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Reunions - Alumni

experience and your login. Volunteer Reunions simply aren’t possible without a team of diverse classmates helping to make them happen. Just a few hours of your time can help ensure that you and your classmates have a memorable reunion.... View Details

27 Nov 2012
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No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on Incentives for Pro-Social Tasks

Keywords: by Nava Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera & Kelsey Jack

25 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

heard that she’s good at math over and over again,” Coffman says. “You might have to encourage women a few times if you want to close these gaps.” "Our work suggests a need for structuring group decision-making in a way that assures the most talented members both View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Fund, an impact investment fund he co-founded in 2016 that has used a venture philanthropic model to catalyze over $700 million of private capital investment in type one diabetes (T1D) cure therapeutics. Sean has held a range of volunteer... View Details

May 2024 (Revised May 2024)
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Market by Met Council: Revolutionizing Food Pantries in the Digital Age

By: Elisabeth Paulson and Michael W. Toffel

In fall 2023, the Food Program of Met Council—America’s largest Jewish charity dedicated to fighting poverty—completed the rollout of the newest version of its digital pantry platform to twelve food pantries in the Met Council food pantry network. The digital... View Details

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Digital Transformation; Nonprofit Organizations; Service Operations; Human Needs

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Steve Wheelwright is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School.

Following his retirement from HBS in 2006, he served with former Dean Kim B. Clark at BYU-Idaho and then from 2007-2015 he served as... View Details

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About the Program - Summer Venture in Management

church, or soccer team. Examples of leadership and impact in or outside of the college campus environment include, but are not limited to: Serving in student government positions Leading a student association or club Volunteering in... View Details

19 Dec 2023
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$15 Billion in Five Years: What Data Tells Us About MacKenzie Scott’s Philanthropy

expression of personal beliefs and values. While she is famously private, we know that she values the daily service of people who are less fortunate. As she writes in a 2020 essay, her gifts went to organizations that “have dedicated their lives to helping others,... View Details

Keywords: by Matthew Lee, Brian Trelstad, and Ethan Tran

05 Dec 2023
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Lessons in Decision-Making: Confident People Aren't Always Correct (Except When They Are)

what happens when people make decisions based on their confidence about how strongly to volunteer their own opinion in group decisions. Organizations thrive or fail based on the strategic decisions that stream from top leaders. Should the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

13 Feb 2024
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Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

for people to volunteer themselves. In ongoing work, Coffman continues to unpack the factors that lead to the under-representation of women in male-typed fields. She is currently studying how candidates seek out and process feedback about... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

By: Nuno Gil and Carliss Y. Baldwin

This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new school buildings in the city of Manchester, UK.... View Details

Keywords: Design; Buildings and Facilities; Education

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13 Nov 2020
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Global Ambition

two kids and a dog, living in Beijing. To show their appreciation for the tremendous impact HBS has had on their lives, Kao and Chew have given back to the School consistently since graduation, both as volunteers and donors. They help out... View Details

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Clubs - Alumni

Volunteers Serving as Club/Association Officers 1,700+ 175 HBS club presidents, board chairs & HBS liaisons to Harvard Clubs 60 Clubs participated Scholarship Awards to HBS Programs $600,000+ Annual HBS Alumni Club-Hosted Events 1,400+... View Details

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Help - Alumni

"Click here to request the addition of a new school" button that appears when you try to add your college. My HBS volunteer role isn’t appearing in the HBS Volunteering section, how can I update it? This... View Details

20 Oct 2023
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Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

returned to campus for the Board’s annual fall meeting, which featured two days of engaging updates and lively discussions about the School’s work and its future. The HBS Alumni Board, whose members are selected from a pool of active View Details

07 Sep 2021
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New HBS Fund Chairs Take the Helm

serve as ambassadors and champions of the HBS Fund to the broader alumni community. They will also lead the HBS Fund Council. Formed in 2016, this volunteer advisory group helps to devise new strategies for raising alumni understanding of... View Details

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Health Care Initiative - Health Care

volunteered to have students shadow them to learn more about the front lines of care delivery 223 Pairs were matched as part of the Student-Alumni Mentor Program in 2018 10 % First-year students complete summer internships in health care... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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Connect with Clubs - Recruiting

lakomoize@mba2026.hbs.edu Madhu Sivaraj msivaraj@mba2026.hbs.edu Ben Horwitz bhorwitz@mba2026.hbs.edu Club Email vcpe@studentclubs.hbs.edu Volunteer Corps Co-Presidents Lucy Luo lluo@mba2026.hbs.edu Iksun Kwon ikwon@mba2026.hbs.edu Club... View Details

08 Feb 2017
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