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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Donor Spotlight
for women and veterans, have been established thanks to Goldman Sachs Gives. A donor-advised fund, the program has enabled partners Celeste Guth (MBA 1986), Tucker York (MBA 1986), and others to recommend the grants to HBS. The firm has... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
1998, and the “Love Our Local Business” program, which encourages growth for small businesses by giving grants to entrepreneurs. In India, Intuit’s free mobile application, Fasal, has connected 1.5 million farmers with agents to get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Reimagining Capitalism In a World of Limited Resources
experts granted the privilege of sharing her knowledge, Henderson used her time, she says, "to tell him everything I know about business, energy, and the environment." Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor and... View Details
Keywords: Dalai Lama
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
Other grants helped survivors begin to rebuild devastated areas, allowing them to return to their former villages rather than remain in settlement camps, explains Curran. Back on campus, Curran is working to place up to ten MBA students... View Details
- 27 Oct 2014
- News
Supporting new art by bringing private funding to public museums and spaces
collective of patrons who work directly with artists to back a variety of projects. Some are major site-specific installations in prominent public spaces, and biennale and museum contexts. Other grants support the entire creative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Perception versus Reality
rubbed off on the School, which set a speed record in approving the trio’s proposal for a pilot program to sprinkle $50,000 in seed money on student start-ups. The Minimum Viable Product Fund, dubbed MVP, attracted 88 teams vying for support; 9 won View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good Fellowship
Fellowships are need-based grants that support the School’s need-blind admissions policy and help ensure that outstanding students, for whom HBS might otherwise be unaffordable, may enroll at the School. All students are first awarded a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Advocating for all children with autism
dollars in autism research funding, providing fellowships for scientists who may then apply for grants from the National Institutes of Health. Singer says her HBS education is central to building her “pipeline of scientists.” “In autism... View Details
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
For the Good of Society
granted today—the nonprofit sector and philanthropy—didn’t exist in the mid-‘90s. The idea of being of service to others, to help break cycles of intergenerational poverty, has felt to me as the highest possible calling. What a privilege... View Details
- 06 Jun 2018
- News
The Business of Social Justice
Heidi Brooks (MBA 2003) is the chief operating officer of the Schott Foundation for Public Education, a nonprofit organization focused on strengthening public education through grants and advocacy. The foundation’s mission aims at ending... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Inside Story of the New American Writers Museum
lot of money—we’ll bring this in at under $10 million, and that includes some reserve for the first several years of operation.” Funding came from private and public sources, including a grant from the National Endowment for the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
(SHE), and its first business, a Rwandan start-up that employs sixty women to manufacture and distribute low-cost sanitary pads. In recognition of her achievements, Scharpf in March was named the first HBS Social Entrepreneurship Fellow and received a $25,000 View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
reading, writing, and math,” she explains. “I wanted to bring that idea to Ghana.” With the cooperation and input of local nongovernmental organizations and a $350,000 grant from the Danish government, Akinola collaborated with a teacher... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
recent grants worth $2.8 million from the US Department of Energy’s Renewable Energy and Fossil Energy offices, OCO and its R&D partners have built a pilot plant just outside Columbus, Ohio, to show that this new technology works and is... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
C.D. Spangler, Jr.: A Leadership Role in Business and Academe
systems were retrenching; and his encouragement of faculty to compete more actively for outside grants and contracts, with growth in those areas rising annually from $175 million in 1986 to more than $500 million in 1997. But Spangler's... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photo by Ann Hawthorne
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Nurturing a Healthy Food System for Producers and Consumers
production. “Their work is quite compelling for us,” says Kendall. “They’ve created a bold and provocative vision—‘50 by 60’—that says that we in New England can produce 50 percent of our food locally by 2060.” Since 2011, the Kendall Foundation has View Details
- 01 Feb 2013
- News
Growth Strategy Has Double Bottom Line
sale of development rights, through the grant of a conservation easement, generates an early, partial return to Lyme Timber's investors while creating a permanent restriction against development. "Typically, it's public dollars that are... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
beyond Europe: Kumar presented the project to former Florida governor Jeb Bush during the GOP presidential candidate’s trip to Estonia in June. (Photo courtesy of SAP) Although e-Residents aren’t granted any of the rights of Estonian... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Family Matters
ease that burden, HBS made an investment in Thompson-Woode. Alongside traditional financial aid, which included fellowships and loans, Thompson-Woode was awarded the Forward Fellowship, a $30,000, two-year grant designed to assist... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Underwater Options May Not Sink Incentives
During the bull market of the 1990s, stock grants and options formed increasingly large components of executive compensation. Now, however, with many options "underwater" as share values have declined well below the strike price, boards... View Details