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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Eyeing the Dominoes?
Is America ready for another Harvard MBA as president? As the final years of the George W. Bush (MBA ’75) presidency wind down, there seems to be no lack of potential candidates eager to replace him. In the event that the Democrats and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
School’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Runs Deep
entrepreneurs. “Many HBS alums graduate with a certain attitude and inclination toward entrepreneurship and wind up as self-employed — starting, growing, and selling businesses, and starting over again,” he explains. His book chronicles... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
could to relatives back at home—a process that opened Dyer’s eyes to the ways in which the financial system, with its long delays and steep fees, often winds up being most costly for those who have the fewest resources: Migrant workers... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
provider, or your wind provider." “They don't want to be your oil provider for the next hundred years,” Cohen says. “They want to be your energy provider for the next hundred years. So, if that energy shifts to a different source, they... View Details
- 11 Jun 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives
You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
into an operation that now boasts 135 employees and anticipated 2003 revenues of $45 million. As Boston’s Big Dig, a prime revenue source, winds down, City Lights is expanding to other parts of the country. The company has also launched a... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Burger Art
Talk about thinking outside the box! Since time immemorial, Americans have slapped and shaken ketchup bottles at their peril, hoping the red stuff would mostly wind up on their burgers and not in their laps. Well, that's all so yesterday,... View Details
- Portrait Project
Cabin Kim
do: Why isn't anyone else laughing? Do they think I'm weird? But other times, I laugh. I laugh a lot. A lot of things can make me laugh: an unexpected remark, or a sudden mood shift in a song. A breath of fresh wind that makes a pair of... View Details
- Portrait Project
Jorge Roberts
questions the Labyrinth of Solitude once tried to answer, Maturity and discipline to run an ultramarathon like the Tarahumara Indians, Wind to sail the oceans that his grandfather and father once sailed, Luck to capture the perfect photo... View Details
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
“Development work is more about listening than telling,” says Marie Sheppard (MBA 1990), a veteran of more than two decades with the World Bank Group. As she winds up an assignment as manager of the Bank’s Innovation Labs in Washington,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Spangler Center in Top Form
A cloudless blue sky and a chilly wind provided a brisk backdrop for a December celebration of progress made in the construction of the new Spangler Center. The "topping out" ceremony, a Viking tradition that pays tribute to the trees... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
administration. Devoting the bulk of his remarks to the subject of leadership, Whitehead observed that different problems require different leadership styles. When things are going well — “when the wind is at your back” — a thoughtful,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Coach “Chuck” Jukes Convention
’Tis the season for bowl games and playoffs! If you’re stuck at midfield on your shopping list with the clock winding down, The Complete Handbook of Coaching Wide Receivers would make a great Hail Mary holiday gift. The treatise’s author... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott. “We’re the first scalable version of this model. Because it’s bigtime American agriculture, we can do a series of these $100 million funds. Each fund is the equivalent carbon offset as if we had built an $86 million wind farm.”... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
that are shaping the world of the future and offers guidance on how to avoid being eaten alive. The Wind Blew Innocent: A Memoir by Donna Arp Weitzman (OPM 37 2008) (Howard Bond Media Group LLC) Claustrophobia. I didn't know the meaning... View Details
- Portrait Project
Minal Mehta
I'll let you in on a secret: I often pretend I'm a Bollywood star. You may see me walking down the halls of Aldrich to my next class. Little do you know that I'm actually strutting down a runway in a music video; wind in my hair and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
dedicated to creating and advancing solutions to the core issues driving climate change Matthew Commons (MBA 2007) FloDesign Wind Turbine Corporation Waltham and Wilbraham, Massachusetts Wind turbine... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
Two days before Thanksgiving 2002, the 4th graders of Irving Primary in Peoria, Illinois, gathered in the school’s gym for an assembly. The students were restless, Jen Wilfong (GMP 3, 2007) recalls. They were chatting and jostling one another and had little interest in... View Details
- Profile
Andrew Simko
not just about business. Likewise, HBS itself is a wild ride, but also just one step in your career and winding life journey. My advice would be to ask yourself: if you (even broadly) know where you want to go, why do you need to come... View Details
- Portrait Project
Vaibhav Singh
kinship for the fellow traveler and a sense of adventure for the uncharted future, gives meaning to life. The world needs to rediscover this essential lesson from the road. Like the kid at the end of Camelot, I will travel far and wide, with an open heart and View Details