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- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is already leading not just to destruction of assets but also... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
bank accounts are held in Equity Bank. It has the largest ATM network in the country and the best mobile banking service, reaching a large and geographically dispersed customer base. We believe Equity is an example of an investment that has had a meaningful impact on a... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
significantly higher Chinese contributions to world-wide CO2 emissions” My big concern with fracking is that coal-to-natural gas fuel switching can be short-lived if $/BTU flips back in coal's favor. I am told that this "flip" has already happened at some dual-fuel... View Details
- 08 Aug 2013
- News
Cause Marketing Gets Personal
resulted in a breast cancer diagnosis, and Langer's battle against the disease led her to volunteer at the then-pioneering National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO) in 1988. "We had the first extensive, disease-specific... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
consumer finance. To that end I’ve helped to create a seminar series for researchers at Harvard, the Boston Fed, and other local universities where we get together twice a year to talk about consumer finance research. This fall, we’re launching a View Details
- Profile
Danelle Radney
college, Danelle returned to Target where she invented her own position as coordinator and liaison with INROADS, a national organization that prepares minority youth for corporate and community leadership. “When I started,” Danelle says,... View Details
- Alumni WDYDWYD
Sarah Bucknell Treco
colleagues, fewer female role models, and no female mentors. When I started working with the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in 2005, I realized that similar career issues confronted women in the arts, in history and today. I... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
filled with peacekeeping, nation building, and a whole range of what we call "operations other than war." Not surprisingly, such confusion over roles and missions at the institutional level resulted in serious identity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
For NFL Players, 3rd Down at HBS
Twenty-eight National Football Leagueplayers representing teams from across the league were recently on campus for an Executive Education program that addresses the unique business opportunities and challenges that players face during and... View Details
- December 2013
- Supplement
Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)
This case picks up (from the end of the "A" case) the detailed story of the KGB's high-pressure negotiations with Harvard doctoral student Bruce Allyn to recruit him as a secret asset for the Soviet spy agency. The "A" case describes how, at the tense height of the... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Bargaining; Hard Bargaining; KGB; Espionage; Spying; War; National Security; Alliances; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Cambridge; Moscow; Soviet Union
Sebenius, James K. "Bruce Allyn: Negotiating with the KGB (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-028, December 2013.
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
bipartisan furor ensued. The House has voted to overturn some of the agency’s decision. What’s going on? Until June 2, FCC rules decreed that no television network could own local stations that, in aggregate, reached more than 35 percent of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Jeffery E. Sagansky: That's Entertainment
start a network from scratch?" In a stellar career that has also included stints running several movie studios and a national theater chain (as well as leading the initial U.S. rollout of Sony's PlayStation), Sagansky has always had his... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- News
Blazing a Trail for Glenn Beck
job, Morgan elaborated on that earlier comment. “Glenn Beck is enormously fascinating to me because he is undeniably a national brand,” she said. “He has a strong, multiplatform, devoted audience. It’s an audience that does not have as... View Details
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
science and engineering workforce and nearly 50 percent of those with science and engineering doctorates. And at the Ph.D. level, ethnic researchers make an exceptional contribution to science as measured by Nobel Prizes, election to the View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
addition, the supermarkets offer private label wines in Europe, while they generally do not in the United States. (The exception is Wal-Mart, which recently introduced a private label wine through an alliance with E&J Gallo.) The... View Details
- 02 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education
SchoolsKevin Johnson, CEO & President, St HOPE Public SchoolsWendy Kopp, CEO & Founder, Teach for AmericaMichelle Rhee, Chancellor, Washington DC Public Schools A national crisis exists in public education. The root causes include... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
chairman and CEO Peter Magowan, a member of the Giants’ board of directors, as well as with San Francisco city development official Ron Blatman, a longtime friend. When the deal with the Florida investors was announced — but, critically, before the sale had been... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
An Advocate for Women's Equality
position at First National City Bank to work to put more women in leadership roles and to serve as a spokesperson on women's issues. Even with Nixon's backing, significant pressure against her came from inside the administration. For... View Details
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable By: Gino, Francesca,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel