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- 27 Jun 2019
- News
Why Wayfair Isn't Immune From Political Waves
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Facing Ambiguity
were later cited as the cause of the disaster.) NASA’s experience offers a lesson to managers in other areas, suggests Edmondson, who, with her coauthors, came up with the concept of the “recovery window,” or the time in which an View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
Observes Steven B. Lipner (PMD 57, 1989), Microsoft’s director of security assurance, “With organizations moving to a higher level of connectivity via the Internet, security has become a major issue for everybody, both suppliers and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
into a much-needed windfall for a host of cash-strapped nonprofits. Since cofounding Working Assets in 1985, Laura Scher has helped the company channel nearly $20 million to organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Amnesty... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 04 Jun 2014
- News
Investing for Real and Permanent Good
Keywords: Carnegie; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
government and corruption and trying to get rules that people abide by," adds Ray Goldberg, the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, who conducts research in West Africa. "Because... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government
- 24 Apr 2020
- News
Spreading the Love
cofounded the greeting card company in 2015—have backgrounds in engineering and manufacturing, and the company has a team in Vietnam that is well-versed in sourcing materials and shipping to the US. “At our core we’re a design and engineering View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
applicable skill set. As he was finishing his MBA, he interviewed at Lehman Brothers and learned that many people at the company had worked in government, notably former U.S. Secretary of Commerce Peter George Peterson. Offensend thought that an View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Far-Reaching Impact
graduates working in government or a nonprofit. Additionally, Gupta received a Horace W. Goldsmith Fellowship, established by Richard Menschel (MBA 1959), which awards $10,000 to MBA students who have shown leadership in the nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Professor emeritus, William A. Sahlman, the conversation covered the range of leadership challenges that Mango and Bingham faced while managing both private sector and government partners on an expedited timeline, while searching for an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
inaction. That was the message delivered on February 12, 2019, at “Confronting Climate Change: Boston-Based Ideas that Can Change the World,” a panel discussion at the Spangler Center moderated by HBS Professor Michael Toffel and View Details
- 01 Aug 2019
- News
Investing for Good
Tracy P. Palandjian (MBA 1997) is CEO and cofounder of Social Finance, a nonprofit dedicated to mobilizing capital to drive social progress, and a 2019 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, she talks about the View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
we are facing today is a result of previous government actions, and today’s government actions will give rise to future problems as well. The lesson should be that we need to get to a point where we don’t... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
but it has a detailed plan for public- and private- sector efforts to end extreme global poverty. Business alone cannot do the job because, as the IGD plan points out, it is necessary to invest in good governments as well as investing in... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
An education reformer and social entrepreneur
Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS), a cultural exchange organization that has served 1.5 million students worldwide. In 1987 he began working with the British government to establish charter-type schools... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
The man who laid the foundation for DU's big moment
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who directs the University’s Center for the Environment, argued... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
fostering, or undermining, government policy on climate. “The talk was very useful,” says Feldman, who helped organize the event. “It was great to see so much engagement, and it will be important for the BEI... View Details