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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
developing world, and fundraising for the Bank. "My whole life used to be about efficiency," says Costan, a Montana native who graduated from Stanford and studied theology at Oxford prior to attending HBS. "That's not really possible when... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 26 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
(PPE)ople First: Bringing Critical Personal Protective Equipment to Boston Hospitals
local hospitals and clinics. Scaling Our Project Over the next few weeks, we worked together to fundraise $3.5 million and purchase over 1.9 million pieces of PPE. In true start-up fashion, we moved quickly and had to iron out some... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Spin Cycle
Linn (MBA ’00), later organized the annual Cycle for Survival (www.CycleForSurvival.org), an indoor team cycling fundraising competition. A January event in New York City featured more than 2,000 participants, received donations from... View Details
- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
survey by the Charities Aid Foundation of America. A staggering 97 percent of respondents expect their funding to decline during the next 12 months as the struggling economy and social distancing hurts fundraising efforts. What can... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/519011-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-027 Fundraising at St. Camillus Hospital St. Camillus is a fictional non-profit hospital in rural Maine facing a serious budget deficit. As Director of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
graduates, international alumni, and the HBS Fund Investors Society. We ask our peers to join us in making leadership gifts to the HBS Fund and introduced a new fundraising volunteer role—Investors Society class agents—that focuses on... View Details
- 30 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Grad Drives Lori Systems to Success
support." In fact, notes Josh, "Much of the initial pre-seed fundraising came through the HBS network. The customer base? A lot of it through HBS referrals. And we have two other HBS alumni on the management team. We'd be... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
district work well, and it still hasn't been done. That's a real tragedy." His most recent school-related job ended in 1995, when he left his position as president of the organization responsible for fundraising and support of the Boston... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Profile
Behrad Mahdi
an organization. But after a year, I didn't just want to watch and learn — I wanted to do and learn." Behrad set his sights on Columbia, South Carolina where the local City Year "struggled with fundraising and programmatic... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work
and fundraising for scholarships to attend social enterprise-focused Executive Education programs or fellowships for MBA students. While HBS alumni clubs worldwide have long been engaged in their local communities, their activities have... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
to "share the blessings that my family has been given." A 1969 graduate of Harvard College, Lumry is president of Acorn Ventures, Inc., in Bellevue, Washington, a firm that provides seed capital, financial engineering, strategic planning, and View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
http://hbr.org/product/building-a-high-performance-culture-at-idfc/an/114077-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-076 Cycle for Survival (A) Katie Kotkins, director of Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center's (MSKCC) Cycle for Survival View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Leadership for External Relations
budget, and since 1982 as associate dean of development at the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. In that role, Schroeder had direct responsibility for initiating, planning, implementing, and evaluating the college's development and View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
WSA Launches Scholarship Fund
Fundraising will begin this fall with the goal of awarding up to $20,000 annually on a need basis to an outstanding woman entering her second year. At its first meeting last year, the WSA board, composed of fifteen alumnae ranging from... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
group’s current challenge well from his own VC experience: “It’s time for us to put our foot on the accelerator and really scale up,” he says. The Arctic Ice Project recently hired a new executive director and is in the process of expanding its board. View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
fundraising for the expedition’s nonprofit charity. The team is making plans for a marketing and media blitz to raise awareness of their efforts before the first climb in late December. If all goes as planned, the climbers will conquer... View Details