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- 12 May 2021
- News
Aid from Afar
working with GiveIndia to channel funds directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. Funds are dispersed by GiveIndia to nonprofit partners to supply equipment... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Corruption
Henry Motte-Munoz (MBA 2013) is cofounder of Bantay, an NGO that educates Filipinos about their rights to good government services and gives them tools to obtain these services without paying bribes. “The people who are corrupt, you know... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Non-Government Organizations in the 21st Century by John A. Quelch and Nathalie Laidler-Kylander (Thomson South-Western) Using twelve HBS cases, Professor Quelch and Laidler-Kylander (MBA ’92) examine how NGOs like Oxfam America, Doctors... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
events provided a teachable moment regarding our role as global citizens and the importance of ending poverty." "We know that all the might in the world won't end the war on terrorism," added Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps International, an View Details
- 07 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - COP27 and the Climate Crisis
pioneers of environmental sustainability from the private and NGO sectors who have mobilized their organizations in response to the worsening impacts of climate change: Helmy Abouleish is CEO of the SEKEM Initiative in Egypt. Since... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
Working in Tech 4Dev
and NGO budgets are squeezed. The City of Los Angeles, for example, used our platform to crowdsource broken sidewalk locations for repair, saving the city a costly location survey estimated at millions. Ushahidid’s platform provides ease... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Turning Millennials into Leaders
create an NGO for kids around the world with HIV and AIDS [to improve] their quality of life, which led me to teaching back in Africa with students focusing on service and leadership. “I said, ‘I’ve been given this platform and this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
in Paris arranged Trumbull’s interviews with government officials and NGO leaders across the continent. “They were all exhausted,” Trumbull recalls of his interview subjects. “The human weight of the situation was taking a toll on them.”... View Details
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Conceptualizing Information and Accountability in NGO-Funder Relations Author:Alnoor S. Ebrahim Publication:In Reconceptualising NGOs and Their Roles in Development: NGOs, Civil Society and the International Aid System, edited by Paul... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
Other grants helped survivors begin to rebuild devastated areas, allowing them to return to their former villages rather than remain in settlement camps, explains Curran. Back on campus, Curran is working to place up to ten MBA students in summer jobs with View Details
- Profile
Paul Wang
projects included a study on “the effect of adding one extra teacher to first-grade classrooms” and an HIV/AIDS education study. Jumping into the business arena Paul’s African experiences reinforced his commitment to international development. “But,” he says, “I found... View Details
- Profile
Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
Margarita interned with McKinsey over the summer in consulting roles that put her in direct contact with clients. In her Elective Curriculum year, she was part of a field-study team working with Pro Mujer (an NGO that provides... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- News
Capitalism Meets Conservation
market-based model you can attract vast amounts of capital to sectors that were historically funded by the government and/or NGO sectors. What we’re doing with conservation capitalism is parallel with that. We hope this new market-based... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
both of whom started remotely in June. They have been collaborating with McKenna on any number of major issues over several weeks—onboarding a new leadership team, steering the NGO through the pandemic, finding ways to continue to deliver... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
recently, I took over as chair of Women in Football, which is the leading NGO for empowering women, celebrating their success, but also maintaining a collaborative dialogue with the governing bodies in the UK and in Europe about the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
thereby bring down prices, ultimately benefiting the poor. To minimize negative public perception, however, companies that find that they are "profiting from the poor" must be willing to publicly address the profit debate, work collaboratively with View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
Executives Without Borders is about. We make sustainable, knowledge-based investments that help to stabilize communities and, over time, make the world a better place. How do you choose which NGOs to help? We get involved with projects... View Details
- 14 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Reducing Plastic Pollution on a Global Scale
in the latter option as part of their sustainability commitments, but how can businesses reduce their use of non-recyclable plastics on a global scale? The CEM project has interviewed leaders of businesses and NGOs from emerging markets... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
microfinance into an industry. The distinction is important, he argues. While foundations, governments, and NGOs all play significant roles in pioneering social-good organizations, such funding can never equal the dimensions of the... View Details
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Ari Medoff
the joint degree students' commitment was demonstrated last January when nine joint degrees students self-organized a trip to Ethiopia, where they met with business and NGO leaders, and helped A Glimmer of Help conduct interviews to build... View Details