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- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
Enterprise Fund was doing on the ground and to see what else I could do in Egypt—and that was too difficult to judge from the United States.” In September 2018, she returned to Cairo. At Consoleya, a Cairo coworking space: “I’m cautious when View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
You Only Thought You Were Republican
racked up a cumulative deficit — the national debt — of nearly $10 trillion . . . and fully three-quarters of that was racked up under just 3 of our 43 presidents: Reagan, Bush, and Bush. We all realize that some level of national debt is fine — if it’s being... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
colleagues to invest in a regional cellular company. “I knew it was a good investment, but I had no idea mobile would reach 100 percent market penetration,” he says. Interested in building media companies with like-minded partners, Nelson... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Making It Count
by 2025, which would amount to a third of all assets under management around the world. But sandwiched somewhere between the high hopes and higher stakes of sustainable investing looms the big question: Will... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation
tradition in architecture when it gave him its Stanford White Award. In his current role of directing real estate investments for his family’s Samson Investment Partners, Zuckerberg works to stay grounded in... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
and the HBS Club of New York, the event offered faculty and alumni perspectives on the role of the investment community in addressing climate change. Professor Joseph Lassiter served as moderator of the four-person panel, which included... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
and Santiago, Chile For-profit conservationists David Blood (MBA 1985) Generation Investment Management London, New York, and Sydney Investment management that integrates View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
Carl Ferenbach (MBA 1972) is cofounder and retired managing director of the Boston-based private equity firm Berkshire Partners and chair of the Environmental Defense Fund. In this video interview, he talks about his growing interest in View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable... View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
private debt and equity options. That position took her on a trip to Kenya this summer to search for investment opportunities—including microfinance, sustainable agriculture, clean cook stoves, and urban... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
There may be a simple solution to the complex problem of climate change. Don Wiviott (MBA 1984) is cofounder and partner of Sustainable Farm Partners (SFP), a combination farming operation and private equity group that is buys... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
opportunity to drive innovative environmental policy, Professor Michael W. Toffel told an audience of HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni at the University Club of Washington DC, on February 12, 2020. “The traditional approach firms use to address View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
problems. Supply chains will be disrupted. There will be new conflicts over water, resources, and human migration. The very physical integrity of factories and buildings will be threatened. So what can businesses do? For most firms, environmental View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Zofnass Photo courtesy Paul Zofnass A longtime environmentalist, Paul Zofnass (MBA 1973) founded the Environmental Financial Consulting Group (EFCG) in 1990, after 17 years in finance at Citibank and at Oppenheimer (where he was managing director of View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
the opposite direction.” Gore and David Blood (MBA ’85) are founding partners of Generation Investment Management, a firm that makes long-term investments in companies adhering to View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
easy to find circular economy models that are interesting, but few have achieved the scale and financial sustainability Apple has,” says George Serafeim, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration, who heard Claure tell... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
Institute for Sustainable Investing, that shows that 80 percent of individual investors in those next generations are interested in sustainable investments that can be... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
have been a huge mistake. Two years earlier, she and her partner, Peter Strugatz, had purchased the assets of Great Harbor Design at public auction for $26,000. The former owner had invested $4 million in perfecting a durable building... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
Merkl: Managing water resources for a sustainable future. Photo Courtesy of Andreas Merkl They say all rivers lead to the sea. If that is true, then it's only fitting that Andreas Merkl (MBA 1989) should find himself today at the helm of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
December 2015 Deconstructing Draper Re: Golden State of Mind I admire Tim Draper (MBA 1984) for his sustained interest in rebooting public education in California. Too few HBS alums are engaged with public education, no doubt because of... View Details