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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

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

develops a relationship with a director of a regional health fund who also runs a private foundation. After a natural disaster, Healthgen—at the request of the director—donated products to help during the crises. After Healthgen wins an important contract, the media... View Details

Keywords: 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

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

18 Aug 2014
News

Closing the Education Gap

state funding.” Dias Griffin and her husband, Ken Griffin, have made education a cornerstone of their philanthropy for years. Through their eponymous family foundation, they have donated more than $13 million to CHECC. “I benefited from a... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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

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

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

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

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

04 Jun 2020
Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

Here are a few ways MBAs can support the movement for Black lives: Donate to and fundraise for racial justice nonprofits. Support local Black-led organizing groups and/or invest in national organizations like Movement for Black Lives, a... View Details

23 May 2019
News

Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966

enough to be able to make a gift for their endowment, so they can accept qualified students without regard to the size of their pocketbooks.” Five years ago he returned to the helm of Bloomberg LP. He donates all profits from his share of... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

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 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 22

prosocial bonuses, a novel type of bonus spent on others rather than on oneself. In Experiment 1, we show that prosocial bonuses in the form of donations to charity lead to happier and more satisfied employees at an Australian bank. In... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

will soon open the C. Roland Christensen Center, a facility designed for case-method teaching that was the vision of one of his former students. A memorial service was held for Christensen on November 5 at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. View Details

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

25 May 2015
Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

Innovation Lab and Rock Center for Entrepreneurship taught us how to build and organize an agile development team. Meanwhile, we reached out to countless alumni in the technology and telecom space. Again and again, we were blown away by the generosity of the HBS... View Details

02 May 2018
Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

situation came to light when the negotiation leaked. (The dispute was apparently resolved when Wahlberg agreed to donate his $1.5 million to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.) This Hollywood soap opera raises an interesting question. If the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

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