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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
mortgages are now held by institutions with little connection to local communities? It obscured the risk that is inherent in lending and in owning. We have developed such a sophisticated housing-finance system that we were able to layer... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
an impairment test.” Alliance: “A few years ago I worked with local government and pulled in others to help revive and redesign a funeral home that’s served African Americans in North Minneapolis for the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
value (with principles that also apply to governments and nonprofits). For example, rather than merely paying a higher, “fair-trade” price to coffee farmers for their beans, a shared-value approach would dig deeper and focus on improving... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
women into a 18 month program. They give them intense therapy. And then they also go through training classes. So they learn basics like business skills, how to write a resumé. They get apprenticeships with local companies. WIR has... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
so. When Verdant began deploying prototype turbines in the East River nearly 20 years ago, for instance, the company’s actions raised immediate concerns among fishermen and federal regulators. And while the startup proved that its technology posed no threat to View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
is to improve quality,” he said, “because better health is cheaper than bad health.” This new model, he noted, takes into account obstacles to care that are present in developing countries, such as poor transportation, and also harnesses the role of the health-care... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
by government desire to increase local consumer spending. WFA has given a boost to midwestern American towns and cities as talent relocates from more expensive, coastal areas, Choudhury adds—a phenomenon... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
fiftysomething flatlander with urban sensibilities, and his wife move to a ratty weekend cabin in the heart of the Ozark Mountains. It is crudely built and lacks running water and electricity. Another problem is the local land baron, who... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
their respective sectors and possible solutions,” says Diagne. The discussions with the public and private sectors were instrumental in creating an inclusive mechanism and enabled Diagne to quickly grasp the country’s realities. After less than a month of deliberation,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Bay area’s coastal location made Silicon Valley a natural hub for Naval and other government activity and funding. This helped foster several eras of technological development, beginning in the early 20th century with radio components and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher by Ann Lee (MBA 1995) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in human rights, Lee details the policies and practices—in areas ranging from education and View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
high land prices, ensures that homes will be unaffordable to most. I highly recommend Richard Rothstein’s The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America, about how land use policies have shaped some of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Raymond V. Gilmartin (MBA '68)
attack an epidemic at the local level. "More than ever before, the business world has an important leadership role to play in terms of closing the gap in health and other vital social issues," says Gilmartin, who came to HBS in 2001 to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
dedicated to churning out homegrown entrepreneurial techies, ought to turbocharge the local startup scene. According to Josh Lerner, government also plays an important role in fostering healthy... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between the US and Egyptian View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
engaged, which led him to exploring government contracts. First came several contracts with the US Postal Service to produce lobby desks, which were followed by several deals to build waterproof plywood shipping containers for gas masks... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
is that the majority of local residents have come to share our objectives. How did you raise the money to build the cathedral? In 1995, my HBS education and corporate financial experience were central to persuading commercial lenders that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
B-17s instead touched down on the dirt runway at Tri Duby airfield, miles behind German lines. When James Holt Green (MBA 1935) dropped out of the forward crew hatch he was surrounded by a throng of people—Soviet officers, Slovak partisans, American airmen, and View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
multinational corporations (MNCs) and local businesses are serving the previously invisible BOP market: Nestlé, with its “milk-district model” that encourages supporting businesses to spring up around its dairies in rural India; CEMEX’s... View Details