World Wildlife Fund - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2006
News

Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976

drives to petrochemicals. But the focus of his attention these days is a multibillion-dollar effort to make Singapore one of the world leaders in biomedical sciences. While doing all he can to promote homegrown talent, he is also making a... View Details

07 Oct 2014
News

Network Effect

Henry McCance, founder (left), and Tim Armour, President & CEO, of Cure Alzheimer's Fund Twelve years ago, when Henry McCance (MBA 1966) and his wife initially faced her diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease, the couple consulted some of the... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

16 Sep 2024
News

Life Preserver

each year because they don’t have access to an organ transplant. Worldwide, the World Health Organization estimates, only 10 percent of the need for organ transplantation is being met. But the issue isn’t a supply of organs; rather, it's... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Remembering Dick Spangler

Carolina’s Board of Education from 1982 to 1986. As president of the University of North Carolina (based at its Chapel Hill campus) from 1986 to 1997, he increased enrollment and faculty funding while prioritizing educational quality and... View Details

25 Aug 2016
News

Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer File photo by Jon Chase - Harvard Staff Photographer Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University have announced the launch of the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative. View Details

Keywords: Government

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

FarriHarvard Business School Case 310-090 In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

Today's frenzied world of dot-com mania might have been hard to predict 25 years ago, but the Class of 1975 has always had an eye for opportunity. For its time, the class had a sizable number of military officers familiar with strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting It Done: Improving Nonprofit Performance

available during organizational development, and the conditions of its acquisition that all work together to create a powerful influence on management behavior and organizational culture." It is therefore imperative, Grossman argues, that the View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

01 Dec 2017
News

The Power of Cultural Understanding

years. As an endorsement of this international focus, Jafar has established a fund to support the MENA Research Center in Istanbul, its Dubai Research Office, and other HBS activities throughout the region. The expansion of HBS’s global... View Details

23 Jul 2013
News

Building Great Schools around Great Teachers

Tony Klemmer Photo courtesy of NAATE Plans for a second career took an abrupt turn in just one day for Tony Klemmer (MBA 1983) when, after a quarter century of successful startup launches, he left the business world to pursue personal... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

Cities and states are feeling the financial pain of this recession more quickly than in past downturns after pandemic-induced lockdowns swiftly decimated sales tax revenue that helps fund their operations. In fact, new research finds that... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2005
News

A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

Toby Klein, postmarked Tubuai, French West Polynesia. Toby wrote, "Several years ago I told the world to go to hell and moved to Tubuai, French West Polynesia, where I fish in the sea, eat fruit that grows all around me, and live in the... View Details

Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 16

PublicationsThe World Bank and Democratic Accountability: The Role of Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Publication:Chap. 3 in Building Global Democracy? Civil Society and Accountable Global Governance, edited by Jan... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2018
News

Pushing the Next Generation Forward

On any given day in his job as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), Kwame Owusu-Kesse (AB 2006, MBA/MPP 2012) might find himself analyzing funding sources with the nonprofit organization’s CFO, lunching with a student mentee,... View Details

18 Aug 2021
News

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

2021 AUGUST 12 Edwards Lifesciences Corporation recently announced that it has established a $100 million Social Impact Investment Fund “aimed at advancing racial equity through economic development, especially in predominantly Black and... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

In Service of Others

Mike Zak (MBA 1981) After studying engineering at Cornell and serving four years in the Marine Corps, Mike Zak (MBA 1981) arrived at HBS in 1979, one of only a handful of military veterans in his class. The transition was not easy. “I came from a View Details

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

This article was originally published by The Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability 15 Harvard students, funded to attend COP28 in Dubai, reflect on their experiences. The COP Student Observers View Details

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

Chair of the Finance unit, has spent the past four years investigating ways to help low-income families break out of this cycle and thus gain some of the benefits of being connected to the world of financial services. Programs providing... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Jan 2012
News

Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952

1967 Founds Asset Management Company 1980 Provides early capital for Amgen, joins board 1998 Appointed chairman, San Francisco Opera Association 1999 Funds BUILD, nonprofit promoting entrepreneurship to disadvantaged youth 2002 Receives... View Details

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