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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
With the explosion in the size and density of global populations, is an increase in potential pandemics inevitable? Does global warming make human pandemics more likely? The... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Mandela in Triumph at Harvard
its June graduation ceremonies. Mandela, 80, an invited keynote speaker at the HBS Global Alumni Conference in Cape Town, delighted 25,000 people in Harvard's Tercentenary Theater with his regal bearing, broad smile, and View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
responses across countries shows that these responses mirror popular sentiment about climate change. For countries whose populations had come to see global warming as a pragmatic collective threat, efforts... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Mead Treadwell (MBA ’82) sees global warming as both a threat to the environment and an opportunity for commerce in the melting North, where conflicting sovereignty and resource claims are heating up, too.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Peak Earth?
“the rather burdensome thought is that people won’t listen to environmentalists, but they will sometimes listen to people like me.” He explained that “people are naturally much more responsive to finite resources than they are to climate change. View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
WARM WELCOME: On an unseasonably mild December day, after a reception with faculty, staff, and students, Al Gore and Dean Jay Light walk to Burden Hall. We are managing the planet as if it were a business in liquidation,” former U.S. Vice... View Details
- Portrait Project
Harman Kochar
If life could be planned I would have already – Eradicated Poverty from the World Controlled Global Warming Established World Peace Cured all Diseases Discovered the fountain of youth and last but not the... View Details
- Profile
Joseph Abel
time I left two years later, we had covered almost two thousand homes.” HBS opens a global perspective on global warming Like many MBA candidates, Joe came to HBS to diversify... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001)
race to manage (let alone reverse) the effects of global warming and climate change. And climate is not just an isolated threat, its connected to (and exacerbates) almost every other View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change
What do Chinese coal plants and the American legislative branch have in common? They are both major adversaries in the fight against climate change, according to former President of Mexico Felipe Calderón. "The most serious problem is in the United States... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business implications of climate change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Himalayan Journey
Visions of Bhutan: October 2004 Bhutan photo gallery Prayer flags fluttering gently in the wind; crystalline alpine air; monks’ robes in glowing red; and everywhere warm faces, people smiling, children waving. This is the remote Himalayan... View Details
- 21 Jan 2021
- News
New Menu
In 2018, Andrew D. Ive (MBA 1997) launched Big Ideas Ventures to find and support the entrepreneurs positioned to mitigate the effects of climate change and help the world adapt to the realities of a warming planet. The firm’s first fund... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
the squandering of America’s leadership role in the international community, and the diversion of attention from critical global issues — including issues like global warming .... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
global warming was a looming catastrophe. Lo and behold, here we are in 2008: war in oil-rich Iraq, $4 a gallon gasoline, an economy in free fall, and melting ice caps. On the economic front, the recent... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that vision as vice president of... View Details
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
environmental issues such as global warming and limited natural resources, as well as geopolitical instability issues in certain regions of the world. This is nothing new for the oil and gas players. They... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Prison. This was the result of Iran’s state-sanctioned persecution of Bahá’ís, which continues to this day. I was two years old. It was freezing in Idaho Falls when we landed but the local Bahá’í community welcomed us at the airport with View Details