Donations - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

prosocially on others (giving gifts to friends, donating to charities) rather than on themselves (buying flat-screen televisions). Q: What are the psychological factors involved when it comes to individuals and feelings they encounter... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

fascinating. Why is it, for example, that most people agree organ donation makes sense, but they don't donate? Max Bazerman: Collectively, most Americans (and, more broadly, humans) believe that organ View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

07 Jul 2016
News

Rescuing Fresh Food to End Hunger in Australia

Australia’s largest supermarket chains, as evidence of success. The grocery giant makes weekly food donations from 550 of its stores and enjoys significant employee engagement. “What we do with Coles is the best example in Australia—and... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

An Orchestral Startup

with Yoo hiring topflight young musicians and Lim handling the business end, Metamorphosen came to life with a startup budget of $75,000 raised from charitable donations (the orchestra is a tax-exempt entity), corporate sponsors, program... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

Luca, whose past research has focused on platform design. For example, Luca and his colleagues reached out to online rating app Yelp several weeks ago to explore ways the company might help small businesses dealing with the crisis. Among other initiatives, he pointed... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

curing societal ills. In reality, though, the line between the two is growing blurrier. "In the not-for-profit sector, a number of organizations are trying to be less dependent on donations and grants," says Julie Battilana, an associate... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

different set of students, but then they added a wrinkle: After rewarding themselves from the envelopes on their desks, the students had the opportunity to donate some of their winnings to National Public Radio. Tracking Moral And Immoral... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Developing Black Talent for Leadership

what you immediately saw for yourself, please share your own story. If you share appreciation for any talent development organization because of someone you've hired, worked with, or learned from that is an alum, donate and share the name... View Details

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Robert G. James Lounge | About

found the International Quilt Study Center & Museum at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln in 1997 with a donation of over a thousand quilts from their personal collection. View Details

21 Feb 2012
News

Sustainability Is Good Business

The recent uproar over the Sierra Club’s acceptance of $26 million in undisclosed donations from an energy company prompted some environmentalists to warn against “sleeping with the enemy.” This sort of us-against-them rhetoric is all too... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Utilities

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target="new">Chronicle of Philanthropy: Our subscription to the online product includes access to articles, a jobs section, and interactive features. A Facts and Figures section includes data on donors, charities & foundations, corporate View Details

14 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

From Spare Change to Real Change: The Social Sector as a Beta Site for Business Innovation

to government and nonprofit agencies. Businesses have little involvement in how these donations are used. In fact, this model actively discourages companies from taking an interest in results. Companies receive their benefits up-front... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

by the way, and I think eventually he did, too.) An idea was forming in my head, though. And in his, and in a few others’. And the idea was that we needed to set up a brand-new fund to collect and distribute donations that were going to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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The Permanent Exhibit - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Robert C. Merton at Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1997. Jonas Ekstromer, Photographer. Robert Cox Merton Papers, HBS Archives, Baker Library Historical Collections In 2005, HBS Professor Robert Merton... View Details

01 Jun 2002
News

HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades

students and other members of the HBS community. Those who would like to make a donation may send checks payable to the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans to the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association (attn. New England Shelter for... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

money to invest. Associate Professor Ramana Nanda further differentiates between crowdfunding through donations or lending and equity crowdfunding. In the case of donations, which is currently much more common, funders expect little if... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

their journey through the swampy area around to the Business School. Friends and colleagues of the late John W. Weeks, a businessman and politician, donated more than $200,000 for the construction of the elegant brick-and-limestone... View Details

22 Jul 2014
News

Hungry for Change

200 food banks, the organization has access to surplus food donations from manufacturers and producers throughout the country. "The nature of our work means that we have been tightly coupled with the food industry," he notes. "But we are... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

14 Nov 2012
News

Remembering His Roots

demonstrate to helping the farmworking community and themselves, the students receive ‘investments’ from a variety of sources, including the RFDF and individuals. More than 200 students are participating in the Exchange, and about 50 investors are actively View Details

Keywords: farmworkers

01 Mar 2017
News

A Healthy Profit

Quelch. New energy efficiency initiatives also saw their greenhouse gas footprint drop by 19 percent between 2005 and 2012. COMMUNITY HEALTH “Royal Caribbean donates a lot of used furniture and household goods in the ports where they... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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