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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Advancing Racial Equity
of our community to be their best self,” notes Dean Srikant Datar. The School has earmarked $25 million over the next decade to advance racial equity and diversity at HBS and in the world. As always, the HBS Fund will play an important... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
School relies on philanthropic revenue from past and current giving to fund over a quarter of its operating expenses. The HBS endowment, built over decades with gifts from alumni and friends, provides crucial funds in the form of an annual distribution View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
their early stages with the help of gifts of all sizes to the HBS Fund. “In business, venture capital or R&D budgets seed the most promising new ideas,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “In academia, where endowments are generally restricted to donor-defined purposes, there... View Details
- 06 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy
earmarked for philanthropy ends up going toward efforts to rescue the firm itself. (Call it a case of securing your own oxygen mask first.) As it turned out, the researchers' findings more or less split the difference. In cases of small-... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
attending its performances. In response, Hodges and her team are piloting a true beginner workshop so that students will ultimately feel more comfortable coming to drop-in classes. Also under way: earmarking particular performances as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
supporting private-sector research; another $2 billion was earmarked for R&D that the government wanted scientists and engineers to pursue to help local enterprises improve their technology and become more competitive internationally. But... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations
of Health and Human Services, manufacturers may donate to charitable organizations that cover these costs, and can earmark their donations for specific disease categories. The amount contributed to these organizations skyrocketed after... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
IFC as well as Western NGOs is now explicitly earmarking 30-40% of funds toward adaptation concepts like dams, irrigation, flood control, reflective roof coverings, and shifts in crops as rainfall and heat alter. This is beyond the... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2016
of fiscal 2016 giving to the School was earmarked for capital projects. Based on a comprehensive master plan for enhancing and expanding the campus to meet programmatic needs, capital activity at HBS has increased substantially in recent... View Details
- 05 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Developing Black Talent for Leadership
HBCU liberal arts institution in Alabama, told CNN that while the $1.4 billion and other aid for higher education earmarked by Congess and approved by the President was "fantastic," it was only a first step in putting the fire out.... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
Surprisingly, the higher-interest rate option had little impact on savings, neither with the amount saved nor by inspiring participants to move over savings from preexisting accounts. "Our survey evidence suggests that many microentrepreneurs wanted to keep money... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by HBS faculty is already earmarked... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
Katelyn Donnelly, the managing director of PALF, and her team had made seven investments in Africa and Asia and were close to fully committing the $15 million earmarked for the initiative. In the upcoming meeting of PALF's Investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
$8 million, or 29 percent, from the prior year to a record $36 million. Income from gifts also provides crucial support for development of the HBS campus. Approximately $160 million of fiscal 2015 giving to the School was earmarked for... View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
Business Review 84, no. 12 (December 2006) Abstract Countries, organizations, and individuals around the globe spend aggressively to solve social problems, but these efforts often fail to deliver. Misdirected investment is the primary reason for that failure. Most of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
Finance Corporation, as well as western non-governmental organizations, are now explicitly earmarking 30 to 40 percent of their total funds toward adaptation concepts like dams, irrigation, flood control, reflective roof coverings, and... View Details
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
number more than 34,000, an increase of 22 percent between 2001 and 2005. Big foundations have more money in their endowments than they can give away. And there is an intergenerational transfer estimated at $6 trillion over the next fifty years specifically View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
intergenerational transfer estimated at $6 trillion over the next fifty years specifically earmarked for social enterprises. None of these sources of money is actually looking for an economic return. They’re definitely looking for a... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
by adding to existing accounts. Approximately $160 million was earmarked for capital projects. The School’s distribution of income from the endowment in fiscal 2014, as well as the endowment’s investment performance, is discussed in... View Details
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2019
$100 million in the HBS endowment reserve, following a $65 million investment in fiscal 2018. In contrast with alumni gifts to the endowment, which are largely earmarked for fellowships, professorships, and other key student and faculty... View Details