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- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
Reservoir; fund a permanent New England Forest Exhibition at the Harvard Museum of Natural History; and establish an environmental scholarship at Harvard College, his undergraduate alma mater. Another Zofnass project in the news recently is the Zofnass Program for... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
Will Rogers by Maureen Harmon Every year, Will Rogers (MBA 1985) packages honey from his backyard beehive operation and doles it out to major supporters of the Trust for Public Land, where he serves as president and CEO. The hives, which he's kept for more than 40... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Future of Cities
Having trouble finding parking? Consider this: In forty years, there will be 3 billion more citizens on Spaceship Earth, mostly in the developing world’s cities, as the planet’s population hits 9 billion in 2050. To consider how cities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
governments (Abu Dhabi’s Masdar City); dual-government ventures (Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City, near Beijing); and company-led projects (PlanIT Valley, developed in Portugal by a high-tech company as an R&D center for View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve the bottom line. That’s why HBS Online introduced a course on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
to be a journalist,” she recalls. Later, at ABC News, Lemmon twice pursued fellowships in Europe. With each exposure to life overseas, she became more interested in development issues. “People need jobs to create stronger families, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that managers should keep in mind... View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
Locally Grown
Aravaipa Ventures, a fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in Colorado. Fenwick-Smith had private equity know-how but had never been involved in creating venture funds. It was that lack of direct experience... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and his coauthors examine the practices of diverse companies such as Infosys, Nokia, Tata, and Campbell Soup to identify specific leadership goals essential for achieving sustainable value... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
from disparate backgrounds.” During his final year at HBS, he heard a talk by WWF president and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA ’88). “In Ghana,” says Murphy, “I had come to the conclusion that sustainable business View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
has similar distribution partners in Ethiopia, Kenya, Senegal, and Argentina. Both companies are affiliated with the Stiftung Solarenergie International Network for Rural Development, a German foundation dedicated to development aid. The... View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
We can invest in areas like agriculture, sustainable forestry, conservation, and tourism, and blend together development capital and financial capital so that everybody has the right risk-reward profile for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
for living, Sherbloom discusses six spiritual principles (resilience, surrender, gratitude, generosity, mystery, and awakening) drawn from spiritual disciplines that developed about 2,600 years ago. The Ruler’s Guide: China’s Greatest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
portfolio of programs in parallel.” In an industry where serial entrepreneurship is the norm, Cytokinetics’s approach instead requires “a strategy based on sustainability and durability” that includes forging significant partnerships with... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A commitment to conservation supports the bottom line
firm, achieves that balance, in part, through a vehicle known as a “conservation easement.” The firm buys land and then sells the development rights to conservation groups. The sale of these rights generates an early, partial return to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
standard of living. But Amar Bhidé (MBA ’79, DBA ’88) thinks the “gathering storm” theory is not only wrong but alarmist and harmful. Writing in his book The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected... View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
profitable since 2016 and grew nearly 70 percent in 2018, with revenues of $100 million. As a result, she sees no reason to take on more funding. “We have a really sustainable business at this point,” Lin says. “We’re growing at a nice... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?
startups need office space!) From the interview: LAT: Experience teaches us that the real estate market is cyclical, and we’ve been on the upswing for years now. Is it time for a downturn? Sultentic: We expect the economy will sustain... View Details