Humanitarian NGOs Domain
NGO Leaders Seminar Series:A Marriage of Core Competencies:
Bridging the Non-Profit and For-Profit Arenas to Fight Poverty
Steve Hollingworth, Chief Operating Officer, CARE USA
Moderated by Alnoor Ebrahim, Associate Professor in the General Management Unit, and Social Enterprise Initiative, Harvard Business School
Thursday, May 14, 2009, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
L-130, Bolton Lecture Room, Littauer Building, HKS
Light refreshments served
Free and open to the public
Steve Hollingworth joined CARE in 1985 and currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer. He works with the CEO to frame and execute the organization’s priorities, is responsible for implementing organizational strategy and assessing organizational performance. Prior to becoming COO, Hollingworth served as Country Director in CARE India, where he led the country office’s transition from food aid into programming that addresses the social exclusion faced by women and other vulnerable groups. Under Hollingworth’s leadership, CARE India made significant advances in maternal and child health, HIV/AIDS prevention, microfinance, tribal empowerment, and emergency preparedness and response. Prior to his position in CARE India, Hollingworth served as CARE’s Country Director in Sri Lanka. He has also held several leadership positions at CARE offices in Bangladesh, Lesotho and Bolivia. Hollingworth holds an M.A. (Econ.) in Development Studies from Victoria University of Manchester, England, and a B.A. in Economics from Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois.
Alnoor Ebrahim is an Associate Professor in the General Management Unit, and in the Social Enterprise Initiative, at the Harvard Business School. His research and teaching focus on the challenges of accountability, performance, and organizational learning facing nonprofit and civil society organizations. He is also affiliated with Harvard University’s Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations. Professor Ebrahim is author of the award-winning book, NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003 and 2005), and is co-editor, with Edward Weisband, of Global Accountabilities: Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics (Cambridge University Press, 2007), which compares accountability dilemmas in nonprofits, business, and government. His teaching experience includes courses on NGOs, civil society, collaborative governance and environmental policy. He currently teaches in the executive education program on Performance Measurement of Effective Management of Nonprofit Organizations, and will teach an elective course in the MBA program on Leading and Governing High-Performing Nonprofit Organizations during the winter of 2009.