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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
differently while pregnant?” The focus is on practical, actionable recommendations. Risks are put into context so women can make their own choices, aware of the trade-offs they’re actually making. Pursuing Other Opportunities: A Corporate... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
author steeped in the ways of Washington and political power. This is a brilliant, carefully researched work that puts you at the center of one of the greatest advances in the history of American democracy. Another Sort of Freedom: A... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Diversifying HBS's Case Collection
students said, ‘If I can’t see it, it’s hard for me to be it.’ And we fail our other students because we don’t show them the many sources of amazing talent in the world. We put them at risk of overlooking talent.” “When our cases don’t... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
relaxed. And both the military government and Aung San Suu Kyi's populist party were scrambling in fast forward helter-skelter mode towards the election. And both sides actually decided that they had more to gain by collaborating in an unprecedented, high View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
geo-thermal heat pumps. “Building codes can really move the dial citywide,” Grantham said. Asked what his top climate priority would be if he were Mayor of Boston, Grantham said he would stop issuing permits for building in flood plains and use his View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
various diseases the foundation is fighting? Ironically, the hardest area for the foundation to measure is educational reform because “metrics don’t exist” in that field, he said. Taking a swipe at both major political parties, Gates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Maurer, and this November in the Executive Education Global Energy Seminar. The course takes a global view of fossil fuel, nuclear power, and renewable energy, considering all three through the lens of competitive strategy and the View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
reminded me of how effective film can be at sharing a complex topic with large audiences. “But a particular and obvious question puzzled me: Why haven’t films like Chasing Ice, The Island President, and An Inconvenient Truth, to name a few, succeeded in creating the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
medicine required for recovery.” “Those experiences were invaluable for what I'm doing now,” Djelic continues. “I learned that you can't wait for better conditions because they'll never materialize. There's always political View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
technologies in New York, to the importance of business leaders speaking out politically in Los Angeles, to the risks facing Midwest agribusiness in Chicago. The BEI will continue the series in 2020 and... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
ancestors—were willing to make to seek something better. Think about, especially, those early immigrants. They had no idea what they were setting forth into when they left their homes. They got on a ship, and they didn't know if they were going to fall off the end of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
grow their business. Stewart, an award-winning CFO and veteran entrepreneur, shares his expertise and insights to help entrepreneurs more fully understand how a bank thinks about them and their business as a credit risk and a loan... View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
but we're kind of the canaries in the coal mine—in that our business is risk. Our job is to price risk and thus predict risk.” Up until 2012, Liberty could just trend past weather data into the future and get reasonably close predictions.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
[see sidebar] further reflects the wide range of issues covered by our faculty. What can we learn from this region? The Asia Pacific, where 2,000 languages are spoken, is home to 60 percent of the world's population. The region's diverse economic, cultural, legal, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
existing neighborhoods would improve the supply problem, which is driving our strategy to help owners add second units. That approach requires significant political will and a “Yes In My Backyard” (YIMBY) perspective. Should we... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
to rebuild family relationships and rejuvenate his sense of purpose, he risks his career on a life-altering physical and emotional journey. Together with his wife and children, Feder sets off for an exotic island on a self-prescribed... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
View from the Top
President Bush and former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani exhibited remarkable leadership following the September 11 crisis. I also admire Michigan Governor John Engler, who's shown courage in taking on some tough but important political and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
kind of generosity. Royalties from this book go to Christian ministries focused on spreading the Gospel and providing for those in need. Global Risk Agility and Decision Making: Organizational Resilience in the Era of Manmade View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
skills to attract funders for his ships, lifeboats, supplies, and food. He also recognized the importance of assembling a team that could work together and embrace high levels of risk and uncertainty—qualities that proved particularly... View Details