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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
MBA Poker World Series
taking home $24,822 and a $15,000 watch, and automatically earning a $10,000 seat at this summer’s World Series of Poker. Some sixty HBS students took part in the weekend competition. The event also had a fundraising component, which this year resulted in a $20,000... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Reaching New Heights
nonprofit to help build schools and libraries in Nepal and supply them with books, the Harbus reported. With expansion into Southeast Asia and soon into Latin America and Africa, Wood’s Room to Read has established 3,600 libraries, built 287 schools, View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
graduates who want to put their skills to work in Africa. “I want to do whatever I can to counter the brain drain,” he says. And he believes that his donation will be multiplied because of the School’s ability to leverage its impact. “I... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
largest school districts in the country, the survey found that business is involved in 95 percent of America's school districts, but mostly in a fragmented array of efforts that focus on short-term benefits for students (e.g., donating... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
any other bank in Grand Rapids. It was a niche bank with only one office and no tellers; instead, it had client service officers who would call customers by their name. The other unique thing about Grand Bank was corporate tithing. Ten percent of our pretax profits... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
Greenland, thereby earning the right to name it. He chose "Minarjnik," a contraction of the names of his wife, Mrinalini Mani, and two sons, Nikhil and Arjun. A memorial service was held in February at Memorial Church in Harvard Yard. View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
New Conventions
200, 500, or 1,000 people, enabling both intimate interactions and broad reach and impact. The building was made possible by a generous donation from Beth and Seth Klarman (MBA 1982). “When you bring people with talent, vision, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Hunting Red Balloons
first person or team to locate all ten balloons. Pledging to donate the prize to AIDS research, an HBS team of four students and two professors drew upon the School’s network, including alumni, for the balloon search. Although a group... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Students Assist Needy Family
donations on behalf of selected families in dire need. Commenting on the students’ effort, Connors said, “It was a great statement about the School and the students.” View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
The Well-Healed Athlete
science, but there are tools out there that, if applied to this area of research, can lead to major breakthroughs.” That’s why she and her husband donated $220 million to launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a collaborative... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
New York Club Honors Goldman Sachs CEO
donated by club members and sponsors. “This is the second year that the gala has supported Dallas Reads,” said Marla McDonald (MBA ’91), acting liaison between the club and the charity. “We selected Dallas Reads because individually we... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
Although Stiftung Solarenergie donated the first lanterns, Ayala, who identifies himself as a “social businessman,” said the plan is to tie the new power source to self-sustaining community development initiatives. “Even simple products... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
asphalt-paved path, with unpaved shoulders for runners) with neighboring winemakers, who donated initial funds to memorialize Tom Shelton, a fellow vintner and vine trail leader who had lost his life to cancer. “We recruited the Land... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
annual budget and then finding the means to support it. Fundraising, he says, has always intrigued him. He acknowledges that people don't usually like to ask for donations and that "it can be downright embarrassing," but he sees it as the... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
academe: a tree planted near Burden by the PMD 70 class at their graduation. The class may have been inspired by the Partners Association, which had planted a tree in front of Soldiers Field Park apartments. PMD 70 donated the money for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
it is easy to forget the importance of family and friends." Alumni Take Action Once they began to recover from the initial shock of the events of September 11, HBS alumni started putting their skills to work. Whether donating money,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
certification. Chapman plans to add nursing and entrepreneurship options next. Hudson is also exploring innovations on the fundraising side, such as allowing donors to donate stock or cryptocurrency. “The more we can diversify our options... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
men resolved to set up a program in their rural county that would bring in students from each district high school for a daily class in entrepreneurship. Dubbed CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) by its first group of students, the program is totally paid for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
John Dearden Remembered
Marie (Borden), and their four children. Donations in his memory may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 1100, Chicago, Illinois 60611-1695. View Details
- 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