About Us
Advisory Board
The Social Enterprise Initiative benefits from the guidance and counsel of its Advisory Board composed of HBS alumni and other leaders in the field of social enterprise.
| Thomas J. Tierney, Chair | Chairman and Co-Founder, The Bridgespan Group (MBA '80) |
| John C. Whitehead, Chair Emeritus | Chairman, The Goldman Sachs Foundation; Founder, John C. Whitehead Fund for Not-for-Profit Management (MBA '47) |
| Babar Ali | Pro-Chancellor, Lahore University of Management Sciences (AMP '65) |
| Nancy R. Axelrod | Principal, NonProfit Leadership Services; Founding President and CEO, BoardSource |
| Nancy M. Barry | President, Nancy Barry Associates — Enterprise Solutions to Poverty (MBA '75) |
| Peter D. Bell | Senior Research Fellow, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, Harvard University; President Emeritus, CARE |
| Bonnie J. Bellehumeur | President, America's Second Harvest of Wisconsin |
| Brizio Biondi-Morra | President, AVINA Foundation; Chairman, INCAE; Chairman, Fundes International (DBA '88) |
| Frederick M. Bohen | Senior Advisor to the President and Executive Vice President (Retired), The Rockefeller University |
| Julian Bond | Chairman of the Board, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People; Professor, University of Virginia and American University |
| Stacey M. Boyd | Founder and Chief Executive Officer, The Savvy Source for Parents (MBA '97) |
| David V. B. Britt | Retired President and Chief Executive Officer, Sesame Workshop |
| David Chernow | Chief Executive Officer, OnCURE Medical Corporation |
| David A. Dechman | CEO, Summit Rock Advisors; Former Co-Head of Private Wealth Management of the Americas, Goldman Sachs; Chair, HBS Social Enterprise Club Alumni Advisory Board (MBA '87) |
| James B. Hayes | Retired President and Chief Executive Officer, Junior Achievement, Inc.; Retired Publisher, Fortune Magazine |
| Frances Hesselbein | Chairman of the Board and Founding President, Leader to Leader Institute (formerly the Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management) |
| Mary Houghton | President, ShoreBank Corporation |
| Geneva B. Johnson | Former President and Chief Executive Officer, Family Service America, Inc. |
| Steven B. Klinsky | Founder and Chief Executive, New Mountain Capital, LLC; Founder, Victory Schools, Inc. (MBA '79; JD '81) |
| Stanley S. Litow | Vice President, Corporate Citizenship and Corporate Affairs and President, IBM International Foundation |
| John H. McArthur | Dean Emeritus, Harvard Business School (MBA '59, DBA '63) |
| Steven J. McCormick | President and Chief Executive Officer, The Nature Conservancy |
| Richard L. Menschel | Senior Director, Goldman Sachs; President, The HWG Fund, Inc. (MBA '59) |
| Geraldine Peacock CBE | Former Chair and Chief Charity Commissioner, Charity Commission; Civil Service Commissioner, UK Government; Member of the UK Treasury's Social Investment Taskforce |
| Eliot I. Snider | President and Chairman, Massachusetts Lumber Company; Founder, Eliot I. Snider and Family Professorship of Business Administration; Immediate Past Chair, Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties, Inc. (MBA '43) |
| Andrew H. Tisch | Co-Chairman of the Board and Chairman of the Executive Committee, Loews Corporation (MBA '77) |
| James N. Wood | President and C.E.O., J. Paul Getty Trust |
| Ruth A. Wooden | President, Public Agenda |
