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- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
McCarthy said a two-pronged approach is required: take the politics out of climate change by making it a health and economic issue and properly communicate the science to the general public. As an environmental advisor to Governor Mitt...
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- 11 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Leadership and Diversity at HBS
Union? As an RC, I attended the club’s signature event: the H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference. I came away inspired by speakers like American Express CEO Ken Chenault and previous Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick. This event reminded me...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
faculty at partner universities. (Partner universities typically followed a schedule that ran several days after Boston's to allow time for the digitized material to be posted on the Web.) In-class guests included Nicaraguan President Enrique Bolaños, Connecticut View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
hosted dinners and panels with major Chinese business leaders and entrepreneurs. “Because I teach BGIE, one highlight of the trip was that we got to sit with the governor of the People’s Bank of China as well as China’s director of...
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Internship with the Governor of Arizona Caleb Bradford 29 Aug 2019 Prior to HBS my career spanned a kaleidoscopic range of topics. I’ve hopscotched across different... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
“It’s not something we can put off because we are in an emergency,” Obama said in December. “This is part of the emergency.” The seed for the Massachusetts reforms was planted in early 2003, in the first weeks of the administration of Massachusetts View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
out for its novel approach to the issue. The commonwealth’s economic development authority is a professional, nonpartisan organization overseen by a board of directors appointed by the governor and legislature. As a result, the Virginia...
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- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
Award honoree, Clara Wu Tsai, is a businesswoman, investor, and philanthropist. She is governor and an owner of the WNBA’s New York Liberty and an owner of the NBA’s Brooklyn Nets. As vice chair of BSE Global, the teams’ parent company,...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Stephen M. Moret: A Campaign for Positive Change
assistant to the chancellor of LSU. Buoyed by his academic and professional successes and inspired in part by the career of former Louisiana Governor Franklin D. (“Buddy”) Roemer (MBA 1971), he decided to apply to HBS. With characteristic...
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- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
Pennsylvania, when the company operating the Three Mile Island power station was found to be issuing information of questionable accuracy, then-Lieutenant Governor William Scranton, responsible for energy policy in the state, went to the...
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- Student-Profile
Sarah Wolfolds
of Governors where I jumped right into a section investigating Financial Stability and Regulation during the middle of the financial crisis. This time spent working made me realize that the goings on inside of a firm and the relationships...
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- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living....
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by Bill George
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas...
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- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
than prospective, divisive rather than inclusive. It works mostly for older white men who are no longer enjoying the inside track in a more equal society. The Trump campaign m.o. is reminiscent of the description of Ed King's successful 1978 campaign against then...
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- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
Fidelity Bank Plc., for leadership in general management. Mallam Nasir El-Rufai, governor of Kaduna state, Nigeria, presided over the annual event, which brought together more than 200 HBS alumni and friends to review the year and...
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Margie Kelley
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
Photos courtesy of Lovepop Photos courtesy of Lovepop When Lovepop cofounders Wombi Rose and John Wise (both MBA 2015) heard Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker’s entreaty for businesses to assist with sourcing personal protective...
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- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages
materialized a month or two later if those governors had opted to keep distributing the federal benefits, Kluender says. Unemployment insurance flowing into accounts dropped by $281.50 per week by early September. Yet earnings for those...
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by Rachel Layne
- 21 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Going Negative in Political Advertising
McCain used high profile surrogates such as Governor Charlie Crist to reinforce concerns about his opponent. Why Don't Companies Go Negative? Unlike politicians, companies hardly ever run negative ads. Pepsi ads don't tear down Coke; they...
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by John Quelch
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
Critics of such a measure, most on the Republican side of the aisle, argue that Democratic governors and municipal leaders have mismanaged state and local budgets. Green contends that his research offers evidence that a government’s level...
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by Kristen Senz
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
theoretical model of short-termism developed by Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein, who was recently named to the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. "One thing that comes out of Stein's theoretical work is that...
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by Maggie Starvish