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- 15 Feb 2023
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Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out. It... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
that money. Kanter: When that kind of intervention takes place, however, we hear cries that the tax system is being used for social engineering. But I certainly have the sense now that without some degree of public and social engineering,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
venture capitalist for Greylock. In 1998, he left to run a portfolio company, iXL, which went public and grew to almost $500 million in revenue. After iXL, he joined Silverpop as its CEO, seeing it grow to nearly $100 million, becoming a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
could tell right away if he had a couple of tickets for the Giants game on Saturday,” Baer recalls. “He’d give me a little nod, and I’d know — yes! — we would be going to Candlestick to watch Willie Mays play center field.” Fast-forward a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
10 ounces; holds up to 1,500 books; can go for days without a recharge; and offers the wireless capability anywhere in the United States to download a new book from Amazon’s online store for less than half the price of a hardcover edition... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Measured Approach
its skills and capabilities. Dan Levy, a senior lecturer in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School—who taught many of the IDinsight founders in his courses about quantitative methods, policy analysis, and program evaluation—has... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
programs, there is no way that is going to solve the problem. So I think bringing business principles to address issues is a very interesting and exciting thing to do.” Toward that end, Gandhi has founded two companies. One is Asha... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Khoja, now 56, never planned to go to Afghanistan. A veteran telecom executive responsible for launching service in developing countries around the world, he was working for Deutsche Telekom in Croatia in January 2002 when a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
this book’s publication forced a reconsideration of the genre. As graduates from HBS, we often consider how we can quickly synthesize messy and complex business challenges into neatly arranged recommendations that can be scaled. But what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
that drives economic advancement and development. It’s a process she’d eventually like to go home and be part of: “I believe,” she says, “in South Africa and its future.” —GE Rob Sundy Sundy at Harvard Stadium. Rob Sundy describes himself... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
journaling, hiking, talking about dating, and shooting the breeze—not questions that would shake her to her core. She turned to the social work students and asked, “How are we going to fix this?” Their answer: “We’re not here to fix... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
experience? What would you sacrifice to achieve social justice? Lucky, Not Smart By Michael Coles (MBA 1961) Independently published Most people go to Harvard Business School by way of a first-rate undergraduate college. Michael Coles did... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home
Says Gould, "The provision of adequate housing for people at all income levels is a problem that's never going to be solved by free-market economics. Only the federal government has the resources necessary to address the magnitude of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
Spaces Drive Performance and Creativity, coauthored with Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health Assistant Professor Joe Allen. “Public health is obviously directly connected to society’s success in answering this call." In real terms,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
realities. Strategic independence is a policy of determining what is best for our national security and letting go of obsolete doctrines such as “mutual assured destruction” — an outmoded deterrent in an era of nuclear proliferation — or... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
to children's furniture and toys. Upon leaving the Commission six years later, Franklin joined the Wharton faculty. However, her public service continued. She served four terms as a member of the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
realities. “In recent years, the student appetite for entrepreneurial ventures has increased significantly,” says HBS professor of management practice Myra M. Hart, who has studied the career trends of HBS graduates. “The contest gives them an excellent opportunity to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
recalls. “There was a cult of youth, and I realized that I should work for myself because I wasn’t going to find an appropriate position at that point.” Bemis, who had experience as a venture capitalist, decided to focus full-time on... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services