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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
time, examiners were rewarded for issuing more patents, since that brought in more money. The quality of examiners’ work decreased accordingly. This change, combined with the creation of the CAFC, put sand in the system. Patents became too easy to get. Between 1983 and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Every year billions of dollars are granted to scientists based on the evaluation of peer-reviewed proposals. The final decisions about whose project gets funded,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
HBS has achieved approximately $300,000 in annual operational savings and earned $330,000 in rebates and grants from utilities and from the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative. The projects have also offset HBS’s greenhouse gas... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
founder to pledge the company’s commitment to implement these ESG elements.” MPower’s first three investments reflect the firm’s wide range: WOVN Technologies, a group that produces a website and associated app that allows organizations to develop and manage up-to-date... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
like your Facebook page. And like Facebook, access to blockchain ledgers can vary: A new profile photo might be accessible to everyone in your social network, while you might grant only your family the ability to see a picture of your... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
president, Moret created a new, reorganized student government and lobbied the faculty to place a greater emphasis on teaching quality in granting tenure. After graduating from LSU, Moret remained in Baton Rouge and worked as an... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
that triangle several times a day,” he observes. That frequency might be even higher for Zuckerberg, whose philanthropic interests include the New York Landmarks Conservancy. Founded in 1973, the Conservancy is one of the country’s largest preservation organizations,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
Business Age,” is a survey of the library’s manuscript collections that pertain to women’s history. Launched in 1999 with support from Rysia de Ravel (MBA ’83) and a grant from the Harvard University Women’s Matching Fund, the survey is... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
enterprise. Grossman grants that quantifying a plan’s potential social value will not be an easy task for judges. But four years later, the impact of nonprofit ventures such as Montage are easy to observe, particularly when Stone tells... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
John Batcha (MBA '54) was ready to grow his own organization. With a $50,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he teamed with Partners of the Americas, the largest private volunteer organization in the Western Hemisphere, to develop a... View Details
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
Lifting Fallen Families
Citigroup, PepsiCo, Credit Suisse, RBC, Vineyard Vines, and IHOP, through grants like the $15 million they received from the A. James and Alice B. Clark Foundation, and through partnerships with Veterans Affairs, Children of Fallen... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
business and government do—the three sectors each play a distinctive role. But too often we take for granted the ways in which nonprofits have made this country stronger. There is so much emphasis in our culture on reinvention and... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
through grants and advocacy. The organization seeks to end the school-to-prison pipeline through disciplinary reform and ensure that schools with high needs receive the necessary resources and funding to achieve their goals. “There is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
Buffalo, New York, granted its first two executive education scholarships this year. “This program is really great because it benefits the local community,” says Richard (“Bing”) Sherrill (MBA ’62), treasurer of the Buffalo club. The HBS... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
engineering. After an initial grant of $350 from the Student Association, the station paid its operating expenses through advertising. Besides providing business and technical experience, WHBS’s stated goals were to give students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation — so-called say on pay; grants substantial shareholders a new right to have their director candidates’ names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- News
Finding Common Ground
Education, a nonprofit that provides grants to support innovative, evidence-based practices in K–12 education. Because problems such as homelessness and underperforming schools have multiple causes, Shumway stresses that solving them... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
20 years to get where we are,” shares Blum, “but the tradeoff is that today we have several very promising therapies that are in late-stage trials.” One of those therapies is tirasemtiv, the drug in the Phase 3 trial that is being funded, in part, by a View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
ultra-high-net-worth individuals, and micro-VC firms whose relatively small size translates into a willingness to proceed at a pace and scale that are sustainable over time. She has also won a fair bit of grant money and is currently... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand