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- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
effort of the nonprofit March of Dimes in the 1920s to raise funding for polio research. The organization's strategies to induce contributions relied heavily on social pressure. Popular culture icons such as... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Prof’s Dream Comes True
Tufano Tax refunds can now be channeled into the purchase of U.S. Savings Bonds, a policy victory for HBS professor Peter Tufano (left), founder and president of the nonprofit Doorway to Dreams Fund (D2D) that has worked for years to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Bridging Past, Present, and Future
and it’s also where I met Marc and many other lifelong friends,” says Doft, CEO of Highline Capital Management LLC. Reflecting on a class campaign that was notable for broad participation and substantial donation levels—the most ever View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
founded with her husband Dave Linn (MBA '00) to fund research and clinical trials at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. Linn died July 20 at the age of 40. Diagnosed with a soft-tissue sarcoma (a relatively rare cancer) in December... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Kilimanjaro, in 2004, Petzel's climbing party included Lisa Lee, MBA 2000.) The third goal was to use the Everest climb to raise money that would help fund the construction of a permanent shelter and medical... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
simple enough. Investors fund nonprofit social ventures whose interventions result in a measurable social benefit as well as a financial savings to the government. (Government saves money, for example, when fewer people are homeless or... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
and resources to raise funds and organize vaccination efforts in 12 villages, reaching nearly 7,000 people with more vaccinations planned. —Akshay Navaladi (MBA 2013), founder of Healthskool Pharmacy, New... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Happy Campers: HBS Student Auction Helps Local Kids
At a "Christmas in July" auction held last summer, the January Cohort of the Class of 2001 raised just over $15,000 to benefit the Cambridge Camping Association (CCA), a 106-year-old organization dedicated to helping low-income, minority,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Wagr
company has raised $16 million in funding from notable tech and sports investors, including Alexis Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six, Bitkraft Ventures, Greycroft, Pear Ventures, the Kraft Group, and Harris Blitzer... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fighting the diabetes epidemic using mobile phones
The company has raised $500,000 through private funding and government grants. “Diabetes is not just a medical problem, it’s a lifestyle and a social problem rooted in rapid urbanization, sedentary lives,... View Details
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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
accomplish during the Fellowship year and beyond. Risks and opportunities Financial plan: Define how much capital you will need and how those funds will be spent. Note: to be eligible for a Fellowship, your venture may not have View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades
hours by AFAA members seeking to call attention to the plight of homeless veterans and to raise funds for a local shelter that assists them. “We thought this would be an effective way to View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 29 Aug 2024
- News
A Kick Start for Latin American Startups
When Monica Saggioro Leal (MBA 2018) and her business partner, Lara Lemann, started MAYA Capital, a tech-focused, Brazilian VC firm launched in 2018, they wanted to take a hands-on approach with their startup investments in their first 12 months. They wanted to support... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
HBS Business Plan Contestants Pin Their Hopes on the Internet
on hand at this year's event to offer some words of wisdom to those following in their footsteps. Jon Burgstone and Asif Satchu (both MBA '99) have raised $48 million in venture capital to fund their online... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
entrepreneurs who had built $10 million to $50 million companies, and I realized, “Oh, they’re not superhuman. I can actually do this.” So I started thinking, what business can I bring to e-commerce? Luxury beauty. We raised a million... View Details
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide
remote mountain hideouts where many died before relief efforts reached them. “They are genocide victims,” states Aziza, who now works full time with Operation Ezra, an initiative led by the city’s active Jewish community that has raised... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A Commitment to Education
HBS’s capital campaign from 2002 to 2005, raising nearly $600 million; established a professorship at HBS; and, with his family, provided the funds that created the Spangler Center. “This place means... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
practice of management worldwide. The influence of the campaign is already visible throughout HBS, from Spangler Center to Hawes Hall to the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. The campaign has also raised significant unrestricted View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986
days later, the reality of paying for that education hit.” Raised in a family with modest income, Guth attended public schools and was in the first generation of her family to attend college. She earned her bachelor’s degree from the City... View Details