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- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
infrastructure updates are happening so that we can provide the support and the risk management and the code enforcement, if you will, that is needed for the infrastructure piece. And so I think to climate-proof at scale, to me, it has to be a public View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
worked so hard to build? Simple. From Perkowski’s ringside seat inside the Middle Kingdom, the entrepreneurial grass now grew greener elsewhere. While he was busy building ASIMCO, the Chinese economy took off with a galloping GDP and ballooning View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
NEW FRIENDS: Stephen Kraus (MBA ’08) meets students of Shanghai’s Weihang Migrant School, a privately funded school for the children of rural-to-urban migrant workers. HBS ramped up its commitment to the winter break Immersion Program... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
leveraged as a skilled global workforce. With a shortage of qualified teachers and access to quality education still limited in many parts of the country, that condition remains a significant barrier. “If the Indian government View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
halt. In the summer of 1994 alone, more than 30,000 Cubans fled to the United States via boats and makeshift rafts. Faced with these economic realities, Fidel Castro’s government began some private sector... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
Portnet a global standard, particularly as the state-run corporation expands overseas. It now has about ten port ventures in seven countries. Khoo reckons that within the next six years, more than a third of PSA’s business will come from outside Singapore. PSA is to be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
provide an environment in which the private sector can do what it does best. That's why many donors focus on strengthening governance and developing the public sector's capabilities. How is the development... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
medical advances. The effect of the ban, experts say, has been to slow research and drive it into areas where it is supported in patchwork fashion by academic institutions, individual states, private firms, and foundations. Stem cells... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
firm that cares about good corporate governance.” I believe the way to good corporate governance is to add only the highest quality individuals to boards. In some ways, we used to have an unspoken quota system for boards. It was that men... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
will elect five members of the University's Board of Overseers and six directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. Candidates for Overseer The Board of Overseers is one of Harvard's two governing boards, the other being the President and... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
the intersecting worlds of social entrepreneurship. Using examples from nonprofits, foundations, private industry, and government, Keohane presents a history of social entrepreneurship, explores its impacts, and chronicles both the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
KPMG for Mayor!
and graft means that citizens are cheated out of a fair government that operates efficiently and in the public interest. It’s time to consider a radical idea: Corporations and nonprofit groups, in addition to individuals, should be... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
provide us only with high valuation." Entrepreneurial Finance is currently taught by Professors Howard Stevenson and Jay Light, and Senior Lecturers Joe Lassiter and Ed Zschau. Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector Funding cutbacks, diminished View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular authority about the strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter organized a two-day conference titled "America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st Century," held at HBS in February. To help spur action on this critical component of US business and competitiveness, Kanter... View Details
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion
stage all those who wished to talk directly to the Ambassador. “More than 20 guests had the opportunity to chat in private and further dwell on the issues raised during her speech,” he says. “Such direct access to the Ambassador was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
grown the concern into one of Brazil’s largest nonfood discount retailers with some 500 stores and a powerful Internet presence: Today, half of Lojas’s sales take place online. In 1993, Sicupira, Jorge Paulo Lemann, and Marcel Telles, longtime business partners from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career of Peter Brooke, who has been called “the... View Details