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- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
Central to the food rescue is the organization’s trademarked program, Community Connect, which facilitates redistribution through volunteers and groups such as local Rotary International chapters and church organizations, which transport the food to agencies that are... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 20 May 2020
- News
Keeping Families Connected
we had some runway.” With Caribu, users can see and hear each other like in a traditional video call, but they can also read, draw, sing, or cook together using the in-app library full of age appropriate... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
alumni, faculty, and environmental industry leaders. “We invited several of our alumni guests to host each event and give a short talk, to paint a picture of the future for energy, so our current students can bring those ideas back to HBS and make the best View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Turning Point: Power Outlet
psychologically, so much so that it was hard to get out of bed. Eventually, I did get up to make breakfast. As I was scrambling eggs and cooking turkey sausage, I decided to activate an idea I’d had for a while—something I’d described to... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
for Shell Oil until enrolling at HBS to broaden his skills and career options. “For me,” he says, “HBS was a step toward rebuilding the respect our family had enjoyed in Poland before the devastation of the war.” Makowski’s business... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Chalsty Fellowship Will Help Black South Africans Attend HBS
Chalsty and his wife are from South Africa, and they have requested that the fellowship be used to support black South African MBA students at HBS. Since earning his MBA with high distinction, Chalsty has been active as an alumnus,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
the hope of a more stable future for their children. “This is also a fascinating entrepreneurial story,” Reinhardt notes. “These farmers have reduced their exposure to corn prices, but at the expense of exposure to the oil market.” With... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) sees the global influence of HBS as a key to creating change in the world, a view that is informed by his experiences growing up in the United Arab Emirates, his time at HBS, and his current position as CEO of Crescent... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
(MBA 1993), using a nickname for Buenos Aires residents. The mayor himself grew up in the city without ever visiting the community—one of a half-dozen “misery towns” across the city. “It’s a few feet away, but physically and socially,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
with the briefest of utterances. But it wasn’t always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the... View Details
- 25 Sep 2009
- News
HBS’s Oldest Class Secretary
percent from the petroleum industry. Charlie was among the last group, for he was manager of Standard Oil’s Everett, Massachusetts, refinery when he attended HBS. He worked a total of 36 years for affiliates of Standard Oil and the last... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
For all their variety, restaurants have two things in common: a kitchen where food is prepared and a dining area where customers consume it. But what if you could use technology to ditch the dining area and just keep the kitchen, trimming... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
the College Avenue facility as a state-of-the-art ice-cream plant. Fifteen years later, the firm was on the verge of bankruptcy when Dreyer’s son, then in charge, sold it to key officers, including Ken Cook, who took over as president. It was View Details
- 21 Oct 2013
- News
Moving the Needle
investing, also known as impact investing. "I wanted to understand how to use the financial capital markets and for-profit mechanisms to move the dial on the world's most pressing problems." Seegull had a unique perspective from an early... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Students Forecast Climate Change’s Impact
this past fall with an open challenge: choose an organization whose operating model will be significantly affected by climate change, and tell us what it should be doing to address it. Students posted responses to the prompt on HBS’s Open... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
technologies seldom make sense to managers, given their corporate perspective. There are two reasons for this. First, customers exert tremendous influence over managers' decisions and the directions they pursue. Since customers cannot use... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic
look to us as a source of information to help them with that. They can be seventy years old and care about how they look, or they can be seventeen. How have your product lines evolved? We started with a core brand definition of providing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Pursuing a passion
Amabile explains. “They licensed the rights to the series and used DVD technology to update the concept and make it interactive by today’s technological standards. The company they founded as HBS students is now up and running and doing... View Details
- 18 Sep 2008
- News
HBS Olympians
pages of the HBS site, including class notes), plugged in “Olympics,” and got 1,444 hits, most of them about alums or their family members involved in carrying the Olympic Torch; organizing, supplying, cooking for, securing, coaching,... View Details