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Cotting House | About
graduate of Harvard College, Cotting served on the HBS Visiting Committee from 1943 to 1966. In addition to donating the funds to construct Cotting House, he established a permanent charitable trust—one of the largest in the history of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
Within that context, the Baker family recently donated a major collection of Baker’s papers and memorabilia to the library, archives that no doubt will help scholars and students take fuller measure of the “Sphinx of Wall Street.” View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive
Clubs News Clubs News Guided by Harvard Business School’s mission to educate leaders who make a difference in the world, the HBS Global Alumni Clubs & Associations Network provides thousands of opportunities to create and strengthen connections among and between HBS... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Valley, bringing his wife and two young children along with him. For Mikitani, the 2011 earthquake and subsequent tsunami in northeastern Japan brought back memories of the earlier disaster. This time, however, he was in a position to help. In addition to View Details
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
calls hadn’t been returned). It took specific demonstrations of intentions and opportunities to make her story credible: a $1,000 donation for bows for a school’s string orchestra. It maybe wasn’t the best use of her money, but it showed... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
million fee. The situation came to light when the negotiation leaked. (The dispute was apparently resolved when Wahlberg agreed to donate his $1.5 million to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.) This Hollywood soap opera raises an interesting... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands
the case of the Red Cross, the negative impact extended to other Red Cross organizations located in Europe that registered a decline in donations even though they had been in no way implicated. Q: You cite a study by Interbrand that found... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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Dean’s House | About
1924 gift to the School was understood to be an endorsement of the need for professional management education. When Harvard Overseer Bishop William Lawrence approached him for a $1 million donation to help build the new campus, Baker... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
Might Also Like: Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 07 May 2024
- Blog Post
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria
events. For example, at Commencement & Reunions we utilize water stations for guests to reduce bottled water plastic waste; donate leftover food to Food for Free; provide waste sorting stations to divert waste into the compost (which... View Details
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Porter Prize Japan - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
of ICS' evening programs taught in Japanese and in October at the opening of its day-time programs taught entirely in English. Over the years, Michael Porter has donated his time for these speeches and for many other joint efforts. The... View Details
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Wilder House | About
project, primarily in emerging markets. About the Name William P. Wilder Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of William P. Wilder (1922-2019), a prominent Canadian executive, financier, philanthropist, and steadfast HBS supporter. In 2015 Bill Wilder View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
similar goal: advancing Brazil. André Esteves, cofounder and CEO of Brazil-based BTG Pactual, the largest investment bank in Latin America, made a significant personal donation to renovate Baker Hall, which will be renamed Esteves Hall in... View Details
- 22 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
Does Spirituality Drive Success?
in the Boston-Cambridge area, but was financing over 50 percent of AIDS housing, Glassman said. In addition to outreach and socially responsible investing, the bank offers online donation functionality to any nonprofit that is a bank... View Details
- 16 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Turning a Moment into a Movement: Interview with Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders Kenneth and Kevin Chenault
equally, NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Loveland Foundation, Reclaim the Block, and The Bail Project.” The GoFundMe page for the newly formed Anti-Racism Fund raised $40,000 in less than 12 hours, with donations quickly... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- What Do You Think?
As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?
announced that it would not accept the donation until Disney went further to back up its commitments. Pundits, including at least one investment analyst, dubbed the effort, “a day too late.” And DeSantis began repeatedly characterizing... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Delving Deeper into Development with the MBA/MPA-ID Program – a Q+A with Zainab Raji (MBA/MPA-ID 2022)
outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations involved in the Ebola relief effort. I realized my long-term response needed to help prevent communities in Nigeria and the rest of West Africa from falling... View Details
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History - Entrepreneurship
About Rock History The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship opened in its headquarters building on the HBS campus in 2003 with the generous donation of $25 million by famed venture capitalist Arthur Rock , MBA 1951 Arthur Rock has... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
invented ideas about how to organize it so it would work well. There is a New England Program for Kidney Exchange that we helped found, there's an Alliance for Paired Donation headquartered in Ohio that we work with, and there are other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace