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- 11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control
different industry. Like I wasn't an aerospace engineer, I was just a physicist, right? And I had an MBA from Harvard. And so, I'd be like, okay, what is the most efficient way for me to learn everything about the space industry? And so,...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
being disrupted as we retool and refuel machinery, as the dietary preferences of younger generations become more vegetable-based and as we learn to produce our needs with less labor, less equipment, and fewer emissions. Within sectors that remain dependent on fossil...
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- 01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977
ran a textile business before taking over Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries, which he continues to run jointly with her mother, Ellen Gordon. After graduating from Harvard with a degree in economics, business school was the natural next step. "When I started...
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- 01 Jan 2017
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Improving Health Care Delivery
Health Care Initiative Advisory Board. “Our goal is to make the health care delivery system more efficient and effective,” he adds. “We want to help HBS extend its impact in the field.”
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Fast Casual
electrical engineering, who designs the procedures and logistics that ensure smooth, efficient operations. Of PRG and its husband-wife leadership team, Peggy said, “We had to standardize everything from recipes to kitchens.... I think...
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- 10 Mar 2016
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"Smarter, Faster, Better": An Interview with Author Charles Duhigg
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Healthy Profit
Quelch. New energy efficiency initiatives also saw their greenhouse gas footprint drop by 19 percent between 2005 and 2012. COMMUNITY HEALTH “Royal Caribbean donates a lot of used furniture and household goods in the ports where they...
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Dan Morrell
- 13 Apr 2015
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3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
- 06 Dec 2021
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Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
tied to the land,” she explains. Economic advancement can’t require relocation. “Making the farmers more efficient and building up the economy that way—that’s what keeps me going.” “Making the farmers more View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
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Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
Africa’s largest oil- producing country, has expensive and unreliable energy. Whether it is lines for automobile and generator fuels or blackouts of the electricity grid, Nigeria is a perfect example of a country that cannot afford to do without View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
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Green as Gold
high-performance, environmentally friendly buildings.” In fact, Hamilton is so efficient in its use of water, energy, and green materials that it has earned gold certification, the second highest of LEED’s four ratings (platinum, gold,...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Streamlining the Supermarket
A new alumni-backed venture hopes robots will change how we buy our milk, bread, and eggs. In early 2016, José Vicente Aguerrevere (MBA 2002) attended a talk at HBS by Mick Mountz (MBA 1996), founder of Kiva Systems. Kiva’s small, mobile warehouse robots had brought...
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Francis Storrs
- 05 Dec 2016
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Scaling Up at Five Below
(photo by Jane M. Von Bergen / Philadelphia Inquirer) (photo by Jane M. Von Bergen / Philadelphia Inquirer) It’s the holiday season and emoji merchandise is flying off the shelves—especially poop emoji (sorry). Chalk it up to the whimsical tastes of the teen and...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
Illustration by Jon Krause When trying to explain how blockchain works, it helps to have a mass-culture analogue. Mike O’Grady (MBA 1992), president of Chicago-based Northern Trust, uses social media: Blockchain, he says, is a transaction ledger that is accessible to...
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Dan Morrell
- 17 Mar 2016
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The 124-Year-Old Startup
Fifteen years after taking over the top spot from “Neutron Jack” Welch, Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) talks to Bloomberg Businessweek for a wide-ranging consideration of his tenure at the $122 billion giant, including the company’s latest retooling as a software startup...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Vertically Inclined
said his firm is positioned to make a profit with rental rates at $55 a square foot, rather than the $70-a-square-foot rate most developers must charge. “We’re able to do this because we’re completely vertically integrated, doing our own construction, with very View Details
- 19 May 2023
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Quiet Acceleration
Tesla introduced manufacturing efficiencies that helped deliver 15 consecutive profitable quarters and generated $22 billion in available capital. Last year, the company’s operating margin was 16.8 percent, substantially higher than its...
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- 01 Mar 2011
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Noted & Quoted
solutions to social problems, identifying efficiencies in an economic environment, and finding creative solutions to them is the next growth story for emerging markets.” — HBS professor Tarun Khanna on private-sector engagement in social...
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- 07 Dec 2015
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Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans
who started his first company, Tribeca Designs, an efficient storage CD tower, while a student at Harvard Business School, spent his early post-HBS years working for private equity firms before joining Radio One—an American broadcasting...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts
unpopular social issues, enabling spirituality, redistributing wealth to the needy, supporting cultural activities, and effectively and efficiently providing long-term solutions for social needs. Government and business, she said, cannot...
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