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- 25 Apr 2014
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An investment in meaningful results
million in over 200 programs and schools in 2013. The organization's 12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief raised more than $50 million to help victims of the storm rebuild and recover. Robin Hood takes a venture View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
neighborhood-development strategy of mixed-income housing, a cradle-to-college education pipeline, and community wellness programs that have helped to revitalize Atlanta’s troubled East Lake neighborhood. Funded by philanthropists,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model
Harvard Business School’s continued excellence requires ongoing investment—in people, programs, and ideas. The HBS economic model is tightly aligned with its mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, where the revenue sources View Details
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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA Summer View Details
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Kraft Accelerator
Investing Harvard Business Publishing Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Venture Philanthropy Funding for Biotech Harvard Business Publishing Learn how,... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance
the approaches of these funds to applying the for-profit venture model [to nonprofits] vary," he explains, "they are all establishing performance metrics for their 'investments' and rewarding [good results]... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 24 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation
Nancy Huang (HBS ’96), Director of Outreach, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation Describe your organization in three to five sentences. The Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation is a global venture philanthropy... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Women and VC
director of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund (WVCF). The fund focuses on early-stage female entrepreneurs in digital media and eco-friendly businesses, two areas that the WVCF... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
meaningful social impact and earn a financial return based on measurable results. While still new, the idea is gaining traction in the United States and England, where this innovative approach to funding social services originated. It’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Encouraging Young Entrepreneurs
Reunion established a fund to support the Harvard i-lab, the Harvard Launch Lab, and other HBS programs specifically fostering entrepreneurship and innovation. Martignetti believes his ties to both Harvard College and HBS may give him “a... View Details
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Ipsita Dasgupta
parents to seek better healthcare and education for their children or a venture philanthropy fund that supports hospitals, schools, and microfinance institutions that provide... View Details
Nimi Katragadda
Nimi Katragadda is a Partner at BoxGroup, a seed stage venture fund where she focuses on investments in financial tech, healthcare, and marketplaces. BoxGroup's portfolio includes companies such as Plaid,... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
fund for young US technology companies. He is now the founding cochairman of Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, a leading venture philanthropy firm supporting early-stage... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
training, and college and career prep programs. Over the past two years, she also worked as an investment associate at ICA Fund, a nonprofit venture capital fund that uses investments to address the gender... View Details
- 03 Apr 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
who has been involved in HBS fundraising since graduating, and together they forged a cross-class connection that has resulted in significant support for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. “AJ did a phenomenal job of helping us... View Details
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
mentors can―and should―play in cultivating and sharing juniors' career narratives. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413122-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-111 Venture Philanthropy: Its Evolution and Its Future This note... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
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History | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Education Leaders Together: Accelerating Opportunities for America's Students. 2012 Two new MBA FIELD courses introduced: Social Impact Investing and Social Innovation Lab. 2011 HBS-led Forum on Social Impact Investing builds upon its prior research on View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
Leadership and Innovation. “AJ did a phenomenal job of helping us see the connection between support of the HBS Fund and the priorities of the School,” explains Crisses, managing director at Insight Venture... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
helping public schools improve their curricula and their methods of working with disadvantaged children. Doerr is cofounder of the New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF), a venture... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
for"outcome-based" funding — a process based on nonprofits achievingcertain goals. "It comes down to people questioning the system inwhich we've invested hundreds of billions of dollars and asking, 'Is itworking in an... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh