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- 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
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
to $10 million, that will honor Nohria by supporting: the HBS Fund; the Nitin Nohria Endowment for Business and Society, which in addition to enabling innovative research will establish a professorship named for Nohria; the priorities... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
Penn at age 20. Today, as president and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, Lew has come full circle, overseeing a university endowment of approximately $11 billion that helps fund students for whom college is far from a given.... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
to establish an endowed professorship in his name. Relaxing in the sunroom of her home near Richmond, Lambert reflects on her "retirement" years. Among many other things, she is interested in helping other small business owners with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
committed to maintaining it forever. Over time, that cost will far exceed the acquisition price. We've got to be ready to invest significant resources to endow the preservation of these properties so that my successor, and his or her... 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
- 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 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
bucks made renting out its ubiquitous terminals. Or how News Corp.’s film and TV numbers conveniently hide the rounding error that is the Wall Street Journal. One commentator even proposed that the nation’s wealthiest universities set aside 3 percent of their 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
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
“I’d like to see a number of our major corporations pick one African school of business, fully endow it, and help make it really good,” America says. “Upgrading management quality in the Third World will increase efficiency, creativity,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. RELATED LINK Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship While many classmates... View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
To Boost Communities, Alumni Clubs Send Nonprofit Leaders to HBS For one week every summer, nonprofit leaders from across the globe convene on the HBS campus to sharpen their leadership skills and expand their impact through the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
relationship with them and giving them a lot of information. They want to know what the team is, what the investment team is. We actually met with the Harvard Endowment in the early days and we got a lot of support, and so they think they... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
business scholar," said Maurice Cox, PepsiCo's vice president of corporate development and diversity. "Helping to endow the chair at HBS, as well as establishing the fellowship program in his name, is a small way for PepsiCo to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
(MBA ’84), president and CEO of AEW Capital Management, a Boston investment advisory firm with $30 billion under management. “Certainly my clients — pension funds and endowments — aren’t that optimistic about the stock and bond markets,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
R. Cross reveals the man behind the art. It is the surprising story of a life led on the front lines of history. In that life, this Everyman made archetypal images of American culture, endowed with a force of moral urgency through which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
mission and helping underprivileged people," Nundy explains. "Once you get a taste of that, it's hard to feel fulfilled doing anything else. I see myself working in the nonprofit sector for the long term." (For graduates who want to make a full-time commitment to... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
can not always be positive. No rose gardens. So this experience of mine helped me very much. JH: Depelsha Thomas McGruder (MBA 1998) is treasurer and COO at the Ford Foundation, enabling the organization's grantmaking program as it leverages a $16 billion View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
excellent practice. Consumers saw a single campaign, not two related campaigns." In Chicago, when John McCarter needed help financing an exhibition on the Dead Sea Scrolls, he found a surprising mix of funders. He received support from the Lilly View Details