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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
entrepreneurial activities so that the mistakes of earlier efforts are not repeated. He looks at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents, explains why some public View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
governments, NGOs, foundations, and other international development organizations, to enable more effective decision-making. IDinsight has offices in three countries and works across a diverse set of development sectors. In India, IDinsight is helping to improve a $200... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
passions have spurred him, among other accomplishments, to spearhead the creation of a 250-acre nature preserve (with a 10-mile walking trail) in Pound Ridge, New York; initiate and finance the identification of, and publish a brochure... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
University Elections
May 31. Results of the elections will be announced on Commencement Day, June 6. Candidates for Overseer The Board of Overseers is one of Harvard’s two governing boards, the other being the President and Fellows, which is more commonly... 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 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
informed decisions using data and make the system more resilient, limiting the consequences of bad decisions.” One such effort is the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability Project, an interdisciplinary research initiative across... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
This month marks the first anniversary of the American-led invasion of Iraq. Within weeks of their initial military assault, U.S. and coalition troops triumphed over the Iraqi army and took on a new mission — rebuilding a country... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
run to the safety of her rescuers. Four of the other tourists were killed. Quin returned home to Rochester, New York, aware that the ordeal had permanently changed her. But she thought it best to wait until some of the initial shock had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
communicate with their families, who can’t come into the hospital. That’s a new form of telemedicine that we really hadn’t thought of until this pandemic was upon us. The Health Care Initiative at HBS Robert Huckman and Peter Slavin have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
with the oil crises of the 1970s, but unlike the United States, where the government invested hundreds of millions in technology development, the Nordic country saw more organic and long-term growth. Its smaller private firms focused on... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
the end, that’s what an effective government does: It provides services to citizens and gives them the basics to do better. Today’s system creates fewer and fewer of those opportunities to move up,” says Ballou-Aares, who was selected as... View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
An education reformer and social entrepreneur
Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS), a cultural exchange organization that has served 1.5 million students worldwide. In 1987 he began working with the British government to establish charter-type schools that specialized in technology.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Dean Clark Addresses Journalists
meet market measures of success, he said, sound judgment and principles were suspended by individuals and governance institutions alike. In seeking solutions to these problems, Clark suggested a two-pronged approach. “The first step will... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Two Decades of Social Progress
The Social Enterprise Initiative began in 1993 with a pioneering mission: develop new insights and innovative approaches to contribute to the well-being of society. Driven by the vision of John Whitehead (MBA 1947) and the leadership of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
to the Times, is “to invigorate private-sector initiatives in these industries, then in a host of supplier companies, and eventually throughout manufacturing.” Commented Bloom, “I am deeply afraid that if you lose the ability to make... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that... View Details
- 20 Nov 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
only thing missing was ominous John Williams theme music playing in the background. CollaborateUp specializes in bringing corporations, government agencies, nonprofits, and other organizations together, to take on big, complex issues,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
received a boost from Russia’s launching of a space satellite, Sputnik, in 1957. This was a shock because Russia’s scientific prowess was not taken seriously at the time. The United States committed to putting a man on the moon in the next decade. View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Ministry of Trade when his government sent him to study at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Duch enrolled at HBS because he wanted “to have both sides of the river as an experience, understanding the business side from the public... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg