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- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
charities. The federal government contributed as well. SVA offered 12 percent return. Wind the clock forward eight years, and we met and exceeded our targets. We repaid the debt two years before expected, and there’s better quality early... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
establishment. If government isn’t addressing these issues, can companies take a leadership role? MT: A lot of companies are trying to figure out what they can do in the absence of regulation. Companies like Microsoft have gone on record... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
smiling these days. Despite Washington’s contentious political environment, he’s employed at a US government foreign-aid organization, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), that actually enjoys broad bipartisan support. Everybody,... 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
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
requirement for operating in the country—sometimes requires creativity. A recent umbrella order took about three months to fill (“I guess there are no umbrellas in Cuba”), and even something as common as room upgrades requires oversight by View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Shattering Glass
Gender Initiative Director Colleen Ammerman and HBS professor Boris Groysberg ask why. When women made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States in 2019, why are they still dramatically underrepresented in the ranks... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
topics including financing new ventures, deal structuring, valuation, initial public offerings, leveraged buyouts, and financial distress. "Entrepreneurial Finance looks at the acquisition and deployment of resources at each stage of the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
and the costs sometimes associated with implementing "green" strategies - strong government regulation at home and abroad will continue to be necessary in order to motivate many businesses to become more environmentally accountable. He... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
by the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) , in partnership with the HBS Association of Southern California (HBSASC), the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC), and the HBS Club of San Diego (HBSCSD), the event was the sixth... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater
says her classmates’ queries about her work at HBS had a distinct progression. Initially intrigued by her decision to stay on campus and join the admissions office, every five-year reunion saw that intrigue increasingly yield to a new... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
opinion, the current path is unsustainable.” Bodman explained that President Bush’s energy initiative “essentially proposes that we will start to pick some winners. That may not be the usual role for government, but I believe we must do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
the scourge of too big to fail. One is to break up the largest financial institutions, possibly with a new and improved Glass-Steagall law. The other is to perfect a bankruptcy process for super-sized financial firms so they can fail safely without the need for View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
with the Yoga clinic’s foray into electronic medical records, the government has supported the company’s initiatives with grants—a way of looking to Mediva to light the path ahead. And bit by bit, it’s... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
partners such as incubators, accelerators, government agencies, and other organizations, the NVSC aims to facilitate connectivity within the ecosystem, and leverage the intellectual, social, and financial capital of alumni. That might be... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
systems and nonfunctional governance systems." "In the 1980s," says Jensen, "there were many more takeovers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings intended to create efficiency and value. While some of this is happening now,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 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
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
preceded the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by more than a decade. Today, the company routinely garners plaudits for its worklife balance and workforce diversity programs. One extraordinary IBM initiative that is both worker- and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
Albert J. Dobron, Jr. by Marguerite Rigoglioso "Been there; done that." That's what first came to Al Dobron's mind when he thought about getting involved in student government at HBS. But by his second semester, the former student leader... View Details