Globalization Of Food Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2016
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The Burning Man Project

in really powerful, and helpful and constructive ways. Hanna: And I'm guessing sunscreen too, right? Raiser: Lots of sunscreen. Lots of hats with a chin strap for the wind. A gallon and a half View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship from the nineteenth century till... View Details

15 Jun 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks

served as CEO of AEW’s Curzon Global Partners before starting Tristan Capital Management in 2009, a real estate investment firm with eight offices across Europe and more than 12 billion in assets under... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; diversity; leadership; real estate; Real Estate

01 Jun 1996
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Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course

When HBS professor Leonard A. Schlesinger and the other architects of the new MBA introductory "Foundations" curriculum decided that a thorough understanding of capitalism's underpinnings was essential, they... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 May 2025
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If I Knew Then

continuing the important relationships that you developed at school. And I’ve done that through my activities in the visiting committee, the Alumni Board, and then the Harvard Business School Club of New... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Aug 2001
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Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)

Bahrain, and England. While in Texas with Monsanto, he noticed that the top managers had technical degrees but little training in business administration and economics. Sensing an opportunity for advancement, he enrolled in night classes... View Details

Keywords: Alumni Achievement Award; Educational Services

05 May 2022
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Like-Minded

Seki. “We want to prove that we can maximize the return by installing ESG thinking in younger companies and, hopefully, nurture global startups from Japan.” In a Japanese business culture still widely... View Details

18 Sep 2019
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Level Up

fed by some four thousand media sources that can give sports business executives an immediate idea of what platforms, products, or people are moving the industry—and which ones aren’t. “We’re helping our... View Details

Keywords: Paul Flannery and Dan Morrell; illustrations by Matt Chinworth

08 Aug 2018
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Getting Life Back in Balance

Photos by Louise Agnew The day he returned home to Australia from three months in Harvard Business School’s General Management Program, Benjamin Gower (GMP 19, 2015) quit his job as senior vice president of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Jun 2009
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Cynthia Carroll

in three years’ time. One is on the procurement side, where we’re applying global procurement practices and integrating all parts of the business. The second is what we call Asset Optimization: getting the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management; Mining

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

networking opportunities while learning from business luminaries. Previous speakers include Julián Zugazagoitia, the director and CEO of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Adam... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

opportunity “to add to the texture of a village of creative artists who have the power to influence a huge global audience.” A year later, with Blackhouse cofounders Ryan... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

06 Dec 2021
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New Wave

has yet to be realized. A report by Ocean Energy Systems, an offshoot of the International Energy Agency, found that between 2009 and 2019, global energy production from wave and tidal sources increased from... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Oct 2000
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Books

Design Rules: The Power of Modularity (Volume 1) by Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark (The MIT Press) Today's fast-paced global economy often seems to operate as an independent force, but its products,... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

Alphabet, Shopify, McKinsey, and Meta—committing $925 million to advance carbon removal technologies. There’s a lot of work to do. As of 2022, there were 13 commercial carbon capture and storage facilities... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

04 Dec 2014
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Hacking Health Care

Yahoo, pre-Google, we were trying to think about how to have business models in those fields.” Another group of noteworthy campus visitors: Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA 1954) and his wife, Nan-B, whose... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

male-dominated mining community. The first woman and non–South African to lead the 95-year-old company, Carroll, a native of Princeton, New Jersey, was hired as a change agent, and her combination of... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes

even in the womb!” explains Erdoes, who heads global investments for the private bank of J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. Her job puts her in charge of more than $200 billion in... View Details