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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
ability to generate profit. There is no contradiction between social impact and good profitability; in fact, profitability is central to that social impact.” Eliminating, or even alleviating, global poverty... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
value to their products. At the time, Keshavjee was the head of the Aga Khan Foundation in East Africa, a major development agency, and believed that the best way to sustain health and education initiatives was through income generation and other inputs. In 2000,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Turning Point: Getting to Giving
classes I teach at our church. Now I talk to people about money all the time. At HBS, Professor Malcolm Salter gave us this advice in our last class together: “Live beneath your means.” At the time it struck... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
made a leap of faith. If he could just find a management position at a nonprofit, he figured, he could help direct social change. “That was my thesis,” he recalls. Since he made that jump, he’s proved that thesis correct several times... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
Illustration by Nhung Lê Illustration by Nhung Lê When Jenny Cohen (MBA 1997), a longtime Disney exec, made the leap to executive VP of corporate social responsibility in early 2021, her first task was an especially existential one: “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Volunteer Program Attracts ’09 MBAs
In response to high interest expressed last spring by graduates of the Class of 2009, HBS Alumni Relations has created a way for new MBAs to participate in key School initiatives and activities: the Young Alumni Ambassadors program. One... View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
recently left UCB and currently leads the procurement division at Adidas. That’s when she discovered Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate Director, a first-of-its-kind course offered through the HBS Executive Education Program, which combines View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Shape of Things to Come
do, and they just want to move up in their careers. They want to use the time to think, to explore, to imagine what lives they might lead. The summer experience ends up being very important. And the second year gives students an opportunity to try out different View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- News
Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
experiences and, really, to help each other.” Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years, Raises Funds for Social Enterprise Scholarships The HBS Club of Atlanta (HBSCA) threw a festive 90th Anniversary Gala on September 19 at the Cherokee Town... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 02 Jan 2014
- News
The Power to Change
think back to when I was as an MBA 20 years ago, that's something that has distinctly changed. There are more people who link social causes with their businesses now." Wilcox gets to see those young, View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Moir Donelson
Moir Donelson's first year at West Point wasn't easy. "Brains," as his Southside Chicago buddies called him, was valedictorian, class president, and a football star at his high school, yet he found it difficult to make a C average at the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
No day passes that I do not remember stuff he told me as a little boy. It is amazing how a great human being can shape a child and guide him through life." After graduating first in his class from the University of Cologne, he earned a... 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Pearson Hunt
installations so that courses would be pertinent to winning the war. Classes met year-round, and the pace was hectic: I remember one year when the Fourth of July was not a holiday, just another Thursday. During the war years, two issues... View Details
Keywords: Pearson Hunt
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
social causes that have played a prominent role in his life since the late 1960s, when he served briefly as a speechwriter in Robert F. Kennedy's presidential campaign. It was in those turbulent years that Dunphy, with fellow members of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- News
The Ingredients for Success
tones while she delivered a PowerPoint presentation. The institute, she explained, would partner with Delgado Community College in New Orleans, which will expand its existing culinary studies program. The institute also will offer short-term View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
those in the Class of '71 were destined to earn their MBAs during one of the most turbulent social and political eras of our times. Turbulence within the class, in the form of widely divergent views on the... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
serve the emerging middle class in Mexico. IGNIA represents Rodríguez’s commitment to his homeland as well as his belief in tackling social problems with market solutions. “We support entrepreneurs because... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
insights into how managers can engage frontline workers to solve problems. Reunion presentation: Designing Care, Professor Richard Bohmer Health care–related programs and courses are nothing new at HBS; in recent years, 10 percent of every graduating MBA View Details