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- 08 Oct 2013
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The Green Giant
including director of scientific and international programs, prior to taking over the World Wildlife Fund. At WWF, Roberts's strategy has been to forge partnerships with major business players and governments in key regions and resource... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
Counselman (MBA 2005), a former Marine officer in Iraq, Bosnia, and the Horn of Africa, is the founder and CEO of Fidelis, an organization that assists service personnel with the military-to-civilian transition. Emphasizing education,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
Baltimore? At NYU, I learned that being a mechanical engineer is about taking things that wouldn’t normally be able to do something and putting them together in a way that makes them work. HBS taught me strategy and how to do things economically. And the case method... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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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... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
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Building Community in the Bay Area
his experiences with his board and about critical issues relating to governing nonprofit organizations today. The event was hosted by the HBS Community Partners, a group established by the HBS Association of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
strategic research questions in four main areas: government and markets, institutions of democracy, economic inequality, and national security. Does the organization contribute to policymaking? Our primary... View Details
- 30 Aug 2012
- News
Fundraiser makes the most of time at convention
- 19 Jul 2011
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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 three View Details
- 13 Jul 2018
- News
Creating Opportunity for Indian Entrepreneurs
Harsh Bhargava (MBA 1977), president of the Washington, DC–based consulting company Bankworld, built I Create, a nonprofit organization focused on combating India’s unemployment crisis through entrepreneurship, in 1999. Since that time,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
University. As a junior, he was elected student-body president, a role that included serving on a state government reform commission tasked with understanding how public policy decisions had limited Louisiana’s potential. When he applied... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
engineering firm. "It was tough in those early years," he says. "I learned that it's easier to bring sound business practices to organizations that have major environmental mandates and are facing really complex problems." As a principal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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New HBS, KSG Joint Degree
HBS and the Kennedy School of Government have announced the creation of an integrated joint-degree program, the first of its kind. Its mission is to develop outstanding leaders who are skilled in both managing complex View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
coveted Nobel for his work in ending the hostilities between the province of Aceh and the government of Indonesia, a struggle that had claimed 50,000 lives during a 30-year war. Before that, he was a key figure in negotiating Namibia’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
seven-year collaboration with University of North Carolina economics professor Steven Rosefielde. Their impressively researched volume challenges global leaders in government and business alike to push beyond culturally entrenched... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research
expedition came to joint-degree student John Serafini (HBS and Kennedy School of Government 2007) after his sister’s bout with thyroid cancer. She was successfully treated at Children’s Hospital Boston last June. Grateful for her... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
British Columbia, where it was implemented in 2008. According to the latest Canadian government figures, the tax was revenue-neutral—in fact, reductions in personal and business taxes exceeded the total raised by the carbon tax by $20... View Details
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- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of governance infrastructure... View Details