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- 2019
- Report
U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership: Innovation and the Strategic Global Challenge
Throughout 2018, the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center convened a “Task Force on US Nuclear Energy Leadership,” which comprised civilian and military experts in foreign policy, defense, and nuclear energy. Senators Mike Crapo (R-ID) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)... View Details
Keywords: Nuclear Energy; Environment; Energy Sources; Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Conservation; Energy Policy; Global Range; Energy Industry
"U.S. Nuclear Energy Leadership: Innovation and the Strategic Global Challenge." Report, Atlantic Council, 2019.
- 06 Nov 2009
- News
Health Reform Paths Not Taken
No issues in the ongoing Congressional health-care debate have generated more heat than the so-called public option and proposed taxes on “gold-plated” health insurance plans. Conservatives view a new government-run health insurance... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
I remember our class as a conservative bunch, concerned with falling in line, getting a job, and making a buck. I, however, wasn’t so sure what I wanted to do. After graduation, an uncle at S.G. Warburg in London suggested I come work... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
East Side Story
In January, veteran New York state senator Roy Goodman (MBA '53) was appointed president and CEO of the United Nations Development Corporation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66). In accepting the position, Goodman, a fiscally View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
financial return, but also a social and an environmental or conservation return. “Throughout my career, I saw what finance could do and the positive impact that it could have. And Africa's very exposed. At the same time, there's... View Details
- 15 Aug 2021
- News
You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America
The New York Times recently profiled Red Ventures, led by CEO and cofounder Ric Elias (MBA 1994), calling the company “perhaps the biggest digital publisher in America, a 4,500-employee juggernaut that says it has roughly $2 billion in annual revenues, a View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
Baker. “Together with the pattern that more conservative capital structures reduce the risk of equity, this finding suggests a cost of heightened capital requirements in the form of costlier equity.” (Published May 2015) View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Starting Lineup: Power Plays
MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast MORE Folsom Labs’ Paul Grana on what it means to live a “quantified” life on the Skydeck podcast Illustrations by Drue Wagner The Company The Leadership The Pitch The News... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
inequalities, the challenge [is] who should pay for the fight against climate change. And now there's a third piece that has been added: how to address the issues around the conservation of biodiversity. “So climate change, international... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
kind of hilarious to me. But that was then, and now it’s semi-communist China that’s keeping American capitalism afloat. And Mr. Ji’s notion of banking was shaped in a different era, when banking was still a proudly conservative... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
gain a better understanding of their migratory patterns. But that's just what Josh Haacker (HBS '03) did, in addition to strategic planning and numbers-crunching, as an HBS Summer Fellow at the Alaska Conservation Foundation, which placed... 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
- Portrait Project
Victoria Song
I will master my own destiny. As a young child, I took note of the sharp contrast between the standards that existed for boys and girls in my stoic, conservative family. My brother was encouraged to speak his mind, to defend himself, to... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Leveraging MBA Skills for the Public Good
conservation and historic preservation projects. “I wrote, coordinated, and administered the grants for a local land trust,” she says. “I never felt my education was wasted, even if it wasn’t paying work. I truly believe there’s a call... View Details
- Web
Louis-Philippe, "King of the French" - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
Louis-Philippe were published during his reign, especially in newspapers such as Charivari and La Caricature. His conservative ministry, led by François Guizot and supported mainly by the upper bourgeoisie, was unresponsive to the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
to the cesspool of anonymous comments. With 70 million millennials in the US, Patel is optimistic about the market. “Even if we were able to capture interest in 1 percent of that, we’re conservatively looking at a million potential... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 17 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
New Associate Director: Courtney Fairbrother
industry. Before RMI, I worked for a distributed generation developer that specializes in combined heat and power and ground source heat pumps where I was part of their analytics team, constructing renewables. How did you become interested in sustainability? I’ve... View Details
- 2003
- Article
Closing the Loop: Product Take-back Requirements and their Strategic Implications
In Asia, Europe, and North America, regulators are seeking to reduce waste disposal and develop recycling markets by requiring manufacturers to manage the end-of-life disposition of products they produce. Such policies attempt to "close the loop" for products ranging... View Details
Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Energy Conservation; Product Development; Strategy; Policy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Manufacturing Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
Toffel, Michael W. "Closing the Loop: Product Take-back Requirements and their Strategic Implications." Corporate Environmental Strategy 10, no. 9 (2003).