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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Ocean? And I would argue, how do we build in those places? When markets fail, that's the role of government plain and simple in my view. And so, if something isn't insurable, you have to think about why that is. It's because the risk... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
had been suspended for several years. One of the first women to graduate from HBS, Franklin is used to breaking down barriers. She has worked with five Presidents of the United States, founded an international trade consulting and investment firm, and earned kudos as a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Harvard Gazette How invasion may hit U.S., global economies [Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard] Kenneth Rogoff sees possible fallout in stock, energy markets, worsening of inflation, increase... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
identify a “win-win” path forward. Federal Policy Professor Porter has met with members of Congress on numerous occasions to press the case for improving US competitiveness via policy. The project’s congressional advocates now include... View Details
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- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
Gould. “The issue being that if you don’t have women executives, you’re not going to have the right candidates to move to boards.” In 2012, the United Kingdom implemented a mandatory “comply or explain” system through the UK Corporate View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... 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 View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
central bank on rhythm guitar and Serbia's minister for foreign economic relations on lead vocals. Djelic himself, along with several other government ministers, sang back-up. According to the Wall Street Journal, the party broke up at 4... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
impact of business and government on society. After graduating from Stanford University in 1971 in the midst of demonstrations against the Vietnam War, she took a freighter to Peru to work for a government... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
operations, drawing him to HBS. After receiving his MBA, Simmons took a job in Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont’s office as policy advisor and director of strategic initiatives, with a focus on education equity, workforce development, and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Donella Rapier to Head External Relations
an audit senior manager in Boston. In that position, Rapier developed materials and conducted courses on a variety of accounting and auditing topics. This interest led in 1995 to a part-time faculty appointment, teaching accounting at Harvard’s Kennedy School of View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight by View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
that decision? So when I became convinced that climate change is this moral challenge of our generation, I figured that the best way to address this issue at scale is to change the rules of the game. To work on the policies and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to meet and network with African... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
present, the business of stem cells remains a fledgling enterprise. Spar says that figures for 2003 reveal that only ten U.S. private-sector firms were actively involved in embryonic stem-cell research, spending just $70 million. For its part, the U.S. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
against an attractive but relatively unknown candidate. The alternative of crafting a distinct, positive image takes longer and becomes more difficult as the day of judgment approaches. Policy differences grow fuzzier as both candidates... View Details