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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
in love with their loan programs in the small business community and sent them an email via the alumni directory. I’ll be working with Sean on the next big product for Camino, but I can’t share too many details yet. A big driver of why I... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
competitor acquired the company’s technology and Novak-ovich was back at HBS, this time as an Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EiR). “My primary charter was to help students who were interested in starting businesses upon graduation,” says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
accordingly. But despite this favorable trend in the business climate, further improvements are urgently needed. HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat, whose research focuses on cross-border competition, notes, "It's hard to make generalizations... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
The Natural Advantage
After a long career in marketing and management with top U.K. and international companies, Alan Heeks (MBA 1976) turned over a new leaf in 1990. He set up the Wessex Foundation, an educational charity whose centerpiece is Magdalen Farm, which consists of a residential... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
lawmakers, suppliers, regulators, customers, landowners, and utility executives. “This is a patience-testing, long-term project, but it requires an entrepreneurial mindset,” observes Skelly, who first began to consider what it takes to build View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
which depends on the merging of breakthrough scientific ideas and great business leadership," said Dean Nitin Nohria. By focusing on technologies that have great potential to impact human lives and by enabling View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA 1984) Routledge In Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs, author Linda J. Bilmes develops a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
need for management experience in nonprofits, and I decided to try to combine my business skills with my commitment to the environment," says Kendall. He embarked on a "classic business school analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture; Agriculture
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
last century: energy and infrastructure; agricultural commodities and food products; and natural resources, to name a few.” Kuhns is particularly bullish on China’s hydroelectric power potential. It’s a View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
Alumni Books The Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Nickelodeon and Univision. "We know," O'Reilly observes, "that other entertainment and sports interests are competing for these groups and that we can never rest on our laurels." Innovation can mean basics like reducing parking and... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
parking spots.” Getting fuel from earth into space is extremely costly: All costs considered, fuel in space costs more than pure gold on earth, says Landon. “Each satellite operator pays up to $50 million per ton for that fuel. That’s... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
professional day writing, with the rest devoted to business and charitable pursuits. In addition to his other books, Barron's abiding interest in the outdoors has resulted in two nature books, one about the history of the Rocky Mountain... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Water for Life Green Day Related Links HBS Business and... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
kitchen) “They were self-taught, and they were amazing. It really showed me the promise of the people of eastern Kentucky,” says Marietta, who later drew on the same talent pool to launch Mountain Tech Media, a digital marketing firm that provides design, branding, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
republic was failing,” says Moss, the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration. Moss is the author of the acclaimed 2017 book Democracy: A Case Study, which grew out of a popular Harvard course he created on the history... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
cause is pure congestion—too many vehicles trying to occupy the same stretch of road at the same time—but accidents, breakdowns, construction, bad weather, and potholes all take their toll, not to mention time that is spent looking for the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
in several major cities. Ira A. Jackson (100th AMP), the executive vice president of BankBoston, is also finding a way to turn social ideals into good business practice. Locally, Jackson is guiding the bank in its efforts to provide jobs... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry