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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
years. As an endorsement of this international focus, Jafar has established a fund to support the MENA Research Center in Istanbul, its Dubai Research Office, and other HBS activities throughout the region.... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
When Sebastian Giwa (MBA 2009) joined Singularity University's Global Solutions Program in the summer of 2012, he was accepted based on his ideas of how distance learning and remote work—both rarities at that point—could reshape opportunities for youth in developing... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories
interest lies in the boundaries between religion and the wider world," says the newly ordained Messenger. "To my mind, finding meaning in everyday activities is what religion is all about." Messenger says he often felt out of place during... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
workweek is filled with staff meetings, conferences, public events, negotiations with government officials about programs and their implementation, and donor-relations work with local embassies. She finds that all these various activities... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
as far as testing a prototype in Canada before technical problems torpedoed the project. He pursued another promising technology that had been developed in the 1980s by researchers at NYU, but money was a problem: The hedge View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
million to the School in his name. With characteristic humility and honoring a process set by his predecessor, Dean Jay Light, Nohria stressed the importance of allocating these funds to advance the future priorities of his successor,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Remembering “Mr. Harvard”
reunion gift committees. He contributed to the School in ways that reflected his many interests: funding for a chaired professorship, supporting physical fitness programs, donating money for athletic facilities, and helping to purchase an... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
through 20,000 WhatsApp groups at a cost of approximately 10 cents per child, per year. The company has raised $1 million from institutions, including Harvard, MIT, and the World Economic Forum; venture funds such as Sequoia and Accel;... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
indefinite deferral under the current system. This proposal would raise revenues from corporate activities in jurisdictions with no or low taxes, while encouraging American corporations to repatriate their foreign profits at... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity
activities on campus that are not expensive and that give students a chance to connect socially. We also include a modest amount for activities and travel in the aid we provide. In addition, we offer a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
Matter’s largest financial supporter, meanwhile, is Pershing Square Foundation, started by Bill Ackman (MBA 1992). Pershing helped fund a 2014 ROI study by Columbia University professor Clive Belfield, who found that for every dollar... View Details
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
(TMT) investor at TPG, a global private equity firm. While I work across the TMT sector, I primarily focus on TPG’s middle market buyout and growth equity investments, which are made out of TPG Growth and The Rise Fund, a double–bottom line impact View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
shore. After we got onto dry land, I was a bit numb and I started to jog over to the other side of the river to take a warm shower. The dog stayed right at my side until I got to my apartment, where we parted. A photographer happened by during this View Details
- 05 Jun 2017
- News
Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement
then put the funding on the table to make it happen. “We spent several years preparing for this, talking to executives and board members, to make sure we got it right. We had very high expectations from the beginning,” says Groysberg. The... View Details
Keywords: Margaret Kelley
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
But if you’re looking for a simple, anonymous, flexible giving vehicle with little administrative burden, you’re likely to end up with a donor-advised fund (DAF). Setting up a foundation is a larger and more permanent undertaking—in terms... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
teamed up with Priyank Lathwal, a Ph.D. candidate at Carnegie Mellon University, to mobilize South Asian student organizations across Harvard and other universities to pool resources for Indian health and aid organizations. The student-focused initiative is working... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
Washington Area Community Investment Fund and founder of socially conscious sustainable underwear brand Manakii. More than 50 HBS alumni tuned in to the 90-minute virtual discussion, during which the panelists touched upon a number of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
of scientific inquiry in gene-based hearing loss and inner-ear drug delivery: “In some infants with profound hearing impairment, there’s a mutation in one of those genes that results in loss of a protein that inner-ear cells need to convert sound waves into electrical... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
leadership of Henderson and Professor Forest Reinhardt, the BEI coordinates the activities of a large group of Harvard faculty members from multiple disciplines in an effort, Henderson says, "to create new business models that encourage... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
early pioneer of this proactive approach, also undertaken by Kathy Giusti’s MBA 1985 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and John Crowley’s MBA 1997 Amicus Therapeutics.) The MJFF demands accountability and results, brings together academics and pharma/biotech... View Details