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Athena Ko
I threw myself into nonprofit work. My husband and home are nice. Oh, I ran eight miles and worked out every morning too. Life was alpha femina. Then I had two little girls, 18 months apart. They were sweet, soft, and vulnerable, and I... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success
John Rice (MBA 1992) founded Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national nonprofit organization, to equip underrepresented minorities with the skills, coaching, and relationships they need to become high-impact leaders in... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- News
Screen Saver
former investment banker, Apkon found the ideal focus for his passion for film by forming a nonprofit group in 1998 to purchase the defunct Rome Theater, a 1925 historic landmark located near his home in downtown Pleasantville, New York.... View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) is CEO and cofounder of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, she talks about the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
designated more than $28 million to high-performing, nonprofit grantee partners across the United States and the United Kingdom, helping to place more than 50,000 vets in high-quality jobs since 2009. “But veterans often struggle to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
decades in the investment world, service on nonprofit boards and think tanks, and management of the financial turnaround of both Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, not to mention a midlife decision to study the... View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
time for something new. Although she had been involved in volunteer efforts in education, the arts, and economic development since high school, Pitter-Armand’s path to a career in the nonprofit sector wasn’t obvious to her. The phrase... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
professional kiteboarder Susi Mai that combines high-level kiting and high-value networking. ACTAI Global—now a nonprofit with several thousand members and events around the world—has been called the “new TED,” and kiteboarding has been... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Mar 2011
- News
Philanthropy’s Dilemma
its best, and it can bring enormous joy into a donor’s life,” they write. “But generosity alone is rarely sufficient if you aspire to leave a legacy of exceptional results.” That’s where Give $mart comes in. Tierney and Fleishman have crafted a primer for... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks
- March 2004
- Teaching Note
ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth (TN)
Teaching Note to (9-503-007). View Details
- May 2003
- Case
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
By: John A. Quelch
Didier Cherpitel, CEO of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), is implementing a new strategy that will fundamentally change the role of its International Secretariat. The organization is in the early stages of implementing a best... View Details
Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies." Harvard Business School Case 503-059, May 2003.
- 15 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS
in student, staff, and faculty lives. It provides opportunities to go deeper. It can help launch your startup. In particular, the Social Enterprise Initiative is the nexus of activity in thinking about how to apply business skills to have impact across the public,... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Showing possibilities and new experiences to young people
Sam Duboc (MBA 1988), a private equity investor, talks about leading the nonprofit Pathways to Education to open possibilities and new experiences to young people in Canada. (Published April 2014) View Details
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Sherrese Clarke Suarez
Wall Street banker Sherrese Clarke Suarez (MBA 2004) works with the Council for Urban Professionals to help minority professionals advance in their careers to the C-suite and corporate boards. View Details
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Danelle Radney
forever. My heart was in community development. And I realized that there are plenty of people with heart in the public sector, but you need business expertise to be effective. I decided to get an MBA to learn best practices I could bring to the View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
the organization as it has forged educational partnerships with numerous businesses and become the country's leading nonprofit resource for breast cancer information and education. NABCO is now a powerful force in patient advocacy,... View Details
- January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Equal Justice Initiative: Mercy, Truth and Dignity
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Gerald Chertavian and Brittany Logan
In 1989, the Equal Justice Initiative was established as a non-profit, public interest law firm by Harvard Law School graduate, Bryan Stevenson.
EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details
EJI provides legal assistance to condemned prisoners, people wrongly convicted or unfairly sentenced, children in... View Details
- October 2019
- Case
Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music
By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States
Deshpandé, Rohit. "Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 520-701, October 2019.
- 07 Nov 2016
- News
The Business of Saving Old Buildings
Roger Webb (MBA 1961) is the founder and chairman emeritus of the Architectural Heritage Foundation in Boston and was instrumental in launching Preservation Massachusetts, a statewide nonprofit historic preservation organization. In this... View Details