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- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
eliminating fundraising, they say ensuring that donations are fully transparent, closing fundraising loopholes, and encouraging small donors to participate can restore some balance and expand the rolls of those whose needs are heard.... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
the headquarters' community and that 80 percent of corporations claim that their largest single donation was within their community. Further, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter, in a study published in the late 1990s, showed that... 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
- 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
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
potential for improvement as a reason to avoid the action. In an experiment, making more salient how a donation could be improved significantly decreases giving. Self-serving motives dramatically magnify the effect, suggesting why... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 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
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
Consider two organizations with the same noble purpose: to solve the problem of poor eyesight in developing countries. The first, the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, follows a traditional nonprofit model, soliciting donations... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
http://www.cambridge.org/US/academic/subjects/economics/economics-general-interest/democracy-and-its-elected-enemies-american-political-capture-and-economic-decline August 2013 Journal of Marketing Research Contingent Match Incentives Increase View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges
fellows at Year Up in Washington, DC. Siddharth Yog (MBA 2004), who teaches business administration at HBS, was one of the organization’s earliest supporters, along with 20 other HBS classmates who donate annually. The funding helps to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
allow it to offer better (higher) prices to consumers on its buy side and so on in a virtuous cycle." —Associate Professor Andrei Hagiu "[I suggest] a modified TOMS Shoes model. From the customer/end-user side: When they want to sell their device, they'll also have the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
reputed to be one of the richest men of his era, donated $5 million to Harvard University in 1924 to fund the construction of the new HBS campus. Among the artifacts is a finely crafted cherry wood “Resolutions” chest containing... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
water bottle that marries fashion and function.” The company donates 10% of sales to WaterAid, a 501(c)(3) organization that improves access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest communities in Africa and Asia. Find... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
when the choice will be implemented in the future rather than implemented immediately, a tendency we refer to as "future lock-in." We demonstrate future lock-in for decisions about donation (Study 1), organizations (Study 2),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
during our study period. Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market Authors:A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez, and M. Utku Unver Periodical:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract Patients needing kidney transplants may have willing donors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Africa - Global Activities 2021
foreign investment, and community stability,” explains Raji, who was born in Nigeria. “My short-term response to the outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations involved in the Ebola relief effort.... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
director Barry Wheeler, for whom she had worked in Rwanda. With donations from individuals and small family foundations, CREATE! has grown to a full-time staff of 12 in Senegal with an annual budget approaching $400,000. Last year, the... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
do that. I have no further ambition to climb the other 13 8,000-meter peaks." Then, with a laugh: "Perhaps some smaller hills." Editor's note: To donate to Jan Petzel's porter-shelter fund-raising effort, visit... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley