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- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
carbon neutral," he says. The entire process is a major technological undertaking—one Dawe says he probably wouldn't be involved with if he and C12 Energy cofounder Kurt Zenz House hadn't been introduced to each other by a Harvard... View Details
- 06 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows
Finance, scaling an impact investment in Anchorage, Alaska to become the state's largest permanent supportive housing program, and designing and launching an impact fund-of-funds to mobilize passive charitable capital. With an interest in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
a report on the HBS Latin America Research Center), Latin America is an evolving, untapped market of vast potential, formidable challenges, and many fascinations. MORE A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens In the 1980s,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Ann M. Fudge
from corporations and boardrooms to national magazines to a project to elect a woman President of the United States. Upon graduation, Fudge went to work for General Mills and advanced from marketing assistant to View Details
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Europe - Global Activities 2020
Europe Europe Case Explores Serbia at a Geopolitical Crossroads Pictured: House of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia Professor Sophus A. Reinert is a historian captivated by the region that is now called Serbia. A native of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
But his longtime fascination with both the stock market and inventors came to the fore when he entered the New York investment world. After setting up a science and technology investment banking group at Blyth Eastman PaineWebber, he... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors
do; they get them with the confirmation of a purchase rather than ahead of time. Were there a five-day waiting period before an order could be placed, the current system would perform better. But people want to act quickly, and in markets... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
Now, apparently, we do. The atmosphere's ability to process our exhaust gases, once abundant, is scarce. Scarcity isn't a bad thing. Almost everything is scarce. That's why for almost everything we have systems of property rights to give people the incentives to use... View Details
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
New York City. It was 2006 and the housing market was peaking but had not yet crashed. Both Rose and Weinstein were experienced developers of low-income housing, the former as CEO of the Jonathan Rose... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
At Cyberposium, Amazon's Bezos Debunks Internet Myths
house of some one thousand participants. After attributing the giant bookseller's success to its focus on the customer, Bezos set out to debunk seven "big myths of the Internet." Myth #1: The Internet changes everything. Not really,... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Related Collections Site Credits Manuscript Collections A collecting strength for Baker Library is the extensive records of American firms engaged in trade with and in nineteenth-century China. Encompassing some of the most influential American trading View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to the sustainability of market capitalism. As part of Harvard Business School's centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Better than Cash
independent strategy and marketing consultant. In that time, approximately 550 CAP volunteers have donated nearly $7 million in consulting services. This year alone, fourteen teams of HBS alumni will donate an estimated $1.1 million in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
translator simply puts his head in his hands and swears as he struggles to keep up with the convoluted account. Throughout the day we visit other Oaxacans in their homes and listen to their stories. Each demonstrates the sharp contrast between View Details
- 06 Aug 2008
- News
Caution to the Winds
had installed on the White House roof. Imagine if alternative energy had instead been an ongoing national priority for the last thirty years. Wouldn’t the American economy, the country itself, and indeed the rest of the world be much... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- Profile
Ryu Kawano
office." The experience proved so rewarding that Ryu, with two HBS colleagues, submitted an entry in the social-venture track to the annual Business Plan Competition in April. "We want to create a microfinancing organization in Indonesia that's focused on... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
from digital platforms have the potential to improve our understanding of gentrification and enable new measures of how neighborhoods change in close to real time. Combining data on businesses from Yelp with data on gentrification from the Census, Federal View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
hundreds of millions of rural poor into the market system (as China Mobile did by bringing mobile phone service to the Chinese countryside), that brought medicine where it had been unaffordable (which the Indian pharmaceutical firm Cipla... View Details
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
that design innovation often involves a high degree of uncertainty in terms of market success. "It's very hard to understand what people want," he says. "If I make a car that can brake in 10 yards instead of 50, that's a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance
topics in international finance, including securitization of insurance risks (particularly those linked to catastrophes), risk management for corporations and financial institutions, and asset allocation for investors. He is a founding partner of Emerging View Details