Donations - Publications - Faculty & Research

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... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

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... View Details

Keywords: Finance

04 Aug 2015
News

Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

big and to really have the courage to face challenging problems and be confident that I could really make a difference. Jakurski continued, noting, “My wife, Maria, and I have been extremely dedicated in our philanthropic work in education. We see a huge multiplier... View Details

28 May 2019
News

Action Plan: Border Crossing

advancing children’s well-being worldwide. Tea has donated nearly $500,000 to the organization to date; for Rawdon, seeking out the recipients of those dollars also opens the door to on-the-ground relationships, as was the case when her... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

27 Nov 2013
News

No Bologna, Please

SHAICH by Julia Hanna Imagine a restaurant that doesn't charge for its food. There's a box for money—and a suggested donation amount—but no one can see what you pay, if you pay anything at all. That's the concept behind Panera Cares, a... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

22 Feb 2022
News

The Well-Healed Athlete

science, but there are tools out there that, if applied to this area of research, can lead to major breakthroughs.” That’s why she and her husband donated $220 million to launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a collaborative... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2003
News

New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO

donated by club members and sponsors. “This is the second year that the gala has supported Dallas Reads,” said Marla McDonald (MBA ’91), acting liaison between the club and the charity. “We selected Dallas Reads because individually we... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Jul 2011
News

Brightening the Future

Although Stiftung Solarenergie donated the first lanterns, Ayala, who identifies himself as a “social businessman,” said the plan is to tie the new power source to self-sustaining community development initiatives. “Even simple products... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2007
News

Baker Bell Dedication Rings in HBS Centennial

antireligious Stalinist regime. The Moscow City Council priced them as scrap metal, and Crane donated the set to Harvard University. Seventeen were hung in the tower of Lowell House, a Harvard undergraduate residence. One came to HBS,... View Details

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... View Details

Keywords: 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... View Details

Keywords: April White; New York Times; newspapers; Google; Wirecutter; social media; Facebook; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Feb 2018
News

HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

five grandchildren. A celebration of Uyterhoeven’s life will be held in Vero Beach on Tuesday, Feb. 6, at 10:30 a.m., in the John’s Island Golf Club Ballroom and at Harvard Business School on Saturday, May 5 at 10:30 a.m. in the Spangler Center. In lieu of flowers,... View Details

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

supply-demand issues—the need for donated bone marrow and stem cells that is so challenging for patients with diseases like leukemia—and that there were more people in need than there were in supply,” she says. “What was liquid gold, for... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

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... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

07 Sep 2021
News

Funding His Purpose

through its lending platform and fund management, and the consulting firm has influenced the allocation of more than $6 billion in assets. Letelier was expecting to grow “the usual 30 percent” in 2020 when the pandemic hit. With the infrastructure in place to... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?

(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was radical: The nonprofit would... View Details