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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
And government officials are furiously promoting what they call new energy vehicles (NEVs)—a catchall term that includes electrics, hybrids, and fuel-cell vehicles—through a variety of means. As a result, View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
improved governance by engaging both local people and national governments is a fundamental issue. The second challenge is the impact of globalization. Whether you’re trying to... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
governance in Asia, and measuring performance in nonprofit organizations. As always, there was ample opportunity for networking and socializing with participants and speakers from across the Harvard University community and beyond. The... View Details
- 13 Apr 2022
- News
New School
In late February 2020, the Japanese government announced it would close every school in that country to prevent the spread of COVID-19. On the other side of the world, in his Billerica, Massachusetts, office, Rob Waldron (MBA 1992) saw... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Winter Break Just Got Educational
have transformed China over the past 25 years. The itinerary included academic and media panel presentations on a variety of topics affecting China and networking events with HBS alumni. Students also met with corporate executives and View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
India, Peru, Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and Vietnam to observe local economies, study management practices in the field, and interact directly with business and community leaders. In addition, domestic programs took... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
reason for optimism, too. Business leaders as well as state and local policymakers have a major role to play in restoring competitiveness—and there are promising signs of change at the local and state level.... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
supporting private-sector research; another $2 billion was earmarked for R&D that the government wanted scientists and engineers to pursue to help local enterprises improve their technology and become more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
one of the several ESL or humanities programs offered at local community colleges. “Teaching was an original goal for me,” he says. “This fall, I’m taking a class that will require me to give four or five lectures on the history and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
the practicalities and evaluate the security and the risk. In the more dangerous places, I like to keep a local Mr. Fixit with me.” —Andrew Main Wilson (AMP 156, 1999), on the challenges of photographing the 1,000 travel wonders of the... View Details
Keywords: quotations
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
capitalism.” In Hong Kong, Teo immersed himself in the local club, where Philip Leung (MBA '76) and Hamilton Ty Tang (MBA '90) currently serve as copresidents. “Before I knew it,” he says, “we were in charge of putting on the 1997 HBS... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
many local alumni are retired. Still, the club’s co-president, Paul Engle (MBA 1974), says five alumni attended the workshop. Andrews adds that this group included mid-career professionals looking at what might come next. “Some were... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
In an age of global scarcity, water has become a valuable commodity in both the industrialized and developing worlds. With governments and communities increasingly unable to manage the complexities and expense of water treatment and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
facing both nonprofits and other social-purpose enterprises. Another concerns the ways in which businesses can influence a community's health and create meaningful partnerships with government and nonprofit organizations. A third has to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
the right to access a clean sanitary toilet at home and in public places.” JH: The coalition has been involved in many local projects looking to improve sanitary conditions in their communities. One example is the city of Warangal, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
be a library of cases for use by communities coping with future disasters. “The idea is that we’d be able to fly in and talk to local business leaders and say, ‘These are some things that folks in New Orleans found useful and that you... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
governance models, and their integrity.” Immelt, CEO of GE, described his outlook as generally optimistic. Once the crisis is resolved (and, he remarked, “the government always wins” in these situations),... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
minimize the local environmental impact of extraction, and speed the transition to cleaner, lower-carbon energy. The report’s analysis found “no inherent trade-off between environmental protection and company profitability” and found that... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
learning to read, to reading to learn. By some reports, more than half of kids are getting left behind. A government mission on Foundational Literacy and Numeracy (FLN) has been launched to address this. I think the View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie