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- 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
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The Joy of Spending
who gave the money away felt happier. Forgoing that $5 cup of coffee every morning and donating the money to a charity of your choice—or treating your friend to lunch—will pay dividends in the long term. Norton will discuss his research... View Details
- 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
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
through its lending platform and fund management, and the consulting firm has influenced the allocation of more than $6 billion in assets. Letelier was expecting to grow “the usual 30 percent” in 2020 when the pandemic hit. With the infrastructure in place to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for GiveDirectly in 2008, it was radical: The nonprofit would... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Kresge Way | About
Kresge and the generosity of the Foundation over the years, and to keep Kresge in the lexicon of the Business School campus, the School renamed “East Drive” to “Kresge Way” in 2014. Funds for the construction of Kresge Hall were donated... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
a Harvard College graduate who was the first in his family to attend college. The fellowships create a challenge fund designed to inspire other HBS donors to support fellowships in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. They also donated... View Details
- Web
Eligibility | New Venture Competition
are testing initial concepts through basic pilot operations. Eligibility will be reviewed by the Review Committee based on the parameters outlined below and its decisions are final. Revenues or donations since inception (either earned or... View Details
- 19 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
Building a Powerful Network of Talent at American Tower
program and testimonials from participants. It also included logistical details Linder would normally speak to on campus. Furthermore, instead of offering American Tower swag (pens, notepads, etc.) at on campus events, the team put those resources towards making View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
medical love story about a man who is dying. His wife gets sick at his deathbed. As she gets worse, he begins to improve. And then the only way he can live is if she donates her heart to him; and she can only live if he View Details
- 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
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
One afternoon in 1997, while World Bank senior financial analyst Margaret Hanson Costan was in Paris discussing donations to the Bank, her husband, Jay, got a phone call. The social worker with whom they had been working to adopt a baby... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- Web
Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
future generations studying the history of industrial management. The photographs that businesses donated and students viewed were records of industrial production practices of the time seen through the artistic lens of the Machine Age.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
take on contacting emergency first responders—have been able to use the i-lab as a base to grow, taking advantage of its facilities, programs, and connections. “Again and again, we were blown away by the generosity of the HBS community, as people View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Newman's Own Brand of Charity
We're on their radar now, so in order to survive with the bigger brands, we need to grow." In the interest of survival, Newman is a recent - albeit reluctant - convert to the concept of "noisy philanthropy." Research has indicated that most consumers are unaware that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
You’ve Been YouTubed
to replace the guitar and $1,200 in flight vouchers; when Carroll asked that his compensation be given to another, similarly affected customer, United chose instead to donate $3,000 to a music school. Throughout the fracas, United used... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
“Each corporate partner donates a certain number of pro bono hours to Endeavor a year, and our offices allocate them to the entrepreneurs,” says Ko, who worked as an analyst at Goldman Sachs before heading to HBS in 2003. “It’s a win-win... View Details
- 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
- 26 Feb 2008
- News
The Right Stuff
leaders, school officials, and the mayor of Boston. Harvard University also chipped in, helping with the purchase of commemorative rings (complementing special jackets donated by New Balance) for all the players and cheerleaders. Featured... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of back-scratching is known as... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding