Economic And Environmental Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

make a difference in her own community when then governor John Baldacci of Maine asked for help in creating new jobs to soften the economic impact of a local Navy base closure. Her 2009 Presidential appointment to the SBA was both a... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care

activity-based costing (TDABC), a model that identifies the time of people and equipment used to perform a service and their cost. TDABC relies on accurate mapping of all the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2022
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Contributing to a Better Future

attending HBS, Keller worked at McKinsey and then served as global program director for Open for Business, a small LGBTQ+ rights nonprofit that used research on the connections between business performance, View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Nov 2015
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Room to Grow

institution to have a dramatic economic, environmental, educational, and health impact,” he says. That kind of impact has long been a personal aspiration for Kendall, a lifelong environmentalist who studied astronomy View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2018
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Hard Choices

human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Aug 2001
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Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

concert held at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum on the second night of the conference. The following evening, alumni traded their tie-dyed T-shirts for more formal attire to attend a View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Mar 2005
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In the Blood

choice is horse racing, not baseball, and the heroes are mostly of the four-footed variety. Just across the road is Keeneland, a sprawling auction and racing complex where Robert Clay (OPM 4, 1980) recently... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; horse racing; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Animal Production and Aquaculture

01 Jun 1997
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Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

biology and chemistry to prepare for a career related to helping the environment. An introductory course in economics changed all that. "I realized that economic issues drove... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Dec 1998
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New HBS Alumni Board Members

several vice presidential posts. Fischer is a member of the Bishop's Council of Rhode Island and serves on three advisory boards at the University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth. A native of Providence, Rhode Island, Fischer is a graduate of... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Taylor R. M. Keen

environmental improvement efforts. Encouraged by Mankiller, he applied to Harvard as a joint degree candidate at both HBS and the Kennedy School of Government, but deferred admission for a year to help the... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 2020
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Invest in the New Abnormal

in the current environment has resulted in volatility in purchases and productivity, resulting in a net economic crisis that has not been witnessed by anyone alive today.” To engage customers in this new... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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A U.S. Turnaround?

Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans... View Details

Keywords: Byron Wien; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

01 Dec 2011
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Reimagining the MBA

this course examines the legal, ethical, and economic responsibilities of corporate leaders. It also shows how personal values can play a critical role in effective leadership. FIELD 1. The first module of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

because they have a long-term focus to serve long-term social problems. "We owe a lot to nonprofit organizations," she said. "The Sierra Club, for example, has been an effective voice for the environmental movement, View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

to help, has the government unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards — implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities

01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation

economies. What is the last country you visited, and what did you do there? I travel a lot, so this answer will be outdated. I recently gave a talk at the University of Ghana on the need for African countries to develop a unified View Details

Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

environmentally sound reconstruction of decaying neighborhoods by training at-risk urban youth in construction and putting them in line for good jobs. City Year, an education-focused nonprofit on whose... View Details