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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Massport, Back on Course
Massport came in for withering public criticism over lax security. The CEO abruptly resigned. And a special commission appointed by the governor concluded that years of political interference had eroded the agency’s ability to function in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
degree of interest from a cluster of northeastern states as well as broader interest across the country,” she notes. In particular, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has expressed interest in using social impact bonds to address... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
these ends. Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney (MBA ’74, JD ’75) has also endorsed these goals. In a wide-ranging panel discussion, alongside Massachusetts’s strengths, it was noted that problems exist with the site-regulation process,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
When Bozidar Djelic turned 37 last April, the musicians cutting loose at his birthday soiree boasted some pretty impressive days jobs. The one hundred guests at the celebration, including Serbia's Prime Minster Zoran Djindjic, were treated to a performance featuring... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just outside his Austrian hometown: Not... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
Governors in 1966 (Ferguson, appointed in 1997, was the third), closed the conference with remarks at a Sunday brunch. Other featured speakers included BET president and COO Debra Lee and former FCC chairman William Kennard, now a... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
especially those that were quite loose before the pandemic (for example, southern Europe). "New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has made frequent and effective use of metaphors in the ways that he communicates about COVID-19." Yet, research... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
Executive Governor of Lagos State, presided as chief host for the evening. View the HBSAN Gala video View the HBSAN Gala video According to HBSAN’s program manager Chika Nnadozie, the club presented three leadership awards. The HBSAN... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
Alzheimer’s Fund, and John Lynch, later Governor of New Hampshire) had a bright idea. Our friends in large business firms seemed to know how to recruit minority summer interns with the potential for longer-term employment. Why not sell... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
moment of crisis the delegates could have chosen either of two of the most accomplished politicians in America, William Henry Seward or Salmon P. Chase. Both had been United States senators and governors of major states. Both were... View Details
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors of Avid Technology and the board of governors of the American... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Cunningham, Ohio Governor John Kasich asked him to work with his Cabinet members to develop specific ways to help Ohio increase its shared prosperity. And at the behest of Ohio House Speaker Cliff Rosenberger, he is helping to develop a... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 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... View Details
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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... 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... View Details