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  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Realizing a Dream

Claire, who joined the company after earning both bachelor’s and trade school degrees in air conditioning technology and is now majority owner. The company is known for providing excellent service and for its philanthropy in the Twin... View Details
  • 21 Oct 2013
  • News

Moving the Needle

Fran Seegull by Jill Radsken Fran Seegull is a woman on a mission, and it started with a paper she wrote at Harvard Business School. A lifelong passion for philanthropy brought Seegull (MBA 1998) to HBS, to see if she could mobilize the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 01 Feb 2013
  • News

Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line

philanthropy or government funding," Hourdequin explains. "What the public is getting back is the assurance that the property won't be converted to some other use, the assurance that the forest will be managed sustainably in perpetuity,... View Details
Keywords: Louisa Rigali; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • July – August 2008
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Help Employees Give Away Some of That Bonus

By: Michael I. Norton and Elizabeth W. Dunn
Employees who spend some or all of their bonuses on others-thereby creating what the authors call a "prosocial" workplace-are happier as a result. Managers can enhance that effect by providing opportunities to share the wealth. View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Behavior; Happiness
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Norton, Michael I., and Elizabeth W. Dunn. "Help Employees Give Away Some of That Bonus." HBS Centennial Issue Harvard Business Review 86, nos. 7/8 (July–August 2008): 27.
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

The Transformers

philanthropies New Profit and NewSchools Venture Fund. Harvard Business Review also served as a springboard for new ideas. In the March–April 1997 issue, MBA Class of 1957 Professor of Management Practice Allen Grossman cowrote an article... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • March 2002
  • Case

AOL, Cisco, Yahoo!: Building the Internet Commons

By: James E. Austin
Since the spring of 2001, AOL, Cisco, and Yahoo! had collaborated on ways to improve the effectiveness of using the Internet to benefit society. Each company considered itself strongly committed to philanthropy, making significant charitable donations, and fostering a... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business and Community Relations; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry
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Austin, James E. "AOL, Cisco, Yahoo!: Building the Internet Commons." Harvard Business School Case 302-088, March 2002.
  • July 2014
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BMVSS: Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb at a Time (Abridged)

By: Srikant Datar, Saloni Chaturvedi and Caitlin Bowler
Bhagwan Mahaveer Viklang Sahayata Samiti (BMVSS) is an Indian not-for-profit organization engaged in assisting differently-abled persons by providing them with the legendary low-cost prosthesis, the Jaipur Foot, and other mobility-assisting devices, free of cost. Known... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Financial Condition; Health Care and Treatment; Diversity; Growth and Development Strategy; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; India
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Datar, Srikant, Saloni Chaturvedi, and Caitlin Bowler. "BMVSS: Changing Lives through Innovation One Jaipur Limb at a Time (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 115-009, July 2014.
  • July 2011
  • Case

Edna McConnell Clark Foundation-Enabling a Performance Driven Philanthropic Capital Market

By: Allen Grossman and Aldo Sesia
The Edna McConnell Clark Foundation, focused on building the organizational capabilities of nonprofits that served the disadvantaged youth in the United States, has recently been named an intermediary in the federal government's new social innovation fund (SIF), which... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Financial Strategy; Performance Improvement; Capital Markets; United States
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Grossman, Allen, and Aldo Sesia. "Edna McConnell Clark Foundation-Enabling a Performance Driven Philanthropic Capital Market." Harvard Business School Case 312-006, July 2011.
  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

require a shift in the traditional philanthropy mindset, Hamermesh says, from funding the construction of a new cancer pavilion to financing the development of specific therapies for cancer subtypes—a less visible, but potentially more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 15 Jun 2021
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The Value of Difficult Conversations

or their parents. If 10 percent of the people they spoke to tell more people, it can become a true change factor,” she says. “Awareness is the first step.” MORE STORIES ABOUT IMPACT: Advancing Racial Equity HBS Addresses Racial Equity Alumni Work to Reverse Bias... View Details
Keywords: April White; Tulsa Massacre
  • 25 Mar 2015
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The Greening of Houston

amenities to Buffalo Bayou. Houston’s businesses are very heavily involved in everything related to quality of life in the city—from the arts to green spaces to education. Though, Gilbane points out that all this philanthropy isn’t just... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange

By: Itai Ashlagi, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees and Alvin E. Roth
It has been previously shown that for sufficiently large pools of patient-donor pairs, (almost) efficient kidney exchange can be achieved by using at most 3-way cycles, i.e., by using cycles among no more than 3 patient-donor pairs. However, as kidney exchange has... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Complexity; Performance Efficiency; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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Ashlagi, Itai, David Gamarnik, Michael A. Rees, and Alvin E. Roth. "The Need for (long) Chains in Kidney Exchange." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18202, July 2012.
  • 22 Mar 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow

Foundation (DRK) – a venture philanthropy firm. The Initiative also partially funded my internship through its Summer Fellows Program, a sponsorship designed to help students explore career opportunities in social enterprise.  In... View Details
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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets

interested in the study of Africa. Global Regional Oral History Office, The Bancroft Library, UC Berkeley The Bancroft Library’s large collection of business leaders’ oral histories includes interviews of business and philanthropy in Peru... View Details
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

of Philanthropy with Business Cindy Ko MBA 2005 Background Making a difference in the world, as cliché as it so... Artful Leadership Meredith Hodges When she arrived at HBS, Meredith “Max” Hodges (MBA 2010) ... An Educated Investment... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2000
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VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy

helping public schools improve their curricula and their methods of working with disadvantaged children. Doerr is cofounder of the New Schools Venture Fund (NSVF), a venture philanthropy fund created by technology venture capitalists and... View Details
  • September 2013
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
David Weinstein, a lawyer and former Chief Administrative Officer of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, launched Write the World, a proprietary online platform that included a writing curriculum, essay prompts in distinct subject matter, and access to expert... View Details
Keywords: Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Expansion; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Business Startups; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World." Harvard Business School Case 314-030, September 2013.
  • March 2009 (Revised July 2014)
  • Case

PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (A)

By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Alison Comings
In 2003, PNC Financial focused its corporate citizenship and philanthropic resources on a ten-year, $100 million investment in early childhood education called PNC Grow Up Great. The case tracks the origination of Grow Up Great, how it was developed and implemented... View Details
Keywords: Early Childhood Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Leadership; Brands and Branding; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Structure; Business and Community Relations
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Marquis, Christopher, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Alison Comings. "PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (A)." Harvard Business School Case 409-108, March 2009. (Revised July 2014.)
  • 2010
  • Chapter

Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior

By: L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton and E. W. Dunn
While lay intuitions and pop psychology suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Cost vs Benefits; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Outcome or Result; Relationships; Research; Behavior; Happiness; Motivation and Incentives
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Anik, L., L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn. "Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior." In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study of Charity, edited by D. M. Oppenheimer and C. Y. Olivola. Psychology Press, 2010.
  • 10 Oct 2018
  • News

Building Paths to Success

influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A year later, he founded Social... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
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