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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the lives of the needy across Pakistan
thousands of small nonprofits in Pakistan that were doing amazing work on the ground remained undiscovered by mainstream donors. Borrowing from his private equity training, Wasim employed a metrics-driven approach to selecting the best... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth
Mehta reached out to the student-run Africa Business Club for advice. She also participated in the School’s New Venture Competition. In 2014, Tomato Jos won $25,000 as runner-up in the Social Enterprise category, giving Mehta the money... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
Julianne White (MBA 2017) is vice president for food acquisition at the Greater Boston Food Bank. How did you become interested in the food industry? “I grew up with a lot of ties to agriculture. I was raised in a small community where... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
conjunction with the Olympics. Peterson had created a small academic competition in Orange County called Academic Decathlon, in which teams of high school students with a range of academic skills would participate in 10 events—including... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
marketing, five days from your head IT person, and so on. Why is this approach an advantage? Three reasons: First, the organizations we partner with get more diverse expertise targeted at their specific needs. Second, for individual... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Lessons in Leadership
to be able to discern both of these aspects of people and of organizations. One thing Shackleton did very well was to revise, and reset, his objectives as the context changed. As soon as his ship was trapped... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 16 Aug 2013
- News
Women's Business Leader
magazine's list of the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America, Essence magazine's 50 Women Who Are Shaping the World, and Black Enterprise magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business.... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Sylvia Wachsner (PMD 35, 1978), director of Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “Drawing from the faculty’s industry knowledge, I have learned about consumer behavior and have captured insights that I’m able to... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
her for a small chain of upscale restaurants run by Kansas-based Gilbert-Robinson, Inc. After two years as vice president of marketing, she returned to Minneapolis to work at an ad agency and to do some... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Get Creative
developed an important insight into why the owners of small businesses typically wait until the last minute to update their books and file tax forms. Most people would say they are just lazy or... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
here for almost ten years, running a family enterprise that dates back to the 1960s. Along with a few automobile-related businesses in the French West Indies, we are the distributor for Toyota, Suzuki, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
their supply chains in the developing world. I wanted to get involved in that.” During his year as a Leadership Fellow at the WWF, Murphy served as director of enterprise planning and got to know the... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Support for the Healers
As COO of the UK-based Point of Care Foundation, Deborah Sandford (MBA 1990) runs an organization that addresses the needs of health care professionals who spend their careers answering the needs of others. “Hospital staff members exist on a daily diet of trauma,... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- News
More Work to Do
to small business owners. In a free-ranging interview with Texas Monthly, Gerald talks about the role that college athletics and early mentors played in his life, including “the old women” who helped hone... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
Enterprise recently embarked on an endeavor to understand the fast-changing and fertile arena of social capital markets. "The question has become, can we extract bedrock lessons from the for-profit world... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
electrical engineering and 58 patents, asked the venture capitalist for help in setting up the organization. In the intervening years, the small nonprofit has attracted interest from such organizations as... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
start in school. They then show how these problems are being met with innovative solutions that can be supported by everyone. WuDunn took time away from her “day job” as managing director at Mid-Market Securities, a small New York... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
if necessary, of the blog’s subjects and a note about how long it has been going. This list probably represents only a very small fraction of the alumni blogs that are out there, so please send us Web... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Get Involved
contribute to leaving the world a little bit different than you found it, but in a good way? It's just touching other people, understanding that you have an influence in how this world is shaped and how this world operates, no matter how... View Details
Keywords: Finance