Lina Sergie Attar is founder and CEO of Karam Foundation, dedicated to helping young Syrian refugees on pathways to leadership. An architect and writer from Aleppo, Lina founded Karam Foundation in 2007, and sought to expand her nonprofit CEO toolbox by attending the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management (SPNM) Executive Education program at Harvard Business School. In the post below, she discusses her experience of the program. [...]

As 2019 comes to an end, we’re looking back at some of our top Impact Insights blog posts of the year… [...]

For the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, fall went by in a flash. The fall semester is a time for meeting new students and reconnecting with returning students, for students to reflect on past experiences and think about future opportunities, and for connecting all students to the resources at HBS to explore social enterprise. [...]

Martin Aares (MBA 2001) had always known his childhood interest in the environment would be part of his life, but he wasn’t sure that passion could be part of his business career, too. Now a managing director for Closed Loop Partners, he reflects on finding his way to a career that merges the worlds of finance, investing, and environmental impact. [...]

Harvard Business School awards Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowships of $10,000 each to seven to ten incoming MBA students each year, with recipients serving in leadership roles in nonprofit and public sector organizations, and demonstrating a strong commitment to continued career paths in these areas. Since 1990, 209 incoming students have received the fellowship, established by the Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation and Richard L. Menschel (MBA 1959), a former director of the Foundation and a limited partner at Goldman Sachs. [...]