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Harvard Business School has selected its first-ever Social Entrepreneurship Fellow, the school announced Wednesday. Elizabeth M. Scharpf, a 2007 graduate of the Business School and the Kennedy School, will receive $25,000 to fund a social venture she has started. Her business, Sustainable Health Enterprises, aims to make low...
As Roger Lowenstein describes in his book While America Aged, it was the remarkable UAW president Walter Reuther (1907-70) who won womb-to-tomb health-care coverage and retirement benefits for the rank and file. Reuther was an early advocate of universal health-care coverage, which was not going...
Such precautions might seem extreme until one ponders the attacks in Mumbai two months ago. Ten terrorists killed 173 and paralyzed a city of 13 million for three days, armed with little more than automatic weapons, grenades and cell phones. "Certainly, the Mumbai attacks ought to be understood clearly down...
“While this means we have to put off these improvements, including the investment in energy efficiency, we will be saving operating expense in the short-term, and we think the trade-off is a good one,” Ouellette said.
“We feel pretty confident that the trade-off between more intimate interactive treatment of these materials and uniformity of syllabus is a trade-off we’re willing to make,” she added.