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National Advisory Board
Gerald Chertavian, Executive Director & Founder, Year Up
Born and raised in Lowell, MA, Gerald is living his dream of returning to Boston and leveraging his entrepreneurial skills with his passion for working with urban young adults. Gerald has a life-long commitment to working with urban youth, an interest that has spanned over 15 years. He has been an active participant in the Big Brother mentoring program since 1985. In 1989, Gerald was recognized as one of New York's outstanding Big Brothers. Prior to founding Year Up, Gerald co-founded and ran Conduit Communications, an Internet strategy consulting firm with headquarters in London. Prior to Conduit, Gerald was head of marketing at Transnational Financial Services in London, the World's leading provider of affinity credit cards. He began his career on Wall Street as an officer of the Chemical Banking Corporation. Gerald earned an MBA, with honors, from Harvard Business School and a BA in Economics, Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude, from Bowdoin College. Gerald was recently recognized by Boston Business Forward magazine as one of "Boston's 40 most promising individuals under the age of 40." He currently serves as a Trustee of both Cambridge College and Bowdoin College.
Stacey Childress, Executive Director Emeritus, Social Enterprise Initiative & Senior Lecturer Harvard Business School
Stacey Childress is a Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, and a co-founder and senior researcher of the Public Education Leadership Project at Harvard University. She teaches in the School's MBA and executive education programs. Stacey studies entrepreneurial activity in public education in the United States, both as a managerial approach inside the system and as a reform strategy outside the system. This includes the behavior and strategies of leadership teams in urban public school districts, charter schools, and nonprofit enterprises with missions to improve the public system. She is also interested in a range of social enterprise topics, including international social entrepreneurship. Prior to joining the faculty, Stacey served four years as Executive Director of the Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) at Harvard Business School, the School's effort to generate and share knowledge to help individuals and organizations deliver social value through the nonprofit, private, and public sectors.
Allen Grossman, Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School
Allen Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Outward Bound USA for 6 years before stepping down in 1997 to work on the challenges of creating high performing nonprofit organizations. His current research focuses on leadership and management in public education; the challenges of measuring nonprofit organizational performance; and the issues of managing multi-site nonprofit organizations. In partnership with four foundations, Allen founded the Going to Scale Project in 1994. This project led to the book, High Performance Nonprofit Organizations: Managing Upstream for Greater Impact, published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc and the article, "Virtuous Capital: What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists" published in the Harvard Business Review, both co-authored with Christine Letts and William Ryan. Allen currently teaches the new first year course, Leadership and Corporate Accountability and co-teaches the second year course, Effective Leadership of a Social Enterprise. He has taught the first year course, The Entrepreneurial Manager and co-taught the second year course, Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector. Allen is faculty chair for a new executive education program, the Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a joint project of HBS and HGSE; he co-chairs the executive education program, Performance Measurement and Management of Nonprofit Organizations (PMNO), a joint project of HBS and KSG; and he teaches in the HBS executive education programs, Strategic Perspectives for Nonprofit Managers (SPNM) and Governing for Nonprofit Excellence (GNE) and others. He received a BS in corporate finance from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School.
Jay W. Lorsch, Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, Harvard Business School
Jay W. Lorsch is the Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations at the Harvard Business School. He is the author of over a dozen books. Organization and Environment (with Paul R. Lawrence) won the Academy of Management's Best Management Book of the Year Award and the James A. Hamilton Book Award of the College of Hospital Administrators in 1969. Having taught in all of Harvard Business School's educational programs, he was Chairman of Doctoral Programs, and Director of Research from 1995-1999, Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the Executive Education Program from 1991-1995, Senior Associate Dean and Director of Research from 1986-1991, Chairman of the Advanced Management Programs from 1980-1985, and prior to that was Chairman of the Organizational Behavior Area. He is a graduate of Antioch College (1955) with a MS degree in Business from Columbia University (1956) and a Doctor of Business Administration from Harvard Business School (1964). At Columbia, he was a Samuel Bronfman Fellow in Democratic Business Administration. From 1956-59, he served as a Lieutenant in the U.S. Army Finance Corp.
Julie Juergens, Director of External Relations & Program Development, Center for Social Innovation, Stanford University Graduate School of Business
Julie Juergens is the Director of External Relations and Program Development at the Center for Social Innovation at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business. A Stanford graduate herself, Julie has extensive experience in higher education and the nonprofit sector. Her research includes co-authoring the 1997 Corporate Community Involvement Study, which investigated the practices of 100 of the largest public and private businesses in Silicon Valley, and determined benchmarks for corporate philanthropic giving, volunteerism and community involvement. She also serves on the Board of Directors for the organization Start Up.
Vanessa Kirsch, President & Founder, New Profit, Inc.
Vanessa Kirsch is the President and Founder of New Profit Inc. (NPI). Vanessa has over 15 years experience in developing innovative solutions to social problems and is widely recognized as a leading social entrepreneur. Prior to launching NPI, Vanessa founded and led two nonprofit organizations, Public Allies and the Women's Information Network. Vanessa has received numerous public service awards and has been recognized by both Newsweek and U.S. News and World Report as a leader of her generation; by Forbes as one of 15 innovators who will reinvent the future; Harpers Bazaar as one of 30 young women to be leaders in the 21st century; by Fast Company as "Who's Fast 2000;" and by the Boston Business Journal's "40 Under 40" as one of the most promising leaders in Boston. Additionally, she was selected as one of the World Economic Forum's Global Leaders for Tomorrow (GLT) for the year 2003. Currently, Vanessa serves on the Tufts Board of Overseers to the University College of Citizenship and Public Service, and on the Boards of Jumpstart and New Leaders for New Schools. Vanessa is a graduate of Tufts University where she served as a TCU Senator and student member on the Board of Trustees, and currently serves on the Tufts University Alumni Council.
