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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
take on contacting emergency first responders—have been able to use the i-lab as a base to grow, taking advantage of its facilities, programs, and connections. “Again and again, we were blown away by the generosity of the HBS community, as people View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
We're on their radar now, so in order to survive with the bigger brands, we need to grow." In the interest of survival, Newman is a recent - albeit reluctant - convert to the concept of "noisy philanthropy." Research has indicated that most consumers are unaware that...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
to replace the guitar and $1,200 in flight vouchers; when Carroll asked that his compensation be given to another, similarly affected customer, United chose instead to donate $3,000 to a music school. Throughout the fracas, United used...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
passes, life gives us more that we can give others. We are the gift that keeps on giving. Louisa Wong is executive chairperson of Global Sage, a global executive search firm. Proceeds from her 2023 memoir Women Who Chase Butterflies will be View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
a smile. Creatively using a combination of city and federal grants, HUD loans, private investments, and donations - and plenty of his own blood, sweat, and tears - Jones has slowly seen his dream, called the Urban Village, become a...
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Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
company’s mission is social responsibility: A portion of the proceeds and products is donated to animal welfare organizations. KitNipBox regularly works with artisan suppliers who create handmade products and support animal welfare....
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- 18 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew
where we had access to a dozen 3D printers and a full maker space. We had created our first prototypes, which we were testing with baristas and coffee roasters, and getting great feedback. We were meeting weekly with HBS alumni, legal and accounting firms willing to...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
in front of policymakers in Washington. We will scale the level of activity to your needs.” E2 is somewhat unusual; it’s a virtual organization with no paid employees that has partnered with another nonprofit, NRDC. Members are required to make a minimum annual View Details
- 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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Finance
- 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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- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
water bottle that marries fashion and function.” The company donates 10% of sales to WaterAid, a 501(c)(3) organization that improves access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities in Africa and Asia. Find...
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- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
donations would be matched by the charity, but only if a certain percentage of contributors that day—either 25, 50, 75, or 100 percent—"upgraded" to a recurring monthly donation. They found that the contributors in the "75 percent"...
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- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
Development and Demographics Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations Lessons from COVID-19: The Business Skills Doctors Need Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at...
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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
charity sector, volunteering for a national breast cancer foundation and within her local community, often with her son in tow. She returned to finance in 2015, but her heart wasn’t in it. That’s when businessman and philanthropist Robert F. Smith approached her about...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
universities—instead of innovative work at smaller and newer organizations. To address this, the Verdis and Swartzes designed the Goodness Web to pool smaller, individual donations into larger, multiyear grants and to curate the most...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
some sort of compensation for it—through donations or subscriptions. That is the path forward. How is social media changing the consumption of information and the consumer’s ability to access a diversity of ideas? —Janet Simpson Benvenuti...
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- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
forensic accounting, the ability to adapt to clients’ needs, especially on such an enormous scale, is crucial. He points to SecondBite’s relationship with Coles, one of Australia’s largest supermarket chains, which joined the food-reuse effort. The grocery store giant...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
million in property, along with much donated time and effort from employees at Satyam. It was, in a way, a gift back to the country that has allowed him to prosper. To understand just how transformative the work of EMRI is, one must first...
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