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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
Partner U.S. Venture Partners Bowes Jr. After founding U.S. Venture Partners in San Francisco in 1981, Bill Bowes helped shape companies such as Sun Microsystems, Callaway Golf, Applied Biosystems, and Ross Stores. More recently, he has focused on venture View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
uses a venture philanthropy model that makes early- and growth-stage investments in NGOs focused on high-quality, affordable schools; human capital development; technology in education; and school accountability." "When the business... View Details
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
Cross-Class Connection
philanthropies but HBS stands out because of its ability to leverage our dollars. When I give to Harvard, I see the multiplier effect—providing flexible dollars that ultimately enable the faculty and students to make enormous differences... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A year later, he founded Social... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 11 Mar 2019
- News
Enabling Big Thinking
physics. “Because of the mission of the trust, it suited us to support research at HBS,” says Cameron, who recently took over for his father as chair of the trust and is also board chair of the educational philanthropy SHINE. Guiding the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Environmental Impact
Investments and a former US Ambassador to Austria, focuses her philanthropy on three areas: environmental conservation, education, and international economic development. She and her husband, Craig, the telecommunications pioneer who... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
HBS's Unique Economic Model
of the publishing industry, faces fierce competition and great uncertainty as it adapts to the digital world. At a time when the School must increase its investment in innovation, revenue from philanthropy (20 percent endowed funds... View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Generosity Multiplied
wasn’t all already here on the platform. We’ve created a really good marketplace, and match funding is the key that unlocks a lot of the potential.” Now Reed wants to share the platform’s design—what he calls “phil-tech” for philanthropy... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 May 2016
- News
Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980
Smart: Philanthropy That Gets Results Chairman and Cofounder, The Bridgespan Group When Tom Tierney announced that he intended to step down from the top spot at Bain & Company, several of his colleagues thought he should have his head... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
Executive Solutions, a firm that guides nonprofits through successful leadership transitions. “More and more, HBS alumni are engaged in philanthropy and the nonprofit world, and the school itself is doing so much more than even 10 or 15... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 May 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
HBS alumni in New York to participate in a voluntary outreach program to help local nonprofit institutions. Bhargava and Misra, who had found early success as an investment executive and founder or three tech startups, quickly became good friends. “Jay had taken to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
relationships with the community. These investments can be modest. Just providing safe drinking water can lead to greater productivity and more profit, one of many instances where philanthropy makes good business sense. I get excited by... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
amenities to Buffalo Bayou. Houston’s businesses are very heavily involved in everything related to quality of life in the city—from the arts to green spaces to education. Though, Gilbane points out that all this philanthropy isn’t just... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Eager to Help Shape School’s Future
history and tradition while moving forward in an increasingly complex and global world. There are over 70,000 remarkable alumni ready to support this exciting time in the life of HBS. — Ann Kelly (MBA ’99) is a partner at Global View Details
Keywords: Ann Kelly
- 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
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: John Doerr
needed funding will be used to improve facilities. On the national level, I cofounded TechNet, a policy network to improve public education, and the New Schools Venture Fund, a venture philanthropy fund for education entrepreneurs.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
nonprofit leaders with this level of training in one community is outstanding,” says Richardson. “Few of us grow up thinking that we will become nonprofit professionals, and even fewer of us are specifically trained for it. The course at Harvard blends the best... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
Relief Turkish Philanthropy Funds Red Crescent (Turkey) (Syria) HBS COMMUNITY NEWS MARCH 29 Hakan Polatoğlu (AMP 178, 2010), board member at the Eskisehir-based food producer Eti, notes that his company has been producing a special... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
similarly affected by the disease — Jeff Morby (MBA ’61) from Pittsburgh and Phyllis Rappaport from Boston. McCance, who has been at Greylock for nearly forty years, says the Cure Alzheimer’s Fund is applying a venture-capital approach to nonprofit View Details