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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
principals at the school level, so the challenge was to create the operations to match.” Kete has recently been chosen for the selective two-year “resident executive” program of the nonprofit Broad Foundation, whose goal is to attract... View Details
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
reputation and brand. In general these activities create a win-win for the company and its larger group of stakeholders. Q: Many nonprofits from museums to food banks are worried about the dwindling number of donors and their future in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
well by defrauding investors." Nonprofit organizations "like our own universities, museums, churches—whose leaders should be talking about this, and talking about it more than they are, who should be providing some of the... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
numbers. In truth, she argues, there’s no such thing as a “math kid,” and everyone is capable of numeracy, with the right support. That’s the message of her first book, Math Mind: The Simple Path to Loving Math, published in August 2024 by Penguin Random House. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
Every evening on the streets of Pune, in western India, a 67-year-old man coordinates a food drive to benefit the people in his community. As a local leader in the Robin Hood Army, a nonprofit volunteer organization, he’s on the front... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Turning Point: Tell Me More
innovator, she is a nationally recognized expert on the electorate and is the founder, chairman, and former CEO of C Space. She serves on four corporate and four nonprofit boards and is CEO of Salient Ventures, an angel investment company... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- News
Signal Boost
being influenced by women, yet they weren’t paying attention to what women wanted.” Giving voice to those who aren’t always heard has been a hallmark of Lara’s career. Today, she works as the executive director at Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance (LEDA), a View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
A Wider Net
sportswriter Brian Phillips wrote in the New York Times. “The next thing I want to see from United States soccer is a jackhammer, not a news conference.” “It was heartbreaking,” says Carlos Cordeiro (MBA 1980), who at the time was vice president of US Soccer, the... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
71, 1975), chairman of Tata Group, one of India’s largest conglomerates. With Tata’s support, Gandhi started the Indian chapter of AIESEC, a nonprofit organization that helps young people learn leadership skills through global internships... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- May 2003 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Harlem Children's Zone, The: Driving Performance with Measurement and Evaluation
By: Allen S. Grossman and Daniel F. Curran
Geoffrey Canada, CEO of the Harlem Children's Zone, wanted his organization to grow dramatically to reach thousands of poor and underserved children in Harlem. The agency ran a variety of successful social service programs throughout New York City that were separately... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Structure; Performance Evaluation; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Valuation
Grossman, Allen S., and Daniel F. Curran. "Harlem Children's Zone, The: Driving Performance with Measurement and Evaluation." Harvard Business School Case 303-109, May 2003. (Revised March 2004.)
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
On a chilly November afternoon in Harlan County, a struggling former mining hub on the edge of the Eastern Kentucky Coalfield, Geoff Marietta (MBA 2007) surveys the bustling village he has helped build. Marietta is executive director of the Pine Mountain Settlement... View Details
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Luana Bichuetti
of the business lessons. "HBS always challenges you to make the right choices when economics and ethics come into play. We're always looking at values, at the role of a leader to set good examples." Before she arrived at HBS, Luana had worked at Endeavor, a... View Details
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Bobby Daly
immediate during a recent immersion experience in Mumbai, India, where Bobby joined Harvard Medical International. There, he helped a nonprofit create a five-year business plan for addressing HIV/AIDS. "The big foundations need to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
25th Annual African-American Student Union Career/Alumni Conference
conference will feature management seminars and panel discussions on information technology, the nonprofit sector, prominent African-American women business leaders, venture capital, and the music industry, as well as a "town meeting," an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Lunch with Jack: Student Dines with GE's Welch
sponsored by Section NG that was held on campus last April to benefit Summer Search Boston (SSB). A nonprofit organization, SSB provides scholarships for summer programs to high-school students who demonstrate strength of character and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
on information and computer systems, control, environmental and nonprofit management, and production and operations management (POM). He was POM chairman from 1968 to 1972. In retirement, McKenney continued his research on management... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forum
Feedback The “Assets” department in our March issue featured some of Professor Joe Fuller’s flying pigs and a call to share what’s in your office. Keep Pulling “My time at HBS overlapped with Professor Fuller, who graduated from HBS the year before I did. While he was... View Details
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Eryn Schultz
out about a nonprofit grocery store concept I’m now involved with. It’s called Daily Table, and it was founded by Doug Rauch, the ex-president of Trader Joe’s. He noticed that the average grocery store throws away tons of food every day.... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
in the academic literature, social scientists should focus their research on larger public problems. "That resonated with me," says Moss, who in 2005 founded the Tobin Project in collaboration with Poorvu Family Professor of Management Practice Arthur Segel. An... View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
community-oriented philosophy and practices. At one point, it counted more than 600 nonprofit groups among its customers, as the bank aggressively supported environmental, HIV/AIDS, affordable housing, and homeless causes and issues. In... View Details