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- 02 Aug 2011
- News
A Fearless Force for Change
states HBS professor emeritus Carl Sloane, who taught the case to a SRO crowd on the occasion of Linn's 10th HBS Reunion. "She typified the very best of HBS." "That case stands as one of the most meaningful projects I've ever worked on,"... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
environment." A joint-degree candidate working on her MBA at HBS and her master's in public administration at the Kennedy School of Government, Ballou spent eight weeks in the West African nation, helping local communities rebuild their... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
suppliers—run with thin margins and minimal cash reserves, even in the best of times. “When COVID-19 hit, they felt the shock immediately,” Mills explains. Beginning in March 2020, the pandemic and unprecedented public View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
capacity, effective treatments, a vaccine. These investments are necessary to save lives, first and foremost. But the scale and speed of these investments in public health also have tremendous economic... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
professor Regina E. Herzlinger contended at a fall reunion presentation titled "The Four by Four Report: Effective Oversight of Nonprofit Organizations." An expert in health care and nonprofit management control, Herzlinger made the case... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
California Though the United States currently spends approximately $3.5 trillion a year on health care—the equivalent of the entire GDP of the world’s fourth-largest economy—our life expectancy has decreased for the last two years in a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Social Enterprise Forum Discusses Strategy
nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), including The Nature Conservancy, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, and Family Health International. The remaining participants represented a variety of disciplines - sociology, business, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
Herbert Hoover and Franklin Roosevelt authorized public road projects on a massive scale. The cooperation between the government and the budding automobile industry helped make motor transport the dominant... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin and Porter: HBS alumni are in a position to help put America back on a more competitive footing in the world economy. View the survey results Watch Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin introduce the project Join the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
School’s US Competitiveness Project from business leader Katherine Gehl and University Professor Michael Porter. Gehl and Porter use the lens of industry competition to analyze the US political system and propose a strategy for reform and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
around the world — many of which have a single emergency number service. In their world travels, Raju and other Satyam executives saw the difference that a coordinated national emergency response system could make and realized that Satyam’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Research Brief: Subject Expert Matters
Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Karim Lakhani (photo by Dana Maxson) Every year billions of dollars are granted to scientists based on the evaluation of peer-reviewed proposals. The final decisions about whose project gets funded,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Back to School
had entered an extraordinary public health challenge that would affect all aspects of our society. Information about how the virus worked was key. There were so many competing beliefs. One fundamental part... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
HBS Clubs Help Nonprofits Succeed
become financially self-reliant, created a business plan for the Rainforest Action Network, evaluated public television station KQED's external communications, and are devising a long-term strategic plan for the American Lung Association,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
D’Avella arrived at HBS just a few weeks after Hurricane Katrina had devastated much of the Gulf Coast. In January 2006, he traveled to New Orleans on a student-led trek with 56 other MBAs to apply their HBS skills to projects ranging... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
Professor Michael Porter and Katherine Gehl, Photo credits: Stu Rosner, Neal Hamberg The American political system, contend Katherine Gehl and Michael Porter (MBA 1971), is broken. Their evidence: a 2019 HBS US Competitiveness Project... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
anticorruption benchmarks as determined by third-party data from organizations such as the International Finance Corporation, the World Health Organization, and the Heritage Foundation, among others. "It's become a valuable Good... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
producing 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel a day by 2025. According to Enriquez, who directed HBS’s Life Sciences Project prior to his current role as managing director of Excel Venture Management, algae biofuels were once the darlings of... View Details