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- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago, to connect local customers to nearby fossil View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
what’s fueling the greens. Southwest Airlines would be red on food service. But Southwest doesn’t pay much attention to that, because getting better at food service would slow its turnaround time, which is a big green for the airline when... View Details
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
His recent book, Elevated Economics: How Conscious Consumers Will Fuel the Future of Business, is his effort to explain the implications of this watershed moment—and help readers understand what it takes to succeed in the new economy it... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
sleep are all important. We are humans, not machines. We realized it must be a holistic approach.” Today, Noom is one of the world’s largest and fastest-growing, consumer-first digital health platforms, empowering users to achieve positive health outcomes through... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
census takers in Watford City, North Dakota—in the far west of the state, 50 miles from the Montana border—counted 1,435 people. Today, that number is estimated to be at least 10,000. A familiar fuel for American boomtowns fed the rapid... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to help fuel what typically would be a good number of investing years going forward. Are entrepreneurs born or made? It’s a combination. There are some gifted entrepreneurs who have an intuitive sense of how products, customers, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books 20+ Years of Urban Rebuilding: Lessons from the Revival of Lower Manhattan after 9/11 By Patrice Derrington (MBA 1991) and Rosemary Scanlon (PMD 42, 1981) Routledge Following the destruction of the World Trade Center and the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
I’ve struggled over the past year with taking care of myself personally. I’ve had to unapologetically prioritize working out, eating healthy just so I can have the fuel and the stamina to get through these long days. I lost my father a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
Centralizing operations in an expanded version of its Reeseville plant (located in the town’s old high-school building) will allow efficiencies that will fuel further growth and local job creation. In conjunction with the project, local... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
caused by the tendency to focus on quarterly earnings growth and the necessity to appeal to shareholders who are not long-term investors. These two factors have, in many cases, spurred short-term decision making and therefore long-term sub-optimization. They have also... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Lessons from the Ashes
destination, attending Oxford, working on Wall Street, and then getting his MBA. But in 1987, as Warwick was finishing up at HBS, his father passed away, and it threw things into flux. At that point, the family owned about 50 percent of the company and the rest was... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
fundamental allocation exercise.” Bubble on the horizon? All that cash pouring into commercial real estate since the tech wreck has fueled a dramatic run-up in prices for prime properties. “Prices are at levels I never would have guessed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
investors, falsified information, and pretended to create value when value hadn't really been created. If inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
own reality check to offer. Director of the Chinese Cultural Center in Singapore, she debunked the lumping together of all Chinese on the assumption that they are somehow linked to each other simply because they are Chinese. The supposition that there exists an... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
human capital to help entrepreneurs. So if I see something interesting, I can jump on it. Provide a little bit of fuel with some capital. And then, power it up with a lot of people that can make an idea turn into reality. So it is a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
there. The company also used an innovative community security model, employing local villagers to ensure that fuel for its generators wasn’t stolen and its towers weren’t blown up by the Taliban. If these goals were met, bonus electricity... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
2003. The experience of starting two inner-city schools fueled Kennealey’s interest in applying to HBS, where he has focused on developing skills in finance, strategy, and operations. “I realized that the fastest, most effective way to... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
widely used would reduce the amount of fossil fuel we ultimately burn. Taken together, these developments perhaps serve as a snapshot of the environmental landscape today. On the one hand, scientific indicators continue to warn of the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
you learned about yourself and your work in the new remote reality? No one believes this, but I’m a profound introvert. I’ve learned that I need to build in processing time in significant ways throughout my day, fueling and refueling so I... View Details