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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
Francisco earthquake of 1906 qualifies as the major disruptor leading to the Panic of 1907. Wars, bad harvests, other natural disasters, and, yes, pandemics, would also deliver crisis-triggering shocks. Third, crises tend to break out in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
density, the Byzantine nature of its bureaucracy, and the number of entrenched interests at play can frustrate even modest efforts to alter the status quo. Yet none of that appears to faze Tisch any more than did her first snow day. In... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
connecting with nature and being outdoors - whether it's hiking in the White Mountains, fishing for stripers, or just going out to see the whales off Stellwagen Bank. I don't know - maybe I would have been a fishing or climbing guide.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)
Club. “It’s a course built on the Pine Barrens in southern New Jersey. It’s entirely surrounded by sand, a geologically very special spot that creates a phenomenal test of golf in beautiful, natural surroundings.” Closer to home: The... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
heard that day stopped Dixon in her tracks. Just 17 at the time, Ella Wylde had the presence and point of view of an old soul, with a natural instinct for songwriting, structure, and arrangement, Dixon says. “Think Alanis Morissette meets... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
investment,” McKnight says. Technologies at each step along the chain need to get faster and better, and monitoring needs to expand beyond airports to other points of entry, hospitals and labs, and even conflict zones and natural... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
donors—“you don’t naturally have a feedback loop”—and you have to build strategic alliances. “No nonprofit is going to achieve big objectives alone,” Laidler-Kylander explains. Trickle Up invested in 41,000 women living in extreme poverty... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Action Plan: Wild at Heart
At first glance, Heather Evans (MBA 1983) might not seem the likeliest candidate for a career in ecological landscaping. A former chief marketing officer and “true urbanist” (“to the extent I used to hate visiting people in the country!”), Evans spent most of her life... View Details
- 04 May 2013
- News
James Dinan & Elizabeth Miller, both MBA 1985
former investment banker, a current full-time mother, and a member of numerous nonprofit boards, Miller sees their gift as a natural extension of the most important lessons they learned at HBS. “We both have strong feelings about where to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Dick Franyo: From Banker to Barkeeper
was leveled and in its place rose what his wife, Susan, refers to as the couple’s “dream bar.” “Susan and I traveled from the Caribbean to New England, taking detailed pictures of the interiors of bars frequented by sailing people,” he notes. “We envisioned lots of... View Details
- 22 Sep 2023
- News
Capital Connection
Beckford notes one of the firm’s proudest accomplishments to date has been helping Houston-based Bodka Creek Capital become the largest African-American, woman-owned multifamily operator in the United States, with a $40 million loan to acquire and revitalize a 460-unit... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
He believes the industry’s fragmented nature and massive scale, which combine to create high levels of risk aversion, have been a barrier. “No American general contractor has greater than a one percent share of the trillion-dollar... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
industrial company committed to both the natural world and the growth of the Brazilian communities where it operated. Lorentzen served as chairman of Aracruz until 2004; under his leadership, the company built a world-class research... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
by 1.1 percent in towns where the local newspaper had closed up shop. (The magnitude of increase was greatest in communities that lost their one and only paper.) The nature of the violations also became more severe in the wake of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
understand them instead of trying to guess their feelings. Frei: Or, in our language, “center” on them. Putting yourself in someone else’s shoes might be a natural instinct for someone trying to understand a person who is different than... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 31 Jul 2023
- News
Striving for Imperfection
better enable organizations to leverage intelligence from outside of the organization, and what about AI? How could that be used as a tool for problem solving within organizations now? CC: Can I give you two examples? So the Nature... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
stops the action after just a few seconds. While it’s true that outright violence isn’t in evidence, there is no mistaking that this is a combat sport. The unpredictable, live nature of it is a big draw, to say nothing of watching... View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
Chien and Derrick Rossi, published a paper in the journal Nature Biotechnology that showed mRNA Therapeutics was capable of stimulating blood vessel growth, repairing damaged heart tissue, and helping a mouse through myocardial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Beans, and Mandan Squash—the “Three Sisters” of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred Seed is modeling a different approach based on agricultural practices that are thousands of years old. Cornstalks provide a View Details