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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
for a multitude of sins.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “I'm generally bullish.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “We're conservative at Berkshire. We've made major commitments in New Zealand, Great Britain, and... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
partner, Bruce, to meet my sectionmates at my first section party at the Head of the Charles. I was naive and assumed that it wouldn’t matter, but people were clearly taken aback and from that point on there was a real distance. This... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
party held deep beneath the streets of Westminster—in the Churchill War Rooms, an underground bunker that allowed Britain's leaders to plot the allied route to victory in WWII. More than 100 alumni and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
continue to make decisions that miss opportunities to make all parties better off. We will end up with inefficient methods of creating a cleaner environment. We will continue to miss opportunities to provide more services for the poor at... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
MBA vs. MBA
conservative values,” he says. Both parties have made winning the district a priority. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has designated the race as one of its competitive “Frontline 10”... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
session with conservative activists, a standing-room only gathering that now numbers 120 attendees. Across the country, he has established similar weekly meetings in 47 states, each aimed at rallying View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
New Art
other depicts three old men in party hats dangling their feet into an open grave. “Mixing provocative, thoughtful art in amongst the students enriches the learning experience and sparks creative thinking,” says Schwartz, president and CEO... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
businesses, I’ll let Speed Trap’s content speak for itself. With respect to the book’s conservative tone, I do think I was reflecting the Zeitgeist. If you are skeptical, read Michael Lewis’s 2002 New York Times Magazine article “In... View Details
- Web
Privacy Statement (French) - Global
sécurité des données à caractère personnel adapté au risque. Malheureusement, cependant, aucune transmission, traitement, partage ou stockage de données par n’importe quelle partie ne peut être garanti comme étant totalement sécurisé.... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
faculty illustrate these points through case studies. Patagonia, for instance, recently teamed up with The Nature Conservancy and Argentine rancher network Ovis XXI to implement a sustainable sheep-grazing protocol that, beyond protecting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
An HBS gift guide
everyone Mark Tercek (MBA 1984) CEO, The Nature Conservancy “One thing I love about my job is working with great partners on projects that really make a difference....We seek out 'transformative opportunities'—projects of such scale and... View Details
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
and acrimony in Scotland, with those wishing their country to remain part of the UK often accused of being traitors and sellouts. The referendum on staying or leaving the European Union, called entirely because of Cameron’s desire to hold off opponents in his own View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
coverage and increase premiums. However, the new proposal actually looks far more similar to Obamacare than many anticipated--causing some conservative groups to speak out forcefully against it. Criticizing the plan, Republican Senator... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
percent French.” “We thought that perhaps a way to fix this [distrust] is to have politicians speak directly to voters” Hypothesizing that this lack of personal investment in the country depressed their tendency to vote on issues, the researchers recruited activists... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
property might fetch 20 percent more now, he adds. Like many other sectors in Greece, commercial real estate is on the rebound. It’s a direct response to the July 2019 national election in which Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995) of the center-right New Democracy View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
Mexican history, he found a common thread running through the country's various shifts of power: reliance on a third party to enforce the rules (such as property rights) that make it possible to do business. A Stake In The Game Porfirio... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Starbucks; The Nature Conservancy and Georgia-Pacific; Bidwell Training Center, a nonprofit vocational and technical school in Pennsylvania, and Bayer Corporation; and Jumpstart, a Boston-based NPO that prepares low-income preschoolers to... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 09 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off
to paint a vivid and compelling picture of social life. In the extreme, Bales (1999) conservatively estimates that there are 27 million slaves in the world today, while Attaran and Sachs (2001) report that 35 million people are now... View Details
Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
more balanced energy menu. After examining the pros and cons of various energy sources, such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, and solar, the book concludes that conservation (principally through energy efficiency) and solar energy... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne