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- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
help solve this environmental conundrum. A chemical engineer, Brix had spent his career at Chevron in research and technology and then at Microsoft in IoT and automation. Then, in 2017, he turned his attention toward creating a renewable platform chemical (a substance... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 23 Dec 2009
- News
In the Zone
approach of education, social-service, and community-building programs targeting 100 square blocks in New York City. Ninety percent of high school students who attend HCZ’s after-school programs go on to college; 100 percent of its third... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
New MBA Admissions Director Gets an Interview
deferred admission program at HBS. “Dee is a remarkable leader,” says Losee, “and I feel the great responsibility of stepping into this role.” DM: Tell me about your experience applying to HBS. CL: I was working in consulting—a great, but demanding job—so I View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
John Doerr, MBA 1976
Compaq.” While KPCB’s investments today have grown larger, the basic principle is unchanged. “We are a service organization. We aid entrepreneurs in building new businesses or even whole new industries,” says Doerr, who helped shape many... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Managing the Map
We are at the dawn of a new epoch in the world of science, one that will cast strong light on a unique corner of the biotechnology field known as genomics. The designation refers to the study of genes, those chemical building View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
wanted to work with nonprofits, and Habitat offered a way to begin learning on-the-ground skills like transporting cement blocks over crumbling roads in time to build a house. The plan after graduating from... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
gas, and those are natural vessels for us to put the CO2 back into the ground. DM: But that doesn't have to be the carbon's final destination. JM: I'm a big fan of CO2 as a building block to actually make... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Slum for Sale
idea is that the slum dwellers are living on very valuable land in one- or two-story shacks,” says Iyer. “If you build multistory buildings, you can give them accommodation and still have space to sell so that it will be a for-profit... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
drought-proof resource has become increasingly appealing. “Carlsbad is a very important test case,” he says. “There are lots of eyes on it—everywhere from Texas to Florida.” And it’s not only the tech that interests other cities, it’s the way Poseidon View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Dec 2021
- News
Learning Curve
of teacher collaboration and training in the success of the students as well as the high rates of staff retention. (Though she was still grateful when some parents began to volunteer for lunch duty.) “It was a lot of small battles, a lot of View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
been a major stumbling block in LBS's bid to build a library of Nigerian cases,” Okonedo comments. Company executives are more likely to be cooperative, she learned, if they're made aware of the “fictional”... View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
build an “abstract, modern glass tower” on a block adjacent to Grand Central Terminal. “The existing buildings in that area were designed to complement Grand Central,” he says.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
her yard. Interested in a “green” career post-HBS, she found it difficult to locate the alumni and networking opportunities that would provide a leg up on the job hunt, so she joined forces with Fishman to create an alumni organization to network, exchange ideas, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
began to chip away at LEGO’s market share with its construction blocks, including a popular line of warrior play sets. “Their products are based on a building system very similar to ours,” explains Moynihan. “They’ve done a really good... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Alumni Books
building blocks of successful alliances: the right framework (to help achieve company goals and identify potential partners), the right organization (the right people constantly honing their skills), and the... View Details
- 12 Sep 2019
- News
Skydeck Voices: Finding My Muse
20,000 people to 150,000 people and it's a beautiful area, and I see this kind of old school development happening, you know and these big box stores and people coming and buying huge city blocks and making these really kind of boring... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
fossil fuels, extracted by mining or drilling, for raw material. Aether’s innovation is sourcing the building blocks for its diamonds from pollution already in the air, through a carbon-capture company in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
change is in the air. While trucks continue to rumble in and out of the container-cargo rail yard opposite the HBS parking lot, the depot’s days are numbered. Adjacent to it, several blocks of low-rise commercial View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
tasks: strengthening links between portfolio objectives and overall company goals; ensuring that the relationship among projects creates greater value and efficiency; and making sure that projects build organizational capacity to respond... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors --... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean