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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Uniting business, industry, and governments to save the planet
governments like South Africa and Bhutan and even China, investing in sustainability," says Roberts, who hopes to do more to get the US government out of gridlock and into the fight to save the world from climate change and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
radiates a benign intensity. “There were jobs to be created and families hoping for a solution. The second was that it could be a model for other companies in a similar situation. The economic climate in France was difficult, with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
Africa; its importance to the country is as great as the threat to its existence. Illegal logging fueled Liberia’s recent civil war: “Blood timber” financed the violence, just as blood diamonds have in other African conflicts. The civil... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Marilynn Davis (MBA '82)
in the middle of a recession, and we have seen a lot of changes,” noted Davis, who is now EVP and manager of the consumer banking segment at FleetBoston Financial Corporation. “We've spent our careers in a climate of heightened... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
course in corporate finance and the tools to apply the field’s proven, time-tested principles in the context of the family’s financial situation, including the key principles of wealth creation and management and methods for making one’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Sail Away
events, such as Rio de Janeiro during carnaval, Sydney on New Year’s Eve, and Cannes during its film festival. “The beauty behind this product is that it is a global product,” said David Robb (MBA ’93), chairman of Utopia Residences. The current economic View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
benefits of growth increasingly will be enjoyed only by the top quintile, and mostly by the top 1 percent. The business leaders we spoke to were disturbed by the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fish... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Tomorrow, Transformed
business leadership to accelerate social change COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE: What does environmental leadership look like in the age of global warming? CODE BREAKERS: Increasing the number of women in positions of leadership READY, SET,... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
and beyond, that focus on what the team calls “tech-enabled sustainable living.” That could mean ESG in its traditional forms, such as climate change, health care technology, or environmental tech. But MPower also expands that definition:... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
out of poverty, and to do it in the context of a very freewheeling and open democracy. It could be a huge example for the world.” The primary catalyst for India’s economic growth can be linked to sweeping reforms instituted in 1991 under Prime Minister Narasimha Rao... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
1977) is chairman and CEO of Buenos Aires-based Velox Group, a privately held organization with a line of supermarkets, banks, and finance companies spanning five South American countries. He notes, "You need to be prescient, nimble, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance; Finance
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
that was formed in 1993 - issued a final report that calls for a new regulatory framework to give businesses more flexibility in preventing pollution, long-range steps to stabilize the U.S. population, and American leadership in heading off serious global trends such... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
climate crisis. “We fundamentally believe that we don’t have to make a trade-off between having good investment returns and doing something that is good for the environment and sustainable,” notes Graziano. For Smith, SER partner and CFO,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
Image by Martin Leon Barreto In 2021, while the pandemic was amplifying social inequities and climate catastrophes, investors were busy pouring more money than ever into environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments: In the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 16 Nov 2022
- News
US DOE’s Jigar Shah & the State of Carbon Removal
- 04 Dec 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
financing now, this is the second fund. You closed the first one in 2013, launched the second in 2017, and you started with seed funding. And that seems to reflect this kind of movement up the ladder that you've seen generally in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS
among US millennials. Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry Arthur Segal and a Boston Properties EVP talk about the difficulty of financing development in coastal cities and the need to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
include reducing stress and stigma, building a safe climate for talking about mental health issues, recognizing at-risk employees, and embracing diversity and neurodiversity. Questions for managers to ask: How am I doing, and how can I do... View Details