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...event featured over 60 presenters and drew a crowd of nearly 850 participants who came to HBS to learn how utilize for-profit business strategies in the non-profit sector...

Author: By Alicia Warlick, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Entrepreneurs Discuss Non-Profit Ventures at Conference | 3/7/2005 | See Source »

...rich and famous strive for their own metallic solidity and sheen--Robots has an old-fashioned message: "You can shine no matter what you're made of." In other words: Why be new when you can be the very best you? That's a notion even humans can profit from. --By Richard Corliss

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Metallic Machinations | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

Even in Valvo's Collection line, which makes up 75% of his profit, underpinnings are key. One $390 beaded-lace skirt features a pleated-tulle petticoat. When celebrities do wear Valvo--Catherine Zeta-Jones; Beyonce, to meet Nelson Mandela in South Africa--they trade on his style, not his name. "There's an incredible simplicity to the lines but an impact and glamour you don't find a lot of places," says stylist Nick Steele, who has dressed Claire Danes and Radha Mitchell in Valvo's looks. Valvo, who spends four months of each year traveling to meet current...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Style That Sells | 3/6/2005 | See Source »

...learned, stands for The New Press, a small New York City not-for-profit outfit that claims to publish “works of educational, cultural, and community value...

Author: By Daniel J. Hemel, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Writer Levels Low Blows at Harvard Profs | 3/3/2005 | See Source »

...www.seniorgiftplus.com) answers these questions at length, but I want to speak on the sense of impotence and disconnect that they all have in common. The incontrovertible fact is that Harvard has invested nearly $4 million dollars in PetroChina Corp., which in turn finances the genocidal Sudanese government. Harvard makes profit off its investment in PetroChina, which is then distributed back throughout the university—perhaps even as financial aid. Therefore, my financial aid may be partially subsidized by direct profits from PetroChina, which funds genocide in Sudan. Now, without my consent, I am indirectly profiting (materially, socially, psychologically...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry, | Title: Money and Morality, Humanity and Harvard | 2/28/2005 | See Source »

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