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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce the University’s environmental... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping India’s energy crisis, one bulb at a time
When Raghu Yarlagadda (MBA 2014) visited his native India in 2009, signs of a persistent energy crisis were everywhere: villages going dark to conserve energy, youngsters inhaling fumes while studying by kerosene lamp, and candles posing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Science Buddy
Hess Courtesy Sciencebuddies.org After seeing his daughter win a science prize, Ken Hess (MBA ’78), himself a science buff since childhood, wondered how he could help other young people with science projects and science appreciation. The founder of two successful... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
inequalities, the challenge [is] who should pay for the fight against climate change. And now there's a third piece that has been added: how to address the issues around the conservation of biodiversity. “So climate change, international... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
- News
Don’t Scare the Bankers
kind of hilarious to me. But that was then, and now it’s semi-communist China that’s keeping American capitalism afloat. And Mr. Ji’s notion of banking was shaped in a different era, when banking was still a proudly conservative... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central Park View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Mobilizing Action on Climate Change and Water Quality
restore the Blasket Islands in West Kerry, and that project has been going for 25 years. It’s a nonprofit conservation project; we’ve done great work on that and I think the confidence to do that came from here. “And then in my work, in... View Details
- 06 Oct 2016
- News
“You Could Be Dead Any Second”
(CBS: 60 Minutes) (CBS: 60 Minutes) For anyone else, it would be enough—to somehow survive being taken hostage in Yemen. In 1998, Mary Quin (MBA 1988), a senior executive at Xerox and inveterate traveler was touring the conservative... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
Other HBS alumni are also feeling welcome inside the Beltway. Among them is longtime conservative tax strategist Grover Norquist (MBA ’81), president of Americans for Tax Reform, who “has the Bush administration’s ear,” the New York Times... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?
important thing. All right. Make sure that U.S. kids are globally competitive and you don’t have to import the brains to launch businesses. Second, when people start demonizing half of the country as godless heathens or conservative nuts,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Edgar Koerner (MBA 1959)
I remember our class as a conservative bunch, concerned with falling in line, getting a job, and making a buck. I, however, wasn’t so sure what I wanted to do. After graduation, an uncle at S.G. Warburg in London suggested I come work... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Working Behind the Scenes — Alan F. Horn (MBA 1971)
Conservation International. "I'm not in a position to work directly on environmental matters, but I can put my money where my mouth is and support those organizations that are actively involved in this work," Horn explains. Horn's more... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
producers and farmers and giving them an equal voice in the process,” Johnson-Hoffman said. Heidi Gilbertson (MBA 2017),an associate brand manager at MillerCoors, discussed a new effort by the company to conserve water by setting up... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
In addition, customers will be able to order beverages and access content relating to events and news in their immediate area. What is Starbucks' attitude toward coffee farmers and the environment in developing countries? We became involved with View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
can divide all leaders into two categories: the takers and the givers. We’ve been choosing the takers. We need to choose givers.” Taking issue with Kanter’s critique of conservative ideology, Gergen opined that the nation’s leadership... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 22 Oct 2009
- News
Investing in Clean Energy
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
have been disproportionately affected by the entrenched interests of utilities, Riley observes. The green-energy pitch isn’t always a politically compelling idea in these often more conservative communities, but, he says, “It’s not about... View Details
- 11 Jan 2019
- News
Case Study: Beating Bias
to the cesspool of anonymous comments. With 70 million millennials in the US, Patel is optimistic about the market. “Even if we were able to capture interest in 1 percent of that, we’re conservatively looking at a million potential... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session “Crafting the Future of Green... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Wind Shift
HBS professor George P. Baker, a finance expert, has in recent years become an alternative-energy change agent as well, spearheading community wind projects in Maine. Now on leave from HBS, Baker is the CEO of Fox Islands Wind LLC, which last November unveiled three... View Details