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- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
“Both of my parents have always been very committed to volunteer work and they always encouraged us to give back to the community,” Burke told the Capital Times. “I feel incredibly lucky to have been given the opportunities I was given,... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
It may have been a year—or 50—since the six dozen Harvard Business School alumni gathered in an Aldrich Hall classroom Monday morning had dug into a case study. However, once they got over the initial fear of being cold called by Professor Mihir Desai, it didn’t take... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Horse-Powered Healing
includes experience at Citicorp, Conseco, and the Boston Consulting Group, and, more recently, leadership of an academic research institute. She first became involved in the center as a volunteer strategic consultant, but soon found... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Serve as Consultants
Twelve HBS students spent their January Term as volunteer consultants to USAID projects in Bangladesh, Jordan, Morocco and Uganda. Only in its second year, the student-led Global Impact Experience program, the brainchild of Rich Chung... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus
in the Wall Street Journal notes that the NIH expects clinical trials to begin in 20 to 25 volunteers by the end of April. Bancel is also part of a wider effort by researchers from Harvard and other local higher ed institutions to combat... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
Having retired from Congress after representing his western New York district for eighteen years, Amory Houghton Jr. (MBA ’52) is now working as a volunteer with his old friend, Bishop Thomas Shaw, head of the Episcopal Diocese of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
Get Involved
volunteer work. And I can't say, “you should help other people, and bring other people up in your career, and help other women and other people of color succeed in their careers,” and I'm not doing that. “For me, that's making a... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Model Teamwork
commitment of two motivated veteran volunteers. Longtime class leader (and former HBS Fund Chair) Mike Johnston was joined by new cochair Bill Spears last summer. Invested in the future of the MBA Program, the two leaders and their team of View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Spangler Elected President of Harvard Overseers
Business School. Cronin Also newly elected to the board is Michael F. Cronin (MBA 1977), cofounder and managing partner of Boston-based Weston Presidio, a leading private-equity firm. Cronin, one of six new overseers, is a graduate of Harvard College. He has also... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
not knowing which offices are the most honest. To address that, Bantay has three main initiatives: City Watch recruits students and volunteers to grade government offices on everything from their air conditioning to the prices of bribes.... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption
building a database of corruption by having volunteers rate different government services offices, including logging the office conditions and the bribes being demanded for various services. It’s like “a Yelp for government services,” he... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
Students helped to rebuild storm-damaged homes “The first thought I had when I heard about the destruction left by Katrina was, ‘Let’s do something about it,’ ” says Anthony D’Avella (HBS ’07). “Here was an opportunity to put our classroom knowledge to work.” Last... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
develop a support mechanism whereby alumni could receive training through volunteer IT specialists. Highlights of its recommendations included a broader marketing effort to all alumni, publicizing the benefits of the online services... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) volunteered as a Big Brother and saw firsthand how urban youth suffered from a lack of job options. He wrote his HBS application essay about starting a program to connect those young adults with a growing need... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
from multiple fields to problem-solving. I also felt encouraged by the School’s entrepreneurial spirit, which inspired me to start my own company.” Considering the value that Serra has gained from her HBS experience, it is not surprising that she View Details
- 21 Dec 2017
- News
Finding Opportunities to Grow and Lead
especially, because that's where I worked––in trying to encourage more women in every field I've been in, and all of my volunteer work, and whatever. And especially women leaders. “What I say to young women embarking on their careers,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping
director Amelia Angella (MBA 2001), so the celebration commemorates not the conception but rather the execution. It's fitting: The organization matches local nonprofits with volunteer HBS alumni who help the groups build strategies to... View Details
- 07 Jul 2016
- News
Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia
former state president of the Liberal Party in Victoria and founder at PPB Advisory, started SecondBite 10 years ago, reusing food had just become legalized. Today, the nonprofit has 800 volunteers serving 200 agencies in even the most... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math
grade-level math proficiency.” As a longtime school volunteer with at-risk students and founder of an innovative high school entrepreneurship curriculum in Rhode Island, Daugherty was struck by how often “smart, resourceful students can’t... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- News
Dedicated to a public service mission
Western Pacific deployments during Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, then joined the private sector at Caustic Soda and, more recently, Dow Solar. Outside the office, he has actively volunteered at his local church and a... View Details