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- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
strategic advice to the environmental and transportation engineering and consulting industry. Perhaps just as important for Zofnass, EFCG allows him to “merge my vocational interests with my avocational passions, particularly with regard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
a potential rate of return as high as 40 percent, but there are significant hurdles to clear, too. For one, private investors could find themselves at the whim of the Maha-rashtra state government, which is itself often swayed by powerful... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Research Brief: Better to Be Safe with a Sorry
the phone, and a second where he prefaced the ask with, "I'm so sorry about the rain!" The first version produced a successful outcome only 9 percent of the time; the "weather apology" version had a success rate more than five times... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
don’t, the better. Data is the differentiator and will only become increasingly important. Can you give an example? For the past 30 years we’ve operated in an environment where interest rates have slowly... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue to be problems in many countries. High real View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for private equity. There is not enough of a track record of cash... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
reform should be financial stability. We should not be trying to use government guarantees to lower mortgage interest rates per se. So what we call for is regulated privatization with the government playing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
a month, and as one of its youngest members, Kwiker recognized the need to get more young HBS alumni involved. “I went to the president of the club and told him I was interested in hosting a dinner party for recent HBS graduates,” says... View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
Henderson. RH: It must be the British accent. GS: Really, I learn from our collaboration every day. And the way that I got interested in this whole space is obviously by looking at the world and understanding that, one, we’re just... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 30 May 2024
- News
Women’s Association Goes Nationwide; Connecticut Club Hosts Beshears
Alumnae to Celebrate Official Launch of HBS Women’s Association The Harvard Business School Women’s Association (HBSWA) will host a Virtual Launch Celebration on Wednesday, June 12, to mark its official expansion as a nationwide HBS alumnae Shared Interest Group (SIG).... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Doctor Is In
academic and practice leaders, and advance medicine through excellence in biomedical research. A native of Malden, Massachusetts, and a 1984 graduate of Harvard Medical School, Slavin knows exactly when he first became interested in... View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
- News
Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
interests, and then reserve their spot. Hosts set the price of their meals, and Bookalokal earns a commission on each meal. Soon after launching the site, however, Bookalokal's market expanded. It turns out that local diners—especially those new to a city—were also... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
launched in Japan in 2009, and last November we started shipping from the United States to over 90 different countries. MT: So your site translates into the local currency? AM: Yes. There are also duties, taxes, and a flat rate for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
Indeed, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and the microcredit Grameen Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
solutions. Braun believes term limits would make lawmakers more accountable to constituents by diluting the outsized influence of lobbyists, money, and special interest groups in Washington. Harder suggests the way to give “the people” a... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active,... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
interest in the health of the soil. “If you restore soil and agriculture and don’t use chemical fertilizers to grow crops, and you change your tilling practices, if you did this with one in five farms around the world, you would capture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
immigrant, met Sisters Pauline and Rosemarie while trying her luck at the local Catholic school’s weekly game. The nuns’ interest in Kwame and his family’s circumstances ultimately led to a scholarship at Venerini Academy, which put him... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
MBA Program:Rapid Innovation in '96
require three or four years of work experience," says Wheelwright. "In fact, we don't. We're interested in having more students consider coming to HBS directly from college; many of our alumni who did so say the experience helped them... View Details