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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Tap into Valuable Alumni Resources
year, gives alumni exclusive access to hundreds of positions, and it is searchable by industry, region, salary, and more. This year the Job Bank will add a much wider range of opportunities specifically for more senior executives, second-career seekers, and those... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
schools in Africa a hard sell. “After Lehman Brothers collapsed in 2008, there was a lot of instability on Wall Street,” he notes. But by partnering in-country with Rwandan educators, government officials, and public health advocates, he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
now the largest entrepreneurial training center in New England, with offices in Boston, Providence, and Worcester. While Silbert admits she spends more time on raising funds — from individual donors, foundations, and government agencies —... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
Photography by Susan Young Even though government spending and philanthropic capital are powerful tools for helping people improve their lives and rise out of poverty, there are still problems with them. Regular infusions of outside... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 02 Mar 2020
- News
Educating the Whole Student
the work and seeing what the needs are, every day, of teachers, students, and families—then you just don’t understand,” says Liu, who later worked on education policy in the government and nonprofit sectors.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
nor would it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, it would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
precisely target individual diseases. Isolating the genome's three billion chemical units is a task of such immense scope that the NIH formed a consortium of academic and government research laboratories to undertake the work... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
difference in our world." CURRENT READING The World Is Flat, by Thomas L. Friedman As president of New York City-based Women's World Banking (WWB), Nancy Barry has changed the lives of millions of poor women and their families around the globe. The View Details
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977) was visiting his hometown of Jaipur, India, in 1999 when tragedy struck. In the midst of an unemployment crisis during the Kargil War, the government advertised for 120 open positions in the nearby town of... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
that passion created a natural transition to the nonprofit world in 2012. “I went into business to understand the engine of the economy, but I suppose I always knew that at some point I wanted to get back to nature,” says Thoren, who has... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
hosted medical, law, and nonprofit offices. But by 2019, its small suites felt dated, and developers launched a four-year, $58 million project that would bring the building into the 21st century—not as offices, but as luxury apartments... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
not to mention our own self-esteem — are on the line.” Kanter’s recommendations, which span economic, social, and government concerns, include securing the country’s future by nurturing innovation; getting the work-family balance right;... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
for research. Businesses and governments are reassessing Asia-Pacific policies and strategies. People are searching for new intellectual frameworks and ideas. At the same time, in sectors where growth and performance are highly uncertain... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
thought it would allow me to have a direct impact for a while.” The interesting business model that attracted Gibbons to NIB was also the organization’s weak point only a few years earlier. As a nonprofit organization established by the... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
name inspired by the Roman philosopher’s civic-minded teachings—has grown into a successful company with offices in Salt Lake City, Dallas, and Washington, DC, offering big data and analytics services to hundreds of corporations, View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
insurance (for such individuals, another function of the Connector is deciding “affordability,” that is, how much those individuals should be subsidized and how much they should pay out-of-pocket). This uninsured-care fund previously had been bankrolled by the state... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
for the Detroit effort, which was an honor for me.” Enabling Career Exploration Each year, the HBS Leadership Fellows Program gives a select group of graduating MBAs the financial flexibility to explore careers in high-impact nonprofit or... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
of it as a place for cats playing the piano. But I gave it a shot, and the videos took on a life of their own.” The plunge: “Soon, tens of thousands of people were using the videos every month. In 2009, I left my job and set up Khan Academy as a View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details