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- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance but had always dreamed of working in the nonprofit sector. In 2003, he recalls, “I made this leap of faith, that if I could find a management position in the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
When he turned 50, David Offensend (MBA 1977) decided to make a change. He’d had a successful career in finance, but ever since his undergraduate days of studying public and international affairs at Princeton, Offensend planned that, one day, he’d go into the nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Fıelds of Gold
Growth Market: Afghan saffron has also attracted the attention of MBA classmates Ben Bines, Kimberly Jung, KinYan Chew, and Emily Miller (all HBS 2015), who founded Rumi Spice with a mission similar to Earth2Globe’s. (©Majid Saeedi/Thinkstock) Hay-scented saffron is... View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
have to make these decisions together because our global climate is all interconnected.” But, ultimately, Arctic ice restoration is only “a Band-Aid solution,” Payne says. To truly address climate change, the world has to come together and do the hard work necessary to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Community by Bert Berkley (MBA ’50) and Peter Economy (Wiley) Profiling many highly effective charitable organizations — for example, Kiva, Horizons for Homeless Children, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Stonyfield Farm Profits for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
Education programs. “One objective of the case is a greater understanding of the way materials and energy flow in the modern American agricultural system. As our economy becomes more information-driven, it’s good to remind ourselves that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
company and biggest taxpayer,” Abdelal explains. Russia, he adds, also views Gazprom revenues as a means to make its economy less dependent on the energy sector in the long term. Abdelal notes that because natural gas is much cleaner than... View Details
- 25 Aug 2010
- News
Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations
favorites. He used to describe the state of the world economy as “in the toilet,” a phrase he used many times. It caught on with us. During the last week of the program, our class taped a large photo of a toilet behind one of the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
Democrats really need to do? I wrote an op Ed about this. And essentially, I think there are a few things. Number one, the Democrats need to know that in the eyes of Trump voters, Donald Trump is crushing it. You go to his website. There's a list of 59 things that he... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Christine Keung: "The trek exposed us to the challenges of rural Appalachia: declining life expectancy, a shrinking population, an economy that has stagnated and contracted, the lowest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
key shipping routes, making it nearly impossible for the West and the Middle East to transport oil. With nothing less than oil futures and the global economy at stake, one man slips out of the shadows to stop Gorshkov’s maniacal plans:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for the average American.” Calling that definition “spot-on,” Fields says Ford must look beyond its bottom line and “continue to provide our employees... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
CHIDAMBARAM: In Mumbai after his HBS visit, with Tata Industries’ Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975 ) at left and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (MBA ’70). SAJ JAD HUSSAIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Just twenty years from now, India’s population of more than 1 billion people could... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
publicly funded. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) Japan’s demographic time bomb is a bittersweet result of its robust recovery after World War II. Within two generations, the country catapulted from a state of ruin to the second-strongest economy... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
most recently as a Middle East expert at Oxford University and as chairman of Falcon Intercapital in Geneva, Switzerland. “Most of the Iraqi Governing Council and Cabinet believe in free market principles and the principles of an open View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
Four 1971 classmates — three who serve on the front lines of corporate leadership in the 1990s and one learned observer of the changing role of the senior executive — comment on the complex task of running a successful company in an View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact Donors are placing nonprofits on the hot seat to measure social performance. Problem is, there is little agreement on what those metrics should be. Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim discusses how nonprofit managers should... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
differently.” One course that sparked Magwegwe’s imagination was Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE), taught by Professor Richard Vietor, author of How Countries Compete. “It provided great insights for strategic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley