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- 13 Jul 2020
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Locally Grown
trucks. The systems captured the energy created when braking and applied it to acceleration, reducing the demand on the internal combustion engine. The model was similar to that used in hybrid cars, but the heavier vehicles created more... View Details
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- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
In 2011, Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) returned to his high school alma mater in Wilmington, Delaware, to serve as the first non-clergy president in the Catholic school’s century-long history. “Salesianum School’s transition to lay leadership was a big step, and it... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
chemical fertilizers. Soil from the average cultivated field contains 0.5 to 1 percent carbon, while soil from the average virgin land, including forest and prairie, contains 3 to 7 percent. “Carbon capture is the only way to get out of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Preferreds to Generate Long-Term Income by Simon Wadsworth (MBA ’73C) (Bookmasters) Walk Out Walk On: A Learning Journey into Communities Daring to Live the Future Now by Margaret Wheatley and Deborah Frieze (MBA ’98D) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
Rose. The highly configurable hives and other areas employ state-of-the-art computer and video technology to enhance learning. Moreover, the building’s carefully crafted lighting, design, and music encourage an outside-the-box mind-set. All these features combine to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Case Study: A Souped-Up Strategy
Bookalokal can capture many midsized markets where it will confront fewer rivals, it will be in a strong position to eventually partner with big-city victors to create a shared platform that allows travelers from any city to dine with... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
present this theory to your students? Merton: What the formula captures permeates many financial aspects of life. One way I present it in the classroom is to have the students design a security. We call it a squiggle. They ask, "What's a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
INK: The Bookshelf
to bring people together, with examples from combat veterans and from white settlers who had been captured from frontier communities by American Indians. The settlers made the decision to ultimately stay and be part of an interdependent... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
practiced; what it means to be a “health care provider” needs to expand to include caregivers without advanced clinical degrees; and the United States needs a new health insurance model. Huckman concludes, “It is critical to start considering how the lessons of this... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Be Our Guest: HBS Show 2002 Goes Off without a Hitch
students sold their souls for employment to the tune of familiar songs such as “Be Our Guest” (“Be Depressed”), sung by students upon learning their fate from Career Services, and “Soul Man” (“Soul Plan”), as the devil hatched a plan to View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
Sylvia Wachsner (PMD 35, 1978), director of Sociedade Nacional de Agricultura in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. “Drawing from the faculty’s industry knowledge, I have learned about consumer behavior and have captured insights that I’m able to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
expectations; create and implement an effective customer-access strategy; capture and leverage the customer’s voice to set priorities and improve products, services, and marketing; and use customer-relationship- management systems,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Faculty Books
use — among them, death by delay, confusion, fearmongering, and character assassination — and then engage them with tactics tailored to each strategy. By “inviting in the lions” to critique an idea and being prepared for them, managers can View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Results and Recognition
Appealing Messages David Lindholm (MBA 1959, AMP 100, 1987) If there’s a way to capture the attention and interest of his Class of 1959 Section C classmates, David Lindholm will find it—and he has, through a series of cleverly written and... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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Uncovering The Secrets of Mittelstand Success
companies prevalent in German-speaking countries—has long captured the attention of global business practitioners and scholars. Why are these firms so competitive globally, particularly in emerging markets, and how have they managed to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
"Our conferences are designed to deliver value to senior executives," commented Atlanta cochair Craig R. Triplett (MBA 1981), a consultant with Korn/Ferry International, a major conference sponsor along with others including Andersen Consulting. "We were fortunate to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Rethinking the Fashion Beat
glamorous facade captured in the glossy magazines—about what makes what we wear a multibillion-dollar business. Readership grew organically, though steadily, as Amed focused on creating content that served, as he says, to “open, inform,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
Honeycomb, is designed to be a space where families can capture and curate priceless moments within a private circle. Engagement and retention went through the roof as a result, Lin says, with many parents using the app every day. Half of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
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The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Khanna says. Their shared interest developed into the Creating Emerging Markets project, which launched in 2012 and includes a catalog of interviews with leaders from all over the developing world who have built enterprises that have helped move society forward. View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
civil works. In this way, they have Manila Water as a captured market, and more importantly, they can develop their capabilities as an organization and sell their products to other clients as well. Our livelihood program has already given... View Details