Grants - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best

employee monitoring makes the case that if business owners are interested in their customer-facing workers learning and making progressively better decisions over time, they're far better off taking a hands-off approach and granting more... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Jun 2024
News

Crash Pad

When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate

06 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Circularity in Denmark

publicly-held companies. Novo Nordisk Foundation, owner of Novo Nordisk (the world’s leader in diabetes and obesity care), has a net worth of approximately 94 billion euros and awarded 1.2 billion euros in grants in 2021, putting it in... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Making a World of Difference

understanding, and trust between Arabs and Jews in Israel. Each year, the fund awards grants to a variety of applicants from schools, summer camps, hospitals, and nonprofits. "We are interested in developing people's capacity to relate to... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Sep 2003
News

Andrea Silbert

sell on the street. Here, you need to be able to write a business plan.” With the vision of creating a training center for women, Silbert returned to Boston, took a job at a nonprofit, wrote a business plan, and began raising money to launch the Center for Women &... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Boston Nonprofits Alex Huang Qi Xu 03 May 2023 On April 20, four teams of Harvard students awarded unrestricted grants worth $15,000 each to fou... SECON 2023: Back in person to discuss the power of narratives for social impact Lia... View Details

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Jeff Nelson

that granted $10,000 to a local educational organization, Public Learning Media Labs. On the Rwanda IXP, an experience Jeff describes as one “that will knock the wind out of you,” he worked with Millennium Promise on two innovative... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change

president, Moret created a new, reorganized student government and lobbied the faculty to place a greater emphasis on teaching quality in granting tenure. After graduating from LSU, Moret remained in Baton Rouge and worked as an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

agency that funds partnerships between universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a particular "mediated funding" scheme that combines project grants with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

$20 million to the social media-fueled Pepsi Refresh Project: PepsiCo's innovative cause-marketing program in which consumers submitted ideas for grants for health, environmental, social, educational, and cultural causes. Consumers voted... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2012
News

Giving Through HBS

disseminating pathbreaking ideas is supported by alumni, whose gifts allow faculty to focus on research and teaching rather than on securing grants from outside sources. Similarly, alumni donors have a direct impact on future leaders by... View Details

Keywords: Professor Howard Stevenson

01 Mar 2005
News

Ideas: Books

finds that while before 1930 the Colombian government granted United Fruit generous concessions and helped repress labor unionism, after 1930 the company, responding to growing nationalism, a stronger labor movement, and increasing... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

15 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development

cooperatively owned grocery store. In my work, I primarily organized our outreach efforts with several foundations and community development financial institutions (CDFIs) and strategized ways for us to successfully secure both grant... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Apr 2001
News

Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters

enterprise. Grossman grants that quantifying a plan’s potential social value will not be an easy task for judges. But four years later, the impact of nonprofit ventures such as Montage are easy to observe, particularly when Stone tells... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Information

01 Oct 2002
News

John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

John Batcha (MBA '54) was ready to grow his own organization. With a $50,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he teamed with Partners of the Americas, the largest private volunteer organization in the Western Hemisphere, to develop a... View Details

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

Keywords: mentorship; nonprofit management; retirement; leadership

April 2013
Article

Making a Difference Matters: Impact Unlocks the Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending

By: Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant and Michael I. Norton

When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the emotional benefits of spending money on others (prosocial spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real... View Details

Keywords: Prosocial Spending; Prosocial Impact; Subjective Well Being; Donations; Happiness; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving

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RCS Policies - Research Computing Services

granted for the purposes necessary to accomplish the goals of Harvard University and its research projects. All account holders, whether Harvard affiliates or outside collaborators, agree to be held accountable by the Harvard University... View Details

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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

by Professor James McKenney. 1964 Case Method Enters Digital Era The first computer at HBS, an IBM 1401, is installed on campus. Part of the computer’s purpose is supporting “business games,” a new facet of case teaching. 1964 to 1965 Ford Foundation 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

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