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Alumni & Development Services
617.495.1750
To find out if your company matches employee gifts, use our online search tool. Upon receipt, all matching gifts count toward a donor’s total giving.
Support HBS automatically—on a monthly or annual basis—via credit card. This will ensure that you are counted as a donor every year and help HBS to plan more effectively.
You can wire funds directly to HBS from your bank using the information provided below. To ensure proper crediting, please include your name and intended gift purpose.
When giving long-term appreciated stock to HBS, donors may take a charitable income tax deduction for its mean fair market value on the date of the gift and avoid capital gains tax.
To make a gift of stock, please contact:
Alumni and Development Services - Trust Administration
866.845.6596
security_gifts@harvard.edu
To ensure proper crediting of your gift, please use our online form to notify us of your stock transfer.
There are two ways you can make a gift through your donor-advised fund:
Contact your fund administrator to request a grant recommendation or beneficiary designation form or download the appropriate form(s) from your administrator's website.
If you include Harvard Business School in your plans, please let us know and use our legal name and federal tax ID:
Legal Name: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Address: Harvard Business School, P.O. Box 412275, Boston, MA 02241-2275
Federal Tax ID Number: 04–2103580
Learn about establishing a donor-advised fund at Harvard University.
If you are at least 70½ years old, you can use your individual retirement account (IRA) to make a gift to HBS—up to $100,000 per year.
Your gift, which must be transferred directly from your IRA to HBS, can be excluded from your federal taxable income. Once you turn 72 years old, your gift also counts toward the IRS’s required minimum distribution.
To initiate a transfer, contact your IRA administrator. To ensure proper crediting at HBS, you will also need to notify Harvard University. Downloadable sample letters are provided below for your convenience. For more information, please contact Harvard University Planned Giving at pgo@harvard.edu or 800.446.1277.
Sample Request from Donor to IRA Administrator
This letter contains transfer instructions from you to your IRA administrator.
Sample Letter from Donor Informing Harvard of IRA Distribution
This letter informs Harvard University that you wish to direct your gift to HBS and
ensures appropriate class credit for alumni.
The Europe Research Center is a nonprofit association that supports the European research, case writing, and course development activities of Harvard Business School faculty. It makes available to the public at large in France and in Europe the intellectual output it has helped the HBS faculty produce.
The Center satisfies Section 200-1 b and 238 bis-1 a of the French Tax Code. Residents of France who contribute to the Center will have the right to a tax credit against income tax within the limits set by French law and will be provided with a "reçu dons aux oeuvres" (tax receipt) to that effect.
Class Crediting
Contributions from HBS alumni will receive class credit.
Checks should be made payable to Centre de Recherche Européen de la HBS and sent to the association office located at:
Centre de Recherche Européen de la Harvard
Business School
62, rue François 1er
75008 Paris, France
Telephone: 33 (01) 42 25 73 73
Fax: 33 (01) 42 25 15 45
For wire transfer instructions, please call the Center at the number above or email Oksana Sichi at osichi@hbs.edu
A gemeinnützige Körperschaft (tax exempt organization), the principal purpose of which is to provide scholarships for German students in need to attend HBS. Gifts can also be made for the benefit of HBS.
Alumni who reside in Germany can deduct the full amount of a contribution to the Foundation from his or her gross income. Since the marginal tax rate is approximately 50%, this means that basically half of the contribution is “paid” by the tax authorities.
Class Crediting
Contributions from HBS alumni will receive class credit.
Money transfers may be made to:
Harvard Business School Foundation of Germany
IBAN DE95 5007 0010 0696 4316 00
BIC DEUTDEFF
Bank: Deutsche Bank
Please make sure to mention your name and address to receive a tax-deductible confirmation letter.
For questions, please contact:
Stefan Eishold (MBA 1994)
Tel: 49 163 611 5000
Email: eishold@arcuscapital.de
The primary mission of the IRC is to contribute to the growth of knowledge and facilitate the exchange of ideas—bringing the best of Harvard to India and the best of India to Harvard. The IRC supports research, case writing, Executive Education, and other activities of Harvard Business School faculty and staff in India.
The IRC qualifies as a charitable not-for-profit, and gifts made to the IRC in India may qualify for personal tax deductions. Under Section 80-G of the Indian Income Tax Act, donors will receive a 50% deduction on donations made to the IRC. Upon receipt of a gift, the IRC will issue the required 80-G certificate to the donor.
Class Crediting
Contributions from HBS alumni will receive class credit.
Checks and bank drafts should be made payable to Harvard Business School India Research Center and sent, along with a letter indicating that the gift is for general purposes, to:
Harvard Business School India Research Center
c/o Ms. Anthea D'Souza
Piramal Tower, 7th Floor
Peninsula Corporate Park
Ganpatrao Kadam Marg
Lower Parel, Mumbai 400 013
India
Tel: +91 22 2493 1624
Fax: +91 22 2490 0724
Gifts to HBS can be made through either the Friends of Harvard University (UK) or the British Friends of Harvard Business School, which are registered UK charities. In both cases, donations from UK taxpayers, regardless of nationality, are deductible against UK tax. Donors may benefit from Gift Aid and/or company payroll giving schemes if they pay sufficient UK tax.
Class Crediting
Contributions from HBS alumni via either entity will receive class credit.
Donors can direct their gift to HBS or to any Harvard school or program.
Contact:
Sandra Fernandes
Friends of Harvard UK
1 Mulgrave Chambers
26-28 Mulgrave Road
Sutton
Surrey SM2 6LE
Telephone: 020 8642 3077
Email: sandra@sfernandes.com
The necessary forms for Gift Aid self-declaration will be sent to the donor.
British Friends provides scholarships for British students with financial need to attend HBS. Donors can choose to support these scholarships or to direct their gift to the School for the benefit of HBS students, faculty, and programs. In the latter case, a fee may be applied.
Contact:
Jacky Laney
British Friends of Harvard Business School
Devonshire House
60 Goswell Road
London EC1M 7AD
Telephone: 44 020 7025 1611
Email: info@bfhbs.org
The necessary forms for Gift Aid self-declaration will be sent to the donor. Please
specify whether the gift will support the Scholarship Fund or HBS.
Guidelines for payments differ for reunion and non-reunion (annual giving) pledges.
For questions about an existing pledge or payment schedule adjustments, please contact HBS Gift Management at gifts@hbs.edu or 617.495.6207.
Contact your fund administrator to request a distribution or beneficiary form or download the appropriate form(s) from your administrator’s website. Please refer to the following information when contacting your administrator:
Legal Name: President and Fellows of Harvard College
Address: Harvard Business School, P.O. Box 412275, Boston, MA 02241-2275
Federal Tax ID Number: 04–2103580
