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- 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
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
reputed to be one of the richest men of his era, donated $5 million to Harvard University in 1924 to fund the construction of the new HBS campus. Among the artifacts is a finely crafted cherry wood “Resolutions” chest containing... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
reorganized the center - once dependent on donations and the volunteer services of its ashram members - into a team-based organization of paid staff, volunteers, and live-in members who have taken religious... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
hassle out of moving and furnishing a new residence. The runner-up spot went to Tom DeBrooke (MBA 1972) and his company, Vascular Perfusion Solutions, Inc., which has developed a new system to extend the viability of human organs and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 16 Jul 2019
- News
The Making of a Movement
clinical trials. The couple adopted the cause as their calling and organized a fundraiser to support the work of Jen’s doctors at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center. “Our idea, which came to be known as Cycle for Survival,... View Details
- 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
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
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
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
A born adventurer with a passion for social justice, Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) uses her business savvy to effect social change. Since 2014 Brooks has served as chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a nonprofit View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
around common objectives." The Met's admissions policy is unusual: The museum, as Deborah Winshel puts it, "relies on the good grace of the visitor" for admissions revenue, with a suggested donation of $10 for adults. "We are a tremendous... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
also serves as the SEI’s faculty chair, and in that role, he organized and moderated the panel discussion, which featured Rosie Allen-Herring (SPNM 2015) the President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of the National Capital... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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 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
- 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 View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
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
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
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
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Book Smart
of going to the library and bringing home a stack of books,” recalls Risher. “We didn’t have a lot growing up but that was something we could do.” He wanted the children of Guayaquil to have the same opportunity. Risher’s solution was Worldreader, an View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
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 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
city was being deluged with goods and services donated by businesses, an outpouring that came in addition to the enormous sums that corporations and individuals were contributing to several prominent relief funds. The New York City... View Details
- 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
- 14 Aug 2019
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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 View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon