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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
organizations to determine how he would best fit into the field. Since that time, Kendall has brought innovative and pragmatic leadership to conservation efforts ranging from the protection of Costa Rican rain forests to Massachusetts... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
developing country, with an emerging economy. Diagne needed his team to mitigate risks, protect the public’s health, and educate the population without losing ground on key initiatives that would continue to bolster Senegal’s economy,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
top posts at Schering-Plough and Wyeth. Are there structural reforms that could be implemented in the drug industry to lower the market-driven price of drugs? Forcing pharma firms to invest in R&D a minimum percentage of the sales of any FDA-approved drug? Longer... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
protect our front-liners, and food to those who have been greatly affected by the lockdown. While we have been honored to help raise funds for that, we don’t want to stop there. We have teamed with an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
extra effort paid off. Revenue grew by $5.6 million over the previous year to $113 million. HBP and Executive Education helped to offset the $12 million drop in the School’s endowment distribution to $101 million. At the end of the fiscal year, the School’s endowment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
they do. Turf battles often result when each division is more concerned with protecting its own territory than with maximizing the value of the whole. A perverse hierarchy, one that rejects ideas from below, often evolves. And when a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
New Venture Winner an Undercover Success
winner of the Alumni New Venture Contest and its $50,000 grand prize at an April awards ceremony at HBS. “I like to think of our product as the software that protects your hardware,” said Newnam, whose husband, Todd Newnam (MBA 1996)... View Details
- 16 Dec 2021
- News
A Global Alumni Response to the Pandemic
fill the gaps in the production of personal protective equipment (PPE). Many stepped in to fight hunger, provide support for health professionals and frontline workers, deploy technology in new ways that helped communities thrive, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
True Cost of the Iraq Conflict. “The mission of the National Park Service is to protect these resources in perpetuity, but that’s difficult to do when you don’t have a total economic value for that resource.” Previous attempts at... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
fifteen years ago, as a doctoral candidate in Harvard’s Economics Department, Lerner was collecting data on the role of VC funding in the biotechnology industry. Before long, he also became intrigued by the concept of intellectual... View Details
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Kilimanjaro, in 2004, Petzel's climbing party included Lisa Lee, MBA 2000.) The third goal was to use the Everest climb to raise money that would help fund the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility for the porters who... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion annually in projects and programs... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
With its ability to hold steady and provide a regular return, rather than bounce around in time with the volatile stock market, music also starts to look more attractive as a non-correlated risk. The extra yield is especially appealing to institutional investors like... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
funding last March and is ready to scale. “We’ve gone from having a couple of robots in the field to showcase their autonomy to having a fleet of them running miles every day,” Andersen says. And it’s just the beginning of Burro’s... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
- News
A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) has strived for sustainability in the greater world and in her own life. The founder and managing partner of Ecomobilité Ventures, a 25 million multi-corporate venture fund based in France and committed to... View Details
- 11 Jul 2025
- News
Utah Club Dives into Great Salt Lake’s Challenges; Colorado Alumni Talk Defense Over Breakfast
said the state of Utah is actively working to restore water levels by encouraging better agricultural practices, metering secondary water systems, changing water rights policies, helping industries reduce water usage, and focusing on habitat View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Navigating Uncertainty: Dean Datar on HBS’s Path Forward
lot in the news lately about funding pauses and freezes, a potential endowment tax, and perhaps even a challenge to Harvard’s non-profit status—all of which affect the University’s financial position. How are these actions being felt at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
any type is a thorny problem at every stage — innovation, funding, product development, and distribution. “Big companies are not particularly good at innovating, and incumbents are very good at protecting the status quo,” said Dave Prend... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
employees, rapidly rising health-care costs, and the likely loss of existing protection against lawsuits for pain and suffering from medical events. She then disclosed the results of a 1999 KPMG survey of CEOs and consumers about... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details