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- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
Riders to the Sea — have been staged in the chapel, and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony was played there too, albeit in an arrangement for only flute, violin, cello, and piano. Composers whose works have been heard in the chapel range from the... View Details
- 20 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs
industries that are going through a sea change. He recalled how a two-dollar ATM fee he once paid at an airport spurred him to start his own ATM network featuring out-of-town banks. Other ventures he helped create were a credit card... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
India, and Bangladesh alone under threat from rising sea levels by 2100, “water is the medium through which climate change is really going to be experienced,” Ferguson says. “Our ability to steward the water molecule is going to be... View Details
- 26 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Business and the Environment
with a portfolio of environmentally focused businesses. An environmental crisis exists, almost certainly due to human action. Temperatures and sea levels are rising; ice is melting. If the causes for these problems are not addressed—and... View Details
- Portrait Project
Rafiq Ahmed
often I felt the tension between my identities as American and Muslim. When I started to get questions about my faith, I defaulted to simplistic explanations defining myself as a good Muslim surrounded by a sea of Muslim extremists... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- Web
From the Dean - Annual Report 2017
new facility in Allston in 2020. Last spring, the HBS and SEAS faculties voted to approve two new programs: a joint MS/MBA degree and an online certificate program in business analytics. These efforts reflect the increasing intersection... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
to existential questions facing the Maldives and Pacific island nations where entire countries are being wiped off the map because rising temperatures and rising seas are eliminating their land. She asks: “Where will the people who live... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is already leading not just to destruction of assets but also... View Details
- Profile
Justin Bardin
addresses. It's an incredibly cooperative environment." At sea and beyond As part of his Immediate Graduate School Program agreement, Justin is committed to six years of service in the Navy. Once he has fulfilled his obligation,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
administrators, alumni, and current midshipmen — to document the academy’s evolution from its beginnings to the present. It conveys the educational experience at the academy today, including the regimen of midshipmen and the required sea... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Eric C. Feagler: Against the Odds
Today, Feagler has not only regained his ability to walk, but also stays active sea kayaking and mono-skiing. The accident that changed the course of his life has left him with a new focus. “I previously had a tendency to believe that if... View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
That's the question that professor George Serafeim set out to answer with the working paper The Consequences of Mandatory Corporate Sustainability Reporting. Coauthored with London Business School's Ioannis Ioannou (PhDBE '09), the paper grew out of earlier research by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
decades of Vishnu’s life in Mauritius unfold with heart-wrenching detail as he battles to experience the world beyond, as well as to overcome the cultural, political, and familial turmoil that continues to grip him. Through precise language, Silent Winds, Dry View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Aug 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Class of 2020
tight-knit cohort to resonate ideas among while simultaneously being integrated into the diverse HBS and SEAS ecosystems. The program perfectly mirrors my own interest in redefining the relationship between business management and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
monastery. We have also taken a few mini-sabbaticals to range further afield, helping to expand a nonprofit peace organization in Cambodia, sailing around the world twice as professors with 500 college students on the Semester at Sea... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Avon CEO Jung on Leadership
the issue of women and leadership roles, Jung, who is frequently named as one of the most powerful and influential females in business, said, “I think in the next five to ten years there is going to be an unbelievable change in the numbers of women leading businesses.... View Details
- 19 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?
the most popular items (e.g., bread, milk) in the furthest possible place from the entrance; that shopping malls seem designed to make sure you get lost at every single visit; and that popular magazines drown the content they carry in a View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
- 11 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
From Britain to Boston: Two Years at HBS
sea doing any kind of sport. If you could have dinner with any three people (dead or alive) who would they be? Sir Winston Churchill (politician), Sir Edmund Hillary (explorer – first man to climb Mt Everest), Sir David Attenborough (BBC... View Details