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...health care, and energy. The conference opened with a keynote session, moderated by Business School Senior Lecturer in Business Administration Michael Chu, which discussed how the private sector and the public sector can work together to improve living conditions for impoverished Latin Americans. Luis A. Moreno, president of the Inter-American Development Bank, talked about the past inclinations of the Latin American private sector, which focused on the higher classes of the economic pyramid and on external markets. “Those companies that did not enter the international arena did so at their own peril, and many disappeared...
...Green Campus Initiative tried to encourage inter-house competition by tracking the number of pledges according to how the upperclass Houses compared...
Friendly competition has not been limited to inter-house rivalry, however, as similar campus-wide sustainability efforts and pledges have been implemented at peer institutions in the Ivy League...
Several other inter-collegiate sustainability efforts have also triggered awareness and competition. Harvard currently ranks third in a ranking of 400 colleges and universities for cumulative recycling, according to the RecycleMania competition...
...Harvard University, as a leader among research universities, should take significant steps to scale up both NTD research and global health delivery science. New, multi-million dollar, multi-disciplinary centers for research in both areas should be established, complete with administrative capacity for inter-disciplinary collaboration, funding for junior researchers, support for tenure-track positions, and formation of overseas capacity for research and training. Because of the lack of traditional research funds in this field, the university must be proactive in seeking non-traditional sources of financial support, including philanthropic foundations and alumni champions. Although the challenges to each field...