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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
million relief and recovery fundraising effort to a $50 million goal that will aid partner organizations in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, and Oakland. (Thanks to Owusu-Kesse’s seven-minute TED talk, HCZ raised $26... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Opinions vary as to where things stand with the current economic climate: Are we in recovery mode, stalled, or still bottoming out? The distance of history offers a clearer perspective, as evidenced by an exhibit at the Baker Library |... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
economic stagnation of the middle class? The labor movement supports the agenda that Barack Obama has skillfully outlined for revitalizing our economy and rebuilding the middle class. First, we have to have a real economic recovery... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Vital Signs
impact from this global pandemic and have an opportunity to use their investment decisions to support companies that make positive change. What about long-term negative impacts to the health care venture landscape that could arise from the pandemic? HT: We don’t yet... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
and HBS graduate, Popik is acutely aware of the challenges of profit-making enterprises. “The current system of grid security often results in unfunded mandates for utilities, and that’s why industry often opposes common-sense fixes,” he explains. “Cost View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
during this unprecedented public health crisis. She is committed to planning for the long recovery and rebuilding process that lies ahead. “I’m proud that, over the last year, Welbodi was able to play an important role in helping three... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
injuries, novice mistakes, and the heartbreaking loss of a best friend. When breast cancer threatens her own life, she seeks solace and recovery in the wild. Her quest takes 10 years. Regardless of the need since childhood to feel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
assumptions for 2009 as well as 2010. All mining companies are cutting back across the board; they’re curtailing greenfield exploration as well as developmental brownfield projects. Because demand, especially from China, will surge, there’s going to be a severe... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Lesson Plans
the scope of Khan Academy around, you know, how can you organize pandemic schooling if your school district hasn’t figured out how to do this well yet? JH: Khan says that in the recovery phase that we’re undergoing now, tools like Khan... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
(photo by Brooks Kraft/Getty) Sunny jobs reports and shrinking unemployment numbers might give the impression that the US economic recovery is complete. Scratch beneath that surface, though, and a much bleaker trend emerges, says a new... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
myeloid leukemia, a blood cancer in which abnormal white blood cells grow quickly. They comforted her by saying that the chemotherapy they were prescribing would attack the abnormal cells. And it did. But her recovery from post-remission... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
energy savings. If you invest in an energy recovery ventilator, for example, an owner can quickly see that the upfront capital costs for the equipment will be recouped in a few years. It’s a straightforward calculus—executives can... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- News
Leadership Lessons from the “Lone Survivor” Mission
the ground. He'd arrived there, and he'd looked around, and he'd made that very ominous radio call that everyone in my command could hear, which was, we've located Turbine 33, and there are no survivors. Then we knew that this was going to be purely a View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
Ivashina. “That’s how we learn. In Silicon Valley, it’s a badge of honor. But the MENA environment is not as conducive to a quick recovery after failure. The successful entrepreneurs that we’ve seen in the region are the survivors.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
College of New York, where he received his BA cum laude in 1933. He earned a Ph.D. in economics in 1941 from Columbia University. He then spent 24 years at the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Department of State working on aspects of the postwar View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
role as managing partner at Global Ventures, doing all the things hard-driving VCs do—like making presentations from a hospital bed. In March 2021, Enan traveled to New York for open heart surgery to repair a mitral valve prolapse. The View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
New Orleans, but more importantly, there was no access and no housing. Within five days of the storm, we were operating in an IBM business recovery center in Dallas, where we sent about 120 employees and their families. We had 100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
innovation was the introduction of user fees, an idea sparked in part by a spate of climbing mishaps on Mount McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park that had sent rescue and recovery costs soaring. (Recalls Cohen: “Hard-core climbers... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
Burt's Bees Inc., adopted a different approach, recounting how a twenty-minute yoga session recently helped her make a difficult business decision. "Follow your bliss," she told attendees. Asia Business Conference Looks Ahead to Economic View Details