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- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
as well as land-use and climate-resilient infrastructure, which will require massive injections of capital in order to remain sustainable. Alumni were urged to be the change agents and ask the tough questions; now more than ever taking... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Agricola Aritzia, a leading Chilean poultry producer that formed a partnership with Corporación Municipal de Melipilla, a public health and education nonprofit. “When companies engage in cross-sector partnerships, they reap unsuspected benefits while becoming View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
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create wealth and produce superior products and services. They must also conduct themselves as “moral actors” — responsible agents that bring moral judgment to bear on their activities. This development defies centuries of corporate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
The football season is about to begin, a familiar signal that summer is over. The game is a huge money-maker on one level and a powerful societal binding agent at another — think Friday Night Lights. But increasing revelations about brain... View Details
- 26 Nov 2018
- News
New York Alumni Explore Risks and Opportunities in Climate Change
also offer sound investment opportunities, as do negative emissions technologies that cool the earth. “Alumni were urged to be the change agent and ask the tough questions,” she adds. “People overestimate the risk of pushing and prodding... View Details
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
A Four-Point Plan for Teresa May
prime minister to rescue the negotiation process,” Malhotra writes. “But to do so, she must first stop negotiating like an agent and start negotiating like a mediator.” READ MORE View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Strong Bonds, New Records
Sandy Sacks and Alan Ferris, the cochairs for the MBA Class of 1966, believe that their fundraising success—currently the class holds 16 participation records—can be attributed to their time at HBS. "My HBS experience was very meaningful, and staying in touch with... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
1998, and the “Love Our Local Business” program, which encourages growth for small businesses by giving grants to entrepreneurs. In India, Intuit’s free mobile application, Fasal, has connected 1.5 million farmers with agents to get... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Wind Shift
HBS professor George P. Baker, a finance expert, has in recent years become an alternative-energy change agent as well, spearheading community wind projects in Maine. Now on leave from HBS, Baker is the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Releases
and product markets." Jensen and his contributors detail three major systems that play a critical role in organizational strategy and help address control problems within the decentralized organization. They are a system for allocating decision rights among View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Making a Difference
All six of these alumni change agents identified a problem and set out to fix it. Their examples illuminate a path for others to follow. What’s That Funny Graphic? You’ll notice something new in this issue — small, strange-looking square... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
McCray, who sees herself as an agent of change, was most interested in policy solutions. When one classmate proposed dispersing reparations in the form of college scholarships, McCray voiced concern about overlooking those who don’t... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
because he prefers the other method.” Thus, “new men” founding “new firms” were still vital, but they were no longer the only agents of innovation. The same economic role could be accomplished within older and larger companies.... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
priority to help as many people as I could while working at MGM. Creative Artists Agency was still very new, and their agents had restricted expense accounts, so I always made sure to invite my friends at CAA to screenings so they could... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
India, for instance, it’s like having access to an agricultural extension agent at any time—at no cost. Most often, any given question that a farmer submits to PAD (by text or voicemail) has been raised before, so a response is pushed... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
bridge year after high school, Global Citizen Year prepares them for success in college, careers, and our global economy. "I want to awaken young people to their own potential as agents of change in the world," she explains. Today, Global... View Details
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Business Success Means Community Success in Wisconsin; GNN Roundup
Bend’s rebranding over its 100-year history, and its Spirit of the Silver Lining Award, which celebrates independent insurance agents for outstanding service to nonprofit organizations in their communities, and includes grant money to... View Details
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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
communicate with and motivate its citizens to make them agents of change to a market-driven economy? —Jaime Fortuño (MBA 1988) MORE Brunell offers an inside look at Myanmar’s historic transition on our new Skydeck podcast MORE Brunell... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
documents as well as from private diaries, letters, and secret audio recordings. The book casts new light on Roosevelt’s concealment of what America knew about Hitler’s war against the Jews and explores suspicions that Soviet secret View Details