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- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Leadership Fellows program, she discovered nonprofit arts organizations as “an ideal way to scale the impact of the arts.” Established in 2001, the program connects graduating MBA students with View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in this episode of the Cold Call podcast. HEAR MORE Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses how Dunn helped lead a turnaround at Sesame Street in this episode of the Cold Call podcast. A View Details
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April White
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
professional kiteboarder Susi Mai that combines high-level kiting and high-value networking. ACTAI Global—now a nonprofit with several thousand members and events around the world—has been called the “new TED,” and kiteboarding has been...
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April White
- 30 Mar 2022
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Giving Hope and Comfort
Jeff Feingold (MBA 1997) aims to put himself out of business. “That’s the real goal,” says the founder of Hope and Comfort, a Massachusetts-based nonprofit that distributes basic hygiene products. Feingold estimates that, in Massachusetts...
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- 07 May 2020
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Ensuring Student Equity
2008, the nonprofit has grown to a staff of 35, who work with 2,500 volunteers each year and 50 partner organizations. Before the pandemic, Grumhaus, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and founding team member of City Year in...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2013
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Getting Smart About Philanthropy
nonprofit adviser for mission-driven organizations. "Never before has there been, in one place, such an extensive set of conversations with people who are helping shape 21st-century philanthropy trends," says Bridgespan cofounder and...
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- 27 Mar 2012
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One School at a Time
back on a test.” Frock was working as a high-level executive at Corning when she decided to scale back her involvement to spend more time at home with her children, then 7 and 8 years old. After becoming more involved in the local public...
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- 02 Sep 2022
- News
Strength in Numbers
Mark Verdi, Jan Swartz, and Rob Swartz Jan and Rob Swartz and Mark Verdi (all MBA 1996) and Mark’s wife, Gina, have witnessed, firsthand, the negative effects of our nation’s disjointed approach toward the treatment of mental illness. “It’s fragmented and fractured,”...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Pencils Up: Taking Note of New Courses
of years out of business school?” Management challenges include turnarounds, transactions, global expansion, reinvention, scaling growth, and career management. Field Course: US Behavioral Insights Professor Max Bazerman, Negotiation,...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
money to good use, building a successful organization, showing that you have a demonstrable impact in achieving your mission, and then scaling the organization are the hardest to accomplish. When you show impact, more money will flow in....
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- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one day, he’d go into the View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2), a nonprofit group of businesspeople who believe that sound environmental policy and economic progress are not mutually exclusive. With about four hundred members nationwide, E2 works directly with the...
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- 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...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
it’s consistent from company to company.” Her new COO role at Code for America, a San Francisco–based nonprofit dedicated to improving civic tech and “strengthening America’s basic social safety net,” has proven this maxim true. “I...
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- 18 Nov 2021
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Strength in Numbers
Their solution? The Goodness Web, a nonprofit that finds its strength in connection, through “a web of people who can aggregate resources—whether that is philanthropic dollars or contacts—to do good, better,” Swartz explains. Currently in...
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April White
- 24 Mar 2021
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Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
Clubs News Clubs News Community Partners Lean In to Racial Equity Each year, hundreds of HBS alumni volunteer with their local alumni clubs and associations to offer pro-bono consulting to nonprofits in their communities. This year, the...
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Margie Kelley
- 23 Feb 2015
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Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
soundtrack of Dominican life. The young musicians are all a part of the nonprofit iASO Bachata Academy, established by Ben de Menil (MBA 2006) in 2013 to preserve the country’s musical tradition and educate a new generation of Dominican...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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Finding sustainable solutions for humanitarian crises
strengthen and scale three of the top nonprofit organizations in Rio de Janeiro. In February 2014, Goodwin took on new roles as Mattel's director of corporate affairs and executive director of the Mattel...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
high-quality transactions to the United States to demonstrate the promise of this instrument,” Palandjian adds. “Social impact bonds have the potential to improve social outcomes at reduced taxpayer expense; shift performance risk away from government to private...
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- 13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
supplement lower-paying internships (for example, at nonprofits and startups). In a typical year, about 250 first-year students are awarded summer fellowships. This year, some 750 first- and second-year students received them. “I got to...
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