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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
such, it is appropriate to reflect on the IRA’s barrier-breaking spending on climate change compared to our defense budget. The IRA budget for climate is just 4 percent of the country’s defense budget on... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
A Focus on Sustainability
in more than 100 middle-market companies and currently has $11 billion under management. Since officially retiring in 2012, he now oversees a family office that focuses primarily on environmental and educational organizations. His multipronged approach has included... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
executives from the aerospace and defense industries, Fortune 500 presidents, general managers in the Boston area, and heads of nonbusiness organizations about their decision-making. Based on his interviews, Roberto concludes that leaders... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Philip L. Yeo: The Next Big Thing
of Defense. "I enjoyed public service so much," he says, "that thirty years later, I'm still at it!" After graduating from HBS, and after more years of service at the Defense Ministry, Yeo was named chairman of Singapore's Economic... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
preachy." Horn was subsequently asked to become a board member of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) in 1990. "In the face of the Contract with America's rollback efforts, NRDC is a staunch defender of clean air, clean water,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Fellowship Fuels a Passion for a Career in Aviation
international big-ticket asset financing. After being invited to speak at the HBS Aerospace and Aviation Club, he was inspired to endow a fellowship that would benefit students pursuing careers in the aviation, aerospace, and defense... View Details
- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
White House conference on environmental quality that convened engineering firms and federal procurement officials, both the Defense Department and the EPA approached the Zofnass Program to learn more about Envision. Zofnass Program... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009)
“It was the greatest leadership challenge I’ll ever face.” —Taking lessons learned in Iraq to HBS and Washington Maura Corby Sullivan (MBA/MPA 2009) served as a Marine Corps captain in Iraq. She was recently named assistant to the defense... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
eleven responses and landed three interviews. “It was,” she says, “a searing experience because I felt it was totally directed at women.” Two job offers came from government — OMB and Defense — but Cohen opted for a private-sector... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Defending Your Brand: How Smart Companies Use Defensive Strategy to Deal with Competitive Attacks by Tim Calkins (MBA 1991) (Palgrave Macmillan) Calkins, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, shows business leaders how to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987)
the turnaround. I knew the brands were still very strong in the mind of the consumer and, with the right team, that we could rebuild the company. I was very clear in the interview process that the name of the company had to change. If your name is Reader’s Digest,... View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- News
Paving the Way to College
Children’s Defense Fund; and helped to select the first secretary of education while a senior White House aide in the Carter Administration. Now semi-retired, Frankel is executive director of College Match, a nonprofit he founded in Los... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Big Doings in Big Apple: New York Club Hosts Multiple Events
Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund (CDF), and Charles R. ("Chuck") Lee (MBA '64), chairman and CEO of GTE Corporation. Edelman, who established the CDF in 1973, received the club's Leadership Award and was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Books: Judo Strategy
belts in putting judo strategy to work. They also suggest why this approach can sometimes fail. Managers reading this book will gain insights that will help them develop their own judo strategies, and sharpen their defenses against judo... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
organizational settings. (One such useful psychoanalytic concept is "splitting," a defense mechanism against anxiety in which the individual ascribes positive attributes to one entity—usually one's own group—while imbuing another group... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
Coca-Cola and Walmart, and governments like South Africa and Bhutan and even China, investing in sustainability," he says. The 51-year-old Atlanta native is married to Jackie Prince Roberts, director of sustainable technologies, climate and air for the Environmental... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
reframed the problem. That’s what needs to happen in cybersecurity.” Make Life Harder for the Hackers Ray Rothrock has this condensed history of cybercrime, broken down into eras based on their respective defense strategies. There were... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
have the skills that you don’t,” she said. In the end that included experts and officials in clinical development, manufacturing, and delivery. “I also added people from government with defense procurement and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
intriguing new book Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle (Twelve), written by Dan Senor (MBA ’01) and Saul Singer, a columnist at the Jerusalem Post. Most Israelis in their late teens serve several years in the elite Israel View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
field of critical thinking. Just think back to the 2008 financial crisis, when a group of experts ignored the warning signs and arrived at an uncritical consensus. The consequences were disastrous, Bouygues reminds us, but the best View Details