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Joseph Abel
bigger.” Two years at Bain & Co. gave Joe an insider’s perspective on the connections between energy and climate change; one that became even deeper when he took on multiple roles at Sungevity, a small but innovative solar-energy... View Details
- 04 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Four Remarkable Stories of HBS MBA Students Tackling Climate Change
This article was originally published by MBAGRADSCHOOLS, a leading source of information for prospective MBA students. Climate change is not a problem for the future generation, it’s here and now. As the clock keeps ticking, HBS MBA students are bringing forward View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
essentially the same—but the scope of my products has increased in size. My first role at Google was working on features on a product for Google Checkout. Now I get to work in health search, which accounts for one in 20 queries on Google.com. So the View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
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Exploring California’s Climate Frontier: E&E Club’s Bay Area Trek - Blog - Business & Environment
where the automation and scale of electric vehicle production became strikingly clear. Tesla’s unique approach to vertically integrating its manufacturing process—from raw metal sheets to fully assembled vehicles—allows the company to... View Details
- 23 Jun 2020
- Book
Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System
spread the ideas of Final-Five Voting, scaling a few early innovators into a coast-to-coast campaign of universal adoption and action. Thanks to the upstart laboratories of democracy that have shown us the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2020
- News
New Menu
trajectory of these young food businesses, in addition to all the potential pitfalls. Big Ideas Ventures focuses on the transition points as a company moves from product to a commercial kitchen and beyond. "We dedicate a lot of our time to helping a company View Details
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From the Dean - Annual Report 2019
Education and Publishing revenues, alumni gifts, and the endowment returns—enables us to invest in the core programs and activities of the School, including funding for faculty research, and to pursue innovations that will position HBS... View Details
- 15 May 2023
- News
From Scientist to Business Leader
tuberculosis. After several years working in the lab, Kim began to wonder if she was in the right role. Then COVID hit, and demand for the company’s products surged. “My CEO asked if I could step away from the bench into a business operations role, because we were... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- News
Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
campus and the launch of new educational programs. Nitin Nohria, the 10th Dean, who served for more than 10 years, continued this trend. Harvard Business School Online, the Harvard Innovation Labs, the field method, and new MS/MBA program... View Details
- 09 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Addressing Inequities in Education: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Amal Tariq (MBA 2025)
organizations driving systemic changes in public education. City Fund partners with local leaders across the country to build innovative public school systems aimed at moving children out of poverty and into thriving adult lives. My role... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
VC industry so influential? Paul Gompers: From the early 20th century to the mid- to late-20th century, most innovation happened in large firms. Then because of both managerial and organizational changes, View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
chapters how entrepreneurs both inside and outside of government can tackle problems by viewing them as opportunities, trying new ideas, scaling them up, and improving public life. “I’m not saying we should take all the behaviors of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
value by converting a waste stream into a useful and saleable by-product (i.e., implementing by-product synergy [BPS]). We show that BPS creates an operational synergy between two products that are jointly produced. In essence, BPS is a process View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
to innovate the products that people want at a price they can afford. For example, while public-sector organizations are hardly renowned for convenience—think about the location of your Division of Motor Vehicles—entrepreneurs created... View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
A Day at Royal FloraHolland: The Epicenter of the Global Flower Market
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
culture. “If Timberland and GoLite are doing things the way we ought to, we’ll keep the nimbleness and the innovation and the vibe of this place, but we’ll gain the scale and professionalism of that place,”... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer
(Belarus), all members of the MBA Class of 1996 and students in Professor Ray A. Goldberg's Agribusiness Management Research elective, conducted a study of Carrefour, the French mass-market food retailing giant. Founded in 1959 by two French retailers, Carrefour... View Details
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Mel Tukman Faculty Fellow Richard Hame rmesh , MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Felda Hard ymon , MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice Gordon Jones , Director, Harvard Innovation Lab William Kerr ,... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
including; the New Venture Competition, the Harvard Innovation Lab, Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and entrepreneurial-focused courses. More than 50 percent of HBS graduates create ventures in a quest to change the world. In that spirit,... View Details