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The HBS Club of Connecticut Community Partners recently partnered with Time for Lyme (TFL), a nonprofit dedicated to eliminating the devastating effects of Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. Founded in 1998, TFL has raised millions of dollars, lobbied for federal funding and action to prevent the disease, been an information clearinghouse, and helped establish the country’s first endowed research dedicated to finding a cure for the disease. The HBS club provided pro bono consulting to help TFL identify ways to achieve greater results. Said the Connecticut club’s Nancy Tafoya (MBA ’80), “Nonprofits that achieve the greatest success are run like a business and incorporate the passion of their creators.”
Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship
Recent HBS graduates who are launching social enterprises — nonprofit, for-profit, or hybrid organizations — may apply for a new $25,000 fellowship. The Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship will select one recipient each year based on a competitive process. The application deadline is June 15, with a decision made by the end of August. The selection process will give priority to alumni within five years of graduation, including members of the current year’s graduating class. To learn more, visit www.hbs.edu/socialenterprise/careers/socialentrepreneurship/.
Philly Club Hosts Nonprofit Execs
Sixty nonprofit executives from the Philadelphia area attended the HBS Club of Philadelphia’s fifth annual nonprofit conference in November. The one-day event provided attendees with leading-edge thinking on executing strategy in nonprofit organizations as well as a forum for networking and sharing best practices. HBS lecturer Stacey Childress, a cofounder of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard, led a case discussion focusing on selecting the right management tools to implement nonprofit strategy. Comcast COO Stephen Burke (MBA ’82) delivered the keynote address, emphasizing how organizations can emerge stronger from times of crisis.
First Students Accepted to Deferred Admission Program
HBS has accepted 106 seniors from 52 colleges to take part in the new 2+2 Program, the School’s groundbreaking deferred MBA admission program. It is designed to reach a diverse group of high-achieving college students studyingin a wide variety of fields. After two years of work experience, they will begin the MBA Program in 2011 as members of the Class of 2013. The 2+2 Program “contradicts the conventional — and incorrect — notion that prospective students must have worked for five or six years before applying to the School,” says Deirdre Leopold (MBA ’80), managing director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. “There is no single profile for the successful applicant to HBS.” For more information, visit www.hbs.edu/mba/2+2/.
HBS Students Blog on Economics
A blog launched last year by four HBS students, the Economic Policy Review (www.econblog.org) seeks to provide nonpartisan, balanced commentary on pressing economic issues facing the U.S. economy. Kyle Sable (HBS ’09), one ofthe EPR’s cofounders, told the Harbus, “When you see the disjunction between sound economic principles and the policies that are often enacted, you want to do something to help close that gap. This is a chance for us to use our HBS educations to impact the world immediately.”
The EPR invites submissions from the HBS community and beyond. HBS professor Richard Vietor serves as the blog’s faculty sponsor.
How Many Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
In an exercise overseen by seventeen HBS faculty members, nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 looked at more than 800 occupations in the United States. They found that it’s not just low-skill jobs that can be readily performed for less overseas. With continuing advances in communications, students judged that over the next ten years, 21 to 42 percent of all U.S. jobs were potentially “offshorable.” To learn more, visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6012.html.
