Charitable Donations - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

Rakhimbayev’s donations to a donor base of 218 trustees—Kazakhstani business leaders who oversaw IQanat at the regional or district level. Salikova planned to oversee the opening of four new schools across the country over the next 5–10... View Details

Web

Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

strategically, and thus have unrealized potential. Nov-Dec 1999 Harvard Business Review Philanthropy’s New Agenda: Creating Value by Michael E. Porter & Mark Kramer During the past two decades, the number of charitable foundations in the... View Details

Web

The New Role for Government & NGOs - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

kind works against it and even makes tradeoffs between economic and social goals inevitable. Traditional Roles New Roles Philanthropists Donate to charitable causes Partner with companies and NGOs to... View Details

Web

Indoor Spaces | About

Room The Tim Day Fitness Room in Shad Hall was made possible through a generous donation from Timothy T. Day (MBA 1964) and the Timothy T. Day Foundation. The project, completed in the summer of 2019, united Shad Hall’s cardio and... View Details

Web

Student Research - Doctoral

segment of charitable giving in the United States. Using a novel database of foundation tax filings, I document facts about top donors, estimate how they... June 2025 Article Administrative Science Quarterly Riding the Passion Wave or... View Details

Web

Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

fund managers on environmental and social governance? Keywords: Investment Fund ; Philanthropy ; Charitable Donations ; Sustainability ; Foundation ; Impact Investing ; ESG ; Family Business ; Forecasting... View Details

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

Credit: Martin Barraud Here’s a tip for persuading people to finish more tasks, buy more products, or donate more money: Simply present assignments, requests, or items as arbitrary sets, rather than as individual units. New research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

Cotting House | About

graduate of Harvard College, Cotting served on the HBS Visiting Committee from 1943 to 1966. In addition to donating the funds to construct Cotting House, he established a permanent charitable trust—one of... View Details

18 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?

the satire publication The Onion headlined, "Woman A Leading Authority On What Shouldn't Be In Poor People's Grocery Carts." This study's results could have implications for everything from social and economic policymaking to View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Web

Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

governance? Keywords: Investment Fund ; Philanthropy ; Charitable Donations ; Sustainability ; Foundation ; Impact Investing ; ESG ; Family Business ; Forecasting and Prediction ; Private Sector ; Renewable... View Details

Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

been admitted to universities in 16 countries. The initiative’s funding model had also evolved, shifting from an exclusive reliance on Rakhimbayev’s donations to a donor base of 218 trustees—Kazakhstani business leaders who oversaw IQanat... View Details

24 Jan 2011
HBS Case

Terror at the Taj

that it has to do with governance of the Tatas; two-thirds of their profits are donated to charitable causes, so the employees feel that they are working for a higher good." But the IT firm Tata... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accommodations

01 Mar 2003
News

Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper

promotional and charitable events, which often are tied to the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay. (One percent of the bar’s revenues are donated to The Chesapeake Bay Foundation and other conservancy causes.)... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

Web

Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Co-Winner Reduce the burden of heart disease in China. Charitable Donations Group Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Raise funds for nonprofits by helping them accept and liquidate real estate transactions.... View Details

24 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti

change the way a charitable organization solicits donations. “Donors don’t just want to buy medical equipment and supplies. They want to buy outcomes” Rather than asking for funds toward a new building or a supply of medicine, Partners in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Web

Laura Dries Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Making Donor Dollars Work: Measuring Impact in Rural Ecuador Laura Dries 22 Feb 2018 Are we sure we are making a... View Details

24 Jun 2014
News

Gary (MBA 1963) and Terie Roubos

priorities. Working with the Gift Planning office, the Rouboses established a charitable gift annuity with their donation of appreciated stock. This unique way of giving benefits Terie for life, assists them... View Details

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

(or planned to rely) exclusively on noncommercial sources of funding (like charitable donations and foundational grants) to five for projects that relied exclusively on commercial revenue—retail sales, for... View Details