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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA

fall into poverty because the outbreak was taking away lives, sources of income, foreign investment, and community stability. My short-term response to the outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations... View Details

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

global emergencies. His work included the planning and delivery of humanitarian aid during the war in Afghanistan—an experience he found both powerful and frustrating. When a US town raised money to donate an ambulance to the Afghan... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

17 Dec 2024
News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

institution level, but for community colleges as well—is where some major employers have, in some cases donated equipment or donated staff time to be able to work with them to make sure that what they’re... View Details

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

map—including apps for donating food waste, sharing photos, sourcing wedding vendors, renting wedding dresses, and making creative wedding registries. Koning’s favorite out-of-the-box idea was an app to simplify divorce, which is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

of applicants for 2006, 63.2 percent proposed business models based entirely on donations, 33 percent offered models based on a mix of donations and generated revenue, and 3.9 percent proposed models meant to run entirely on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2018
News

Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness

found that when you get a $25 bonus for yourself, not much happens. But if you get $25 to spend on a teammate, it makes you happier, and in some cases, it can also improve the coordination of the team. On the customer side, we’ve done experiments where a company gives... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2013
News

Bringing It Back Home

it is more important than ever. Nonprofits rely on corporations, foundations, philanthropists, and ordinary citizens for funding, all of whom have far less money for donations than they did prior to the financial meltdown. The donors... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; SPNM; Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit Management; Roadtrip Nation; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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For Guests | Commencement 2025

guests to reduce bottled water plastic waste; donating leftover food to Food for Free ; providing waste sorting stations to divert usable resources from trash into the recycle and compost (which is anaerobically digested) streams; using... View Details

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

18 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5

continuously educating yourself and shifting towards anti-racism. However, you don’t need to reinvent the wheel. There are many Black leaders and organizations that have been doing this work for a long time that you can learn from, donate... View Details

16 May 2018
News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

and applicability, with great potential for the healthcare market. Latino Alumni annual banquet draws record crowd, donations More than 120 HBS alumni, as well as current and prospective students, attended the 14th Annual Banquet of the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

14 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

growth, the pieces came together. “At first it was a solid no, I had donated all of my suits!” Gomih said, “But I realized there was an opportunity here to build out the future of work and create pathways for diversity in senior... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

an additional $100,000 donation to the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professorship, a capstone contribution for the three-year, $5 million fundraising effort that included earlier gifts from PepsiCo, alumni, and corporate donors. "H. Naylor Fitzhugh... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

05 Jul 2016
First Look

July 5, 2016

Petrie Abstract—A growing body of empirical evidence documents a reluctance to make charitable gifts. Individuals avoid donation asks, and when asked, give less by viewing factors—such as ambiguity or risk—in a self-serving manner.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

consideration to your product." Estée set out to prove him wrong, telling Fiske that she would demonstrate Saks customers' interest in her products at a charity luncheon at which she was speaking. The event was held at the Starlight Roof of the Waldorf-Astoria... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

that, donating a portion of their stimulus checks to food banks or to friends who are out of work. Some are helping others in non-financial ways, including recovered coronavirus patients donating plasma to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

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