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- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
inputs. Our flagship project is a $200 million farm in Australia where we grow tomatoes specifically for an end-retailer. We fix the price with that retailer over a 10-year period and we do so growing only... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
business leaders have a nearly $370 billion opportunity to advance decarbonization. Lynn Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
$4 a gallon, stunning American motorists. The results were predictable: Prices for everything skyrocketed, and an already recessionary U.S. economy, soon to be slammed by the mortgage and credit crises, began slouching toward the 1930s.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
be censored by the IMF for not supplying accurate data. Macri also signed an agreement with US hedge funds to settle a protracted dispute over the country’s failure to repay billions of dollars’ worth of bonds acquired at heavily... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
he has learned during his years in public service: Officials don’t cut projects loose when they are failing, nor do they scale projects when they are succeeding. “Anybody who has ever been close to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
experience as a policy maker—as well as 25 years of experience as an investor and small business owner—to the U.S. Competitiveness Project at Harvard Business School. Mills left the SBA last summer and accepted a two-year fellowship at... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
through the ministry’s work, launched a $1.3 billion economic resilience plan, representing 7 percent of GDP, the second largest in Africa (second to South Africa). Senegal was one of the first African countries to come up with a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 13 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course
work on real-world projects with Black and Latinx-led businesses in Greater Boston – a proximate learning experience that seemed like exactly the opportunity I was seeking. The course itself consisted of a mix of lectures, a live case,... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
Mark Tercek Mark Tercek likes a challenge. As CEO of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), he has led the global nonprofit to fearlessly take on conservation projects that no one else would. "We are trying to tackle those global challenges that... View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
Natural disasters are a different story: though they occur much less frequently, when they do happen it's akin to thousands or even tens of thousands of pipes bursting and homes burning all at once. Hurricane Irene, for instance, inflicted an estimated $6.6 View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
nations, across nations, and across regions. Half the world’s poor are projected to be in sub-Saharan Africa, living on incomes a small fraction of those in developed countries. Of 4.1 billion workers, 3.3... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
Petrochemicals are all around us—from ubiquitous plastic packaging to the inconspicuous lining of your takeaway coffee cup, and in everyday products like soaps, deodorants, and toothpaste. But that will change, according to Matthew Perkins (MBA 2009). When industries... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
markets and the pricing of carbon becomes enormously important. DM: Matheson has seen this play out before. From 2006 to 2011, VC firms invested more than $25 billion in clean energy companies and ultimately... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
electricity to operate their sea-water heat pump when power is cheaper, then storing heat as hot water and sending it to customers when electricity prices are higher, thus lowering heating rates and helping to balance the grid. Din... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
that are thoughtfully resourced and leave a smaller environmental footprint. Investors are paying attention, too, with impact investing hitting $60 billion in 2015. Attention to the negative impacts of work on health is also on the rise.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
that related to risk. Here’s a bunch of people giving money at 50 percent to projects that really should only be charged 10 percent. Well, if markets work correctly, after a little while people will come rushing in, bidding up the View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
pocketbooks. Since then, as the stock market roller coaster has shown, the rhetoric has only ratcheted upwards. On April 5, the president threatened tariffs on an additional $100 billion in Chinese goods. China returned fire proposing new... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
productively in the United States. A previous repatriation tax holiday in 2004 induced the return of more than $300 billion to this country, and commentators across the political spectrum, including Andy Stern, formerly of the Service... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on development projects in Tanzania and... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman