Donors - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Mar 2019
News

Mission Critical

Whaley has taken a new role as CEO of Donor Network West, the organ procurement organization that serves Northern California and parts of Nevada. (Published March 2019) View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2013
News

team is developing a virtual classroom that provides opportunities for alumni to reconnect with each other and the School; signature courses featuring outstanding faculty members; and an online ecosystem for entrepreneurs. With support from the HBS Fund for Leadership... View Details

Keywords: online learning; curriculum; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

07 Jun 2018
News

Sowing the Seeds of Leadership

in person by university staff. “Many grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” explains Condo. More than 80 percent receive scholarships, supported by donors and foundation grants. Founded in 1989, the... View Details

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

yet donors are paid according to the desirability of their physical and mental qualities—at least $2,500, but sometimes much more. Spar showed an ad that appeared in Ivy League campus newspapers that offered $50,000 to women who were at... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

01 Jan 2011
News

Peter Harf, MBA 1974

donor. Eventually, she received a transplant, after Harf and his friends had started to frantically recruit potential bone marrow donors all over Germany. On her deathbed, Mechtild demanded that Harf stay committed to the fight against... View Details

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

address the issues that kept them from being employed well in the past." The bakery's challenges include limited financial resources—its budget is $200,000 a year—and learning to be profitable while training and employing people who struggle with multiple... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2021
Blog Post

HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund

we were motivated to find a solution to three key problems: Businesses struggling to survive the pandemic, with BIPOC-owned businesses being hit the hardest. MBA students with an interest in impact investing find it hard to build experience in the field. A growing... View Details

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

deciding in large numbers not to donate. Rather, they are not thinking about it. In other countries (e.g., Belgium), the default is that unless you specify that you do not want to donate your organs, you become a viable donor at death. In... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

Web

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

The main focus of ARF to date has been to create a giving process that educates and engages donors and anti-racism allies. By building a platform that explains how donors can make an impact through the ARF... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Environmental Impact

Susan Rasinski McCaw (MBA 1988) and Craig McCaw As Susan Rasinski McCaw (MBA 1988) has discovered, HBS is a place not only where students and faculty members can pursue their passions, but also where alumni can leverage their philanthropic goals while supporting the... View Details

15 Jan 2018
News

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Dec 2013
News

Joining Together for HBS

Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve (MBA 1982) Pagliuca Harvard Business School has an extraordinary legacy of educating and empowering leaders who make a positive impact on business practices and societal problems. This legacy exists today because of past alumni support for... View Details

Keywords: alumni giving; innovation; business education

27 Apr 2017
News

Helping Veterans Gain Skills to Thrive in the Business World

Tucker York (MBA 1986) (photo by Chris Taggart) Tucker York (MBA 1986) (photo by Chris Taggart) DONOR: Tucker York (MBA 1986) Goldman Sachs Scholars Fellowship Tucker York (MBA 1986) recalls that, as a student at HBS, he didn’t realize how fortunate he was that his... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Record Gift to HBS from India’s Tata Group

a gift of $50 million from the Tata Companies, the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust, and the Tata Education and Development Trust, philanthropic entities of India’s Tata Group. The gift, the largest from an international donor in the School’s... View Details

Keywords: Tata Hall

02 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

Working PapersTruth in Giving: Experimental Evidence on the Welfare Effects of Informed Giving to the Poor Authors:Christina Fong and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract It is often difficult for donors to predict the value of charitable... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2003
News

Rock Gift to Support Entrepreneurial Studies

Business Leader of the Year In late January, the HBS Association of Northern California (HBSA/NC) presented Arthur Rock with its Business Leader of the Year Award. The HBSA/NC annually recognizes a highly successful individual who has made a significant impact on the... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Dec 2013
News

$10M Gift Designed to Support GSD’s Intellectual Reach

Keywords: Design; GSD; Mostafavi; fellowships; landscape; Educational Services

15 Apr 2022
News

Funding His Purpose

patient served—would have access to the more flexible capital of a loan. Letelier started with his own money and began to attract grantors to fund SITAWI when he had a track record of successful projects. “My pitch to the donor was, ‘If... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Alvin Roth Wins Nobel Prize in Economics

kidney exchange system could be created to help match kidney donors with recipients. Al is one of the few economists who can point to real people whose lives have been saved by his work." Roth, who joined the HBS faculty in 1998, also... View Details

02 Dec 2018
News

Fostering Great Leadership

consistent donors to the HBS Fund for many years and first gave out of gratitude for the benefits Ken received, and later to help preserve the School’s excellence. “I wanted to do what I could to help HBS remain a premier business... View Details

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