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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
and let opportunities for advancement pass them by—at least compared to their male peers. These observations are the real surprise thread winding through Lean In, and they have landed her in hot water with critics who prefer to pin most... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
purely economic perspective—turning off the carbon-based energy production and building wind farms and solar farms can save people money,” he explains. But he saw that, in many of those places, the transition wasn’t happening. Often,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Image by Digital Art/Corbis Related Links Listen to a podcast of Professors Rawi Abdelal, Forest Reinhardt, and Richard Vietor discussing the future of energy The catch-all “green” category covers a range of industries, from wind and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
that the plant will be the first of many built by Sykué (“See-kway”) Bioenergia, as the new company is known. Recognizing the resources that will require, Sykué is negotiating a partnership with a larger energy player to realize those ambitions. — JH The View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
School’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Runs Deep
entrepreneurs. “Many HBS alums graduate with a certain attitude and inclination toward entrepreneurship and wind up as self-employed — starting, growing, and selling businesses, and starting over again,” he explains. His book chronicles... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
An Electrifying Tale
into an operation that now boasts 135 employees and anticipated 2003 revenues of $45 million. As Boston’s Big Dig, a prime revenue source, winds down, City Lights is expanding to other parts of the country. The company has also launched a... View Details
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
provider, or your wind provider." “They don't want to be your oil provider for the next hundred years,” Cohen says. “They want to be your energy provider for the next hundred years. So, if that energy shifts to a different source, they... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982
says with characteristic ease and candor. Those words are often used to describe Immelt, yet they belie the extreme complexity involved in leading a company that employs more than 300,000 people around the world, each working in areas that range from View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Kilimanjaro
final climb in a misty rain. The temperature was 5 degrees; the winds were blowing at 30 miles per hour. By this point they all knew each other quite well. Most of the chocolate had already been consumed. Canadian Graeme Johnson (MBA ’95)... View Details
- 29 Apr 2016
- News
The First Five Years: Kelly McKenna (MBA 2015)
have absolutely no control over the two biggest influences on your speed—wind and water. But you learn to take clues as to what either the wind or the water might do, depending on factors like temperature, cloud patterns, View Details
- Portrait Project
Jorge Roberts
questions the Labyrinth of Solitude once tried to answer, Maturity and discipline to run an ultramarathon like the Tarahumara Indians, Wind to sail the oceans that his grandfather and father once sailed, Luck to capture the perfect photo... View Details
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
“Development work is more about listening than telling,” says Marie Sheppard (MBA 1990), a veteran of more than two decades with the World Bank Group. As she winds up an assignment as manager of the Bank’s Innovation Labs in Washington,... View Details
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
back production levels and funding for strategic initiatives until sales recover, or should it continue to invest for the future? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111049-PDF-ENG The Fox Island Wind Project (B)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Minal Mehta
I'll let you in on a secret: I often pretend I'm a Bollywood star. You may see me walking down the halls of Aldrich to my next class. Little do you know that I'm actually strutting down a runway in a music video; wind in my hair and... View Details
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
Massachusetts, there has been considerable controversy regarding the building of wind turbines on Cape Cod—a situation I describe in a case study I've written. But no matter what happens there, only about 1.9 percent of all our electric... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
and services with innovative approaches to climate adaptation and mitigation, there is another important step. Pay attention to quality and safety. It takes just one electric vehicle catching on fire, wind turbine blade falling off at an... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
"It is Possible to Walk Away from Situations that Make You Unhappy": Cauvery Patel, MBA 2016
City, where her partner worked; and finally, it couldn't be within a large company. The not-so-long yet winding road Cauvery began her search with the HBS network, but found it challenging. There was no systematic way to search by... View Details
- Profile
Fola Folowosele
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? At Mesoamerica Energy, the wind energy company I worked at prior to business school, I held a cross functional role that straddled engineering and business development. It was through this... View Details
- Web
Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog
in the high waves and strong winds they confronted. Understanding precisely how these people did this is the overarching objective of the course. We will pay particular attention to the larger “rules of the road” of crisis management and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Knowing the Score
always wind up being the best operators of a new business. I have been fascinated with ways companies brand themselves ever since my first-year Marketing class. That exposure informed many of my interview questions aimed at exploring... View Details