Fundraising - Publications - Faculty & Research

Aban Pestonjee

01 Dec 2006
News

Student Benefits from Class of 2006 Fellowship

GOLDBERG: Bringing a passion for education to the MBA classroom. For the third year in a row, the MBA graduating class has established a fellowship that will benefit future HBS students. The Class of 2006 broke fundraising and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

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 reaching over $200,000. As the View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog

biotech, pharmaceutical, medical device, diagnostics, and related supporting tools, technology and services organizations. Students can work on projects alone or in teams within the course. The field course will explore four different modules: Pre-Requisites to View Details

Sizwe Nxasana

Keywords: Banking, Telecom, Financial Services

Profile

Wendy Lim

representative for Section J, Class of 2006. Her formal duties include helping with fundraising and “encouraging participation among classmates.” Informally, she notes that she’s “attended about five HBS weddings a year on average. The... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World

developing world, and fundraising for the Bank. "My whole life used to be about efficiency," says Costan, a Montana native who graduated from Stanford and studied theology at Oxford prior to attending HBS. "That's not really possible when... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan

Benjamin Ha

Master of Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from Harvard University. Areas in which I can support startups: Fundraising and financial management strategies Team formation and motivation strategies Target market assessment and... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence;#75;#Venture Capital;#64;#Software/App

01 Dec 2022
News

Research Brief: Pocket Change

are big differences,” says Pons, who mined what is believed to be one of the most comprehensive data sets of political contributions made through online fundraising platforms such as ActBlue (Democrat) and WinRed (Republican) and reported... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2017
News

Constant Inspiration

Harvard overall, in many other ways, too. For example, she was a section and class fundraising volunteer for two decades, and was a member and a VP of the HBS Alumni Board. She is a new member of the HBS Latin America Advisory Board and... View Details

15 May 2012
News

Finally Finding the Right Fit

in the transformative power of education, Heffernan has remained active as a fundraising volunteer since graduating from HBS. For his 5th Reunion, he made a gift to support the work of the Harvard Innovation Lab and the new FIELD course,... View Details

Keywords: fashion; apparel; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing

28 Sep 2015
News

Rockin’ for a Cause

senior vice president at Symantec by day, and by night—well, at least seven or eight nights a year—a no-holds-barred guitarist, vocalist, and emcee for a band that donates its earnings to local schools. The Wildcats first came together 15 years ago to play at View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Symantec

07 Aug 2018
News

DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

A recent article in Fast Company details the $130 million fundraising round by educational technology company, DreamBox Learning, and profiles the company’s president and CEO, Jessie Woolley-Wilson (MBA 1990). Woolley-Wilson traces her... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

A Shared Vision for a Better World

experience. “I feel like I was given a great gift.” Harrold has reciprocated by consistently supporting HBS for 40 years. Over the past decade, he has also served as a class fundraising volunteer, encouraging classmates to follow his... View Details

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Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge

Business School Professor Victoria Ivashina looks at the digital platform’s “quest” to expand access to PE funds from pensions and endowments to high-net-worth individuals and even less wealthy “retail investors.” There is the desire by the alternative industry to... View Details

Profile

Behrad Mahdi

an organization. But after a year, I didn't just want to watch and learn — I wanted to do and learn." Behrad set his sights on Columbia, South Carolina where the local City Year "struggled with fundraising and programmatic... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Alumni Clubs Put Skills to Work

and fundraising for scholarships to attend social enterprise-focused Executive Education programs or fellowships for MBA students. While HBS alumni clubs worldwide have long been engaged in their local communities, their activities have... View Details

Keywords: alumni clubs; Centennial; Educational Services

01 Oct 2000
News

Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship

to "share the blessings that my family has been given." A 1969 graduate of Harvard College, Lumry is president of Acorn Ventures, Inc., in Bellevue, Washington, a firm that provides seed capital, financial engineering, strategic planning, and View Details