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- 17 Dec 2015
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Acquiring Business Skills To Advance A Career Trajectory
program manager for a project there that was focused on developing and launching low-cost, small satellites as an alternative to larger and more expensive conventional satellites. The experience of working with a more cost-effective... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
profit motive is needed. One argument for ending monopolies and opening the market for private services is that this might lead to more rapid technology introduction and innovation. You don’t have to look very far to find examples of View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
Wolfensohn Center for Development, a new global poverty research initiative at the Brookings Institution. He is also relishing the opportunity to work with his son, Adam, and daughter Naomi at Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a privately held firm that invests in View Details
- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
and forced a major reexamination of how investment decisions are made at Blackstone, resulting in changes with a significant positive impact on the firm's success. Today, Blackstone is the world's largest alternative asset manager with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
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The Blue-Green Revolution
producing 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel a day by 2025. According to Enriquez, who directed HBS’s Life Sciences Project prior to his current role as managing director of Excel Venture Management, algae biofuels were once the darlings of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
multitude of problems and opportunities instead of key issues. So the first task for planners must be to identify the key issues, followed by homing in on the best alternatives for handling those issues without getting sidetracked by... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
about $50 million a year to just cover the manufacturing, launch, and operating costs. “That’s a $20 billion market for a company that can provide a low-cost fuel alternative that keeps the satellites operating and making money for their... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
As the Future Catches You
its serious subject matter. Alternately teasing and solemn - but unfailingly provocative - it is intended to push the boundaries of intellectual engagement in order to provide a deeper understanding of what the future will mean to all... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
thinking reader’s alternative to the cesspool of anonymous comments at the bottom of a news story. With at least 70 million millennials in the United States, Patel is optimistic about the market. “Even if we were able to capture interest... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
Boston-based company that collects cord blood anywhere in the country and transports it to the University of Cincinnati Medical School, where it is frozen and stored. The cord-blood cells can then be used later by the donor or possibly another family member, if needed,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
While perhaps stating the obvious, when you work in socially troubled areas, there is a high risk of failure. Alternatives to achieve the implicit outcome (in this case, reconciliation), as opposed to just the explicit outcome (income... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 07 Nov 2014
- News
Investing for the Long Term in Education
hurdle over a long period of time. We don’t think about how we do that in any one year. We think about how we do that over the course of 10 years. And so it means going into new markets, it means looking for inefficiencies, it means building a team that we know will... View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
million people living there in the region where they want to build a park. And so McKinsey went in, I led the team-- we went in to look at alternative ways to build economic-- sort of alternative economic... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Eventually there's an alternative economy of people who trust each other." The Village Promoter program, spearheaded by Masha, grew this way, eventually reaching about 58,000 small farmers. Overall, Notore's products and activities have... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
energy at the district level as well as sourcing clean energy from large-scale suppliers. For cities and businesses, millions of dollars saved is equal to millions of dollars earned, and that can readily be achieved through greater efficiencies. While clean tech and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
have suddenly become an alternative investment vehicle pursued by high-end investors and hedge funds. Will this phenomenon last? Time to Sell Those Sports Cards follows a personal trip to market as author John Schwarz turns a childhood... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
demonstrate the solidity of France’s business ecosystem and the extraordinary opportunity of being an entrepreneur there. A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the World’s Scriptures by Only One Man (i.e., Jim Clawson, DBA... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace
you barely can get out of bed. Have suicidal thoughts, in my case. Mixed with periods of what's called mania, which is hyperproductivity. Feeling on top of the world. And often, is linked to increases in irritability and other characteristics. But the fact is that... View Details