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- 26 Feb 2021
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Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
cutting them down.” Working in a test forest site in Western Australia, Maudous says the Lord of the Trees drones can plant more than a million trees—via proprietary seed pods—in just 48 hours, with a success rate of 75%. What’s more, the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
principal and a rate of return with a portion of the savings. If the predefined social outcomes are not met, the government owes nothing. “What the social impact bond does is enable a social organization to raise capital for preventive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
biggest takeaways from my HBS experience was the importance of effective speaking: how to present your case, how to command respect, and really, how to command the room. This was very important. And what I give as advice, especially to... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering women to lead
Public Policy, Hood asks students to consider—in an era where women are achieving at rates higher than ever before—why are there so few women leaders at the highest levels of decision-making? Her class combines leadership theory with... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
widely used would reduce the amount of fossil fuel we ultimately burn. Taken together, these developments perhaps serve as a snapshot of the environmental landscape today. On the one hand, scientific indicators continue to warn of the long-term View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
was known as the “sick man” of Europe, with lumbering state-owned enterprises, high unemployment, and a crushing top marginal tax rate of 93 percent. In an ominous sign of the times, the day after Cohen... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
With a 98 percent graduation rate and test scores that lead the district, ACS ranks in the top 5 percent of schools in Queens. In all our endeavors, excellence is the standard, not the goal. We believe that performing at the very highest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
round we finished with the highest score from a couple of judges and a dead zero from those who pointed out that they were asked to rate plans on financial return,” says Fenton. “I didn’t think I’d be working on NLNS for more than three... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top marginal View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
part of the problem, is increasingly being called on to be part of the solution. How business can do this most effectively is the focus of the GPP’s research and scholarly activity. While GPP faculty note that it is too early to declare... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
years—and an ineffective tax system that targets too narrow of a slice of the population at rates that are too high. “There are many interesting things in our past that are relevant for today’s discussion... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
Foundation as well. The result is an accelerated — rather than remedial — curriculum that Navarro says effectively “lights a fire” in students. The program, which serves up to thirty predominantly Latino students, challenges them to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
Goldman Sachs International Vice Chairman Bob Hormats has noted, this is the first major conflict since the Revolutionary War that has not been accompanied by higher taxes and lower spending for nonessential domestic programs. The only... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
Community by Bert Berkley (MBA ’50) and Peter Economy (Wiley) Profiling many highly effective charitable organizations — for example, Kiva, Horizons for Homeless Children, the Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Stonyfield Farm Profits for the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
and wanted to provide new hires with leadership opportunities. Equally important, the limited partners could now have some flexibility in their commitments. At about the same time, the firm confronted the problem of sustaining Greylock's supply of capital as the View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
cool and only go-to source, then make the leap to the next level after market share growth rate has peaked. You can prepare for the shift but don’t dilute your momentum yet. You will be able to raise more capital more cheaply once you can... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
CEOs can meet their challenges once that top position is achieved. The book covers the importance of family, effective time management, discipline in all its meanings, and the relationships between the CEO, the board of directors,... View Details