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- 22 Apr 2009
- News
Getting Microfinance Right
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
starting a nonprofit? Or philanthropy in general? This internal struggle led to the second pivotal event, when he took these concerns to his mentor, Marshall Payne (MBA 1983), founding partner of the Dallas private equity firm CIC... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Burden Legacy
and its wisdom,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “We are truly honored to preserve the family’s legacy of philanthropy through the dedication of Burden Park, the endowed Burden Family Fellowship, and the Baker Library Collection on the Business... View Details
Keywords: Linda Kush
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
On the evening of Wednesday, October 11, Alumni Board members joined with current HBS students in the Spangler Center for "A Conversation about Life Lessons", which was led by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. This October, more than 75... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- News
A New Chapter
comes from infrastructure that the nonprofit and its local partners install, which provides jobs and benefits communities as well as schools. “We focus on country-wide rollouts where philanthropy and aid fund initial infrastructure and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Dynamic Duo
of the Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. Judy, a former Fidelity Investments executive, is leading a science education initiative for early teens at the Museum of Science and serves on the board of Rosie's Place. Their new Fund chair... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Who Was George F. Baker?
banking and finance. Remembering George F. Baker: After his death in 1931, the boards of many of the dozens of companies and philanthropies Baker had served on wrote tributes that are stored in a finely crafted chest, now part of the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
probably as busy and involved today as he was when he ran the firm. He's made philanthropy and involvement in social enterprise a full-time job. What was your first job? When I was about ten, I started giving puppet shows at neighborhood... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
and investment—our aspiration is to build a pooled impact investment fund that we can use in all 50 states. To get there, we are assembling state funds for the places in which we’re working. The goal is to figure out the mix of return and impact. Can we bring in... View Details
- 11 Mar 2024
- News
In Harmony
that arbitrarily assigns that value.” He’s well on his way to realizing that obligation, although the culture of private philanthropy is less developed in Asian cultures. To help shift that mindset, Kim launched the MBK Scholarship... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988
population than in prior generations. Our workforce needs to reflect that,” says Johnson, who quietly directs her personal and corporate philanthropy to cultural, educational, and youth enrichment programs in the Boston area as well as in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
hospice care, but Lee refused to give up. Researching treatment options, she found doctors at Johns Hopkins who performed complicated surgeries. Today, Margaret is cancer-free, and much of Lee's philanthropy focuses on improving outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Oct 2021
- News
Planning Ahead
the HBS Fund. “The School has been incredibly thoughtful and progressive, and I trust its leaders to continue on the right path,” he says. While it took him some time to create his estate plan, including HBS in his philanthropy is not new... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
the Johns Hopkins University Board of Trustees 1997 Publishes Bloomberg by Bloomberg 2001 Elected Mayor of New York City 2012 Launches Bloomberg Philanthropies 2014 Returns to Bloomberg LP as CEO 2017 Coauthors Climate of Hope Founder,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
costs the organization 9 to 15 cents per dollar to identify and enroll recipients, execute the transfers, follow up, and conduct other administrative work. Mark Lampert (MBA 1988) was an early investor in GiveDirectly, which received the 2010 Unorthodox View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering women to lead
Katie Hood (MBA 2001) uses the same results-oriented business philosophy in her philanthropy work as she does in the course she teaches about educating the next generation of women leaders. A visiting lecturer and senior fellow with the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952
building companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, and Ross Stores. Bowes also played a key role at Amgen, serving as the first chairman and treasurer of what has become the world’s largest biotech company. Venture philanthropy... View Details