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- 22 Oct 2013
- News
Pulling the Plug
Eric Giler by Francis Storrs Standing on the stage of TEDGlobal in Oxford, England, WiTricity CEO Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is nervous. It's July 2009, and he's about to show how his company's technology can beam electricity through the air to wirelessly power a... View Details
- 27 Apr 2017
- News
Enabling a Transformational Educational Experience
Saurav Patyal (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan Young) Saurav Patyal (MBA 2018) (photo by Susan Young) FELLOWSHIP RECIPIENT: HBS Fund The HBS mission—to educate leaders who make a difference in the world—resonates deeply with Saurav Patyal (MBA 2018). “My goal is to View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
So you need some people treating the currency as a store of value as well. And, incidentally, these sorts of dynamics don’t just play out with general-use cryptocurrencies. They also show up in individual tokens, like NFT projects. If a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Green Talk at HBS
Before an overflow audience in September, Scott Nyquist (MBA ’84) and Thomas Seitz of McKinsey gave a talk on the “The Future of Energy: How Geopolitics, Environmental, and Supply Risks Are Shaping the Industry.” Drawing on the consulting firm’s research on greenhouse... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception to operation to play a... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
That was a great moment. Morrell: Nicole was no stranger to the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship when she launched Energicity in 2015. Until its IPO, she had been a part of US-based OPower, a software-as-a-service company that helped View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
MOOREHEAD: A green start-up designed to reduce the human and monetary costs of war. While serving in different parts of the world as a Navy SEAL, Doug Moorehead (MBA 2007) observed firsthand the human and material cost of energy inefficiency. In Iraq, where he spent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a few of the semifinalists... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
are following their own business models—whether they are for-profit or not-for-profit. The additional spend on health care is due to increased utilization of health-care services as the population gets older. Costlier innovations and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
local HBS club, a webinar, or an HBX Live discussion led by a professor. The following year, you volunteer to join other alumni for a daylong mentoring exercise with first-year MBA students. Then, a year or two later, you take part in a three-day immersion program that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
HBS faculty in 1965. Specializing in general management, he also has published widely in the areas of financial risk management, negotiation, operations research, and utility theory. He taught in the MBA and Doctoral Programs and for many... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Leadership in the Digital Age
Administration and faculty chair of the Leadership Initiative. That’s because the challenges that executives face today aren’t issues of technology but a question of “how to create an organization that can actually utilize digital tools... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Staying the Course
lifted. Although the onus for education—and therefore, the biggest opportunity for ed tech sales—will largely shift back to the schools, she expects caretakers will remain more engaged in the process. “Blended learning”—software that supplements in-person education and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
My Real Career
Madeline. I took great solace in talking to other classmates with disabled children, and cried with another who had lost his daughter. It certainly doesn’t mean our time at HBS was wasted. I still employ TOM skills while building with Legos. I View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
watching the utility industry—finally, 20 years after deregulation—fall to more nimble competition with smaller and decarbonized assets.” Sustainability, which had become a bit of a buzzword in investment circles, had long felt like the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Library Web site at www.library.hbs.edu/hc/daring/. Kudos for “American Odyssey” I wish to applaud you for the article “An American Odyssey” in the March issue. How Richard America has chosen to utilize his HBS education to address global... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
The recent uproar over the Sierra Club’s acceptance of $26 million in undisclosed donations from an energy company prompted some environmentalists to warn against “sleeping with the enemy.” This sort of us-against-them rhetoric is all too common when it comes to... View Details
- 20 Sep 2013
- News
Connections Add Up
strategy and what will keep your customer coming back?—and he also took the time to know and understand me and help develop my confidence. It was a really great gift and something I try to emulate," she says. At CEE, the utility of the... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
expertise on how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the pandemic. For example, Lauren Cohen observed: “Technology will be most powerfully utilized . . . by those firms who apply it organization-wide to create more... View Details