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- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Serving through TechnoServe
Paul and Susan Tierney in Ghana. With a mission to create economic value in Latin America and Africa by supporting local entrepreneurs, TechnoServe uses its $15 million budget and four hundred employees to provide business resources to... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Amy Schiffman Langer (MBA '77)
named executive director of the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO), where she had signed on as a volunteer three years earlier. When she joined NABCO, the New York City-based organization's annual budget was $17,000;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
percent corporate tax rate to a minimum level acceptable to the European Union.) Congress should use the budget crisis as an opportunity to permanently adopt a modified territorial system for taxing foreign corporate profits. Here is how... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Training Principals to Build Great Schools
an HBS senior lecturer who took the program reins from Grossman when he retired in June. “Even when they do, their budgets are limited. This program gives principals an accessible and affordable tool kit.” The certificate comprises four... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
(UNC) tenure were his appointment of fifteen new chancellors and other university leaders; a systemwide enrollment increase of more than 27,000 students, to a total of 150,000 at the university's sixteen campuses; the near doubling of the university's annual operating... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The HBS Show Must Go On: "STARt-up WARS" Continues Tradition of Smash Hits
enterprise. According to Marino, the operating budget for the 2000 production went "well into the six-figure range." Half of that money came from sponsors, the rest from ticket sales. "This is my Hoover Dam," said Marino. "It is not a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
classrooms. “Our annual budget is equivalent to the budget of a medium-sized high school, and we’re reaching 10 million students a month,” says Khan. Khan Academy also partners with organizations like the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
longer lives for the greatest number of people. With everything he does designed to improve the world, Bloomberg is an optimist who attributes much of his success to luck. He has not forgotten his modest beginnings—or the $150 studio he rented and simple View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
women of Wall Street can be just as cold-heartedly corrupt as the boys.” The Hollywood Reporter agreed, saying it “is a smart thriller set in the corporate world that disguises its modest budget with an intelligent script and good set of... View Details
- 15 Apr 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
“I’m conscious of how we spend every dollar we raise from the community. It’s about making sure you do the right thing for the people who have given you that support.” Seventy-two percent of the organization’s budget goes directly to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
will have a better chance of trying to partner with them to capture as much of that revenue as possible. However, if Confi can work with students, it may be able to indirectly influence the schools to increase their annual budgets to... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
everyone would make out under the deal. “The coal industry, which is already losing market share, would go out of business faster,” allows Eacho. That means some coal-producing states would be harder hit than other states—but those side effects, he says, could be dealt... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
opportunities for disadvantaged youth vanishing, he decided to use Project Destined’s learning platform to help other organizations move their internships online. “So many of our cities are challenged right now with budget issues.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Feedback
budget competing with other projects. I don’t know the feedback use metrics on this application, but I’m hopeful management supports the platform’s further reach into the information maelstrom. I suspect every alum would want access to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
of health-care finance and access, this simple innovation could help make things better today. Could you talk about your idea of “citizen diplomats”? In comparison with our massive defense spending, the U.S. Foreign Service budget is very... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
years ago, the organization added a distinctive network of elevated walkways, known as Wild Walk, that gives visitors the unique opportunity to experience nature at treetop level. “Everybody loves Wild Walk,” Clifford says. “It’s been a phenomenon. In View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
Slifka places a high value on innovation can be seen in his involvement with the Big Apple Circus. A founding member and early supporter, Slifka has seen the Big Apple become the leading single ring circus in America. It is also recognized as being extremely well... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
Small Business Administration and Bank of Boston, the center opened its doors in 1995. That year the budget was $350,000; today it is $2.5 million. “Our growth has been slow and steady,” Silbert notes with pride. “We don’t plan to expand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
book, Becoming American: Why Immigration Is Good for Our Nation's Future, weaves in stories of successful immigrant economists, entrepreneurs, and government advisers while debunking myths that surround immigration. For example, according to the Congressional View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon