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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Dinner Celebrates Professorships
and Jill Starr. Photo: Thomas J. Fitzsimmons The School's first-ever Professorship Dinner, hosted by Dean Kim B. Clark, was held in April in honor of donors and recipients of endowed professorships at HBS. New and recent chairs... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
endow a chair at the School. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, he worked for a number of years at Unibanco, Brazil's third largest bank, including service as executive director. In 1983, he and three partners founded Pactual,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Celebrating HBS
$500 million by December 2005 to support student financial aid, global research, faculty development, learning technologies, and campus renewal. Each of these initiatives requires resources beyond what the School’s current endowment... View Details
- 18 Feb 2016
- News
Challenge Aims to Speed Drug Trials Process
will be announced in April. The challenge is funded by the Kraft Endowment for Advancing Precision Medicine, made possible by a gift from the Kraft Family Foundation, under the leadership of foundation president Robert K. Kraft (MBA... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
individuals, foundations, and endowments to invest in conventional farmers as they go organic. “We're a little bit like the Uber of farming, in that farmers have the knowledge base and the skills and all of the equipment necessary to do... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- News
Family Values
financial support to enhance the elective curriculum. The gift, says Dean Nitin Nohria, will make the second year of the MBA Program a “deeper, more cohesive, and more innovative experience that will have a lifelong impact on our students.” In addition to their most... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Fellowship to Honor Professor Jim Austin
Efforts are under way to create an endowed MBA fellowship to honor Professor Emeritus James E. Austin, cofounder and former chair of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative. A member of the HBS faculty since 1972, Austin is a leading expert... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Support for a Common Theme
endowed fund enable HBS faculty to engage a broader cross-section of Harvard students—at the graduate and undergraduate levels, and across programs—in selected new courses where diverse perspectives, skills, and experiences enrich the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Striking a Balance
the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The course reshaped the direction of her education, leading her into a career that focused on the impact of information technology in business. For this reason, Silk endowed the Diane Doerge... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
What Keeps HBS Ahead? You Do!
rely on revenue from Executive Education, Publishing, and our endowment to supplement the cost of delivering the program. This revenue covers the basics, but in many cases, the work that ensures the School’s continued... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni Salute Bill Sahlman
have launched the William A. Sahlman Fund for Entrepreneurship—an endowment that will support the teaching, study, and cultivation of entrepreneurship at HBS and Harvard. “Bill’s impact as a teacher, mentor, case writer, advisor, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
everything I do is about giving back. In fact, one of the things we did at Baupost when we recently took on some additional clients was to accept only educational endowments and foundations. We figured we would further benefit the world... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Case Study Pioneer
building the Intercollegiate Case Clearing House, an organization at HBS that was dedicated to US and international dissemination of cases written by faculty from Harvard and other universities. A legacy of his work is the Andrew R. Towl View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Donors Invest in Students’ Future
lower investment returns from the endowed funds that support the fellowships. “Now more than ever,” Light told the donors, “we are grateful for your support.” View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
their early stages with the help of gifts of all sizes to the HBS Fund. “In business, venture capital or R&D budgets seed the most promising new ideas,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “In academia, where endowments are generally restricted to... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Insatiably Curious
endowment and foundation boards. The Network Effect Ma has found the HBS alumni network to be particularly valuable both throughout her career and in her personal life. “The alumni community is a group of people with shared values. We... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- News
Reconsidering Retirement
economist Burt Malkiel (MBA 1955), former chair of the Yale endowment Charley Ellis (MBA 1963), and former head of IBM’s investment funds Jay Vivian (MBA 1978) to serve on the Rebalance Investment Committee. The company has also invested... View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- News
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt
Robert (MBA 1964) and Lynn Burt In honor of his 50th Reunion, Robert Burt established a charitable gift annuity that will provide his wife, Lynn, with an income stream from Harvard during her lifetime and then fund a permanently endowed... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
the Charles River. The development of the new complex was made possible in part by a $400 million SEAS endowment established in 2015 by John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co.... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central Park Conservancy 2015 View Details
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