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Washington Hospital Center (B): The Power of Insight
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Michelle Heskett
Dr. Craig Feied considers how to take a major technical innovation beyond his own department into a large hospital system. Reviews how proprietary information systems became indispensable in the department of emergency medicine and what it took to introduce the change... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
groups are the company's adversaries. At times, that view is justified; some regulators and advocates are indeed hostile to business. But government and nonprofit organizations will always play a role in environmental management – the... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was radical: The View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Answering the Call
change, Brooks says that entering the ministry late in life has been an asset. In guiding his church and parishioners, he is able to draw on a wealth of life experience, as well as on the leadership and analytical skills he developed at HBS and the knowledge about... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
offered in conjunction with this month's reunions: Transitions and Transformation and Strengthening Your Role as a Nonprofit Board Leader. These were tailored specifically to the needs of alumni. In addition, the committee has urged the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
challenges, few BOP ventures can be expected to reach scale at the pace seen in their mainstream counterparts. Indeed, those BOP ventures that do quickly reach scale often credit some of their success to support from governments, multilateral donors, and View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
Electric and used a portion of the proceeds to establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. The foundation’s signature initiative is its Distinguished... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Lindsay Hyde
Many students come to HBS with an interest in social enterprise; many others hope to become entrepreneurs. But Lindsay Hyde arrived on campus with significant accomplishments in both domains. As the founder of Strong Women, Strong Girls, a View Details
- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Got Talent
Tom Chen (MBA 2021) and Student Association representatives Abby Burcham (MBA 2021) and Matthew Shackelford (MBA 2021), we picked a date (March 31st) and hired our production partner. In selecting a charity, we were drawn to a new organization called Breaktime, a... 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 would benefit economically... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Career Peak
working my way up in finance or private industry, and then I’d move into nonprofit work on women’s education in the developing world.” How she’s fulfilling that goal instead: Leading all-women expeditions and speaking out about life as a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
Whitehead Institute is an independent, nonprofit research and teaching organization and one of the largest participants in the Human Genome Project through the Whitehead/MIT Center for Genome Research. Pratt notes that because the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
money. But refunds are many families’ best opportunity to put away a few dollars for their children and their futures. For the past three years, a team comprising researchers, the nonprofit Doorways to Dreams Fund (which I cofounded),... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose national board I serve, mobilizes... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
they need. Learn more: Landscape: Innovative Trials The Pharma Nonprofit Sweet Spot 4. Investment and Venture: Innovating investment models can help to minimize risk, redefine value, and align incentives. Learn more: Convening the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
record. The $25,000 Peter M. Sacerdote Runner-Up Prize went to DreamworldVR, a nonprofit that connects isolated pediatric patients battling chronic conditions to others in the same situation through a virtual reality multiplayer video... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Publishing. In the nonprofit realm, his commitments encompass his interests in health-care delivery and initiatives to improve education in disadvantaged communities. The rest of his time is spent in service on corporate boards. He’s... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
needy families, children, and community groups in Latin America and the Caribbean. Eight years later, Batcha established the nonprofit Seed Programs, Inc. (SPI), to continue this vital work after foundation funding had lapsed. “The seed... View Details
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Jonathan Bailey
through an English/U.S. exchange program and had earned it by being a champion debater at Oxford and by helping found a nonprofit that paired college mentors with high-school students. For a person deeply interested in "the roles of... View Details