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- 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
- 13 May 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Got Talent
Instagram account). We had dozens of participants comprising 15 acts, and each $5 donation counted as one vote. Acts included group dance numbers, beatboxing, rapping, musical parodies, and breakdancing/beat-making. In the end, Spencer... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Greenland, thereby earning the right to name it. He chose "Minarjnik," a contraction of the names of his wife, Mrinalini Mani, and two sons, Nikhil and Arjun. A memorial service was held in February at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. View Details
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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 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
graduates who want to put their skills to work in Africa. “I want to do whatever I can to counter the brain drain,” he says. And he believes that his donation will be multiplied because of the School’s ability to leverage its impact. “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
largest school districts in the country, the survey found that business is involved in 95 percent of America's school districts, but mostly in a fragmented array of efforts that focus on short-term benefits for students (e.g., donating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
any other bank in Grand Rapids. It was a niche bank with only one office and no tellers; instead, it had client service officers who would call customers by their name. The other unique thing about Grand Bank was corporate tithing. Ten percent of our pretax profits... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
In 2012, two seasoned scholars shared the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences for their research on designing markets. Lloyd Shapley had developed theoretical methods to create stable matches in unstable markets. Alvin Roth had taken the theory to the real world,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
annual budget and then finding the means to support it. Fundraising, he says, has always intrigued him. He acknowledges that people don't usually like to ask for donations and that "it can be downright embarrassing," but he sees it as the... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
academe: a tree planted near Burden by the PMD 70 class at their graduation. The class may have been inspired by the Partners Association, which had planted a tree in front of Soldiers Field Park apartments. PMD 70 donated the money for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
science, but there are tools out there that, if applied to this area of research, can lead to major breakthroughs.” That’s why she and her husband donated $220 million to launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a collaborative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
donated by club members and sponsors. “This is the second year that the gala has supported Dallas Reads,” said Marla McDonald (MBA ’91), acting liaison between the club and the charity. “We selected Dallas Reads because individually we... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Although Stiftung Solarenergie donated the first lanterns, Ayala, who identifies himself as a “social businessman,” said the plan is to tie the new power source to self-sustaining community development initiatives. “Even simple products... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
the last decade is the dramatic increase in the number of companies concerned with corporate social responsibility, and the resultant rise in the range and variety that such efforts have taken. From "old" models in which companies either View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
charity sector, volunteering for a national breast cancer foundation and within her local community, often with her son in tow. She returned to finance in 2015, but her heart wasn’t in it. That’s when businessman and philanthropist Robert F. Smith approached her about... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Prima Datarina
Ming Min Hui (MBA 2015) that revealed retention, and engagement with Boston Ballet outside of classes, was not as high as expected. In fact, about half of adult students attended one or two classes and didn’t return, and only about 15 percent of adult students were... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
the biggest individual donors to his alma mater, the Upper Canada College in Toronto. Originally built in 1927 as the Student Club, the Georgian Revival–style Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of Wilder’s many contributions to Harvard Business School.... View Details
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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
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
certification. Chapman plans to add nursing and entrepreneurship options next. Hudson is also exploring innovations on the fundraising side, such as allowing donors to donate stock or cryptocurrency. “The more we can diversify our options... View Details