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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
Enterprise Capital Markets Harvard Business School Case 307-078 Seeking to impact global poverty and philanthropy, eBay founder Pierre Omidyar donates $100 million to Tufts University for a trust restricted to investment in microfinance.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
to be shared in perpetuity, they donated their shares back to a nonprofit. The money involved is pretty staggering. We sell tickets. They're $400 each this year. That changes year to year. And we have to lease the land it's on from the... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... 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
- 10 Nov 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again
constituent organizations included: A focus on fundraising. The Lincoln Center Corporate Fund raises money for the whole Lincoln campus. Corporate donations go directly to Lincoln Center constituents, and their use is unrestricted. In... View Details
- Web
For Guests - Commencement 2025
water stations for guests to reduce bottled water plastic waste; donate leftover food to Food for Free ; provide waste sorting stations to divert usable resources from trash into the recycle and compost (which is anaerobically digested)... View Details
- Web
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
- 18 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
into any other state or geography that implemented P-TECH. So, you got the key players not just to donate something, but to be part of the decision-making process. The new principal of the first P-TECH school went door to door in the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
Impact Investment Omidyar Network (ON), having deployed over $500 million in ways ranging from donations to commercial equity capital, must decide whether to back Anudip, an Indian organization dedicated to rural employment. The social... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
of group volunteer events scheduled, and enjoyed philanthropic support from individuals and corporations. “Now, schools are closed, events cancelled, and donations dried up while the problems we have been working to solve have worsened,”... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
strategic planning. Also, the organization is committed to helping as many people out of poverty as quickly as possible, but donations and repayments are not enough to fuel rapid growth; other financial tools are needed. Explores the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
focus has been eliminating disparities in education. His foundation’s multipronged approach includes serving students at every level, from preschool through university. Although he has donated hundreds of millions of dollars to help... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 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
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
positively by Visa cardholders became the basis for a cause-related marketing collaboration in which Visa donates to RIF a percentage of charges during certain periods when the reading program is promoted. Another unexpected fit is that... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 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
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
men resolved to set up a program in their rural county that would bring in students from each district high school for a daily class in entrepreneurship. Dubbed CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) by its first group of students, the program is totally paid for... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to rewarding the poor. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman