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- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
“You want to see positive economic changes in a community, but you don’t want people who have been committed to and living in the community for generations to be displaced,” Davis says. “We can prevent that by creating rental View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
cost (sustaining performance involves capturing value in the form of profits); and finally, there are no other rules. Ride the Wave: How 12 Technologies Will Change the World and Make You Rich by Fred Rogers (MBA 1983) and Richard Lalich... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
these ends. Massachusetts Governor W. Mitt Romney (MBA ’74, JD ’75) has also endorsed these goals. In a wide-ranging panel discussion, alongside Massachusetts’s strengths, it was noted that problems exist with the site-regulation process, the high View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
world on which they ultimately depend,” said HBS professor Forest Reinhardt (MBA 1987), who moderated a panel focused on the impact of climate change as part of two panels at the event titled “Confronting Climate Change: Opportunities and... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Patrick Moreton
broadcasting. As for “shelf space,” it might actually increase under relaxed ownership rules. Under consolidated ownership, more TV stations might be viable in some markets because their programming costs would be lower. Presumably, that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
the international division of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a job that took her everywhere from Dublin and Bangkok to Shanghai. When a position opened at UP in early 2011, she welcomed the opportunity to work closer to home. "This is a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
considerations, upon the wonders of the class as a group." That "one direct-mail" opportunity to "wax eloquent" has, half a century later, spawned what we believe to be the largest Class Notes section in any alumni magazine on the planet.... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
cutting them down.” Working in a test forest site in Western Australia, Maudous says the Lord of the Trees drones can plant more than a million trees—via proprietary seed pods—in just 48 hours, with a success rate of 75%. What’s more, the effective View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Skydeck mini-series on carbon capture. In the first episode, we explored the scope of the problem—and the potential size of the business opportunity at this moment. If you haven't listened to that episode yet, go back and check it out. It... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
disgusted by corruption. They worry about school fees, the price of rice, the cost of fuel, and the crime rate. For me personally, Liberia is an enjoyable place. Health care is a little scary: The X-ray machine at the major hospital... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
ample opportunity for miscommunication," explains Gittell. In interviewing health-care providers and administrators from nine major urban hospitals about their organizational practices, Gittell and Weiss found that hospitals are actively... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
Fortunately, says Lerner, the opportunities for entrepreneurs have probably never been better, in part because the cost of starting a business has never been lower and in part because the mania for investing... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
An Authentic Leader
are much better leaders,” he explains. Stepping out of the CEO’s chair early gave George the opportunity to put his thoughts about leadership into a recently published book, Authentic Leadership: Rediscovering the Secrets of Creating... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
next twenty years than it was for the past twenty. World demand for energy is only going to grow. And whether the market price rises or falls, the costs of environmental degradation and national security, two critical externalities, will... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
to 2.5 million women across the country and launching his own startup, Salud Cercana (Health Near You), to address the issue of heart disease in low-income Mexico communities. One of only a few Mexican physicians with an MBA, Ocejo, 31, first saw the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
negotiations are the two most pressing challenges in his industry. Carty, Charron, and Harad — all chiefs of their organizations (Carty reports directly to AMR chairman Robert Crandall) less than two years — have an exciting opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
Inventions at Georgia Tech’s ATDC incubator, with a mission to commercialize a set of scientific breakthroughs for improving silicon photovoltaics. Through his Freeing Energy Project, Nussey is writing a book to help people outside the industry understand the economic... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958
both saw an opportunity for a new kind of research geared toward the professional investors who were on the rise at mutual and pension funds. At the time, institutions accounted for less than 25 percent of equity ownership, but the way... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
pay back ill-gotten gains from option exercises that preceded accounting restatements — and longer vesting would be great. Another significant step would be to expense stock options, which would make their costs more evident and more... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
Charles Dickens’s Bleak House can cost as little as $0.99, depending on the edition). HBS senior lecturer Peter Olson sees huge potential in digital readers. “I think this is a great opportunity to make... View Details