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- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
not running the wildly successful recruitment firm, Reed is deeply involved with the Big Give, an innovative match-funding platform that hosts online fundraising appeals for charities. By engaging philanthropists and companies to match... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 May 2013
- News
Tied Together by the Times
Under the leadership of Roger Yanow, the Class of 1954 has set multiple dollar and participation records. Yanow, who serves as fundraising chair for the class, says there is no magic formula for 1954's success. “I depend on my View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Spin Cycle
Linn (MBA ’00), later organized the annual Cycle for Survival (www.CycleForSurvival.org), an indoor team cycling fundraising competition. A January event in New York City featured more than 2,000 participants, received donations from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Making of a School
humanities of life.” In 1924, a $5 million fundraising campaign began for the construction of a campus on a new site across the Charles River. LIFELINE: Heat and electricity traveled across the Charles River via pipes inside the newly... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience
district work well, and it still hasn't been done. That's a real tragedy." His most recent school-related job ended in 1995, when he left his position as president of the organization responsible for fundraising and support of the Boston... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Model Teamwork
break the 50th Reunion giving record by June 30. Terry Kungel, Cathy Paglia, and Ken Bartels For nearly 10 years, Class of 1976 fundraising has been led by the team of Ken Bartels, Terry Kungel, and Cathy Paglia. The trio has organized a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
fundraise the vision into reality. Six years later, the American Writers Museum will open in late spring at 180 North Michigan Avenue in Chicago, with Hammer serving as treasurer. “I had been chair of Washington Performing Arts but knew... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 10 Dec 2010
- News
Notes from the Trenches
on his company’s board. Good Start, which closed an $18 million Series A round of fundraising in September, will use advanced DNA sequencing technology for a pre-pregnancy test to more accurately screen for a range of potential genetic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
WSA Launches Scholarship Fund
Fundraising will begin this fall with the goal of awarding up to $20,000 annually on a need basis to an outstanding woman entering her second year. At its first meeting last year, the WSA board, composed of fifteen alumnae ranging from... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Origin Story: Tasila Banda (MBA/MPP 2025)
as I am in the process of producing and fundraising for a feature film, Discipline, about a young girl’s experience at a strict Catholic boarding school. It’s written by an award-winning Nigerian actor, writer, producer, and director,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success
cookies. Annual proceeds from the sale total close to $450 million, $300 million of which supports scouting activity. "If there's a more effective fundraiser in the world, I don't know what it is," Baxter remarks. "But it's also a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 28 Feb 2025
- News
Alumni Startup Enters the Shark Tank
that could fit into TV soundbites. And, of course, I had to know my numbers. I couldn't let my HBS classmates watch me get called out by Mark Cuban and Kevin O’Leary for not knowing them! What advice do you have for entrepreneurs about pitching to investors?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years
graduates, international alumni, and the HBS Fund Investors Society. We ask our peers to join us in making leadership gifts to the HBS Fund and introduced a new fundraising volunteer role—Investors Society class agents—that focuses on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
A Tough Assignment
unique, expeditionary curriculum. (Students, for example, might travel to Mexico to learn about NAFTA and the lives of sweatshop workers.) Undaunted by financial demands, O’Neill leveraged his fundraising skills. In 1998, Shackleton... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
historic fundraising effort brought together the HBS community to celebrate and strengthen the School’s mission. Spangler “Each of you has made really wonderful decisions in your career,” Spangler told the dinner guests. “I suspect that... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Rockin’ for a Cause
and want to invest in the district overall.” Since the Wildcats’ first appearance on PiE’s behalf—a two-hour fundraiser where they cycled through their nine-song repertoire multiple times—the band has contributed more than $300,000 to the... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
group’s current challenge well from his own VC experience: “It’s time for us to put our foot on the accelerator and really scale up,” he says. The Arctic Ice Project recently hired a new executive director and is in the process of expanding its board. View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide
Aziza’s main tasks have been fundraising and working with community and government officials to create a process that will facilitate the sponsorship of more families. “We’d love to have the funds to do something on a larger scale,” says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
A Man of Influence
encompass political consulting. After doing some work for LBJ, the vice president asked Valenti to run President Kennedy’s reelection campaign fundraiser in Houston — hardly friendly territory for an Irish-Catholic Yankee. Pleased with... View Details