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- 19 Jun 2018
- News
When Technology Gets Ahead of Society
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned storefronts belie its history as...
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- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
second year, when I was looking for a job as a commercial and investment banker, I would look at their policies for nondiscrimination. Most banks had nothing, but Bank of America, Chase, and Citibank all did, so that’s where I applied. I...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
book) is accelerating that trend. “There are substantial public health impacts in wildfire smoke, extreme heat, and the aftermath of flooding,” notes Macomber, who teaches the MBA electives Business Opportunities in Climate Adaptation and Building Sustainable Cities....
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
consumer—electricity, fuel, food, infrastructure materials. As for the future, we must now start serious R&D efforts to advance technologies in all these areas, so that when 2050 rolls around, they are proven to work, are scalable, and are View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
that commerce craves, and the stability that society demands." Time and again, Spar writes, "once the technological frontier has moved beyond a certain point, power and profits seem to shift away from those who break the rules and back to...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference
with an audience of some 350 people. Biondi said that future success in the entertainment industry will depend on senior executives' ability to predict trends from new technology. He reminded participants that TV executives, for example, missed their cue and did not...
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Paula Maute
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
traced to the proliferation of information and to the technologies, systems, and infrastructure built to convey it. Americans’ commitment to democratic ideals, their fascination with technology, and their commercial and entrepreneurial...
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Information
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
HBS and SEAS Explore Opportunities for Innovative Thinking
for us to combine our strengths and unleash discovery in ways that truly benefit society and the world,” said HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. “It will be transformational, not just for each of our schools, but for the entire University, and is a...
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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
One-on-One with Edwin Reed
affordable-housing development, and commercial revitalization. Total revenues for Allen will soon top $25 million per year, with about half coming from donations to the church (the cathedral’s average weekly collection is $235,000) and...
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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977
first of four sons born to Larry and his wife, Billie. The firm is one of the largest diversified holding companies in the United States, with interests in commercial insurance, offshore drilling, oil and natural gas production,...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Fighting Poverty Together: Rethinking Strategies for Business, Governments, and Civil Society to Reduce Poverty by Aneel Karnani (DBA 1981) (Palgrave Macmillan) Karnani demonstrates what is wrong with current approaches to reducing...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
was so successful we had to establish it as a regular commercial bank to accommodate its growth. Today, BancoSol leads the Bolivian banking system in profitability and makes 40 percent of the system's loans; it has 76,000...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
The Future Is Now: 21st-Century Business Pondered at HBS Forum
prison" and becomes easily accessible by less complicated means and is accepted "as just being out there, like the electricity system." As for achieving commercial success through the Internet, writer and computer industry observer Esther...
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- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
inadequate protection from disasters that occur infrequently and have consequences beyond the routine responsibilities of commercial enterprises. “Resilient societies need deliberate actions for the...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
others in a positive way. Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature by Mark R. Tercek (MBA 1984) and Jonathan S. Adams (Basic Books) Nature Conservancy CEO Tercek and his coauthor argue that nature is a...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
that cost him his adopted children, his colleagues, and the career of Xi Zhongxun, father of President Xi Jinping. When Zhou left Huai’an, another group came to his birthplace to serve society through medicine, education and evangelism....
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- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
organizations. “It’s in that world that you get a glimpse of what is happening in the overall economy,” she says. “The Dun collection is remarkable in that sense because it references all of American society in the industrial age.” “The...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
organized crime component is about 30 to 35 percent. A whopping 60 to 65 percent is due to the private sector’s illegal and intentional manipulation of taxes and commercial transactions. How can this be? Because the global system lacks...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
cross-sector alliances, he interviewed key executives on both sides of each partnership to document the process of their unfolding relationships. Austin's initial research corroborated his hypothesis that these alliances were creating value - for themselves and View Details
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Nancy O. Perry