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- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
development in Louisiana, a prime vantage point at the intersection of the public and private sectors that allowed him to “envision a future state and bring it to life.” In his new role at VEDP, he was in the midst of developing a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Supporting Global Understanding, Locally
Dincer Family Global Fund to support the MENA center as well as the School’s activities in Turkey and throughout the region. “HBS is unique in its capability to fund rigorous research that analyzes how the financial sector is changing,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and political implications, and we’ve... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
A Force for Good
Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman Photo courtesy of Ananth Kasturiraman There is no shortage of evidence demonstrating that the hiring process is one of the ways in which economic inequalities are perpetuated. Take, for example, the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything alone. The private View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
income norms as predicted by economic theory," noted HBS professor Bruce Scott in his talk on "Creating Capitalism." Other speakers and their topics were Erik Bergloumlf of the Stockholm School of Economics... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
to launch than the sector in which he would be working. “We wanted to start a company that helps people and benefits society,” he recalls. The energy sector, which was at the beginning of what Riley calls the “renewable power revolution,”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell (University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research) Studies have... View Details
Keywords: Utilities
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
Could Kurt Summers Jr. Be Chicago’s Next Mayor?
of the city’s most pressing issues, Crain’s writes. “Ask him about Chicago's pernicious problem with gun violence, and he will tell you the city doesn't have a crime problem. ‘We have an economic problem.’” Summers’s mantra is “How do you... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
paths." Keohane's career in the nonprofit sector began just after she graduated from Yale in 1994. She worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, earned a master's degree in development from the London School of View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
Nearly 40 percent of Harvard alumni from across all schools have founded for-profit and nonprofit organizations—launching more than 146,000 active ventures with an estimated $3.9 trillion in annual revenues and creating 20.4 million jobs across all View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Boom Times Ahead
productivity cycles drive economic booms that are further powered by the explosion of new technologies,” explained the Sacramento Bee (October 5, 2004). People get excited when Dent gets bullish, because he’s been right on the money... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
In Rangan’s view, the sector is poised on the brink of transformation, a topic he enthusiastically expounded upon during a recent interview in his Morgan Hall office. The terms “social enterprise” and “nonprofit” seem to be used... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Teaching kids lessons in making choices and tradeoffs
Nan Morrison (MBA 1987) is CEO of the Council for Economic Education, based in New York City. In this video, conducted prior to the W50 celebration of women in the full-time MBA Program at HBS in 2013, she explains how her organization... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
State of the Unions
police violence, noting that the lack of economic opportunity has been “catastrophic” to inner cities that have seen massive disinvestment. “These things are related,” he says, in part because the economy hasn’t worked for the majority of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
career in investment banking at Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, and several private equity firms, where she held C-suite positions. Feeling disillusioned, she left for the charity sector for a number of years, where she worked until her... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
Jafar says that it is important to understand and tackle the root causes of the problems. He also believes in empowering the private sector and building an eco-system that supports economic growth, improved... View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
time for something new. Although she had been involved in volunteer efforts in education, the arts, and economic development since high school, Pitter-Armand’s path to a career in the nonprofit sector wasn’t... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
approach seems to enjoy more support from the left and the second from the right. Unfortunately, neither plan is likely to work on its own. While a number of major financial firms should be broken up, it is neither desirable nor feasible to destroy every vestige of... View Details