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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
feelings toward that charity, in the long-term. Exley: The time effects are interesting. There’s a fun paper that shows people are much more likely to give to a charity if that charity promises to never ask... View Details
- 18 Dec 2019
- News
Thinking Smart About Numbers
clubs in NY, Chicago, Seattle, LA, Miami, and San Francisco. Check club calendars for details. Celebrating 30 Years of Fulbrights in London The British Friends of Harvard Business School is a British registered charity set up by the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Bringing Light to the Fight
part thanks to Smyth, who joined the volunteer board of the fledgling Breast Cancer Foundation NZ in the mid-1990s and became its chair in 2009. Her work with the charity has been informed by her business career, she says. A partner at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Students Assist Needy Family
A Boston family threatened with homelessness got a financial lift from more than seventy HBS students just before Thanksgiving. In response to an e-mail campaign launched by roommates Grace Simmons and Jennifer Kelm (both HBS ’10), their classmates used the View Details
- 20 Aug 2014
- News
With No Time to Lose
other than Kremer’s adopted Prize4Life for their charity auctions and students across Harvard University took up the cause. A game-changer Since then, Prize4Life has accomplished many of its goals. In 2011, it awarded its first $1M ALS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
What is the role of volunteerism and other charitable giving in the United States? About one in four adults volunteer every year. About one in two adults give more than $25 to charity every year. The estimated combined value of their... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The path to philanthropic entrepreneurship
Internet, information services, and education. “What I learned from HBS is that you can be a philanthropic entrepreneur as well. I love that part.” Coutu spends two or three days a week in the philanthropic world giving back and creating businesses and View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
decision was very important for me and for all the firm’s partners. Also, given the extremely difficult financial environment we are in, I expect charities will be greatly affected. That’s why it’s incumbent on those who can to step up... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing checks to View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
works a year from emerging Japanese artists and then displays them in galleries and the company’s offices before selling them at a charity auction, where the artists and buyers can meet. The money raised goes to scholarship funds for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Carnival Queen
than the Zulu Queen at the Big Easy's celebration of Mardi Gras. The Zulu Queen presides for one year over the Zulu Organization, a New Orleans nonprofit that supports charities throughout the city. Rogers's reign is in honor of her late... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
of what charity can look like the summer after college. With her Harvard degree in government in hand, she signed up for a service trip and was shipped to a remote area of South Africa to help with a construction project. As she unpacked... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals at the grassroots level around the world. In this role, she... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
lot of charity programs and philanthropy, there is no way that is going to solve the problem. Bringing business principles to solve that issue is a very interesting and exciting thing to do.” Gandhi’s approach to microfinancing is to help... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
Formerly used to store utensils and cookware, the racks now store the club’s arts-and-crafts supplies. Kitchen equipment Haiti and Jamaica Various charities More than three truckloads of pots and pans, ladles, spoons, china, and rolling... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Raising the bar to provide quality education
With some other people in the financial sector we started a charity called ARK—Absolute Return for Kids—and one of the things we did was start a network of academy schools, which were government schools that were intended to serve... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao Advises New MBA Students on Business Values
of United Way of America a decade ago after financial scandals and executive wrongdoing had shaken public trust in the charity taught her valuable leadership lessons. “Restoring financial integrity to the organization's basic business... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
aside $10,000 to be matched with alumni donations, the club also distributed $20,000 to three local charities assisting families of WTC victims; in addition, it set up a speakers' program featuring individuals involved in the city's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
graduates develop new social ventures. The sum here is greater than the individual parts. Behind the numbers of conference attendees and fellowship recipients is a shift in attitude and understanding. Social enterprise isn’t about charity... View Details