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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
On the Horns of an Investment Dilemma Financial management firms that focus on sustainable investing have been gaining ground for twenty years now. As an example, Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI), a global association of nearly... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
1776, by David McCullough In any survey of great American corporations that have left their mark on business history, IBM would always hold a special place. Its origins date back to the late 1880s, when mechanical time recorders and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
Partners — touched on several systemic problems that hold the green tech industry back. One is a failure to think about the interrelationship of resources: You can grow great biofuels, for example, but only if you have an abundant supply... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Creating Miracles — Charles A. Coverdale (MBA 1971)
assistant, Cynthia Liggon, puts it, "believes adversity is a breeding ground for miracles." "I'm in the hope business," affirms Coverdale, who himself rose from the poor, rough-and-tumble world of the South Bronx as a youth to become one... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Tax and Grow
“excess” cash holdings. The definition of excess cash holdings will be critical. But such levels easily could be defined relative to industry benchmarks from periods that featured more standard corporate savings behavior. Implementing a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
Senior Executive Programme, an initiative developed through the collective efforts of HBS, Wits Business School in Johannesburg, and several other private, public, and international organizations. Designed for the region's experienced and emerging managers who View Details
- 20 Dec 2024
- News
Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024
scale, we found common ground in some of the challenges that we face, and that gives perspective as well. And as we drilled down, some of the solutions were very much the same.” Aden was nominated to apply to the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
The Digital Deck
classroom lecture. Instead, HBX will provide a unique, "digital-first" experience created with the online learner in mind. Anand is overseeing the launch of three distinct products this June, each grounded in the HBS mission and learning... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Elevator Pitch: Certified Check
joint degree with the School of Engineering offered a real grounding in entrepreneurship,” explains Arnon, one of 28 graduates from the program’s first cohort. “I didn’t plan to start a business straight out of school, but the View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
idea of “paying themselves first” by precommitting a portion of their refund to savings. U.S. savings bonds hold particular appeal among low- and middle-income families. Savings rates at tax-preparation sites that offer bonds are 8.5... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
float DeWitt a loan for $3.5 million, which he used to buy the team in 1961. It’s hard to imagine better circumstances for absorbing the many financial, legal, and political details that go into the successful management of a professional sports team, or a more... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
served as assistant to U.S. Transportation Secretaries Drew Lewis and Elizabeth Dole. Christensen holds a BA with highest honors in economics from Brigham Young University and an M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, where he... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment The Earth At Night, 2009: Cities may occupy just 2 percent of the planet’s landmass but they hold half the world’s people and produce much of its carbon emissions. Image by NASA/Corbis Issue Focus... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Back to School
World War II,” says Thomas. It was assumed then that applicants for a teaching position didn’t want to do anything else, or that they didn’t have many other options, conditions that clearly don’t hold in today’s world, where vacancy rates... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
percent of them get any agricultural advice from outside their neighbors or peers,” he says. Regional agricultural extension programs lack the necessary support, so one agent might represent an area with 10,000 farmers. Now, with ready... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
Habitat for Humanity International to evaluate the viability of a new partnership with a microsavings institution in the Mekong Delta. “The intent of the program was to encourage poor and near-poor households to save for future... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
relatives over the age of 50 also hold down jobs. Nearly three-quarters of those caregivers report a negative impact on their work lives. With 10,000 baby boomers turning 65 daily, the current estimate of $17–$33 billion in annual... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
the ground up really appealed to me.” Kennealey then began thinking about extending the Nativity model to the developing world—specifically Rwanda, where he had made contact with a group of indigenous nuns who were trying to open pathways... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
LA and completed a film program at USC, so I wasn’t even sure business school was a good choice at that point. But in the long term, I envisioned a career that had a foot in both business and creative. MB: How did you get started? ED: It... View Details
- 13 Feb 2015
- News
Lessons in Perseverance
establish a third K–12 school, or instead create a university? By the time she finished the OPM program in 2001, however, a major problem had disrupted Deza’s thinking: her husband’s business had gone bankrupt and the family had to shed... View Details