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- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
ESG. Environmental, Social, and Governance. And Steel wasn’t just hearing it, he was seeing it. At some point, it felt like he would see a new story every day about companies that were grappling with climate change, racial justice, or diversity and inclusion. He was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundwork
Proposed Buildings Along Western Avenue ETA Unknown After HBS parking transitions to below-grade, as many as three proposed Western Avenue building sites could offer space for activities that leverage the School’s new proximity to the University’s View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
on sea duty aboard destroyers. The son and nephew of lawyers, Kiechel nevertheless discovered a more natural affinity for business, which led to his enrollment in the joint program. A summer job case writing for Louis Banks, a former... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
we’ve seen in the percentage of women investors and underrepresented groups, including Hispanic and Black investors. It is incredibly motivating for me, and I think we are at the beginning of this sea change. Can there be a shift where... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
graduating from Harvard College in 1988, Audrey Choi went to West Germany on a Fulbright scholarship to study literature. But with the Soviet empire tottering, she found herself drawn to the sea changes taking place around her and the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
says economist Ricardo Torres, from the University of Havana’s Center for the Study of the Cuban Economy, over lunch at Río Mar, a waterfront spot overlooking the juncture of the sea and the Almendares River. Torres explains that when... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
The Lincoln anchored off the coast of Perth. Australia is not a major supply point, so we sourced all over the area, from Guam to Singapore. On some days the seas were so rough that we couldn’t receive supplies from shore. A C-5 cargo... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
ideas to the next level,” notes Thomas Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the program and the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Through courses in business and engineering, as well as specially designed integrated courses co-taught by HBS and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
disturb native forests for firewood and lumber. Aracruz also buys and preserves areas of threatened rain forest and conducts numerous other projects to protect and nurture native flora and fauna. One particularly noteworthy program has protected the coastal nesting... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
through the Adriatic Sea ninety miles from Bosnia. Their mission was to rescue U.S. Air Force Captain Scott O'Grady, who had been shot down by Serbs. The helicopters reached the coast around dawn, flying low to avoid radar detection and... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
is now a hot issue in South Korea, said Chang Sea Jin of Korea University's School of Business Administration, little research has been done on them. Hideki Yoshihara of Japan's Kobe University argued that too much academic attention had... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
continue to accrue, and sea levels will continue to rise. Even the urgent and utterly essential task of reaching net zero cannot be achieved rapidly by emissions reductions alone. To hasten net zero and minimize climate damages... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
financial district of Brooklin to the favelas of Real Parque. Cars buzz by. "See here?" she says, pointing to the bridge. At 6:30 p.m. on most days, it is a sea of snarled traffic, a city hallmark. But when Brazil's national team kicks... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
passionate commitment to investigating the circumstances surrounding the sinkings of the Lusitania, the British liner torpedoed off the coast of Ireland by a German submarine in 1915, and the Estonia, a 1994 Tallinn–Stockholm ferryboat that went down in the Baltic,... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 03 Sep 2018
- News
Moving Pictures
writing “another journalism movie,” Singer soon realized The Post was more about making a decision than getting the story. “It’s a straight-up B-School case,” he says. “You inherit a business for which you have no formal training. Just when you’re getting your View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
India, and Bangladesh alone under threat from rising sea levels by 2100, “water is the medium through which climate change is really going to be experienced,” Ferguson says. “Our ability to steward the water molecule is going to be... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
decades of Vishnu’s life in Mauritius unfold with heart-wrenching detail as he battles to experience the world beyond, as well as to overcome the cultural, political, and familial turmoil that continues to grip him. Through precise language, Silent Winds, Dry View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
monastery. We have also taken a few mini-sabbaticals to range further afield, helping to expand a nonprofit peace organization in Cambodia, sailing around the world twice as professors with 500 college students on the Semester at Sea... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
on racial equity and social justice matters. As reported in the Boston Globe, the group wants to support the “chronically underfunded Black and brown-led nonprofits” and “drive a sea change in how money is doled out,” making the work... View Details