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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
generators were brought in, many donated by General Electric and its CEO, Jeffrey R. Immelt (MBA '82). Next on Lhota's agenda for the business community was getting the New York Stock Exchange - closed for four days - up and running. "We... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Warren Law Remembered
service was held at Harvard Business School in December. Donations in Professor Law’s memory may be made to The First Church in Belmont, Unitarian Universalist Building Fund, 404 Concord Ave., Belmont, Massachusetts 02478. View Details
- 22 Jun 2023
- News
Book Smart
these children to have the same opportunity. Risher had been an executive at Amazon and Microsoft, so he certainly knew plenty about tech and business. He also had connections, such as Steve Kessel, longtime head of Kindle, who heard the story of the abandoned library... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
a Harvard College graduate who was the first in his family to attend college. The fellowships create a challenge fund designed to inspire other HBS donors to support fellowships in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2018. They also donated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
medical love story about a man who is dying. His wife gets sick at his deathbed. As she gets worse, he begins to improve. And then the only way he can live is if she donates her heart to him; and she can only live if he View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Agenda: Amanda E/J Morrison (MBA 2014)
RIPPLE EFFECT “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” “A woman gets a period around age 12 to 14, and then we tell her to go off in the world and not get pregnant.” For 15 years, the morning-after... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
the biggest individual donors to his alma mater, the Upper Canada College in Toronto. Originally built in 1927 as the Student Club, the Georgian Revival–style Wilder House was rededicated in 1997 in honor of Wilder’s many contributions to Harvard Business School.... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
An Orchestral Startup
with Yoo hiring topflight young musicians and Lim handling the business end, Metamorphosen came to life with a startup budget of $75,000 raised from charitable donations (the orchestra is a tax-exempt entity), corporate sponsors, program... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 22 Jul 2014
- News
Hungry for Change
200 food banks, the organization has access to surplus food donations from manufacturers and producers throughout the country. "The nature of our work means that we have been tightly coupled with the food industry," he notes. "But we are... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 14 Nov 2012
- News
Remembering His Roots
demonstrate to helping the farmworking community and themselves, the students receive ‘investments’ from a variety of sources, including the RFDF and individuals. More than 200 students are participating in the Exchange, and about 50 investors are actively View Details
Keywords: farmworkers
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
passes, life gives us more that we can give others. We are the gift that keeps on giving. Louisa Wong is executive chairperson of Global Sage, a global executive search firm. Proceeds from her 2023 memoir Women Who Chase Butterflies will be View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
William Jones: Builder with a Mission
a smile. Creatively using a combination of city and federal grants, HUD loans, private investments, and donations - and plenty of his own blood, sweat, and tears - Jones has slowly seen his dream, called the Urban Village, become a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
company’s mission is social responsibility: A portion of the proceeds and products is donated to animal welfare organizations. KitNipBox regularly works with artisan suppliers who create handmade products and support animal welfare.... View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
reach out to him to see if he was okay," she says. Relieved that he was, Hammerman then asked if he knew what organization was most effectively delivering aid to survivors. Atabek gave her a name: the Bridge to Turkey Fund. "I donated... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
Risher’s story of the abandoned library in Guayaquil and donated 20 Kindles for the launch of Worldreader. After a beta test at an international school in Barcelona, where Risher was living at the time, he and cofounder Colin McElwee... View Details
- 14 Aug 2019
- News
Leading from Within
mentorship and financially or personally, to those in need or to groups and institutions whose missions they value. True to the values it teaches, the program donates all its profits to Thistle Farms, a social enterprise organization... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
first time Hanazawa has wrestled with the ways she could urge her industry to focus on social impact. In 2011, an earthquake and tsunami leveled towns and cities in her home country of Japan, and she struggled with how to help. She weighed her options: She could View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
create only the illusion of transparency - while delaying work. Donations yield reduced value because of inefficiency and security costs. A worse problem surrounds Madrid pledges. Pledges are not the same as cash, as Afghans found.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Money (Actually) Can Buy Happiness
found that when you get a $25 bonus for yourself, not much happens. But if you get $25 to spend on a teammate, it makes you happier, and in some cases, it can also improve the coordination of the team. On the customer side, we’ve done experiments where a company gives... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
will soon open the C. Roland Christensen Center, a facility designed for case-method teaching that was the vision of one of his former students. A memorial service was held for Christensen on November 5 at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. View Details