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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
capital Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) World Wildlife Fund Worldwide locations World's largest independent conservation organization Brian Robertson (MBA 2004) Amonix Seal Beach, California; North Las Vegas, Nevada; and Torrance, California... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
compelled to focus on protective legal processes and box-checking exercises rather than on formulating company strategy, identifying risks, and evaluating executive performance. The increasing time commitment required of board members,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
a computer model of a potential mRNA-based vaccine. Twenty-five days after that, it produced the first dose of a treatment it hoped would protect against a disease that did not yet have a name. On February 24, after 17 days of analysis... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
and insightful, it needs to be rolled out through student organizations (clubs, the Greek system, etc.) and funded by nonprofits or grants. Another choice would be a freemium model, but that will be difficult to do without alienating the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
plantations and company towns. Making the 10,400 photos ready for viewing requires that Anderson free each from its taped confines. Afterward, she places them in transparent Mylar sleeves to protect against dirt and handling. On a recent... View Details
Keywords: Roger thompson
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
mediocrity. I now feel emboldened to say no to certain priorities, and recognize that by doing so, I am protecting the organization in the long run." While SPNM informs and shapes the participants, they, in turn, are continuously... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
offers four humanitarian Rainbows of Hope, personal and ambitious projects that have yet to reach fruition: the Hope Scholarship, which provides funds to help eligible high school graduates attend college; Hope for Starving Children, to... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
the fastest-growing competitive local exchange carrier in the world, adding 500,000 customers in 10 months, and the stock price tripled. Then we learned that 40 percent of our customers couldn’t pay their bills. The capital markets crashed, and one partner decided not... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
and challenges facing the modern investor. It follows the rise of funded retirement, the evolution of investment vehicles and techniques, investment misdeeds and regulatory reform, government economic policy, the development of investment... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
have significant “skin in the game” when they securitize these mortgages, probably more than the 5 percent required by the Dodd-Frank Act. Lenders should have to hold significantly more capital to protect against losses from these riskier... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
and to try to protect children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. These initiatives form the cornerstone of UNICEF, founded by the UN in 1946 as the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund. The agency (which has since... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
those diseases. “These people have no voice in the marketplace,” Gates said. As a result, ten times as much funding is devoted to research on the prevention of male baldness as malaria, a disease that kills more than 1 million people each... View Details
- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: The Voice Project is an 18-year-old non-profit dedicated to protecting freedom of expression. In this conversation between Voice Project cofounder Hunter... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
Palepu: Through tax deferments on pension money, society is giving tax breaks so that people can save and invest for the long term. And so one idea that has been proposed is that, because the government is giving a tax break, it should be... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
can take to begin to fight racism. Organized around the themes of biased policing, electoral disenfranchisement, and economic exclusion, the pledge calls on business leaders to agree to specific acts—from supporting data-informed police reform, to View Details
- 29 Aug 2018
- News
The Value of Valleys
I did. Frank Lorenzo, class of 63'. As a CEO of continental airlines, and before that Texas International Airlines, we faced airline deregulation, which was of course very tough thing since we had been in a regulated business where we had a View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
Boveri (now ABB) and Ciba-Geigy (now Novartis) in Switzerland; Degussa-Hüls in Germany; Bombardier in Canada; and Bendix, Bond International Gold, Carter Hawley Hale, Ecolab, General Cinema, Growth Fund of America, Harcourt General, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
lose their lives in their quest to reach the world’s pinnacle. Inside the compact submersible, Vescovo was as comfortable as anyone on a long-haul flight in coach. But he knew that just 90 millimeters of titanium protected him from 12,000... View Details