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Lisa Cousins
much bigger impact by sharing my energy and passion for the school with section mates and helping them understand why it is important to give to HBS. Each dollar can go so far in not only funding groundbreaking research and other... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
From Fellowship Recipient to ‘The Most Influential Business Thinker On Earth’
had I not received assistance from HBS.” Currently the Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration at HBS, Christensen earned his MBA in 1979 with the assistance of two fellowships: the Sidney J. Weinberg–Goldman, Sachs & Co. Fellowship and the Donald Kirk David... View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
The Rites of Autumn
Margaret J. ("Marki") Ware, Lydia M. Marshall, and Margit L. Pearson attended the Class of 1975 Women's Reception. Former Alumni Board president Charles F. ("Monty") Milner attended a session with classmates from 1965. Howard H. Stevenson, senior associate dean and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Working to improve California's public education system
I’d never actually experienced it firsthand. So what that showed me was that the problem must be statewide if our privileged community couldn’t survive on the funds that we were given. So we realized we needed to build the political will... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
His work on private equity funds has examined the relationship between general partners and their portfolio companies. Gompers recently coauthored two books: Entrepreneurial Finance and The Money of Invention. His Harvard degrees include... View Details
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Cynthia Samanian
through the Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, including the Minimum Viable Product Fund (MVP) and Business Plan Competition. Overall, these experiences at HBS gave me the confidence to pursue my goal of working at a startup and eventually... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that explained how these View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Geography of Corporate Giving
region. In Atlanta, prior commentators have noted that there is a special "spirit" that enables public-private partnerships to form to attract large-scale events that showcase the city, such as the 1996 Olympics and even the Cotton View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research
(Canadian) to HBS in honor of Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien II (MBA ’54) and his wife, Nan-b. The gift will fund the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment and focus on supporting a wide range of innovative projects and programs associated with... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
leadership style to “drain the swamp” of the Washington bureaucracy and deliver results for the American people. The United States is not a company, of course, and its citizens are not employees, but voters still were drawn to his... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
differentiate itself from the ‘stuffy, hierarchical’ East Coast. I see this today when I talk to entrepreneurs trying to raise money on both coasts. I hear again and again how fast things happen on the West Coast and how long it takes for NYC firms to View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
interests, but if the CEO finds that those are in tension with the interests of the organization or the beneficiary, then you have a real problem. And in this economy, people are unlikely to turn away funding when it comes their way. You... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Jul 2013
- News
Making Lives Better
Autism Science Foundation, which she founded in 2009, was a result of Tepper Singer's passion to fuel scientific research. To that end, ASF, which is based in New York City, funds pre- and post-doctorate fellowships for young scientists... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference Across Borders
private equity roles. Westphal then found his second seven-week internship by reaching out to VC firms in Brazil. One VC connection was an HBS alum from his state in Brazil who had invited him to sit in on an HBS class years earlier.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
hands.” This being HBS, Stevens detailed some of the financial aspects of producing an independent film, i.e. one that is made without the deep pockets of a large Hollywood studio. According to Samuels, about eighty percent of funding... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
transforms the experts' probabilities into their corresponding information states, then linearly combines these information states, and finally transforms the combined information states back into the probability space. Analytically, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Business School Publishing) This history doubles as a sophisticated account of the opportunities and challenges facing the modern investor. It follows the rise of funded retirement, the evolution of investment vehicles and techniques,... View Details
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Archival Collections - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
company from 1957 to 1992. American Research and Development (ARD) provided the initial funding for the launch of Digital Equipment Corporation in 1957. Ken Olsen and Georges Doriot subsequently developed a lifelong personal and... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
with that organization. She spent two years there, before becoming a consultant to the Fund and then to a number of other nonprofit organizations. During that time, Keohane also began a seminar at Yale on poverty and anti-poverty policy.... View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
- News
One School at a Time
which provides the school’s building rent-free, is currently funding an expansion that promises to more than double ASMS’s physical space. A 2007 Intel School of Distinction finalist, ASMS concentrates on math and science but its... View Details