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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Weiss knew that the island, an unincorporated US territory whose residents are American citizens, was drowning in $70 billion of debt. Hampered by legal limitations on the remedies it could pursue, and desperate for ready cash to meet its obligations, the Puerto Rican... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
also a great love of the country and understanding of the history.” She also developed a severe case of PTSD during her time living in the region. Working in such a high-profile role required her to navigate the country at a time of chaos. Ames, who later served as a... View Details
- 05 Jul 2023
- News
GCC Alumni Celebrate Grand Opening of New Club Center
Lootah (GMP 10, 2011), the establishment of a physical space for the club was driven by a commitment to making a positive impact in the GCC region—which includes Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates (UAE), Oman, Kuwait, Bahrain, and Qatar.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Research Brief: Staying in the Game
Illustration by Peter Hoey In Monopoly, declaring bankruptcy has a very permanent consequence. Game over; you lose. In the paper “Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy,” HBS professor Shai Bernstein... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
Heralding a New Era of Finance, Capitalism, and Democracy, Robert Bruner (MBA 1974/DBA 1982) and Sean Carr make the case that looking into financial crises of the past can help clarify current conditions—and inform one’s outlook on the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
provides and make the city cleaner, safer, and healthier. “We haven’t really changed the way we collect trash in decades,” Tisch says. She aims to fix that. Over the past year, Tisch has leveraged a combination of administrative and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
Increase waste recycling in general. And, finally, focus on capturing the energy generated when decades-old trash decomposes. Public policy is a big factor in making a lot of this happen, Jackman points out.... 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
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An Arabic word for entrepreneur didn’t exist, even if the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
White House, however, public service soon called. In 1993, the President appointed Brody to be chairman and president of the government's trade financing agency, the Export-Import Bank of the United States. He served until early 1996, stepping down to near-unanimous... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
helped create this situation. Or as Calvin Young (MBA 2015), a Baltimore native and 2016 mayoral candidate who now works at the private equity firm Green Street Impact Partners, puts it, “there was real intentionality around the policies... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Like-Minded
Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), Miwa Seki (MBA 1993), and Kathy Matsui share the same month and year of birth, so the friends started an annual birthday get-together to reflect on the year ahead. Work was always a hot topic of discussion. Each woman had built a strong... View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a leader in making use of that information from a business and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Jan 2024
- News
Alumni Gain Insights on Nigeria’s New Government; Taipei Alumni Host Faculty Guest
Clubs News Clubs News HBS Alumni in Nigeria Discuss New Government’s Fiscal Policies To better understand the economic and policy direction of Nigeria’s newly sworn-in government, the HBS Association of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Ray Dalio: Why and How Capitalism Needs to Be Reformed
“pose an existential risk for the US.” Addressing why capitalism isn’t working, Dalio notes that the system now operates “in a way in which people and companies find it profitable to have policies and make... View Details
Keywords: capitalism
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
key role business leaders have to play in confronting climate change—and the power of HBS alumni to make a positive difference. Jacqueline Adams (MBA 1978) President, J Adams Strategic Communications; co-author of A Blessing: Women of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
offers a test case that the National Trust will learn from and scale up in other communities across the country. Here, Hansen Shapiro talks with the Bulletin about making local news sustainable, the interplay between investment and impact... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
others will be making along the way. The number of places that don’t belong to any one of these three categories and that are not interested at all is, nowadays, very low. Frei: That final category has to be zero, which is an astonishing... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint