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Sonakshi Bose
“I’m going to be mean.” This was the thought that entered my 8-year old mind, as I felt my eyes well up. It was September 2001, I had just moved to New York from Singapore, and I stuck out – dressed in ponytails in an Abercrombie world. Brown, in a View Details
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Socioeconomic Inclusion - MBA
awake in a sea of newspapers stacked over me in the beat-up van we sometimes slept in; my Goodwill clothes still on from the day before. It’s time to help my single mother deliver them before her house cleaning jobs and before my classes.... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
getting a promotion to run the new division just acquired. Everyone involved in the transaction wants the transaction to happen and may subtly change assumptions or forecasts to help make that eventuality a reality. As a result, this sea... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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Industry Information - Alumni
Management Enterprising Investor (from the CFA Institute) Written for investment professionals by investment professionals, it aims to elevate the most compelling perspectives from the sea of opinions and research; to contextualize the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career
C-suite executive. “I took a year off to decompress and do some fun things,” Kloeblen explains. As a skilled woodworker, an experienced health coach, and a licensed sea captain, he had many interests to explore and enjoy long subordinated... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: hurricanes, wildfires, and sea level rise pose immense risks for the reliable delivery of electricity. As one example, restoring electric power in Puerto Rico following Hurricane... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
FedEx, UPS, and Amazon, to name a few, and a significant portion of EVgo’s growth during the coming years is expected to come from capitalizing on this trend.” There is growing cognizance of the sea change, though, says Middaugh. The... View Details
Keywords: 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
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
shelves stuffed with books. Now the pale wood shelves share wall space with expanded windows, and the center of the long, high-ceilinged store is filled with low, rolling display tables. The store’s design captures the things that make East Hampton a popular summer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
Illustrations by Edmon DeHaro “Cheers!” As her father’s wedding toast comes to a close, Vanessa Royle (MBA 2022) raises her champagne flute into the evening air to clink glasses with the groom, Andy. She tilts her glass to take a sip and, with the flavors of the drink... View Details
- 05 Jul 2021
- What Do You Think?
Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/skynesher) I will always remember November 11, 1977 as the day I drove a Ford Pinto into the employee parking lot of the General Motors Technical Center in Detroit. My vehicle was the only Ford product in a sea... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
lot of time by the water in the San Francisco Bay Area. I would catch and forage fish, crab, mussels, and sea urchin, and bring them home to eat! It was really magical (and delicious) to be able to interact with nature in such a way.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
it is turning our land, from sea to shining sea, into a sour jungle, noisy, dirty, gritty, and infinitely depressing.” In MacDonald’s fiction, that inherent tension is front and center when he depicts business and commerce as contributing... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
Guard – America’s smallest military branch and world’s most elite life-saving service – for the opportunity to make a difference and give back to my community and country. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: In 2011, I spent Thanksgiving at sea and,... View Details
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
considering probabilities and costs of future sea level rise, wildfires, extreme heat, river flooding, and drought. The Portfolio Life: How to Future-Proof Your Career, Avoid Burnout, and Build a Life Bigger Than Your Business Card Senior... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
Pictured from left: SEAS Dean Frank Doyle, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria, Boston Mayor Martin J. Walsh, Harvard Executive Vice President Katie Lapp, John Paulson (MBA 1980), Harvard Provost Alan Garber, and Harvard President Drew Faust (photo by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Whale Wars
and I had thrived on freedom. However, after 18 years on the corporate ladder in London, I could hardly even imagine that way of being anymore. I knew I needed a break, so I put my life on hold for three months and took on what was to me an enormous personal challenge:... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences – A Q&A with Professor Robert Howe
Professor Rob Howe has been thinking about the intersection between business and technology for a number of years now. Before joining the SEAS faculty at Harvard (where he focuses on robot and human manipulation and the sense of touch) he... View Details
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
We can’t know what will happen, but we have a good sense for what might or could happen. Don’t wait for the one moment of indisputable truth to emerge; act on the odds presented in the information available today in sea rise curves, flood... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind
keeping these turbines running. We ended our tour with a visit onboard the Sea Challenger, a wind turbine service vessel. This massive ship has four columns installed at its corners that can be lowered into the View Details