Donations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

market value rather than let his heirs unknowingly commit the collection’s disposal to their next garage sale or as a donation to Goodwill. If you’re in a similar situation, you’ll want to know this story. This book includes many color... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Aug 2021
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A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

also servants of other people and to help with the uplifting of them. DM: So there are four things in the book that you argue that white people can do to help the Black community. One of your suggestions is that people can donate to... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Turning Point: Eternal Returns

Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details

Keywords: life experience; search firm; entrepreneurship

01 Feb 2000
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William Jones: Builder with a Mission

a smile. Creatively using a combination of city and federal grants, HUD loans, private investments, and donations - and plenty of his own blood, sweat, and tears - Jones has slowly seen his dream, called the Urban Village, become a... View Details

Keywords: Thomas Frick

01 Sep 2014
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Case Study: Declawing the Competition

company’s mission is social responsibility: A portion of the proceeds and products is donated to animal welfare organizations. KitNipBox regularly works with artisan suppliers who create handmade products and support animal welfare.... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame

and project management, Art Mosley (MBA '68), ACOG's director of venue acquisition, has seen his share of controversies surrounding property issues and negotiations. So it was with pleasant anticipation that he contemplated a major phase of his ACOG job description:... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

insignificant, faculty and student organizers emphasize that the contest’s value lies well beyond such monetary rewards and services, which are donated by corporate sponsors and the HBS Entrepreneurship Program. “The measure of success is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

programming is holistic, offering environmental education programs for schoolchildren, holding workshops for adults and families, and hosting conferences and retreats Pine Mountain Settlement School was founded in 1913 by a local mountaineer named William Creech Sr.,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

motion to disqualify a firm that inaccurately stated it had not contributed to current school board members’ election campaigns—yet had incorporated two PACS donating $3,000 to the sitting school board president’s campaign—did not pass.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

18 Apr 2022
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Book Smart

Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he and cofounder Colin McElwee... View Details

14 Aug 2019
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Leading from Within

mentorship and financially or personally, to those in need or to groups and institutions whose missions they value. True to the values it teaches, the program donates all its profits to Thistle Farms, a social enterprise organization... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

05 Mar 2020
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Green Light

bruised, she decided to step away from business, attending culinary school and becoming a private chef in London for two years. (Lo donated all her earnings to charity and coauthored a book during that time, Dining with Dictators, which... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together

institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

14 Oct 2020
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Sewn with Love

first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She weighed her options: She could View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Mar 2004
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David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003

create only the illusion of transparency - while delaying work. Donations yield reduced value because of inefficiency and security costs. A worse problem surrounds Madrid pledges. Pledges are not the same as cash, as Afghans found.... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Mar 2018
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Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

found that when you get a $25 bonus for yourself, not much happens. But if you get $25 to spend on a teammate, it makes you happier, and in some cases, it can also improve the coordination of the team. On the customer side, we’ve done experiments where a company gives... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 1999
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Christensen and Vernon Remembered

will soon open the C. Roland Christensen Center, a facility designed for case-method teaching that was the vision of one of his former students. A memorial service was held for Christensen on November 5 at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. View Details

16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice

a 12-state area. In addition, she launched the highly successful Citizens Helping Citizens employee-giving campaign, generating $1 million in nonprofit donations and doubling employee volunteer hours. “I really enjoyed spending eight... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2004
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The Future of Stem Cells

research management. Photo Courtesy JDRF Peter Van Etten (MBA ’73) is president and CEO of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), which has donated many millions to stem-cell research and strongly advocated that federal funds... View Details