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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Serving with Purpose and Pride
invaluable sense of community that helps to make HBS great. We are honored to be able to support the School, which has given so much to us. We are grateful to all of you who donate your time and provide funding to further the HBS mission.
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- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of back-scratching is known as...
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by Michael Blanding
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
How Employers Can Support LGBTQ+ Employees
plans that are not legally married but that have a relationship approximating marriage as well as covering tax implications through pay that accounts for tax liability for covering benefits for all partners. Another important benefit is employer View Details
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- 27 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)
and her coauthors surveyed more than 2,000 research psychologists at major US universities and told them that the more truthful they were about their transgressions, the more money would be donated to a charity of their choice. The 10...
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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
graduates who want to put their skills to work in Africa. “I want to do whatever I can to counter the brain drain,” he says. And he believes that his donation will be multiplied because of the School’s ability to leverage its impact. “I...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
largest school districts in the country, the survey found that business is involved in 95 percent of America's school districts, but mostly in a fragmented array of efforts that focus on short-term benefits for students (e.g., donating...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
any other bank in Grand Rapids. It was a niche bank with only one office and no tellers; instead, it had client service officers who would call customers by their name. The other unique thing about Grand Bank was corporate tithing. Ten percent of our pretax profits...
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Kraft Accelerator
100 private equity investments. Over the past five decades, the Kraft family has been one of New England's most philanthropic families, donating hundreds of millions of dollars in support of local charities, civic affairs, and health...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
annual budget and then finding the means to support it. Fundraising, he says, has always intrigued him. He acknowledges that people don't usually like to ask for donations and that "it can be downright embarrassing," but he sees it as the...
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- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
academe: a tree planted near Burden by the PMD 70 class at their graduation. The class may have been inspired by the Partners Association, which had planted a tree in front of Soldiers Field Park apartments. PMD 70 donated the money for...
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- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
the biggest individual donors to his alma mater, the Upper Canada College in Toronto. Originally built in 1927 as the Student Club, the Georgian Revival–style Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of Wilder’s many contributions to Harvard Business School....
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- 28 May 2019
- News
Action Plan: Border Crossing
advancing children’s well-being worldwide. Tea has donated nearly $500,000 to the organization to date; for Rawdon, seeking out the recipients of those dollars also opens the door to on-the-ground relationships, as was the case when her...
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Julia Hanna
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come...
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- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had taken the theory to the real world,...
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Introduction - The Medium - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
and by Frank and Lillian Gilbreth in the early 1900s. For Harvard students, Ayres was particularly interested in documentary records that illustrated action and labor-saving devices. For all their faithful rendering of detail, however, the publicity images View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
James McKenney Remembered
broken fences and going to rodeos as he was sitting on the boards of major companies like Continental Airlines.” Donations may be made to the Memory Disorders Unit, c/o Dr. John Growden, Massachusetts General Hospital, 15 Parkman St.,...
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- 27 Nov 2013
- News
No Bologna, Please
SHAICH by Julia Hanna Imagine a restaurant that doesn't charge for its food. There's a box for money—and a suggested donation amount—but no one can see what you pay, if you pay anything at all. That's the concept behind Panera Cares, a...
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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
with Yoo hiring topflight young musicians and Lim handling the business end, Metamorphosen came to life with a startup budget of $75,000 raised from charitable donations (the orchestra is a tax-exempt entity), corporate sponsors, program...
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Linda Goodspeed
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
science, but there are tools out there that, if applied to this area of research, can lead to major breakthroughs.” That’s why she and her husband donated $220 million to launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a collaborative...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
donated by club members and sponsors. “This is the second year that the gala has supported Dallas Reads,” said Marla McDonald (MBA ’91), acting liaison between the club and the charity. “We selected Dallas Reads because individually we...
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