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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
demonstrates the benefits of affiliating a business with charities and nonprofits. They include an increase in the bottom line and employee morale as well as a boost to the company’s brand and reputation. Plugged In: The Generation Y...
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- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
clubs in NY, Chicago, Seattle, LA, Miami, and San Francisco. Check club calendars for details. Celebrating 30 Years of Fulbrights in London The British Friends of Harvard Business School is a British registered charity set up by the HBS...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
the last decade is the dramatic increase in the number of companies concerned with corporate social responsibility, and the resultant rise in the range and variety that such efforts have taken. From "old" models in which companies either donated money directly to View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
themselves and the charity, they respond very similarly to self risk and charity risk. By contrast, when their decisions force tradeoffs between money for themselves and the charity, participants act more averse to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Reflecting on the Section Experience at HBS
the course of our first year we hosted a number of activities including a fall and spring retreat, a charity auction, and events explaining Holi, Eid, and National Coming Out Day. We also participated in intramural sports, hosted small...
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Biblical and Mythological Scenes - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Pietro Stefanoni (b. 1589). [Italy], 1610. 29.3 x 45.5 cm CC i3 xx St. Roch, born in France, was venerated in Italy for his charity toward the sick and his gift of healing. 33 Le Veau d'Or. Exod. 32 view image Etching by Franz Ertinger...
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- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
Morales, who now serves as marketing and communications manager at Year Up in the Bay Area, and Michelle Smith-Howard, who worked as director of early learning at DC Promise Neighborhood Initiative and is now director of early childhood development and intervention at...
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Jill Radsken
- Web
Blending Traditional Models of Philanthropy with Business | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the years, from my time working in microfinance to my current work with high-growth entrepreneurs. Is it socially impactful to support charities or social enterprises that have no path to scalability? Does creating middle-class jobs count...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
majoring in economics.) “The challenges that exist in the lives of the young people we serve in central Harlem—extreme poverty, domestic violence, a single-parent household—existed in my family in one way, shape, or form,” says Owusu-Kesse. “I feel called to this work....
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- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course via the OpenIDEO platform to write “The Capitalist’s Dilemma,” published in Harvard Business Review Illustration by Theispot “It’s a steamy summer night in New Orleans in 1990. I’m 21 years old and gunning an ambulance down...
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- 15 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender
organizations: Businesses focus on commerce, while charities engage in activities that support social welfare. Increasingly, however, founders of social ventures interested in improving society are pursuing hybrid business models, which...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
“and then I’d explain the real science behind them all.” The experience stayed with Kundu, and just prior to enrolling at HBS, he created the Kundu Foundation, a charity devoted to helping people in need, both in the US and in India....
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
an appeal to continue bidding for secular charitable causes. The results reveal that religious individuals are more likely than non-religious individuals to respond to an appeal for charity only on days that they visit their place of...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
of Spark, New Zealand’s largest telecommunications and digital services company. That practical experience informed her work on the board of Breast Cancer Foundation NZ, of which she became chair in 2009. “Measuring performance in charity...
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Menning, Carol Bresnahan. Charity and State in Late Renaissance Italy: The Monte di Pietà of Florence (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1993). Gelpi, Rosa-Maria. The History of Consumer Credit: Doctrines and Practices (New York: St....
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- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
wages instead lead to lower effort with substantial targeting behavior. A reference-dependent theoretical framework suggests an explanation for this differential impact: when individuals place less value on earnings, such as when accruing earnings for a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
intelligence firm for nearly $2 billion, he remained active in venture capital, start-ups and charity work. In 2009 he founded the risk management consulting firm K2 Global Consulting with his eldest son. That was also the year he asked...
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- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
other than Kremer’s adopted Prize4Life for their charity auctions and students across Harvard University took up the cause. A game-changer Since then, Prize4Life has accomplished many of its goals. In 2011, it awarded its first $1M ALS...
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Margie Kelley
- 22 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy
applies to volunteer work as well. “Call the Executive Director of a charity you want to engage with and ask if there are opportunities to volunteer or donate,” she advised. “Informational interviews can be the hardest part for alumni who...
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