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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
times as many Ph.D.’s as India. Basic education and technical and vocational training languish despite renewed government commitments. The rich-poor gap in education is mirrored in health care — India boasts hospitals and clinics with... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Partners, the social enterprise track winner, plans to create a for-profit education management company operating charter and contract K–12 public schools. “Winning was very affirming and gave us a renewed energy to carry out our plan,”... View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
- News
The Beauty of the Network
of the same exfoliating and renewing properties as glycolic acid, without its harsh side effects. (The substance is harvested without damaging the newborn salmon.) On a quick visit to celebrate her 25th Reunion, Pao took part in a panel... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The Power of Prayer
These days, getting money and housing together is a tricky issue. So there was good news from Florida, one of the hardest hit real-estate markets, when the Miami-area chapter of the Collective Banking Group (CBG) renewed its partnership... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
mitigating risks, pursuing new opportunities, and participating in the policy arena,” says Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative. “You don’t have to work for an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ears to the Ground
coverage leads to better results, Clark says, and a greater likelihood of a city renewing its subscription. The ShotSpotter process begins with a gunshot, which activates its audio sensors. Data is sent to a cloud-based software system,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
London after leaving Soldiers Field. Then, in the late '90s, Barry came home — for good, he says — as a manager for National Toll Roads in Dublin. The company, which focuses on road infrastructure, waste management, and renewable energy... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
“You are seeing meaningful renewable programs in most states, and that’s both good news and bad news.” Using the example of her own company, a private equity firm investing in the energy sector, she explained the challenges of working... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Batten Gift to Support Residential Campus
Frank Batten, a member of the MBA Class of 1952, has made an extraordinary $32 million gift to HBS. The gift — one of the largest in the School’s history — will support the renewal and enhancement of the Soldiers Field campus. “Frank... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
so we could renew our domain name!” Now operating with a full-time, paid executive director and modest support from grants, Upside marked a major milestone earlier this year, when it reached the goal of growing its membership to 150... View Details
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
research-led effort he cochairs with Michael Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor. The project, designed to explore steps business leaders can take to strengthen U.S. competitiveness, currently focuses on improving PK–12 education, View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
ambitious goal is to be a “zero waste, zero carbon company, operating on 100 percent renewable energy in LEED certified buildings” by 2020. The case vividly documents some of the measures taken by Burt’s to meet that goal, such as a... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
Verizon’s move to shift its energy use to 50 percent renewables by 2025, and supply chain programs to increase carbon sequestration through soil health initiatives with companies like Danone and Cargill: “Through photosynthesis, we can... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Gibson Hits a High Note
33ffea43b3115eba957356db0b41a6e4 It’s a turnaround story almost too good to be true. Gibson Guitar was down, and nearly out, in 1986 when Henry Juszkiewicz (MBA ’79) and David Berryman (MBA ’79) bought the legendary Nashville maker of acoustic and electric guitars.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
HBS alumnus Philip Rettger on partnering with the Harvard endowment
Philip Rettger (MBA 1985) has focused his career on renewable and sustainable energy. "While none of us knows what the future will offer for investment returns, I am pleased that the charitable remainder trust that I established several... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Good Day, Sunshine
Beautiful, sunny autumn days provided a spectacular backdrop for eighteen hundred alumni and guests who returned to HBS for fall reunions. Members of the MBA Classes of 1949, 1954, 1959, 1964, 1969, and 1974 spent the first weekend of October View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
New Releases
with technology and new organizational structures, are creating health care delivery systems that offer high quality and low costs. Analyzing the successes and failures of a variety of health-care ventures, Herzlinger demonstrates, in particular, how the "focused... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Ethiopia, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in January 2017. Students enrolled in Africa: Building Cities divided into eight teams based on their interests and explored ideas for attracting private investment over the next decade in areas such as View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Student Teams Take on Real-World Innovation
explains. At GE, students worked on developing a plan for shifting from large-scale energy generation projects to smaller-scale ones to take advantage of solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources. The NASA project challenged... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
Sustainable Farming in the Arid World
investing in the sector, I really thought there had to be a better way to go about this business, to create a more stable business, one that takes less of a toll on the environment. “Sundrop Farms is a developer, owner, and operator of protected growing facilities and... View Details