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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, working on housing and infrastructure View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
workplace relationships, sharpen their communication skills, improve their personal brands and, ultimately, make an impact. The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: 10 Facts in 10 Minutes about CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Accounting for Real Change
environmental record. Cohen, who serves as chairman of the Portland Trust and the Impact-Weighted Accounts Project at HBS, is a philanthropist, venture capitalist, private equity investor, and social innovator. He is also the author of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Innovation: Revenge of the Nerds
all these students, learning practical business skills every day but not yet applying them in the real world,” says Petitti. “And we saw all these businesses with needs.” To connect the two groups, the team built an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on short-term... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
Three decades ago, Energy Future, a bestseller written at HBS, declared that American energy independence and sustainability were critical to the country’s well-being. Today, the book’s analysis is still compelling and its call to action... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
delivery of sustainable health care.” NOVEMBER 24 Anne Miller (MBA 1988) is executive director of Project N95, a national nonprofit founded to get personal protective equipment (PPE) and critical equipment to frontline and health care... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
scheduled to start by the end of 2016. “The Dandelion program is focused on building careers, resilience, and independence for the individuals involved,” Fieldhouse says. He credits his time at HBS—where he interacted with a diverse group... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019
Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults by Lisa Heffernan and Mary Dell Harrington (MBA 1982) Flatiron Books Parenting never ends. The high school and college years are an extended rollercoaster of academics, friends, first... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
consumer-based economy? China is a land of engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
collar and a sketch on a Palo Alto bar napkin helped launch a tech giant. READ MORE Jen Flint: I wondered if the two of you could go back and tell us the story of how you wound up writing this business plan together as a school project... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
from where it is grown to the tables where it is consumed. The global population is rising, with the United Nations projecting it to swell to 9.7 billion from its current 7.7 billion by 2050. “We also have to solve the calorie deficiency... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
says. “We would be in Mrs. Bradley’s library with the card tables set up, and the phone would ring. We’d pick up and say, ‘Research Counsel of Washington, may I help you?’ The absurdity of the situation is inescapable, right? But you have to View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016. The experiment started with weather balloons attached to Styrofoam beer coolers, each with a wireless router inside. It was proof of concept for an ambitious endeavor called View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to introduce a new pilot project designed to enhance the motivation and performance of a group of 200 employees. A rare female manager at Frito-Lay, Johnson finds that her youth, inexperience, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
traditional gap-year experience for high school graduates, focused on leadership development and featuring experiential, community-level project work in Asia, Africa, or Latin America. Global Citizen Year has now supported almost 1,000... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
instituting processes that encourage creativity and new ideas. At 3M, for example, the "15 percent rule" allows professionals to spend up to 15 percent of their time on independent projects of their own... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
Provides high tech products and services for building energy efficiency Jeffrey Brown (MBA 1983) Summit Power Group, LLC. Seattle, Washington Developer of electric power projects Michael Cavallo (MBA 1978) Clinton Climate Initiative New... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
enterprise and impact investing panel at the April 2019 Harvard College China Forum in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During her last semester at HBS, she also worked on an independent project that reinvigorated... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
services, or business initiatives in the chemicals, technology, and consumer products industries. Amabile is working on a book based on the data from the ten-year study, which includes questionnaires, interviews, independent creativity... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
Mac Bartels (Photo courtesy of Mac Bartels) Just back from the Toronto Film Festival, Eric d'Arbeloff (MBA 1993), copresident of independent film producer and distributor Roadside Attractions, talks to Mac Bartels (HBS 2016) about how he... View Details