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- 01 Jun 2000
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A Canadian Hero
list of the most successful business leaders this country has ever produced," according to the Toronto Globe and Mail, is president and CEO of ONEX, a thriving public company he founded sixteen years ago. A diversified global firm... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
An investment in meaningful results
nearly $1.5 billion in grants to the city's neediest residents since 1988. Robin Hood is New York City's largest funder of emergency food programs and largest private funder of job training and housing programs. It serves nearly half a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Clean water that provides a trickle-down effect
and wastewater-service provider in the Philippines, and has invested over $1.5 billion in water and wastewater facilities since 1997. Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, also vice chairman of Manila Water, sees private operation of a View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
(Oxford University Press) The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling. Reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times, one that can be addressed only with the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
reason why private equity partnerships were able to borrow money left, right, and center to finance leveraged buyouts. And Chimerica — or the Asian “savings glut,” as Ben Bernanke called it — was the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Indian Industry, which represents over 5,000 companies from India's private and public sectors. In that role in 1994-95, he chaired a blue-ribbon committee of twenty CEOs who wrote India's first report on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
to be an emergency there had to be bleeding,” explains Venkat Changavalli, the CEO at EMRI. “If someone just collapsed or fell down, people would stand around and look.” A massive statewide advertising blitz and public education campaign... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
prevent a new disease from becoming endemic to a region. It raised the profile of public health and brought the importance of international cooperation in health to new heights. SARS — severe acute respiratory syndrome — caused enormous... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
from a local public school, and each adult volunteer was assigned a team of about 7 kids. These groups were tasked with starting and running a company while the adult volunteers would act as consultants to help out when needed, mostly... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
to bring new art to public museums by way of private funding—was an idea that Evans found intriguing. "Clearly, this has struck a chord," she says. "Quite simply, we are activating a new sector for... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Vision: Learning Curve
leveraging existing technology and infrastructure to enhance the quality of early childhood education for disadvantaged kids. And while the state-run preschools and primary schools that serve this population may suffer in comparison with their View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
just after a successful dive in the South Sandwich Trench. He had the experience. Since 2002, he has been a managing partner at Insight Equity, a private equity firm he cofounded, and currently serves as chairman of four companies. This... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives them an excellent opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
construction: notably, how to get trillions of dollars of private capital off the sideline to make high-impact investments in water, sanitation, roads, power, and mass transit that will impact the lives of hundreds of millions of people,”... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
for partnership between the faculty, staff, and students." Even as an undergraduate at Harvard, team leadership came naturally to Mitchell. He was a two-time captain of the varsity basketball team, was voted the team's most valuable... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire
Christenson was, for example, among the first to bring the social sciences into the mainstream of practical business studies in the MBA Program. In 1976 he also developed a teaching program that brought HBS methods to the training of View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 13 Jun 2017
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Finding Common Ground
commons”: issues where stakeholders with different agendas and clashing cultures each own part of the problem and must each play a role in the solution. That makes collaboration essential, no matter how unlikely the partnerships might... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
government is. We need that $2 trillion stimulus package, but we also need, and do not have, a viable safety net. A strong democratically elected, transparent, and responsive government is vital to free-market capitalism because it not only provides the View Details
- 30 Aug 2018
- News
Sharing a Passion for Art
2017). “Journalists and friends would ask, and I always said ‘no, never!’” he relates. “There are already enough museums.” A 2010 public exhibition in Rotterdam of selected pieces from his collection helped change his mind. “It was so... View Details