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01 Dec 2016
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Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel

websites. FLYR CEO Jean Tripier (MBA 1992) Founded in 2013 “The data science company that ends the guessing game of booking airfares.” When JetBlue created a venture capital arm earlier this year, its first investment was in FLYR’s... View Details

Keywords: April White

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2015
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A Legacy of Support

Precision Medicine. “In medicine and in life sciences there is a silo mentality, and we need some Harvard Business School discipline to help connect the dots,” observes Robert. Agreeing with his dad,... View Details

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Harvard University's Real Estate Academic Initiative website. If Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Design seem miles apart both literally and culturally, John Macomber is... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

February 2010 (Revised October 2010)
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Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and David Kiron

On January 5, 2010, 48-year-old Richard Canny was on his way to meet the governor of Indiana. He was reading his newly issued press release announcing that THINK planned to start automobile production in Elkhart County, Indiana to launch its THINK City battery-operated... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Global Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Product Development; Production; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Norway; Indiana

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Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025) - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

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From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969 | Baker Library

Business School and supported by the de Gaspé Beaubien Family Endowment at Harvard Business School. Review the website and video for our 2016 Polaroid exhibition, At the Intersection of View Details

31 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Why I Spent This Summer Coding

The summer between RC and EC year represents a great opportunity for risk-free exploration. Encouraged by our outcome at the New Venture Competition and the funding I would receive as a Rock Summer Fellow, I forwent a business internship... View Details

Keywords: Technology

May 2024
Teaching Note

Vineyard Wind Starts Spinning: Overcoming Onshore Challenges to Offshore Wind

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 324-113. To activate the first wind turbines in the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard eventually supplying clean energy to 400,000 households, Vineyard Wind’s leaders had to navigate the permitting process, numerous delays, and objections from... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Renewable Energy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Industry; Massachusetts; Martha's Vineyard; New Bedford

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01 Feb 1998
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Touching All the Bases: Stephen A. Greyser

commentator; a current board member of four marketing-related corporations; formerly an editor and later board chairman of the Harvard Business Review; and former executive director of the Marketing Science... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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The Benefits of Living in a Dorm at HBS - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

October 1998 (Revised December 1999)
Case

Gene Research, the Mapping of Life and the Global Economy

By: Ray A. Goldberg and Juan Enriquez-Cabot

A new firm is being created to speed up the process of mapping humans, animals, and plants by combining gene technology with rapid gene identification to improve the health and well being of the human population and the productivity of crops and animals. How does one... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Business Processes; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Productivity; Welfare; Agribusiness; Genetics; Science-Based Business; Biotechnology Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

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Jordan Amadio

Jordan Amadio is a scientist at heart. After studying theoretical physics as an undergraduate, Jordan entered Harvard Medical School as one of just 30 participants in the Health Sciences and Technology program. A joint effort by Harvard... View Details

01 Dec 2005
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MBAs by the Numbers

Minorities 22% International 33% Median Age 27 Total Countries 68 Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 37% Business Administration 24% Engineering 22% Other 7% Natural View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Kraft Accelerator

Find More Resources Find More Resources Recent Publications Partnering with the VA to Accelerate Cures and Reduce Disparities HBS Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator Innovative Funding Approaches to Get Breakthrough Science Applied to... View Details

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The International Experience at HBS - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

04 Apr 2018
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Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

us. If you act slowly, we all lose. Related Reading: Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics The Business of Climate Change Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking What do you think? What are your... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

07 Jan 2015
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Promoting scientific advances

Fellowship recipient and donor Robert Steven Kaplan (MBA 1983) believes that helping those with a passion for science gain business skills will make a positive difference in the world. Kaplan is a former HBS... View Details

March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
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Reading Energy

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details