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- 26 May 2016
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Alan F. Horn, MBA 1971
the Horns to cofound the Environmental Media Association. He also serves as a vice chair of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Hollywood can be a cutthroat world, and many successful people leave a wake...
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Susan Young
- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
weather. Platzer agrees with Nagaraj: Satellite loss is expected. “Don’t update—replace. It’s cheaper,” he says, referring to the two-year average lifespan of CubeSats. Joseph Landon VP and CFO, Planetary Resources “Everything we consider...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 1998
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A Community Investment
afraid that most managers still see environmentalists as adversaries. This is a fundamental problem. Too few managers appreciate the integral relationship between the economy and the natural environment. I believe the time is coming soon...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
natural and human resources, poverty nonetheless prevails — some 350 million Indians live on less than one dollar a day. “The government of India faces the challenge of leveraging huge natural and human...
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- 28 May 2019
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Tech for the People
Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai Photos courtesy of Henry Tsai HBS Leadership Fellow Henry Tsai (MBA 2017) was working as a technology and innovation advisor in the San José mayor’s office in the fall of 2017 when he began thinking about the plight of families forced from...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
customers, the depletion of natural resources vital to their businesses, the viability of key suppliers, and the economic distress of the communities in which they produce and sell. By contrast, shared value...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way
communities alongside First Nations and had a deep appreciation for the natural world. Everyone he knew would feel the impact of this. He was in the midst of a spiritual conversion, too, having become a Christian in 1997, and was...
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Sep 2011
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The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
well-being without degrading the natural systems that are also critical to our well-being is one of the great challenges — and great opportunities — facing business and business leaders today.” The BEI aims to accomplish its goals through...
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- 10 Apr 2013
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Tapped In
ARIAS-KING: Planting pine trees to promote social change. Photo Courtesy of Fredo Arias-King Fredo Arias-King (MBA 1996) President of Texas's T&R Chemicals, is aware that—outside of his industry—people aren't necessarily cognizant of the historical and cultural...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
extraordinary scramble for natural resources in Africa and elsewhere that, to Western eyes, had an unnervingly imperial undertone. Only the “flight to safety” of foreign investors into dollars in the latter...
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- 02 Oct 2012
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Green Pioneer
from several different Harvard departments, as well as public officials and engineering firms. The criteria are: quality of life, leadership, resources allocation, natural world, and climate and risk. It’s a...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Growing Together
resources are stretched very thin, we've had to become very entrepreneurial," Britt explains. "To generate income we license toy companies, retailers, and park operators to use our Sesame Street characters, and we publish are own...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2006
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Strange Bedfellows
situation of being able to characterize their income separately depending on the audience. Something as simple as interest expense can be engineered to be an expense for tax authorities and a dividend for capital markets. This confusing state of affairs has View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
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Alumni Books
right assistance), “Rebuild heroic stature” (spread the true nature of the adversity), “Prove your mettle” (regain trust and credibility), and “Rediscover the heroic mission” (clear the past and chart the future). What Made Jack Welch...
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- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
about how to manage and grow the company? The turning point was when Deng Xiaoping opened up China, making available the most important natural resource it had, its labor, to the rest of the world. Starting...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Charged Up
successful of the year. But with some 400 employees devoted to research, many with PhDs, the company has significant resources committed to the brains that give its product a technological edge. The company has deals in the pipeline, but...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
assist the city's children. It was during this time that he became involved with the Outward Bound USA organization, which he saw as an educational resource for the Boys and Girls Clubs. After participating in the program himself, O'Neill...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
that focus on entrepreneurship as an ongoing process, not just the launch of a new venture. Concurrently, he has developed a model of entrepreneurship that describes the process as "the pursuit of opportunity beyond resources currently...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Ink: Alumni Book Recommendations
the 21st century: “Advancing women means breaking free of a new set of stereotypes and assumptions, not only for women, but also for men. It means challenging a much wider range of conventional wisdom about what we value and why, about measures of success, about the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Bad Times for Business
directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that effectively allocated resources in...
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Garry Emmons