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Dean’s House | About
Baker Library to allow room for future structures. HBS Deans lived at the house until 1980, when it came to be used primarily for social functions. Dean Nitin Nohria revived the in-residence tradition when he was named Dean in 2010. About the View Details
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Global Activities 2020
China and Myanmar. 50 % Cases published in FY20 that were globally oriented 33 % MBA students in the Classes of 2021 and 2022 who are international, representing 81 countries 15 HBS global research centers and offices operating worldwide Global View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
David Tunnell (MBA 1997) David Tunnell (MBA 1997) is a longtime advocate of crossing traditional academic boundaries at Harvard. For his Harvard College senior thesis on efficient markets, the economics major conducted most of his research on the Allston side of the... View Details
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Brandon Lovell
Brandon's ambitions grew. "I realized," he says, "that to fulfill my aspirations to be a CEO I'd have to check a lot of boxes, both for optics and to give myself confidence." Given his experience at Year Up, where the founder and many of the key... View Details
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Unintended Consequences of Fundraising Tactics
Charity fundraisers use a variety of methods to increase donations, with three of the most common being matching funds, seed money, and thank you gifts. Field experiments have shown that matching funds (Eckel and Grossman, 2008) and seed money (List and Lucking-Reiley,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
An Engine of Innovation
testing requires resources, and that posed two challenges: Most of the School’s endowment is restricted to established needs in accordance with the donors’ wishes, and donors don’t often want to make large gifts to fund unproven... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact
donors,” says Rabah. “Thanks to scholarships, I will be able to choose a career that I find impactful and meaningful rather than seek a job just to pay off loans.” In turn, Rabah adds, “I hope donors take some credit for the positive... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- News
Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
the redesign of the Alumni Bulletin and an early stage redesign of the alumni website; and welcomes the School's new Chief Digital Officer, Katia Walsh. Donors continue to demonstrate their belief in the School's mission and priorities by... View Details
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Helping and harnessing business to address society’s greatest challenges. | Institute for Business in Global Society
whose work examines racial inequities in the business sector, and emerging best practices for combatting or addressing them. Our third cohort of Fellows will start in September 2024. Explore the BiGS Fellows Learn more about the current and former BiGS Fellows. BiGS... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
reflects investment returns, net of expenses and fees, as well as cash gifts to the endowment received during the year, net of the University's annual distributions and decapitalizations. HBS received gifts from more than 10,200 donors in... View Details
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
no opposition. But if instead of an exchange, we asked a potential donor ‘How about we pay you $25,000?' that would be against the law. "That's what caught my interest in repugnance: Here are two things that look similar. One is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
decapitalizations, offset by endowment gifts received by HBS during the year. HBS received gifts from more than 10,500 donors in fiscal 2021, including MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education program alumni, as well as friends of the... View Details
- 07 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty
stamps. Somebody affords them healthcare. But money really comes from a third party though the services are delivered to these customers. Therefore, we don't talk to them because we make the mistake of assuming that the donors know what... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
change the way a charitable organization solicits donations. “Donors don’t just want to buy medical equipment and supplies. They want to buy outcomes” Rather than asking for funds toward a new building or a supply of medicine, Partners in Health can now tell potential... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
Championing the HBS Fund
Scholar) that same year. An Investment in R&D While they’ve lived in California since graduation, their ties to Harvard remain strong. In addition to making gifts to Harvard College and Harvard Medical School, they have been annual donors... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
from more than 9,800 donors in fiscal 2023, including MBA, Doctoral, and Executive Education program alumni, as well as friends of the School. Total cash received from gifts in fiscal 2023, including new endowment gifts and gifts for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
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Building a Better Brazil
INVESTING IN BRAZIL: A gift from André Esteves (pictured here with wife Lilian) will improve an Executive Education residence hall—a space increasingly used by program participants from Brazil. This past spring, three separate donors... View Details
- 29 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Organizations Create Social Value
Focus. Nonprofits start with a sharp focus on a problem—a focus that over time broadens as related issues are addressed. (Sometimes a nonprofit's cause is broadened to appeal to a larger donor base.) By contrast, the focus of businesses... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
organization was not eligible to receive nonprofit status—which meant donations would not have been tax-deductible and likely caused many potential donors to not contribute. "The One Fund team made it known we would proceed without... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding