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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
has invested over $1 billion in laying 2,000 miles of water lines and building 33 wastewater treatment plants while returning strong profits for shareholders. Equally important, the company has emerged as a model for integrating financial... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
relentless pressure from various political parties,” he says. “But that has not happened, in part I think because my team moves so fast. It's important to be in the driver's seat when you propose measures and set the economic policy... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
how each of them had a great influence on the way my thinking has been applied in my chosen field." "C. Roland Christensen had the greatest impact on me," notes Feeley. "He got me focused on strategy and policy issues. I've spent all of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
change,” says Brooks. “Rosa Parks’ civil disobedience didn’t just happen because she wanted to sit down one day; and gay marriage didn’t become legal in one day. These kinds of changes have decades of investment behind them.” The Schott... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of local Amazon offices, which now... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
of internationalizing firms’ policies that require employees of diverse skill sets to adopt English as their business language. For the past four years, with extensive support from the School’s research centers in Asia, Europe, and Latin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
involving fifteen federal agencies. In the private sector, Treadwell is chairman and CEO of Venture Ad Astra, which invests in and develops new geospatial and imaging technologies. “From 2007 to 2009, we are marking the International... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
the more general reader interested in national parks. The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto: How to Get the Most for Your Money by Deborah Dove Gordon (MBA 1999) Praeger Health care consumer policy expert Deborah Gordon offers a guided... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
personal than honorific. This might be his most important skill: Ticket sales, LPO board president Long estimates, make up something like 25 to 30 percent of the budget, so securing philanthropic investment is imperative. On this front,... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC, who has pledged $1 billion of his own wealth to fighting climate change through the Grantham Foundation. “Time is not on our side. We should act as if we are desperate,” he said. “We are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Up Against The Firewall
to hearing his executive participants vow to review cyber security safeguards and procedures once they return to their companies. As Austin tells his students, only senior management has the authority necessary to implement the fundamental, overarching View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Harvard Gazette How invasion may hit U.S., global economies [Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard] Kenneth Rogoff sees possible fallout in stock, energy markets, worsening of inflation, increase... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
important to have an explicit policy in place, then back it up with merit-based rewards and promotions," he states. "Otherwise, you will lose your best employees." Carlos Sicupira of GP Investimentos sees Latin America enjoying a kind of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
declared, American policy needs to become more multilateral, and globalization must be shaped by the international community “to resist the negative aspects and leverage the positive.” Richard haass: The former State Department official... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
and my fellow Indian community member’s friends, families, mentors, partners are struggling to stay alive, and this is the time to stand up for them just like they supported and invested in us.” MAY 12 After watching the COVID-19 crisis... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to attract even more. Long-term... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
technology company, for about 10 years and sold it to another company. We then took that company public. And along the way, I was advising the White House Business Council, and I had worked on innovation policy and economic policy. And... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
had been suspended for several years. One of the first women to graduate from HBS, Franklin is used to breaking down barriers. She has worked with five Presidents of the United States, founded an international trade consulting and View Details