Gift Giving - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2013
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Success Through Shared Effort

With donations totaling $1.77 million, the MBA Class of 2003 set a new 10th Reunion giving record last spring. "The most important catalyst for giving was leadership at the section level," says Carolyn Wolff... View Details

Keywords: reunions; donations

01 Mar 2012
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School’s Financial Picture Brighter than Expected

reunion classes and annual giving grew by $4 million to $17 million. Unrestricted gifts provide funds to support innovative programs that are not endowed and new strategic priorities for research and... View Details

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

01 Dec 2016
News

The Power of Many

Every Gift Matters Annual gifts from alumni and friends to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation are vital to the School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. HBS puts these... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Fish Story

an uncommon gift to Mother Nature: less than 7 percent of total giving from the largest US foundations goes to environmental causes, with UK foundations giving only 3 percent.... View Details

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

01 Dec 2017
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HBS Fund Advances Global Strategy

Publishing. Gifts of all sizes to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation help fuel the School’s ambitious international strategy to expand the scope of faculty research, develop students’ global intelligence, engage alumni, and... View Details

01 Sep 2013
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High-Level Impact

addition to advancing educational innovation, gifts to the HBS Fund fuel a more flexible economic model for the School and have an immediate impact on enduring priorities such as student financial aid, pathbreaking research, and global... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Dec 2015
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Serving with Purpose and Pride

Ashley Garrett and Alan K. Jones (both MBA 1987) As the School’s chief fundraising volunteers for the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation, Ashley Garrett and Alan Jones (both MBA 1987) are eager to share the case for alumni annual View Details

01 Dec 2011
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FAQ

Investing in HBS What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do! The Personal Touch Donor Spotlight Research With Impact: Changing Global Health Practices Why is this a good time to establish a charitable lead trust? Record low rates used in determining the charitable View Details

04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Allston

As Harvard University transforms its Allston campus into an epicenter of research and innovation, Denise Dupré and Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) have made a gift that both accelerates that progress and catalyzes the collaboration between HBS... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Executive Action

office and dining facilities, and classrooms, is the result of a $40 million gift from the Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and Family Foundation. The new building is being designed by architectural firm Goody Clancy and will stand where Kresge... View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2005
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Fellowship Campaign Approaching Goal

the annual HBS Fellowship Dinner. The event gives student recipients a chance to meet the donors whose gifts have helped fund their education. Reflecting on his own HBS experience, speaker T.J. Dermot Dunphy... View Details

Keywords: HBS; MBA; Fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

18 Aug 2015
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New HBS Fund Chairs

numerous leadership positions including launching the firm’s European Leveraged Finance unit in 1997 and leading it for three years. He has held his current position, head of Global Private Equity, since 2007. The couple is eager to help strengthen the case for alumni... View Details

01 Jun 2008
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The Making of a School

UNIVERSITY Bishop William Lawrence of Harvard University approached George F. Baker, chairman of the First National Bank of New York, to request a $1 million gift to the School. After a few months had passed, Baker famously told Lawrence,... View Details

Keywords: George Bates MBA '25; Dean Wallace Donham; George F. Baker; Bishop William Lawrence; Lawrence Lowell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2014
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Convening Power

gift from Seth (MBA 1982) and Beth Klarman, will combine the elements of a large-scale conference center, a performance space, and an intimate community forum. Seth Klarman is president and CEO of the Baupost Group, a Boston-based... View Details

01 Aug 2014
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The Secret Sauce

Email communication was key to achieving a class best of 53 percent participation. When asked to lead his class’s 30th Reunion Gift participation efforts, Atlanta-based real estate developer Scott Hawkins was up for the challenge.... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model

School relies on philanthropic revenue from past and current giving to fund over a quarter of its operating expenses. The HBS endowment, built over decades with gifts from alumni and friends, provides... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Investing in Innovation

priorities." In September 2013, Faust launched the five-year, $6.5 billion Harvard Campaign. The financial goal for The Harvard Business School Campaign is $1 billion. As of April 25, HBS had raised more than 50 percent of that goal, with View Details

Keywords: HBS Fund; Educational Services

01 Dec 2002
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The Campaign for Harvard Business School

Two years into The Campaign for Harvard Business School, there is notable success to report. Giving to the School is at an all-time high — annual and reunion gifts and pledges topped $94 million in fiscal... View Details