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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
the local level, and typically filled rural niches for consumer goods. At their peak in the early 1990s, an estimated 19 million TVEs operated across the country. By contrast, the SOEs were controlled by various government ministries at... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
the shelf, and that doesn’t do anybody any good.” One of EDC’s current projects is a collaboration with U.S. VETS, a nonprofit provider of services to veterans. Women vets are six times more likely to die by suicide than women who are not... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Finding New Ways to Solve Civic Problems
As deputy majority whip in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Ryan MacKenzie (MBA 2010) has followed a path of community service and political involvement, transforming the business experience he received at HBS into an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Road to Recovery
breathalyzer or a rapid saliva test. They also can use phone-based GPS to verify they have attended treatment appointments, and access information and coaching services via text, voice, and video. “The biggest barrier—and this sounds... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Pledge of Allegiance
Norquist: Backstage, an outsized role. As the political season heats up, few nonpoliticians wield as much ideological impact on the process as Grover Norquist (MBA 1981). For two decades, Norquist’s organization, Americans for Tax Reform, has persuaded Republican... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
region. Visiting three spice plantations, we played guessing games with our guide, Baker, about what spice various plants yield and how. Baker, whose family owned one of the plantations we visited, first showed us a clove tree and explained that the View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Harvard Center Shanghai Names New Executive Director
Chinese institutions, student programs, faculty research, case writing, and conferences. Williams also will build relationships with key academic, business, and government leaders in China. “The center will provide a focal point to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
the case that the Clinton and Bush administrations and members of Congress of both parties pursued an extreme affordable-housing agenda that led to the failure of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If Fannie and Freddie had not failed, requiring View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Hunting Red Balloons
In December, the government agency DARPA tethered to the ground ten red weather balloons at random locations around the United States in a test to see how social networks might mobilize and use the Internet for rapid problem-solving. In... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
the video, Weiss explains how his service to the City of Boston became the basis for a new HBS course. “The late Mayor Menino, my boss, was fond of saying that ‘the government is about helping people.’... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
devices were.” CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together to take on big, complex issues, such as endangered species trafficking, international food security, and... View Details
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- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
council with representatives pulled from the many student clubs and regular “office” hours in the Spangler Grille. Jyoti Agarwal, running with Fred Smith, talked about working across university constituencies to effect change, from coordinating with Career View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
organization.” In the MBA and Executive Education programs, Austin teaches a case he coauthored (with Larry Leibrock and Alan Murray) called “The iPremier Co.: Denial of Service Attack.” Raising the kinds of questions and dilemmas cited... View Details
- 11 Jun 2015
- News
A personal mission to serve veterans
cemeteries in 2010. Last year’s controversy at Veterans Affairs compelled her to return to public service full time. “My younger brother, Kenneth, is an infantry officer in the marines and our future customer. Everyone on active duty is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
financial services companies as it determines its stand on a matter of increasing public prominence. Oberholzer-Gee teaches the case in Strategies Beyond the Market, a second-year elective that focuses on the interplay between business... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Paul A. Gompers Paul Gompers specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high-growth, and newly public companies. He holds a joint appointment in the Finance and the Entrepreneurial and Service Management units.... View Details
- 22 Sep 2017
- News
Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
Michael Fieldhouse (AMP 177, 2009), director for Emerging Businesses and Federal Government at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in Australia in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
Richard America’s analysis of the crippling legacy of racial discrimination in the United States was underscored by a study released last summer. In the wake of a spate of riots in urban America in the 1960s, a federal government... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
How would you like to invest in a project that simultaneously provides a needed social service and generates a financial return? Nice idea, but not possible? Not exactly. Social impact bonds (SIBs) do just that. The concept is simple and... View Details