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HBS Working Knowledge: Social Enterprise: The Nonprofit Boon from Boomers Here’s a pretty optimistic prediction about the windfall in volunteer labor nonprofits may get. As 77 million baby boomers are moving ever closer to retirement, they have the potential to provide a tremendous source of paid and non-paid labor for many nonprofits—if you know how to reach them—concludes a recent ...

Here’s a slap on the side of the head! Most of the cells in your body are not your own, nor are they even human. They are bacterial. From the invisible strands of fungi waiting to sprout between our toes, to the kilogram of bacterial matter in our guts, we are best viewed as walking “superorganisms,” highly complex conglomerations of ...

The Howard Hughes Medical Institute is spending $500 million for a new campus and think tank. Its goal is to let scientists work in small, interactive groups, with no need to write grants or deal with other administrative distractions, said Dr. Gerald M. Rubin, vice president of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and director of the new center. The two ...

One of the outstanding Springboard projects supported by the Futuring and Innovation Center is the Health Reminder Assistant (HRA). Adam Pellegrini, VP for Sales and Systems Development, Great West Division, has been developing this product to provide online health reminders—cancer and other health matters—as a product to corporate clients. I have been remiss in not posting more about the project, ...