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- 01 Jun 2012
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The Power of Philanthropy
When their son Joey died of cystic fibrosis in 1986 at age 12, Kathy and Joe O’Donnell (MBA 1971) vowed to fight the disease. O’Donnell, at the time the president of the Boston Concessions Group, joined with Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation to...
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- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
topic. “I didn’t feel like I had developed that muscle of saying ‘yes’ enough,” he explains by phone from Acumen’s New York office. “One of the things I learned is how expressive and personal philanthropy is, and that no matter how smart or analytical a View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
According to Herzlinger, although public and nonprofit institutions are entrusted with taxpayer and donor dollars to provide social goods such as education, health, and art, they have few systems and tools for objectively assessing their...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jan 2012
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Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
hard times after the dot-com meltdown in 2001, for example, Johnson—then chairman of the board—gave an inspiring pep talk. “We will not let this organization fail,” he told the directors and the staff, encouraging them not to give up on what looked like a dire...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
were hosting programs and networking events for their members, and fundraisers were traveling to meet with donors as the end of the fiscal year approached. Then everything stopped. Just like our colleagues on the MBA and Executive...
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- 01 Jun 1996
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Keepers of the Flame
events will take place. "At the Smithsonian," Segerlind continues, "I managed a large staff and a multimillion-dollar budget and had frequent contact with donors and supporters. This is a totally different kind of job for me, in which I...
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Garry Emmons
- 20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward
nutrition, and wellness offerings that target endemic problems such as asthma and obesity. All programs are offered at no cost to families in HCZ’s service zone. Funding comes from a combination of public and private sources: one-third in public dollars and two-thirds...
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Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
directly to NGOs that have been authorized to supply equipment and supplies to hospitals and COVID care centers in India. By May 12, GiveIndia’s web page was showing a tally of 1,550 donors from 30 different university groups, raising...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
at HBS that attracted nearly 300 individual donors in addition to a number of companies and other organizations. “I knew the measure of whether I’d lived up to the chair wouldn’t be how many books I wrote or my scholarly reputation,” says...
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- 01 Dec 2000
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Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
intellectual content." A Balancing Act Carter Brown, who now chairs the cable television arts network Ovation and sits on the boards of some twenty nonprofit, public, and private institutions, observes, "You always have to be careful in View Details