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  • October 1987 (Revised September 1992)
  • Case

Hurricane Island Outward Bound School

Hurricane Island Outward Bound, a small, nonprofit school that helped pioneer experiential education in the United States, has recently recovered from a financial crisis. Students take the role of the school's new marketing manager, who is preparing his first marketing... View Details
Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Education; Education Industry; United States
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  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

Offshore Learning

you can catch and hold one of the briny little creatures in your own two hands. As president and CEO of the Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center in Boston, Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991) is working with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Outward Bound; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

John Read

With a background in government service, truck-parts manufacturing, and private equity, John C. Read (MBA ’71) might seem an unlikely person to run the world’s largest adventure-based educational organization. But about a decade ago, Read signed up for a weeklong View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; Outward Bound; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 Sep 2016
  • News

Innovating childhood education for America's future growth

  • Career Coach

Ellen Harris

Ellen (HGSE ’86) is the Director of Outward Bound Professional/Facilitator at Thompson Island Outward Bound Professional where she is responsible... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Consumer Products; Education; Hospitality; Manufacturing; Retail; Social Enterprise
  • 10 Dec 2010
  • News

Not for Profits

    Allen S. Grossman

    Allen Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; nonprofit industry
    • Web

    Events - Business History

    Introduction Marlous van Waijenburg (HBS), Chair Sebouh Aslanian (UCLA), "'Taking Risks Beyond the Bounds of Common Sense'? An Indo-Armenian 'Bill of Exchange' from Isfahan, c. 1730, and Trust Relations between Julfan Armenians and... View Details
    • 01 Dec 1998
    • News

    A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

    assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating... View Details
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg
    • 16 Sep 2016
    • News

    Offshore Learning

    “Our classroom is a 204-acre island in Boston Harbor with two salt marshes, a fresh-water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests,” says Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991), president and CEO of Boston’s Thompson Island Outward View Details
    • 09 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

    value proposition created by a national organization with local units is lost. Instead, the debate should be reframed with autonomy and affiliation as the key dimensions. In their research, Grossman and Rangan looked at the system behaviors of five nonprofits: View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Dec 2006
    • News

    Orientation Teamwork

    activities, led by facilitators from Outward Bound Professional, was designed to give students comprising 152 newly formed Learning Teams a chance to get to know each other while introducing them to... View Details
    Keywords: orientation; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 22 Feb 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

    himself during his six years as president andCEO of Outward Bound, plunging him into the Social Capital Markets arena.When Outward Bound received an $8-million grant for a new... View Details
    Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

    of dollars and asking, 'Is it working in an optimum fashion?' " Grossman, the former CEO of Outward Bound USA, wrote (with Christine W. Letts (MBA '76) and William P. Ryan) the pathbreaking 1997 Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
    • 24 Jul 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: July 24, 2007

    a firm practicing by-product synergy is that quantities of the primary product and by-product are linked, with production of the primary product defining the upper bound of the quantity of the by-product. Optimization of a by-product... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace