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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
eleven responses and landed three interviews. “It was,” she says, “a searing experience because I felt it was totally directed at women.” Two job offers came from government — OMB and Defense — but Cohen opted for a private-sector... View Details
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
here.” Professor Nancy Koehn opines, “What does it mean when the world’s leading power (and geopolitical playground cop) cannot govern itself?” The fall semester begins in a few weeks, with the new academic year always a time of renewal... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
the scourge of too big to fail. One is to break up the largest financial institutions, possibly with a new and improved Glass-Steagall law. The other is to perfect a bankruptcy process for super-sized financial firms so they can fail safely without the need for View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
will look not at the trees, but at the whole forest.” He also called for new government power to impose an orderly liquidation of any failing financial institution. Lacking that authority, Paulson said he had to use “duct tape and baling... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Leading Boston and Beyond
difference in people’s lives and doing that for a city is so tangible.” Koh and Osgood both found their way to the Mayor’s office through the HBS Leadership Fellows program. Open to all graduating second-year MBA students, the program... View Details
- 08 Jul 2011
- News
Spotlight on Sustainable Investing
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
School, and the Harvard University Center on the Environment, making important contributions. In April, after four years of research, the Program released “Envision,” a rating system for major government... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
province into the academic arena to benefit the Humanitarian Leadership Program (see sidebar). The enormity of the December 26 disaster took weeks to fully gauge, but it was clear that Aceh province bore the brunt of the tsunami’s... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- News
Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations
In an opinion piece published by the Jerusalem Post on April 4, 2022, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) announced a new management training program to support mayors in Israel. The Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership, created in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
Informally, Moroccans want us to respect their religion and their culture and to recognize that countries are different and should not be lumped into groups. Is popular support in Morocco for militant Islam increasing? The government has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
trained in agronomy and business, dispenses advice on everything from best practices to business ethics, while keeping track of growth rates and other performance measures with a smartphone app. This process also de-risks the loans in the eyes of banks. When the... View Details
- 12 Oct 2010
- News
Banker to the World
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
approaches to poverty alleviation. Leading academics and corporate, nonprofit, and public-sector managers discuss how businesses, NGOs, and government organizations can use business solutions to improve the lot of the world’s poorest 3... View Details
- Profile
Gerald Chertavian
Gerald Chertavian takes the adage “what doesn’t kill us makes us stronger” to heart. “Within adversity are the seeds of resilience,” says the son of a dentist who grew up in working-class Lowell, Massachusetts. Chertavian’s philosophy is at the core of Year Up, the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
aside $10,000 to be matched with alumni donations, the club also distributed $20,000 to three local charities assisting families of WTC victims; in addition, it set up a speakers' program featuring individuals involved in the city's... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- News
Panera CEO Takes the Food Stamps Challenge
Ron Shaich, the CEO and founder of Panera Bread lived on a food and beverage budget of $4.50 per day for a week. That figure is about the same amount someone receiving food assistance would get per day. He joins Here & Now to share what he’s learned from the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in Costa Rican public office, is the youngest of several... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
private investment," says Bloom. "Fortune 500 companies have told us that they read our scorecards every year." In countries where the MCC operates, a government entity implements the program agenda, in... View Details
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