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- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
sectors." Wilkins adds that this is perhaps an upside to the tragedies New Orleans has endured: "The beauty of Katrina—if there is a silver lining to Katrina—is it washed a lot of problems away. It forced the city to start over and do... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
Business and Pleasure: Kim and Coup Coupounas enjoy the scenic beauty of the Rocky Mountains just as much today as when they moved to Boulder almost a decade ago. (photo by Stephen Collector) The trail weaves back and forth in steep... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Shari P. Hubert
It's impossible to talk for long with Shari Hubert without hearing her mention the importance of "giving back." In fact, when she is asked to reflect on her most significant accomplishments to date, she doesn't at first mention that she won a city-wide college... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Turning Point: Network Effects
I’ve lost several folks you never would have thought would be candidates for depression. One example is a friend of mine, a former F-18 squadron commander with all kinds of crazy degrees, a beautiful family, and a pedigree that went back... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Shuttleworth (MBA 1997)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
government. “When I was still at McKinsey,” he recalls, “I moved to Silicon Valley in 2000 at the height of the Internet bubble, where I saw all the beautiful excesses of irrational exuberance. Yes, it was a bubble, but it was very fun!... View Details
- 11 May 2011
- News
The PMD 70 Tree and Other Memorials at HBS
beauty in topography or tree growth.” Much progress has been made since then! More than 2,000 trees have been planted on the campus since 1971, but given construction and other factors, about 880 trees are now standing, including 450... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
Bangladesh, Ethiopia, Ecuador, Kenya, Pakistan, and Rwanda, and aims to expand that reach to 100 million farmers. According to Cole, the beauty of the work is threefold. First, it’s meeting a demand. “The majority of the world’s poorest... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: The Business of Burning Man
Eiffel Tower and handed out paper cups of champagne.” Up in smoke: “There’s a temple dedicated to loss—of loved ones, ideas, pets, hopes, dreams. All week long, people bring tributes to this beautiful wooden building and write messages on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
where the opportunity is,” Thacker explains. “It may not, overall, be the most beautiful city, but there are pockets of the city that are absolutely stunning. And there’s a great deal of culture in the city. We’ve got one of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
numbers. The Economist also gathers data on the percentage of international and female students and the number of languages offered. Meaningless Beauty Contests? BusinessWeek fired the first shot in what became a media ranking “arms race”... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
also planning to make it a TV station with an internet video component. And we have created a park and event space on a piece of land overlooking Lake Senba, which is a beautiful lake. It is next to Kairaku-en, which is a very historical... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
impacts. Seeing an opportunity in the vast amount of waste within the food system, Imperfect Foods began purchasing “number twos” directly from farmers in California’s Central Valley in 2015. Those are the slightly lumpy tomatoes or twisted carrots that don’t meet the... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)
business friendly. We're family and community oriented. It's football heaven—Go, Cowboys! It's full of sunshine. Can you finish this statement? My perfect workout is "An hour of moderate- to high-intensity hiking on some beautiful outdoor... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
pilot’s license when he was just 17 years old, after training in his dad’s antique 1946 Piper J-3 Cub. “It was just a beautiful plane,” he recalls. “I fell in love with flying.” Alhough he considered a career in aviation, he lacked... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Beacon of Liberty
Kashmir Photo courtesy Sharjeel Kashmir It’s a beautiful morning in Jersey City as I stretch after my regular jog in Liberty State Park. I marvel that this is my neighborhood and my view. In front of me, the Hudson River lies at the feet... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and in 1968, his entry to NASA, which early on sent him to the University of Michigan for a doctorate in radiation physics. Even as he rose through the ranks at the space agency, Earls' scientific training was an important... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension
Beth Thoren (MBA 1992) was a teenager in Japan the first time she saw the ocean. “I thought it was the most beautiful and fragile thing I’d ever seen,” she recalls. The experience sparked a lifelong interest in the natural world and led... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Book Review: Getting Beyond Yes
and indeed very beautiful, it’s the story of ‘an almost perfect crime.’ Set in a monastery in the Quebec wilderness, Chief Inspector Gamache—one of my favorite detectives in crime fiction—is one of the few outsiders allowed in this community of silence.” —Elizabeth... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
(Robbie Brozin), marketing (Peter Vundla), and beauty (Ian Fuhr) industries. Asia-Pacific Research Center The Asia-Pacific Research Center helped produce the case “Sercomm: Operating in China Amid COVID-19 and Beyond” by Prithwiraj... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Green House
eventually purchased in Observatory Hill was moldy, with terrible indoor-air quality and standing water in the basement. Over the last three years, Harper, through her company, Birchwood Sustainable Development, turned it into a beautiful... View Details