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- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
director Barry Wheeler, for whom she had worked in Rwanda. With donations from individuals and small family foundations, CREATE! has grown to a full-time staff of 12 in Senegal with an annual budget approaching $400,000. Last year, the...
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Jill Radsken
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
do that. I have no further ambition to climb the other 13 8,000-meter peaks." Then, with a laugh: "Perhaps some smaller hills." Editor's note: To donate to Jan Petzel's porter-shelter fund-raising effort, visit...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
6,000 students. "We will give a first-class education to students whose families cannot afford to pay," he says. Özyeğin has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to help Turkey thrive, but he believes that it is not financial...
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- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage inventory turns. Even though we...
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- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
asphalt-paved path, with unpaved shoulders for runners) with neighboring winemakers, who donated initial funds to memorialize Tom Shelton, a fellow vintner and vine trail leader who had lost his life to cancer. “We recruited the Land...
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- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She weighed her options: She could View Details
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Maureen Harmon
- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
explain the crisis in Ukraine Q&A with Paul Krobe, director of the Intelligence Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. COMMUNITY UPDATES DECEMBER 20 Faculty-founded Company Donates...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
it is easy to forget the importance of family and friends." Alumni Take Action Once they began to recover from the initial shock of the events of September 11, HBS alumni started putting their skills to work. Whether donating money,...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Life-Saving Network
HBS professor Al Roth, along with two economists from Boston College, has created software that facilitates the process of donating kidneys. Through it, transplants can still be arranged even if a willing donor and recipient — a husband...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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MBA Poker World Series
taking home $24,822 and a $15,000 watch, and automatically earning a $10,000 seat at this summer’s World Series of Poker. Some sixty HBS students took part in the weekend competition. The event also had a fundraising component, which this year resulted in a $20,000...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Reaching New Heights
nonprofit to help build schools and libraries in Nepal and supply them with books, the Harbus reported. With expansion into Southeast Asia and soon into Latin America and Africa, Wood’s Room to Read has established 3,600 libraries, built 287 schools, View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
create only the illusion of transparency - while delaying work. Donations yield reduced value because of inefficiency and security costs. A worse problem surrounds Madrid pledges. Pledges are not the same as cash, as Afghans found....
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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
New Conventions
200, 500, or 1,000 people, enabling both intimate interactions and broad reach and impact. The building was made possible by a generous donation from Beth and Seth Klarman (MBA 1982). “When you bring people with talent, vision, and...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Hunting Red Balloons
first person or team to locate all ten balloons. Pledging to donate the prize to AIDS research, an HBS team of four students and two professors drew upon the School’s network, including alumni, for the balloon search. Although a group...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
Marie (Borden), and their four children. Donations in his memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1100, Chicago, Illinois 60611-1695.
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Students Assist Needy Family
donations on behalf of selected families in dire need. Commenting on the students’ effort, Connors said, “It was a great statement about the School and the students.”
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
found that when you get a $25 bonus for yourself, not much happens. But if you get $25 to spend on a teammate, it makes you happier, and in some cases, it can also improve the coordination of the team. On the customer side, we’ve done experiments where a company gives...
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April White
- 01 Jan 2011
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Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
last fall the Krafts launched a "Kick Cancer" awareness campaign. They endowed a chaired professorship in Jewish studies at Boston College and a chaired professorship in Christian studies at Brandeis. All told, the Krafts have donated...
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- 12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
people to donate directly to the organizations fighting COVID on-ground in India in return offering consultations related to the MBA journey, including assisting with GMAT/GRE prep, school selection, application planning, and essay...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Constant Inspiration
My 30th Reunion this year was pure joy.” Guidera, a firm believer in providing unrestricted support, donates to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation every year. “The School knows best where to invest the money,” she says. “I am...
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