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John Rogers

product development and manufacturing, I was ill equipped to take on the business challenges of agricultural value chain development. My first significant exposure to the space came during my initial January term, when I led a team of... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Manufacturing

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Rebekah Emanuel: Host of Season 3 of the Climate Rising Podcast

from looking at one sector and finding something analogous that's applicable to another sector. The more I work in different places and with different people, the more I see that cross-pollinating between industries ends up being... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

connectors. China, which outstrips both Europe and the United States in terms of EV adoption, wants to put 3 to 5 million electric vehicles on its roads by 2020. China’s central government has also opened the state-run power sector to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

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Day in IFC: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017), Africa - MBA

traveled to both Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania as part of the Africa Immersive Field Course (IFC). This course challenged a group of second-year MBA students to investigate business solutions to three of the major... View Details

02 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: Do We Need an Artificial Intelligence Czar?

judging from per capita declines in both natural and unnatural deaths worldwide. While the problem of nuclear weapons proliferation remains with us, the 21st century challenges relate to such things as space exploration and the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

01 Jun 2020
News

Inside Out

spend. Don’t get us wrong, these costs are critically important, but this has been the sole focus of the building sector for far too long. Think about it this way: the entire green building movement, with billions of square feet of office... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

18 Oct 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech

investing is like Internet investing. They think, 'It's gonna happen fast, and it's just gonna happen.' And the answer is no, it's not gonna be fast, and it might even not happen.” There are a couple of key differences that make the various clean-tech View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities; Financial Services

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

of government in the urbanization process. There's always the hope that government can wave a magic wand and fix these problems, but generally government can't. It is either paralyzed by politics or a lack of money. So the private View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

15 Jun 2021
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

archives One of the first African American graduates of HBS, the late H. Naylor Fitzhugh overcame numerous racial barriers in a career that spanned academia and the private sector. Born in Washington, DC, in 1909, he earned a scholarship... View Details

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

government to say, in effect, "We did this, it works, it is competitive," and the government then offers them the opportunity to institutionalize whatever the lessons were, said Khanna. "Many of the spaces have done just... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

01 Dec 2014
News

Case Study: Growing the Family Business

center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for private equity. There is not... View Details

Keywords: childcare; Finance

24 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost

African people, businesses, cities, and nations are increasingly stressed by climate related perils like drought, river flooding, extreme heat, and sea level rise. This is already leading not just to destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and livelihoods –... View Details

25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

This is a repost from the Alumni Stories blog. Brickson Diamond (MBA 1999) has never been one to, as he puts it, “just sit back and wait for progress to happen.” His role as cofounder and chair of the Blackhouse Foundation is a case in point. The organization took... View Details

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

organizational behavior as a field of study. He was a pioneer in creating a body of work on organization design, leadership, and change in both the private and public sectors. Lawrence’s professional work was rooted in an aspiration to do... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2002
News

Class Notes Extra

Harmony Growing up in late-1960s Milwaukee, Bill Ahlhauser was a self-described “young radical,” a teenager who took part in civil rights marches and who dropped out of his Catholic private school in order to start up an independent high... View Details

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

Hatchery Chicago will remove these barriers by providing rentable private and shared kitchen space, cold and dry storage, shipping and loading docks, and general meeting and work space. It will also offer industry-specific coaching and... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

25 Feb 2020
News

Profits and Purpose

tackle. But the students said, “Whoa, how can we talk about the big problems of our time without thinking about inequality?” The students also pushed me to move beyond shared value. Of course, building the business models that create both public and View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

20 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 20, 2008

full-service bank; describes the competitive context of low-income sector of financing in Mexico; and reviews the decisions leading to the IPO in the Mexican Stock Exchange. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2020
News

Saving Grace

mandate that private sector employers auto-enroll their employees in a pension plan. In the span of six years, the number of people with pensions in the UK jumped by 10 million. But just opening the accounts... View Details