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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
president and had attended Georgetown, that’s where I set my sights.” Brown soon established herself as a student leader at Georgetown. One of the university’s board members, Lloyd Campbell, then a managing director at Credit Suisse First... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
enabled everyone to say, 'Here's what we're doing to improve things.'" Rossotti dramatized the scope of the agency's IT problems by taking key congressional staffers on a bus trip-first to the virtually paperless office of a credit card... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
services. The need is daunting. “There are nearly 4 million 18- to 24-year-olds out of work who don’t have more than a high-school degree,” explains Chertavian. Nearly 500 students now attend the full-time Year Up program while earning college View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
COVID-19’s impact on the sector makes 2009 look like a teeny blip.” There are over 30 million small businesses in the United States, accounting for half of the nation’s private sector employment and the majority of job creation. Many of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
place during the day, between 10 a.m. and 2 or 3 p.m. and we try to mix a bit of business education with every activity.” Past activities have included a private tour of the Federal Reserve Bank with a discussion with executives, a lunch... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
students and graduates that has grown sharply over the decades. Last year, more than 15 percent of all elective credits in the MBA Program were earned in the School's courses on entrepreneurship. Moreover, in recent surveys, over half of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen. Even in the View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
connectors. China, which outstrips both Europe and the United States in terms of EV adoption, wants to put 3 to 5 million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020. China’s central government has also opened the state-run power sector to View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
grounding in every aspect of the business. “I like to tell people that I rose up the ranks through the sheer force of nepotism,” he deadpans with self-deprecating humor. He made HBS his last training stop before taking over as president and CEO in 1999. Since then, the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
first started attending its public meetings, he says, the lawyers and lobbyists in the room were shocked when he told them he was just “a private citizen concerned about a long-term collapse of the US electric grid.” An attorney told... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
investor interest is rising in both the public and the private sector: In December, the US Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of programs and prizes meant to further kick-start the industry; In April, payments giant Stripe... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
countries and annual revenues in excess of $126 million. The privately financed organization has nearly 5 million members. Under his leadership, the WWF has launched an ambitious new strategy to focus its efforts on protecting nineteen of... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
found in poor countries; bad legislation and ineffective judiciaries in rich nations can enable it.” Defined by the watchdog group Trans-parency International (TI) as “the abuse of entrusted power for private gain,” corruption includes a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Producers
Martin Scorsese. But a producer? What do they do, anyway? Part of the confusion lies in the burgeoning number of credits (executive producer, coproducer, co–executive producer ) that have become a familiar part of a film’s opening... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
paradise enjoyed by Turtle Island Resort's fourteen guest couples. Fourteen couples, fourteen private beaches, each with its own cottage, or bure, designed and constructed according to the standards of traditional Fijian craftsmanship... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
resistance to the idea, which was first proposed by Alison Berkley Wagonfeld and Bill Nussey (both MBA 1996) as a project for Professor Josh Lerner’s Venture Capital and Private Equity elective. The next year, three members of the Class... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Marketing; Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization; Real Property Asset Management; Venture Capital and Private Equity; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; and Running and Growing the Small Company. Several related courses... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
these things, people look on it as the most difficult country to change." And yet, a shift appears under way. A new reformist government has started treating agriculture as a problem to be solved by industry rather than by aid. Private... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
health care, higher education, and housing — climbed steeply. To finance what they needed and wanted, growing numbers of households turned to various forms of credit. By 2001, almost three-quarters of all American families owned at least one View Details