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- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
as a squadron leader. The RAAF took Gower all over the world. He chased diesel submarines in the Mediterranean and nuclear submarines in the Arctic; commanded counter-narcotics operations in the Caribbean and peace-keeping operations in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Harvard Business School Case 914-011 Progress Energy and Duke Energy (A) Just as Duke Energy and Progress Energy announce their merger-forming the largest utility company in the United States, to be led by the current Progress CEO-a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
Russia, and China, Western leaders appreciate aspects of these perils, but they are crafting unduly soft policies to deal with the challenges. The authors believe that "globalists"' notwithstanding, such views are myopic in an era where View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
Brookings, 2009) Abstract Energy policy is on everyone's mind these days. The U.S. presidential campaign focused on energy independence and exploration (drill, baby, drill), climate change, alternative fuels, even nuclear energy. But... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
well as in the United States. Explores the costs and benefits of the company's choices about its vertical, horizontal, and geographical scope. Considers the risks of economic regulation, increasing concerns about environmental externalities from carbon emissions and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
corporate ladder wasn’t for him. He wanted to make a more personal mark in the world. “A principle role model at the time was my uncle, Henry Way Kendall, who was a nuclear physicist, Nobel Laureate, and cofounder of the Union of... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
to be treated as scarce; that’s why those cities are configured the way they are.” In his 1961 classic, The City in History, Lewis Mumford penned words amid fears of impending nuclear holocaust that invoke the present era’s own nightmare... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
driver's seat – of a submarine. For six years he served as a Nuclear Submarine Officer in the Navy and then made the transition into consulting for three years with EY. While at HBS, Peters took advice from his professors and reflected on... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
as Fansteel Metallurgical Corp., Deseret Pharmaceutical Co., New England Nuclear Corp., and Velcro Industries. And by the summer of 1969, it was ready to hire its first associate, Henry McCance, fresh out of three years in defense systems... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
think about democracy and information. If a company from Ghana invented some kind of nuclear missile and wanted to bring nukes through the United States on their way to Canada, you wouldn’t think that was okay. You would say, “Let’s... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
nuclear crises resulting from the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/612027-PDF-ENG CFW Clinics in Kenya: To Profit or Not for Profit V. Kasturi Rangan and Katherine LeeHarvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2020
- Blog Post
Reflections on Service - Armed Forces Alumni Association Student Profiles
to know. REFLECTION ON SERVICE: My experience in military service is much akin to a baseball game, long stretches of otherwise unassuming events punctuated by periods of intense stress and commotion. Each submarine has a nuclear power... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
Harvard Business School Case 316-045 Doug Cook: Feldco Window Company (B) Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/316045-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 716-011 Japan's Post-Fukushima View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
Working PapersThe "Fees Savings" Link, or Purchasing Fifty Pounds of Pasta Authors:Michael I. Norton and Leonard Lee Abstract Many consumers have had the experience of entering discount membership clubs to make a few purchases, only to leave with enough... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
across the financial system if they failed (think Lehman). Financial institutions that pose such a threat are the financial equivalent of nuclear power plants, providing an important service in many cases but also posing a profound danger... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
time when she was reflecting on her three-decade career working in the gas and electric utilities industry and realized that she could credit a series of strong leaders and mentors for helping her rise through the ranks. Starting as an entry-level technical writer... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
effective communicator. Martin Shapiro’s 2039 by Martin Shapiro (MBA 1966) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) A dystopian novel depicting a world in which no nuclear explosions or pandemics have occurred, but, in the United... View Details