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- 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
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Accelerating Allston
Applied Sciences (SEAS) by creating an endowment for financial aid for students in the Schools’ joint MS/MBA program in Engineering Sciences. “The expansion of SEAS to Allston is a catalyst for collaboration that will propel and transform... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
With Harvard navigating an array of pressures, Jana Kierstead, Executive Director of the MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, spoke with Dean Srikant Datar about how HBS is responding to new challenges while maintaining its focus on strategic priorities.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
and increased his own already substantial support. In addition to the Opera, through a family foundation, Johnson and his wife, Cathie, support a variety of educational and cultural institutions. An HBS professorship they funded is named after Cathie’s father, and they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
about establishing new financing streams. “The parks are funded through an annual appropriation of about $2.5 billion, which is subject to all the usual political negotiations,” she notes. “In real terms, that amount has been declining every year for the past 15... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
last fall the Krafts launched a "Kick Cancer" awareness campaign. They endowed a chaired professorship in Jewish studies at Boston College and a chaired professorship in Christian studies at Brandeis. All told, the Krafts have donated... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Startup Talk in Chicago
25 years of experience in numerous industries, Pritzker founded Vi Senior Living, and cofounded the Parking Spot and Artemis Real Estate Partners. She is a member of the board of Microsoft; chairman of the board of trustees of the Carnegie View Details
- 27 Apr 2025
- News
Celebrating 40 Years of Kraft Family Fellowships
Robert Kraft (center) and Jonathan Kraft and Dean Srikant Datar (second row, center) gathered recently with Kraft Family Fellowship recipients and guests to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the founding of the first Kraft fellowship fund at HBS. Photos by Ethi... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
SFP raises funds from individuals, foundations, and endowments to achieve its goals. The huge demand for organic goods such as corn, oats, and alfalfa, and the higher prices they command than traditionally grown crops, creates a dramatic... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
started my first business," he says from his office in Dallas, Texas. Now, with his generous endowment of the chair held by HBS professor John A. Deighton, Brierley's involvement with the School has come full circle. A specialist in... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science Prizes for middle and high... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
names of movies I had seen. An older boy knew that one of them was the name of a ringworm ointment, so I was caught in my lie, and they all laughed at me. That revelation of my ignorance was the most humiliating moment of my childhood." Still, Parija says, life in his... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
HBS to Release 2004 Annual Report
alumni, sustaining a significant increase from last year. Reflecting strong returns and new endowment gifts, the market value of the HBS endowment and current-use funds increased by 19 percent, to a total of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
An Investment in Tomorrow's Leaders
are based on merit and—unusual among graduate business schools—financial aid is based on need. In 1910, four Visiting Committee members launched an $850 financial assistance fund. Since then, the MBA fellowship budget has grown to more than $41 million, representing... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
firms weren’t competitive and didn’t take advantage of business opportunities, a void that foreign firms and foreign capital were poised to fill. Political power in China, Huang says, is still skewed toward stateowned enterprises, which View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Harvard’s Next Frontier
John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co., has made the largest gift in the University’s history—a $400 million endowment to support the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences... View Details
Keywords: Drew Faust
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office
members of their own communities." In the mid-1970s, Lazarus was looking for a position in government and having a hard time finding one that would give him the broad experience he was seeking. By chance, he ran into Nancy Hanks - then chair of the National View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
FAQ
Why is annual alumni support so important? The flexible, current-use support provided by annual gifts is essential to innovation at HBS, especially since 89 percent of the School’s endowment is restricted. Such contributions are used as... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Dean Clark on Leadership, Educational Priorities, and Funding the Future
campaign's “quiet” or nucleus fund stage, so I am confident we can do it. Harvard Business School has a wonderful legacy and very generous alumni. Over the years we have developed an endowment of about $1.3 billion. But there are two key... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
terrific that those alumni members continued to raise funds until they built an endowment large enough to cover a few scholarships every year.” This year, one of those scholarships sent Patricia Wilson Aden, CEO of the Greater... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley