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- 02 Feb 2023
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Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
Photo credits: Aaron Sabin; Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. This is the first episode of "Clearing the Air", a three-part series focused on the business of carbon...
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- 03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
continue mitigating those risks and advancing the technology?” The government is in the best place. They have all the testing. And while it will take much longer done by government, we’re still riding down that cost curve with chemical...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Profiles from the class of 2007
has shown a similar ease when it comes to changing course. Although she studied chemical engineering at University College Dublin, she went to work for McKinsey & Co. in 2001. Stints in private equity and commercial banking followed, as...
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Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 22 Nov 2022
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Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
intelligence to help or hinder human progress; University of Montreal Daniel Jutras who elaborated on the implications of these new stakes on younger generations; and Ilham Kadri, CEO of Solvay, who described the concrete steps required to pivot the industrial...
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Margie Kelley
- 02 Nov 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
Ralph Lauren Home shop in Filene’s. That forced me to engage with people on a new level and to convince them to spend $50 on a towel,” he says. He ultimately finished Duke and moved to New York City in 1987 to work at Chemical Bank, first...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
a "pig." Horizontal Drilling: A recently developed drilling technique whereby the drill bit is directed horizontally through the earth, allowing for a faster oil recovery rate. Mud: A lubricating mixture of clays, water, and chemicals...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Laura Scher of Working Assets
and to be generous with our time," she says. Scher's father ran an environmentally responsible chemical company. Her mother was a professor of economics, an environmental activist, and a ready volunteer for a plethora of causes. "She did...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Aether Diamonds makes its precious gems out of thin air—literally. The three-year-old company uses carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to synthesize stones that are View Details
- 12 Jan 2017
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Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
degree in chemical engineering, in 1989, she worked at Procter & Gamble in engineering and product development, and then in product supply, as the company started buying cosmetics businesses. When a New York–based startup recruited her in...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Apr 2002
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Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
Harold M. Brierley (MBA '68), chairman and CEO of Brierley & Partners, describes himself as "an accidental entrepreneur," having entered HBS as a chemical engineer planning to pursue a management career in the oil industry. "HBS...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
of at least 51 people in Panama after they ingested medicine made with diethylene glycol, an industrial chemical similar to antifreeze that a Chinese company used as a substitute for pharmaceutical-grade syrup. In June, officials at the...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
cofounder Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux (MBA 2004). In fact, if Earth were 50 percent larger, with a correspondingly stronger gravitational pull, no form of chemical propulsion would contain enough energy to launch a spacecraft into orbit....
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 1999
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The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
would take a German commodity chemical business to a major position in detergents and perfumes, that Eileen Friars would trade in her jeans and long tresses and take charge of a $20-billion credit-card operation, or that Jeff Seder would,...
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Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
lowers the risk of infestation, thereby reducing the need for fertilizers and pesticides. Chemicals that are required are delivered in water that circulates and is recycled. The system also minimizes variation in growing conditions, thus...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Books
chemicals and pharmaceuticals; and computers, Silicon Valley, and the Internet. From the past eighty years of "relentless change," McCraw offers colorful illustrations of how business transformed the country's economic and cultural...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
the test as he methodically refashioned the two old-line chemical companies with disparate corporate cultures into a single entity focused on health care and powered by an innovative approach to R&D. Today, Novartis is one of the world’s...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
Related Links Ten Amazing Facts about Beauty Register for a Club presentation with Professor Jones on October 19 In his new book, Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry (Oxford University Press), HBS professor Geoffrey Jones explores how the beauty...
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- 18 May 2017
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Pioneer Spirit
engaged, which led him to exploring government contracts. First came several contracts with the US Postal Service to produce lobby desks, which were followed by several deals to build waterproof plywood shipping containers for gas masks for the Pine Bluff View Details
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
and a team of investors bought the shuttered plant and got it up and running again. Adopting a local word for "genesis," Okoloko would call his new company Notore Chemical Industries Ltd. Looking for professional managers two years later,...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Ready for Takeoff
offers: one from an oil and gas company and another from the consulting firm Bain, which had just set up an office in the country in 1997. She turned to longtime friend and chemical engineering classmate Rodrigo Osmo (MBA 2003) for...
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