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- February 2008
- Teaching Note
Kerr-McGee (TN)
By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for [207020]. View Details
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Nneka Ezeigwe
in the oil and gas industry. Now, I’m excited about ways I can contribute to the economic growth occurring in my home country. This summer, I’ll be working with McKinsey & Co. in a consulting role in Nigeria. I’m looking forward to... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
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Ameel Somani
1970s, government nationalization took it all, leaving the family with "nothing." But Ameel's father responded with entrepreneurship in Canada, creating a chain of optical/eye glass shops. "I've always been inspired by my... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Back to School
one his dad once drove. “These cars weren’t that reliable when they were new, and now well, things break on them that don’t normally break on a car.” Glass “The best way to learn more about View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
What’s it like to appear on ABC-TV’s popular start-up series Shark Tank? In a word, nerve-wracking. Just ask Desiree Stolar and Nate Barbera (both MBA 2015), cofounders of Unshrinkit, a Harvard-born startup that has developed a formula... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
he was “a businessman who became a teacher,” spent nine years at General Electric and also worked at Corning Glass and Sperry Gyroscope before coming to HBS. An authority on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
Lammot du Pont
Under duPont’s leadership, researchers at duPont invented nylon, which revolutionized the textile industry. Researchers also discovered neoprene (the first general purpose synthetic rubber), Orlon and Dacron under duPont’s direction.... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
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General File - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Works by renowned photographers include Lewis Hine’s scenes of construction crews atop the Empire State Building, Margaret Bourke-White’s portrait of masked chemical workers at the Sherwin Williams Factory, View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
available search-and-rescue, as well as no oil or chemical spills and no rust buckets allowed. By secure we mean no single nation has control or the ability to unfairly tax ships passing through. Reliable... View Details
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Teams | New Venture Competition
module and data transfer service, connecting individual satellites in any orbit to a broad network of satellites and their connected ground stations across the world. Finalists, 2024 Aria Reese Donohue (MBA... View Details
- June 1990 (Revised April 1993)
- Teaching Note
Novo Industri A/S--1981, Teaching Note
By: W. Carl Kester
Teaching Note for (9-286-084). View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
markets in large systems outside the United States. Never has a single deal so formidably shaped a major national industry. What themes will you explore in your next book? Originally I had conceived of writing a single volume devoted to the consumer electronics View Details
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Jeremy Burnham
In the past year, Jeremy Burnham, a chemical engineer with a background in oil and energy, has experienced a dizzying succession of transitions. “Last June, my wife Perisha and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
textiles that could bypass the toxic chemical dying and unsustainable materials sourcing of todays textiles industry. SpaceSense: A platform designed to help geospatial data scientists View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Biglari initiates a proxy fight in an attempt to win a board position and change the direction of Cracker Barrel's strategy. Two leading proxy advisory firms, ISS and Glass... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Gerald Chertavian
founded that helps economically disadvantaged young adults gain skills for professional careers. Chertavian’s inspiration for Year Up stems from his experience as a volunteer in the Big Brother Big Sister program. After earning a degree in economics from Bowdoin... View Details
- 19 Dec 2008
- News
WHBS, 820 on Your Dial
the basement of Glass Hall, a group of “Program Girls” presented “The Bedtime Hour” once a week, “which was known to turn into a twist party in the hall outside the studio.” For some unknown reason (maybe one of you readers knows why),... View Details
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Blake Landro
Making a dramatic shift in both industry and location, Blake decided to make a difference at Google, in Mountain View, CA, where he worked on Google Checkout, an online payment platform for small- to medium-sized businesses. “It had just... View Details