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- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
eliminating fundraising, they say ensuring that donations are fully transparent, closing fundraising loopholes, and encouraging small donors to participate can restore some balance and expand the rolls of...
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by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
that only large enterprises could attempt. IBM, for instance, has created a nonprofit partnership, World Community Grid, through which any organization or individual can donate unused computing power to research projects and see what is...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
that over time they appear more skewed, more dispersed, and exhibit greater inequality. The share of total receipts realized by small agencies fell while that of large agencies rose. However, the position of mid-sized agencies appears to...
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
of those children. Using data from an online charity that solicits donations for school projects, we found that proposals accompanied by images of older African American students (Grades 6-12) led to fewer View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
other half ranges to more than $50 million a year. To get the most from this wide range of experience, participants break into small groups and present a challenge currently facing his or her organization. "In our study group, there was a...
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- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
of this bid attracted me to the cause. Under the leadership of Atlanta real-estate attorney Billy Payne, who is now ACOG's president and CEO, a small group of local people was determined to bring the Olympics here because they felt it...
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Garry Emmons
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
data cover two field experiments run by a large stock-photography agency. We find that substantially reducing the requested amount generates a small increase in the settlement rate. However, for the same reduced request, a message...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
an additional $100,000 donation to the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Professorship, a capstone contribution for the three-year, $5 million fundraising effort that included earlier gifts from PepsiCo, alumni, and corporate donors. "H. Naylor Fitzhugh...
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- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
control condition, and this effect was mediated by self-reported feelings of moral purity. In Experiment 2, the same manipulation increased the amount of money participants donated to a good cause, and self-reported feelings of moral...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
beyond West Wind, he passes the high-tunnel greenhouses that Pine Mountain provides to local farmers. “In many ways, it’s like running a small town,” says Marietta, casting his eye across the potato fields and chicken coop that help...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
Public Health. In recognition of his contributions to the entire Harvard teaching community, in 1984 then Harvard President Derek Bok named Christensen to a University Professorship, one of a small group of endowed chairs reserved for...
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- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
our business. We have built a business that is, despite our small scale, has a very clear track record of profitability, and have had the fundraising challenges And his response was "Well, you're not really a fast-growing business." And...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
pursuit. “Yoga is a very small part of what they’re doing,” he says. “It’s cool to be seen wearing or carrying the Lululemon brand. It’s telling other people something about yourself.” And having a strong brand is especially important in...
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Deborah Halber
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53200 September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review Managing Our Hub Economy: Strategy, Ethics, and Network Competition in the Age of Digital Superpowers By: Iansiti, Marco, and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—A View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
“I was incredibly nomadic, open to going wherever,” she recalls. A Luce Fellowship followed, offering Brooks the opportunity to settle in one spot for a while. She spent two years in Vietnam working with the International Finance Corporation of the World Bank Group,...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
(both MBA 1996) proposed the contest as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. “We looked at it as not just a theoretical paper for class but a sustainable plan,” says Wagonfeld, who was then president of the View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
smart, passionate people here at Children’s HealthWatch, as well as with talented, passionate funders, advocates, and policymakers. “We operate in many ways as a small entity, but are also part of a larger organization. We also work...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
Verlag, 2010 Abstract From small start-ups to global corporations, family-owned businesses were the main pillar of West Germany's economic growth after World War II. They continue to shape the corporate landscape to this day. This book...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
bruised, she decided to step away from business, attending culinary school and becoming a private chef in London for two years. (Lo donated all her earnings to charity and coauthored a book during that time, Dining with Dictators, which...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry