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
to lead a more calm and focused life at work and at home. Nonprofit Strategic Planning by Shea Smith III (MBA 1941) (CreateSpace) Strategic planning for nonprofits is often ineffective. There are mainly two... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
fundraising, IP, patent law, and the ins and outs of FDA and HIPAA regulations. Tecco and Gross refined their vision for Rock Health in a field study with HBS senior lecturer Bob Higgins. But first, Tecco had the experience of founding Yoga Bear, a View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
been adopted by thousands of private, public, and nonprofit enterprises around the world. Professor Robert S. Kaplan, who created the concept and tool with David Norton (DBA ’73), explains the roots and motivation for their original... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie R. Crutchfield (MBA ’01) and Heather McLeod Grant (Jossey-Bass) What makes nonprofits great? The authors studied twelve View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
Bend’s rebranding over its 100-year history, and its Spirit of the Silver Lining Award, which celebrates independent insurance agents for outstanding service to nonprofit organizations in their communities, and includes grant money to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
notes Cahill. Among the clubs that support nonprofits, the HBS Association of Southeastern New England and the HBS Club of Philadelphia have hosted nonprofit conferences for several years. These conferences provide View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
A Roaring Success in the Windy City
that want to get ahead should focus on strategy. "Sound strategy involves tradeoffs," said Porter. "You must pick a different endpoint than your rivals." Dean Kim B. Clark introduced conference participants to the HBS intranet,... View Details
- 30 Mar 2018
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
come from low-income neighborhoods.” While his background is in commercial real estate and corporate finance, since 2012 Majors has served as a vice president at Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta-based, nonprofit consulting group.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Faculty Books
challenges, from environmental sustainability to improving health-care delivery. Part IV explores how nonprofits and corporations can apply strategy principles to philanthropy. Part V examines the link... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
balance of strengths, weaknesses, and interests worked out pretty well. I had some experience in strategy before HBS but not so much in finance, so I benefited from sharing in Amyn’s experiences at Goldman Sachs. This was really useful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Student Snapshot
Second-year student Carlin (“Carly”) Janson divides her time between studying at HBS and managing the Catalyst Alliance for Social Entrepreneurship (Catalyst Alliance), the Cambridgebased social enterprise consultancy she founded while working at Accenture. Catalyst... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
notions of poverty; emerging markets; and the roles of business, government, and the nonprofit sector. “The IXP program is all about active learning,” says HBS senior fellow Regina Abrami, who serves as faculty chair of the program.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
Koh’s fifth floor office, cooking up a communications strategy ahead of the looming Boston winter. “We want to avoid what happened last year,” warns Koh, Chief of Staff to Mayor Marty Walsh. Last winter, the Hub’s snowiest on record, left... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A year later, he founded Social... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
described as "American icons" by moderator Tom Davenport, director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change. Jack Duffy, SVP of corporate strategy at UPS, noted that the process of integrating technology into the company's... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
full-time — is their own clearly articulated definition of fulfillment and success. While each emphasized that there is no single strategy for achieving balance between work, family, and spiritual/personal growth, their stories are food... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
Companies also are becoming more aware of the need to capture what data they can through first-party cookies, by creating value through content. He offers the example of the website Glossier, whose strategy is focused on serving its... View Details