grants - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2012
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Plan B: The Brick Bank

“Brick Bank” in partnership with a building supply retailer that would enable local residents to invest their savings in inflation-proof building materials, thus accumulating the necessary materials over time. “We take some things for View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 2016
News

Fellowships Have Impact

San Francisco Frist (MBA 1997, MBA 2001) Family Financial Aid Fund “I received a small grant from a planned gift, and I’ve often thought how inspired it was so many years ago that somebody thought to encourage more management skills in... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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Year-End Roundup: Dean's Award, Other Honors Conferred as Class of '98 Graduates

mechanism for helping local communities and an educational experience for the HBS students who will run it and manage its funds. This year, the Harbus Foundation announced nine grants totaling $73,000 in the areas of journalism, literacy,... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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The Changing Nature of Research

for Research HBS funds research internally. By freeing faculty members from the constraints of seeking grants for their work, the School continues its century-long tradition of problem-focused research that is the foundation of a dynamic... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Tennessee and Florida to create dedicated funds for high-performing charters. In Tennessee, CSGF partnered with the Tennessee Charter School Incubator, where fellow HBS alum Greg Thompson is preparing to launch 20 charter schools. Together, they raised $30 million—from... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

09 Apr 2019
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Finding a Fix for Food Allergies

disease.” Early success in raising capital has allowed EAT to move from supporting existing research to a new model of proactive challenge grants. “We have so many areas of need that we are putting together large challenge grants to go... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

15 Apr 2022
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Funding His Purpose

patient served—would have access to the more flexible capital of a loan. Letelier started with his own money and began to attract grantors to fund SITAWI when he had a track record of successful projects. “My pitch to the donor was, ‘If you make a View Details

01 Dec 1999
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New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information

"our licensing agreements prevented us from granting online access to off-site users. His only option was to drive in to campus to use the library. In an age when information should be more immediate and accessible, that didn't make any... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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A Measured Approach

changing the field of global development itself. When evaluating programs, “We want to be as quick as possible; we want to encourage iterations,” Esther says. But a lot of nonprofits get, say, a five-year grant to deploy a certain amount... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

01 Mar 2019
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A Wider Net

Illustration by Neil Webb When the United States men’s National Soccer Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup—for the first time in 32 years—the critiques were scathing. Sports Illustrated’s Grant Wahl deemed it “the most... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2017
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Lego Stays on Script

approach, in essence, was true to the spirit of Lego’s brand. According to Moynihan, there’s a reason for all of those figures that Lin asked (and was granted permission) to play with in his movie, from Wonder Woman to C-3PO: “Given the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

28 May 2019
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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

01 Nov 2016
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Paving the Way to College

Harley Frankel (MBA 1966) is dedicated to bringing change to the field of education. During a long career in education policy at the federal level, he led the National Head Start program; helped to develop the forerunner of the Pell Grant... View Details

01 Dec 2014
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Customizing Couture Online

East—can drop the hemline on a Barbara Tfank pencil skirt, for example, add sleeves to a Martin Grant swing dress, or design their own Tinker Tailor–branded wares. The customers have embraced choice: “In a lot of the investor meetings we... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Professional Services

01 Sep 2010
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellows Named

’08/MPA ’09). Both have been named HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellows for 2010 and awarded $25,000 grants to advance their enterprises. Brehm, along with his wife, Faith, is cofounder of the online venture AbilityTrip... View Details

Keywords: Awards; disability; gay rights; Accommodation; Hospitality

09 Oct 2015
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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

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Jun 2001
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"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

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Professor Elton Mayo; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

more than $1 million in grants to renovate the aging West Wind dormitory, provide technical assistance to local farmers, and establish a commercial kitchen that local growers can use to make value-added agricultural products; turned the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women

network cofounded by fellow WOB participants Lisa Pent and Bonnie Hagemann with a vision to become the go-to source for corporate boards to find and recruit highly qualified women. Initially, Pent, an account executive at Grant Thornton,... View Details