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07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

insurance risk maps drawn by the Federal Emergency Management Agency show lower State Street in Boston, the location of a popular hotel and a subway entry, in the 1 percent flood risk zone. This means that insurance is written today as if... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber

01 Sep 2018
News

Turning Point: Power Outlet

provides information and support to moms and sons and promotes positive images of black males. MOBB United for Social Change aims to influence policy at the local, state, and federal levels to impact how black boys and men are treated and... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Colorado-based Charter School Growth Fund (CSGF), comes in. Since 2005, the nonprofit Growth Fund has provided necessary capital to 34 charter management organizations (CMOs) that run networks of charters serving 125,000 students in 330 schools in underserved View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2006
News

Forestalling Terror

intelligence community doing on that score? Intelligence issues are enormously complex, and I should say right at the outset that Mike and I are only beginning to learn about these matters. And by the way, we don’t have security... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Video Management Policy | About

and investigations. The privacy of the community is a fundamental principle in the design and implementation of the video management system across campus. Systems Overview All aspects of the video management system fall under the... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)

Minister but resigned to serve on the Peace Commission negotiating a settlement to the 1994 Zapatista peasant rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas. Enriquez-Cabot is currently a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Center for International... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Shattering Glass

50 or 60 years ago. Discrimination used to be perfectly legal; it wasn’t until the 1980s that the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission defined and prohibited sexual harassment in the workplace. We certainly have made progress on the... View Details

Keywords: April White; gender equity; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

30 Oct 2018
News

Paths of Victory

clients,” Treacy notes, adding the most important takeaway the company received from the NVC was retrospection. “The HBS competition was the first real opportunity I had to step back from the hectic day-to-day and really do some soul searching about Cobli’s vision and... View Details

Keywords: Alumni New Venture Contest; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

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Lessons in Economics | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

defense of the free enterprise system against the perceived threats of communism and socialism. The ultimate aim was to secure favorable attitudes from voting citizens and government representatives. Photographs in U.S. Steel corporate... View Details

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

passing over it of the loyalty to country and alma mater and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood developed by study and play on the banks of this river to the nation and its needs. In that spirit, Fieldhouse, the director for Emerging Businesses... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2016
News

How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the threat, with analysts predicting it will grow to $170 billion by 2020. (In his proposed fiscal 2017 budget, President Obama requested a $5 billion increase in federal cybersecurity spending, up to $19 billion annually.) Money is one... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

Profile

Mina Kazanlieva

but the experience was also greatly rewarding. Mina's economics team reached the finals in a Federal Reserve competition, and she enjoyed playing volleyball on the varsity team. She was admitted to Princeton University, where she studied... View Details

03 Jun 2021
Blog Post

HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund

racial disparities in the US. Racial injustice has historically presented itself in many forms—including practices such as slavery, redlining, white-only or white-preferred employment quotas—and has led to stark economic inequity and disparities by race. Massachusetts... View Details

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

services that are friendly to the environment (a 1993 US executive order) and to "stimulate the use of green standards in private procurement" (a 2008 communication from the Commission of the European... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

Working PapersThe New Market for Federal Judicial Law Clerks Authors:Christopher Avery, Christine Jolls, Richard Posner, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract In the past, judges have often hired applicants for judicial clerkships as early as the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

said. "City, state, and federal official worked together to collect evidence, keep our city safe, and bring the bombers to justice. Everyone put their egos aside. "Sometimes I wonder if Washington is capable of doing the... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

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FERPA Information | HBS Online

Privacy Notice SMS Terms Terms of Use FERPA Community Values & Honor Code Trademark Notice Cookies FERPA The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974, as amended ("FERPA") is a federal law that... View Details

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

decision for firms that aspire to develop platform-mediated networks is whether to preserve proprietary control or share their platform with rivals. A proprietary platform has a single provider that solely controls its technology, for example, View Details