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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - Blog - Business & Environment
are prepared to pay a premium for it. Talent and Training Ohmium shared that they focus on hiring young, local engineering talent with strong backgrounds in electrochemical processes—a competitive advantage given the limited availability... View Details
- 15 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 15
Political Representation and Crime in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer, Anandi Mani, Prachi Mishra, and Petia Topalova Abstract Using state-level variation in the timing of political reforms, we find that an increase in female representation in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
undervaluing its currency. The Chinese government has pegged the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar since 1996, which undervalues it by 15 to 25 percent, according to Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
rights be protected as these new technologies are implemented? Another deals with those countries that are going under water. Who pays restitution for future damage and losses?” “Climate change is a governance issue. It’s a short step... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
matched by his commitment to promoting education, government efficiency, and entrepreneurship in Brazil. He is the founder and a director of both Endeavor Brasil, a nonprofit that helps entrepreneurs in emerging markets, and the Brava... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
Clinton as assistant secretary and CFO of the Department of Commerce, Bilmes’s attention shifted to government spending. “The government is good at making promises, but poor at valuing what those promises... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
(Fictive Press) It’s 1957 in the fictional Canadian province of Superior. In the span of just a few days in November, the lives of several high-level government officials and a colorful cast of “destitutes” are about to change forever as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
but it has a detailed plan for public- and private- sector efforts to end extreme global poverty. Business alone cannot do the job because, as the IGD plan points out, it is necessary to invest in good governments as well as investing in... View Details
- 10 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 10
rubber markets during the boom years of 1870-1910 shows that the government generated 1.3% of GDP through an export tax on rubber but that it could have generated 4.7% in total, had the government set the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
September–October 2017 Harvard Business Review GE's Global Growth Experiment: The Company Pushed Cross-Business Collaboration By: Gulati, Ranjay Abstract—Like many other companies, GE under Immelt had to figure out how to balance serving View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It
include arrogantly ignoring cease-and-desist orders from cities trying to enforce local business regulations, allegations of drivers attacking customers, and sexual harassment complaints from employees about the company’s... View Details
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
adoption of feed-in tariffs, subsidies, and tax credits in the 1980s. However the poor technological capabilities of U.S.-based firms meant that it was Danish and other foreign companies that benefitted most. Subsequently the combination of public policies to grow wind... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
becoming more competitive and moving up. "We can't expect government to be on the front line," he stated. "We have to step up and demonstrate the power of the market system." Businesspeople should be thinking about the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
15 state or local governments had passed programs to pay for about $8 billion in medical relief. Five more are considering moves that would bring the total to almost $13 billion. Many work with a nonprofit... View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
children. Volvo's latest goal is that no one should die in a Volvo car after 2020. Most firms just quietly test their products and services, receiving the blessing of Underwriters Laboratories, the Consumer Product Safety Commission, or the View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
capitalism.” In Hong Kong, Teo immersed himself in the local club, where Philip Leung (MBA '76) and Hamilton Ty Tang (MBA '90) currently serve as copresidents. “Before I knew it,” he says, “we were in charge of putting on the 1997 HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
the practicalities and evaluate the security and the risk. In the more dangerous places, I like to keep a local Mr. Fixit with me.” —Andrew Main Wilson (AMP 156, 1999), on the challenges of photographing the 1,000 travel wonders of the... View Details
Keywords: quotations
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
local produce available to locals, and to revitalize the town’s Main Street, a modest collection of struggling businesses. Reade’s “retirement” after a successful career in the investment business was gradual and accidental. Seeking a... View Details
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
ecosystem of partnerships and collaborations." Three panelists outlined some of those collaborations. Mary L. Fifield, president of Bunker Hill Community College, described that school's partnership with a consortium of local... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette