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- 01 Feb 2000
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HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
1993, the HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise, supported by the John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/ '47) Fund for Not-for-Profit Management and other resources, has engaged in a wide range of activities. Among the results of these efforts are more...
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- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
to warn other members of the family,” said Diamond, whose search led him to Poland—and then to the creation of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland. Since founding JRI-Poland, in 1996, the not-for-profit has indexed more than 5 million birth,...
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- 01 Dec 2003
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Center Court
plays regularly, is the founder of Tennis Corporation of America, which owns and operates forty indoor clubs in North America. Last January, he was named president of the 670,000-member USTA, a not-for-profit organization that funds...
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- 01 Sep 2004
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Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
a college, a historic preservation society, and an outdoor group. All had very different circumstances, yet remarkably similar challenges. There are so many exciting options for public-private partnerships as well as important work to be done in the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Using an online platform to reinvent education
With more than 350 million lessons delivered worldwide, on everything from arithmetic and physics to history and art, Salman Khan (MBA 2003) is on a mission to provide a free education for anyone, anywhere, through his not-for-profit Khan...
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- 02 Feb 2017
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Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
Karen Fonseth (GMP 19, 2015) is CEO of Direct Action in Support of Community Homes (DASCH), a Canadian not-for-profit organization that operates more than 50 residential and outreach programs for children and adults with intellectual and...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin
skills they’ve honed in business can fill critical needs in the not-for-profit world. For many, it’s a life-changing shift from having success to having success plus significance. How long do the executives in your program stay away from...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Skills”—has generated much interest nationally in the role of business in closing the skills gap. The Walmart Foundation, for example, cited the research in its recent decision to grant $100 million over the next five years to View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal
recently established a fund to support students who intend to work to improve society. “Today not only is the debt burden much higher, but the education the School provides is extremely valuable to those interested in public service or View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
time in every dimension," and last year she invited Wood to take on the nonprofit's COO position. Wood came to the not-for-profit agency with decades of management experience in finance and publishing. "I was very excited for her vision,"...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Addressing The Financial Security Gap
Influential Women in US Finance in 2020, 2021, and 2022 and cofounded BlackRock’s Women’s Initiative Network, which encourages the full potential of women at the firm. “Many young people feel like they have to go into not-for-profits to...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
operations of their complicated, not-for-profit institutions. "The job of running a museum is much bigger and broader than it once was," observes HBS marketing professor emeritus Stephen A. Greyser, an expert on nonprofit management who...
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- 04 Dec 2014
- News
Hacking Health Care
vision is Hacking Heath, a Montreal-based social collaborative that hosts weekend brainstorming sessions, or “hackathons,” to spur innovation in the industry and, ultimately, save lives. “The end game is to transform health care with more and better collaboration,” he...
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Jill Radsken
- 16 Jan 2018
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Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
SPNM networking opportunity, similar to one established by the HBS Club of Michigan, which has sent four nonprofit leaders to SPNM every year since 2006. The Michigan club’s Not-for-Profit Leadership Collaborative meets five times a year...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2002
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Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
research effort. In 1996, however, Cheauré made a dramatic shift when he parlayed his enthusiasm for purebred dogs into a second career and took the helm of the American Kennel Club (AKC), a $60 million not-for-profit organization devoted...
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Susan Young
- 30 Sep 2014
- News
Life Lessons on the Open Seas
to the program’s success, including learning how to think outside the box to solve complex problems, as well as developing strategies for marrying the for-profit and not-for-profit worlds. He cites Professor William Sahlman's principles...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Leading Change
alumni.hbs.edu/makingadifference. Helping to Fill the Global Education Gap Before he came to HBS, Salman Khan (MBA 2003) didn’t think he had the stomach for entrepreneurship. Fast-forward 15 years, and Khan is founder and CEO of Khan Academy, a View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate
Not-for-profits like Water Aid and the Bill Gates Foundation, others in the country. The idea of starting the India Sanitation Coalition emerged from that. Because what was needed was a platform where everyone could share their...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
professional development and visibility of executives of color in the not-for-profit sector.” Contributions from individuals and corporations are welcomed. With seed money from its founders and multiyear pledges from companies and...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.
their typical incentives. Their motivations for working have changed dramatically." Hart notes that not-for-profit work often appeals to this group because it offers a sense of meaning, as well as greater flexibility than the corporate...
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