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15 Sep 2016
News

The Burning Man Project

self-expression, it is also a carefully and thoughtfully organized pop up city of 70,000 people with a $36 million budget. Jennifer Raiser (MBA 1990) is the woman who controls that budget, serving as Burning Man's treasure. And in this... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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School Ties

the National Math and Science Initiative to share its successful teacher development and advanced placement initiatives with hundreds of partners across the country. Formulating strategy. Concerned about the quality of his state's schools, the chairman of a local... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy

nonprofits led by people of color had been building for some time. “We’ve known that less than 2 percent of funding from the nation’s largest philanthropies is specifically targeted to the Black community,” notes Thomas. “The NCF is working to reverse this bias by... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

15 Dec 2011
News

An HBS gift guide

water bottle that marries fashion and function.” The company donates 10% of sales to WaterAid, a 501(c)(3) organization that improves access to safe water, hygiene and sanitation in the world's poorest... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; holiday; gift giving; Manufacturing; Retail Trade

20 Apr 2016
News

Steps to Success

director Barry Wheeler, for whom she had worked in Rwanda. With donations from individuals and small family foundations, CREATE! has grown to a full-time staff of 12 in Senegal with an annual budget approaching $400,000. Last year, the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2002
News

HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades

hours by AFAA members seeking to call attention to the plight of homeless veterans and to raise funds for a local shelter that assists them. “We thought this would be an effective way to raise awareness about the New England Shelter for Homeless Veterans, an amazing... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2025
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2025

exceptional leader, in a moment of crisis, everyone should say yes.” That spark: “After I left Vodafone I talked to more than a hundred organizations before deciding on General Atlantic. I like the growth moment of companies. You get to... View Details

Keywords: leadership; Alumni Achievement Awards

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

supply-demand issues—the need for donated bone marrow and stem cells that is so challenging for patients with diseases like leukemia—and that there were more people in need than there were in supply,” she says. “What was liquid gold, for... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

30 Apr 2025
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A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

reasons why HBS decided to take a leadership role in organizing and implementing EDP. "The program has energetic CEO support in the person of Jim Wolfensohn, a focus on top-rank managers, and a global orientation," he explains. "It... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

12 May 2016
News

Food Rescue Is on a Mission

remote parts of the continent. The organization expects to feed 17 million meals to the country’s poorest families this year, an astounding achievement reflective of why the Carsons earned the 2015 Social Entrepreneur of the Year award... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

01 Apr 2002
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Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

Beginning in late January, the School's student clubs host a series of annual conferences that explore a wide variety of specialized business issues. Organized and staffed by hundreds of hardworking HBS student volunteers, the conferences... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

insignificant, faculty and student organizers emphasize that the contest’s value lies well beyond such monetary rewards and services, which are donated by corporate sponsors and the HBS Entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86

and American Industry in Europe (1960). His 1989 Harvard Business Review article "General Managers in the Middle" was a bestseller for many years. Beyond the Harvard Business School campus, Uyterhoeven consulted regarding international business, long-range planning,... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

role that is most important to Harf is being the cofounder and chariman of DKMS, the blood cancer cure bank. Now the most successful organization of its kind in the world, he launched it in 1991 after losing his first wife to blood... View Details

18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

institutions. Our goal is to eradicate these inequalities and build equity in our communities. The Anti-Racism Fund provides capital to organizations as a way to inject social change.” To date they have raised more than $300,000 in View Details

04 Aug 2015
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Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS

big and to really have the courage to face challenging problems and be confident that I could really make a difference. Jakurski continued, noting, “My wife, Maria, and I have been extremely dedicated in our philanthropic work in education. We see a huge multiplier... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable

some sort of compensation for it—through donations or subscriptions. That is the path forward. How is social media changing the consumption of information and the consumer’s ability to access a diversity of ideas? —Janet Simpson Benvenuti... View Details

Keywords: April White; New York Times; newspapers; Google; Wirecutter; social media; Facebook; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2003
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These Are the Good Old Days

highest-ranking woman in the AOL Time Warner organization — oversees more than 130 popular magazines, including the company’s high-circulation weeklies Time, Sports Illustrated, People, and Entertainment Weekly, along with well-known... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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