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- 01 Mar 2024
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The War Within
early days of the war, Zhyliak began to notice changes in the children. Some were showing more aggression and anger. Many cried uncontrollably, while others needed to be held. Sitting alongside the orphans as they grappled with their new... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
There's so many different types of mayor in the United States and abroad. In its formal position, you sit in the middle, you help to craft policies and procedures, you set the vision for your city, you approve, at least for us, a $1.1... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
By 2050, nearly 70 percent of the world’s population will live in cities, according to a 2018 UN report, up from 55 percent today. That means making room for and creating the infrastructure for another 2.5 billion people to live, work, move, and consume. Meanwhile, the... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 03 Nov 2023
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Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum
was aimed at synthesizing the messages from global conversations on climate change to find clear avenues for swift, coordinated action. “Climate change is undeniably one of the most pressing challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Like-Minded
connect with one another along the way. Murakami was with OECD Tokyo Center, leading discussions on economic policy issues with government and business leaders in Asia, having spent 20 years in finance with companies like Goldman Sachs... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
Commission on United StatesPacific Trade and Investment Policy. "If successful," Brody explains, "our commission will set a new direction for trade and investment policy with the Pacific Rim countries. Opening the doors to the biggest and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
secret,” she says. “I’ve spent the last 15 years in Africa really trying to not only unlock the agricultural and food potential on the continent, but also to enable our enterprises to scale.” Sahel Consulting provides strategy consulting support, market linkages, View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
Jeffrey and Mary Ellen Jay (both MBA 1987) In the mid-1980s, Jeffrey Jay (MBA 1987) had set his sights on academic medicine, having earned his MD from Boston University. A dramatically changing health care landscape and his growing... View Details
- 14 Jun 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia
Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico
offer was a perfect fit. Meanwhile, however, back in his hometown of Morelia, Mexico, the family business, Organización Ramirez Cinemas, was facing a serious challenge. “My grandfather and my father called and said, ‘We really need your help here,’” Ramirez recalls.... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
my calculator collection to pay for my rent in the halfway dorm in France. I bought myself a bicycle for 50 euros and I bicycled to university and sat with everyone half my age. And learned about space policy and quaternions and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
business models and journalism, to support news organizations, and raise the capital to effect large-scale structural change in the industry, says Hansen Shapiro. Currently a senior research fellow at the Tow Center for Digital Journalism... View Details
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
complexities of the financial aid process. “There's so much talent that you can unlock when you start to believe in people. They go in all these wonderful directions, and it changes their lives. I just want to spread that around.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
store hosted 75 events with authors last year, most during the busy summer season. Even with big names such as novelist Colson Whitehead and foreign policy expert Richard Haass, the events are rarely moneymakers, Brody says—the small... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
but relatively unknown organization with assets of $200 million. The firm was drowning in paperwork, and its employee turnover rate was 43 percent. McDermott changed all that, successfully diversifying USAA into areas such as mutual... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
business administration (DBA) in accounting and control, marketing, policy and management, or technology and operations management. Another option is a joint program with Harvard University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
not immediately. In that context, it’s much harder to find lots of win-wins. Are we seeing companies embrace responsibility for addressing environmental issues? MT: I’ve recently been looking at companies in the United States whose CEOs are stepping into contentious... 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
- 24 Apr 2014
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Revamping the corporate tax code could improve America’s competitiveness and living standards
The US corporate tax code is impeding the nation’s ability to compete in the worldwide economy, according to Mihir A. Desai (MBA 1993, PhD 1998), the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance. Desai has found that current US policies... View Details