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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
hurdle of gaining admission to HBS, the vast majority must then begin to focus on their next major challenge: how to finance their education. HBS offers need-blind admission, and nearly 80 percent of MBA students qualify for financial assistance in the form of... View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
created a bold and provocative vision—‘50 by 60’—that says that [New England] can produce 50 percent of our food locally by 2060. This is the organizing principle in what is a systems-wide approach to solving a problem.” Since 2011, the Kendall Foundation has View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Web
FAQ - Alumni
New Venture Competition FAQ 6ms Who is eligible and other rules? Eligibility and Rules Applicant must be an HBS Alumni from an alumni status granting program. Alumni who won the student New Venture Competition must wait one year after... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- News
Learning to Fight
awarded more than $35 million to 51 early-career researchers, making a long-term investment in the most promising scientists in the field. “The grants they provided are high-octane fuel,” says Dr. Mark Johnson, one of the early recipients... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 07 Jan 2022
- News
Learning to Fight
establish the Sontag Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting brain cancer research and brain cancer patients and caregivers. In the last 18 years, the foundation has awarded more than $35 million to 51 early-career brain cancer researchers. “The View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Last Look
02163. We’ll update you on what we have learned in the next issue. Thank you! LAST ISSUE’S LAST LOOK: Our thanks to MBA-ers Gordon Kingsley (’59), Grant Annable (’65), John Hoey (’72), Chris Reilly (’74), Paul Lausell (’75), and Jorge... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
To the Rescue
organized the event. The Robin Hood Foundation, whose board members fund all of the organization's overhead costs, annually provides $140 million in grants to some 200 New York City antipoverty efforts. Thanks to Bruce Springsteen and... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
recent grants worth $2.8 million from the US Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy and Fossil Energy offices, OCO and its R&D partners have built a pilot plant just outside Columbus, Ohio, to show that this new technology works and is... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
systems were retrenching; and his encouragement of faculty to compete more actively for outside grants and contracts, with growth in those areas rising annually from $175 million in 1986 to more than $500 million in 1997. But Spangler's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
makes a huge difference in loans and grants going to the home countries of the directors—that developing countries can expect a doubling of their funding levels when they sit on the board. You also noticed that a majority of World Bank... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA
graduation may request a leave of absence. Requests for a leave of absence may be granted by the Registrar in consultation with other officers of the University, as appropriate. With respect to a voluntary leave of absence for medical... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Five Receive 2013 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
everything they do. As such, they represent the best in our alumni body. Exemplary role models, they inspire all who aspire to have an impact on both business and society. The 2013 award recipients are: Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987 Cofounder and Managing Partner,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Michael Gilbert (MBA ’67) (Hunter Press) Family Wars: Classic Conflicts in Family Business and How to Deal with Them by Grant Gordon (OPM 30, 01) and Nigel Nicholson (Kogan Page) The American Military after 9/11: Society, State, and... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
bronzes, and, yes, the glorious stone statuary of Cambodia. I also assisted young archaeologists with grant applications to preserve ancient kiln sites from the encroachment of developers’ bulldozers. We brought traditional Cambodian... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Social Enterprise Start-Ups Recognized for Bold Ideas
2012 HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Selected from a competitive process that attracted 19 applicants, Jena will receive a $25,000 grant from HBS to advance his work. Trained as a biomedical engineer, Jena says his ambition is “to... View Details
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
granted by the American Association of Hispanics in Higher Education. Anna Holmes Anna Holmes has written and edited for numerous publications, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, Newsweek, and The New Yorker online. The... View Details
- October 2021
- Article
Communicating Resource Scarcity and Interpersonal Connection
By: Grant E. Donnelly, Anne V. Wilson, Ashley V. Whillans and Michael I. Norton
Consumers often cite insufficient time or money as an excuse for rejecting social invitations. We explore the effectiveness of these excuses in preserving interpersonal relationships. Six studies—including perceptions of couples planning their wedding—demonstrate that... View Details
Keywords: Time; Interpersonal Relationships; Communication; Money; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication
Donnelly, Grant E., Anne V. Wilson, Ashley V. Whillans, and Michael I. Norton. "Communicating Resource Scarcity and Interpersonal Connection." Journal of Consumer Psychology 31, no. 4 (October 2021): 726–745.
- 2016
- Article
Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self
By: Grant Edward Donnelly, Masha Ksendzova, Ryan Howell, Kathleen Vohs and Roy F. Baumeister
We propose that escape theory, which describes how individuals seek to free themselves from aversive states of self-awareness, helps explain key patterns of materialistic people’s behavior. As predicted by escape theory, materialistic individuals may feel dissatisfied... View Details
Keywords: Materialism; Escape; Self; Negative Emotions; Self-awareness; Emotions; Consumer Behavior; Identity; Motivation and Incentives
Donnelly, Grant Edward, Masha Ksendzova, Ryan Howell, Kathleen Vohs, and Roy F. Baumeister. "Buying to Blunt Negative Feelings: Materialistic Escape from the Self." Review of General Psychology 20, no. 3 (2016): 272–316.
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
Emory Healthcare sent a team of managers and clinicians to the Managing Healthcare Delivery program. From left, Dane Peterson, Dallis Howard-Crow, Bryce Gartland, and Susan Grant at Emory University’s School of Medicine in Atlanta,... View Details
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Site Credits - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Murphy Laura Linard Laura Peimer Editing Julia Collins Katherine Fox Catalogue Design eleanor bradshaw fine design Exhibition Design Chris Danemayer, proun Design Website Design Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design Website Production Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design Melissa Burton... View Details