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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
reallocated for city delivery work. That’s going to make things more efficient and strengthen supply-chain security.” Just Charge It That EV section of your nearby parking lot is only going to grow, says Molly Middaugh (MBA 2018). She’s View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
Photography by Jared Leeds "Our students use traditional academic theory to take on problems that have fundamental relevance in today's business world," says Janice McCormick, executive director of the HBS Doctoral Programs. "Many come in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
people to lie and game the system. Turbocharged incentives require turbocharged controls. Board Oversight One of the mysteries in the Enron case is how Enron’s board of directors failed on so many levels to detect or deter questionable... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
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Innovating for International Aid
monitored refugee camps and volunteered in AIDS orphanages. He spent eight years as president of Aim High, an educational organization focused on inner-city, disadvantaged children. He was also cofounder of a Gates Foundation–funded... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
thousands of children in his native country. He went on fact-finding missions, acquiring intel from Vanessa Kirsch, CEO of New Profit, a Boston-based venture philanthropy fund supported by the Monitor Group and HBS professor Michael... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
view. Born in England and trained as an economist at Cambridge University, he moved to Brussels to work with the European Commission, the governing body of the newly formed European Union. He later became EU director of Transatlantic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
Above: Meridith Unger (left) and Nix’s business development director Sara Weber (MBA 2016) inspect a prototype (photo by Susan Young) Boston-based Nix is developing a disposable biosensor that gives users a real-time gauge of hydration... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
“If you really want your company to be associated with giving back and having a social mission,” says Janie Goldstein (MBA 1991), “it needs to be baked in from the start.” But while most startups want to be philanthropic, Goldstein, the cofounder and former executive... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
individuals who helped establish the corporate strategy movement that underpins today’s multibillion-dollar consulting industry. The four men are Bruce Henderson (MBA ’41), founder of The Boston Consulting Group; Bill Bain, creator of Bain & Company; Fred Gluck,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
in household income? At the end of the day, did we reduce poverty? "We measure quantified objectives beforehand, monitor them during implementation, and evaluate them afterward," Bloom continues. "It's all very public, very explicit, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
If Enron had been owned and controlled by a small group of private-equity investors, could the monitoring and control practices of a professionally run buyout shop have protected Enron’s shareholders and employees from the problems that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
with Urban Water Partners RelayRides explanatory video FashionStake-Reuters story An online shipping platform that uses social networks and smartphones. Low-cost medical care and monitoring that helps seniors to live at home. The “Skype”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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From the Classroom to Casablanca
Professor Mohamed Amine Issami, director of Development, International Relations, and Communication at Groupe ISCAE, says that the center aligns with Morocco’s national entrepreneurship strategy, championed by the King of Morocco, which... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the firm undertook with... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions
until many years later that I came to appreciate the dissenting view of the Vietnam War." Ed Mathias, now a managing director of the Carlyle Group, a merchant bank in Washington, D.C., came to HBS after serving as an officer in the Navy... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Studying Japan from the Inside
Masako Egawa (MBA ’86), executive director of Harvard Business School’s Japan Research Office in Tokyo, answers questions about business changes in Japan and the School’s research there. Q: Tell us about an interesting recent case in... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
The webinar offered a panel discussion featuring guests with a variety of board experiences, including Anilu Vazquez-Ubarri, a Stanford alumna from TPG Global, Gabe Turner (MBA 2010), executive director of Draper Networks, and Ivelisse... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2000
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Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
last ten years as executive director of the Roberts Enterprise Development Fund (REDF) in San Francisco. A pioneer in developing VC-like ways of measuring "social return on investment" (SROI), REDF invests substantially in a small... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh