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- 04 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Heard on the Street (HOTS) - bringing the HBS community together through harmony
to produce our own recordings or music videos. More importantly, we reached a much broader audience outside the HBS campus. Recording Software It’s not too late to watch the concert! You can check out the recording of the performance here. We will also be View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)
enjoy that Some days I work with our CFO on food-spend projections, or help our COO build a multi-year strategic planning framework. Other days, I work with my team to coordinate food donations or manage inventory turns. Even though we... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
effect. Chicago's NPR station asks people to donate by joining their dollar-a-day club. Framed in that manner, the donation seems quite reasonable—about the cost of a cup of coffee. Contrast that with what... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- Web
Annual Report 2017 - Annual Report 2017
by the business community, state and local governments, and the federal government to improve the prospects of American workers and companies. Download the PDF OCT 2016 At The Intersection Of Science & Art Drawing on the vast collection of some 1.5 million items from... View Details
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Kraft Accelerator
100 private equity investments. Over the past five decades, the Kraft family has been one of New England's most philanthropic families, donating hundreds of millions of dollars in support of local charities, civic affairs, and health... 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
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
explain the crisis in Ukraine Q&A with Paul Krobe, director of the Intelligence Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. COMMUNITY UPDATES DECEMBER 20 Faculty-founded Company Donates... View Details
- 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
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
strongly pro-Trump Fox News) wrote to all employees that he was donating $1 million to the Anti-Defamation League in reaction to the president’s statements. This issue raises the question, where does a CEO's responsibility lie when... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
social enterprise (WISE), a type of organization that helps people transition back into the labor market after long-term unemployment. It also exemplifies what organization theorists call a hybrid: Rather than depending on charitable View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
$325,000 in cash prizes, sponsors have donated in-kind tools and services that will help the startups launch and grow. In-kind sponsors are AWS, Baker for Business, Bubble, CASE Smart Impact Capital, Foley Hoag, Harvard Innovation Labs,... View Details
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
donations to relieve medical debt. Because so little medical debt sent to collections is ever repaid, it can be purchased for pennies on the dollar. The organization has relieved more than $11 billion of debt to date. Kluender says he and... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
A Letter from the Women in Investing Club
materials to educate themselves on implicit biases. Racial injustice is systemic: investors must learn about the realities that exist, look introspectively and critically at themselves and their firms, and take steps to fix problems. It is not enough to View Details
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
organizations known for their prowess in developing their employees have to bear? What do you think? Original Article Last March 25, Jake DeSantis, then an executive vice president with American International Group, published his resignation letter in The New York... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
Corporate donations to political campaigns reveal a lot about mutual back-scratching in the political and business arenas. Now new research from Harvard Business School reveals that corporate giving may consist of more than monetary... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
conceptualize these as the Cross-Sector Collaboration Continuum along which there are three types and stages of relationships (see Figure 1): Philanthropic Stage. This is the most common type of relationship between businesses and nonprofits. It largely consists of... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
How politics cuts across business Written with Margarita Tsoutsoura, an associate professor of finance at Washington University in St. Louis, the analysis draws from data such as executive surveys, voter registration lists, campaign View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald