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- 01 Feb 1999
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Newman's Own Brand of Charity
lemonade, ice cream, and organic foods. By 1997, Newman's Own had reached $62.6 million in gross annual sales, producing a before-tax surplus of $8.5 million. The company had contributed over $90 million to charities since its inception,...
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- 21 Nov 2014
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Making It Easier for Retirees to Give to Charity
- 06 Dec 2013
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Valley of good works
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
As the Nigeria-Biafra war raged around them, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994), her mother, and her brother made a dangerous dash for a better life. Huddled in the belly of a Portuguese cargo plane returning from delivering arms to the Biafran forces, Dyer remembers Nigerian...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 19 Jan 2024
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Blockchain for Good
career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and several private equity firms, where she held C-suite positions. Feeling disillusioned, she left for the charity sector for a number of years, where she worked until her...
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- 05 Sep 2014
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Keeping Education in Check
help of a PR company hired by Berman. Their campaign worked. Other charities popped up as a result of Chess for Change. Moves for Life now coaches more than 12,000 students a week in South Africa. ChessKIDS Academy is also coaching 12,000...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2004
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Derek Ferguson
this on my own, without a sophisticated businessperson at the helm. Just think of what we can do together.’ He was a good salesman.” The businesses that today make up Bad Boy consist of more than its popular music label, however, a fact...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
and teaches a course on strategy to mid- and senior-level managers at Godrej. Nisa has helped relaunch a number of consumer products at Godrej, including "aspirational" goods like hair dyes. Photo courtesy of Nisa Godrej Shortly after the...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Seth Klarman
incentives for the people involved. What’s amazing is that anybody actually bought them. That’s because they’re created with a one-dimensional idea of what the economy and the world are going to do. If you have nothing but good times,...
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- 20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose
ALS is a good investment for them, the market forces will do more than all the ALS foundations worldwide can do in decades.” Using a prize model, Prize4Life essentially “pays for results,” says Kremer’s friend, classmate, and board member...
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Margie Kelley
- 10 Aug 2022
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Generosity Multiplied
Photo courtesy James Reed There’s little doubt that James Reed (MBA 1990) loves his job. After all, he’s the chairman and CEO of Reed—the United Kingdom’s first and largest jobs website—and he takes the company’s slogan, “Love Mondays,” to heart. Even so, Reed admits...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2008
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Kash Rangan
Rangan Illustration by Randy Glass Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, now fifteen years old. Back in 1993, most people took a “spray and pray” approach to philanthropy — writing checks to View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Jacobs (MBA 2007), working at the international organization reflected a choice: to do innovative work and “to feel good about waking up to go there every day,” as he puts it. The team of 260 in Portland supports more than 5,000 others...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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I Gave at the Office
degree in psychology, which informed his interest in the motivations around good deeds. Given their respective backgrounds in economics and social psychology, Exley and Zlatev each draw on different literature in their work, and their...
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- 01 Jun 2001
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Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
incredibly refreshing.” Many also believe their enterprises can achieve greater good as for-profits. Rea Callender, a former schoolteacher who cofounded Schoolpop.com, a charity mall for K–12 schools,...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business
city was being deluged with goods and services donated by businesses, an outpouring that came in addition to the enormous sums that corporations and individuals were contributing to several prominent relief funds. The New York City...
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- 01 Sep 2016
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Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
What is the role of volunteerism and other charitable giving in the United States? About one in four adults volunteer every year. About one in two adults give more than $25 to charity every year. The estimated combined value of their...
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April White
- 10 Feb 2016
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Investing in Sustainability
that will make the organization sustainable. “I believe charities should be investing in ways that align with their mission,” says Tiller. “In that way, they can get both good returns and further their...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Kresge’s Afterlife
Illustration by David Plunkert Alumni looking to reminisce about Kresge Hall might want to book a trip to Jamaica. That was one of the destinations for the 50 truckloads of household and office goods that HBS donated to non-profits as...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
units a year, but back when volumes were small, one full container of product would be everything I would have to sell for a quarter. And I had an entire container of goods that came damaged. I had to call up the customers who I fought so...
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April White