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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
temptation to fund whatever’s hot. Biotech is one example. Right now, 49 out of 50 states have programs predicated on the argument that their state is uniquely positioned to support biotech ventures, and that obviously can’t be true. The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
United States had little to show for its investment before a new administration slashed funding. In the 1980s, California’s progressive energy initiatives led to a massive boom in wind energy, but when the policies expired, the entire... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
comprehensive program designed to ensure a basic level of competency throughout the cohort. By all accounts from the students, faculty members, and staff involved in the initial Foundations module, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
A Club for the Cosmos
Ezzeddine (PLDA 17, 2014), was having a liftoff of its own. The group’s activities will focus on three industry clusters: civil aviation, defense/security, and space exploration. READ MORE The New Space Race Maiden Voyage UAE’s ambitious, alumni-led space View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Touting Green Energy’s Potential
Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and the Advanced Leadership Initiative at Harvard University. It brought together dozens of academics, practitioners, investors, and policymakers to discuss the current status and future direction... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
this type of manager, the School has introduced a comprehensive, six-week Executive Education program called The General Manager (TGM). The course enables participants to step back from their day-to-day responsibilities to gain a broad,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
declared. “That caused the credit markets worldwide to seize up. The system went into a state of shock.” With Lehman’s abrupt demise, Thain suddenly faced the possibility that his own troubled firm, Merrill Lynch, could be next. “To protect the employees and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
& Sciences and the Harvard Medical School. It initiated new faculty research initiatives on issues like US Competitiveness and the Future of Work. It marked the 50th year anniversaries of women being... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
nonprofit leaders today," says Associate Professor Alnoor Ebrahim, a member of the School's General Management Unit and Social Enterprise Initiative who focuses on the challenges of performance management, accountability, and governance... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
Care Initiative. He teaches the second-year course Transforming Health Care Delivery, as well as executive education programs for a number of hospitals. He serves on the advisory board for RubiconMD, which provides telehealth services,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Honored for Addressing Business and Societal Issues
HBS, along with ten other business schools, has been recognized for its "cutting-edge programs incorporating societal-business issues" in a report issued by the World Resources Institute and the Initiative... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
agricultural innovation, Ibrahim Mustapha is at the vanguard of what could be a green revolution. He belongs to a new farming program called Babban Gona, the brainchild of Kola Masha (MBA 2006) that is aggressively transforming Nigerian... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
brokered creation of the first social impact bond, which supports a program to reduce reoffending rates among former inmates of Her Majesty’s Prison Peterborough, a facility 75 miles north of London housing short-term offenders. The bond... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment The Earth At Night, 2009: Cities may occupy just 2 percent of the planet’s landmass but they hold half the world’s people and produce much of its carbon emissions. Image by NASA/Corbis Issue Focus The Business and Environment... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Health Care a Top Priority at HBS
initiative plans programs and activities that build community among health-care stakeholders, and represents and promotes HBS’s interest in health care. Explains Sterling, “For students interested in health... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Standing in a swirl of tourists that includes a gaggle of teenage girls, clusters of road-weary families, and a nun in full habit, Ted Hustead (OPM 30, 2001) appraises a mechanized Tyrannosaurus rex as it raises its enormous head, roars,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
Since its beginnings 20 years ago, the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative has been a focal point for applying innovative business practices to drive sustainable, high-impact social change. Conceived by John Whitehead (MBA 1947), the SEI was... View Details
Keywords: summary
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
skyward above the flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site’s several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future — and on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
best shot at preventing a future financial meltdown is to be honest about the inevitable risk posed by our biggest financial institutions, and to impose tough and targeted regulation in response. This very conclusion was reached by the Treasury Department in its View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
resident healers. A 10-year board member at Blue Deer, Sprinkles offers healing sessions, hosts monthly fires, and leads an initiation program for young men. “I see elderhood as providing the model for how... View Details