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- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
warming, rapid melting of polar ice, and an increasingly fragile ecosystem where infectious diseases of all kinds are more likely to be successful, we run greater risks of all sorts of perils," says Froot. "In some cases—such as the 2001 terrorist attacks or...
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- 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...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
regulation of natural gas, nuclear power, and hazardous wastes. A Global Solution Professor Joe Lassiter The flame from a natural gas flare dances in the shadow of an oil pump jack near Keene, North Dakota. “Natural gas is not an economic...
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- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
Eastern agreements. These include the opening to China after decades of mutual hostility with the United States; détente and the first nuclear arms control treaty with the Soviets at the height of the Cold War; the Paris peace treaty with...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
less than those of nuclear and coal. Utility-scale solar costs less than gas-fired generation, and in many parts of the world, wind is less expensive, as well. The U.S. Energy Information Administration stated that in 2021, the nation’s...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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- 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
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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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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- 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...
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by Staff
- 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...
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- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
needs to decide on the company's strategy in light of electricity deregulation and the dominant position of Électricité de France (EDF) in the French market. Can Poweo successfully compete against EDF, with its giant installed nuclear...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
Don’t Be Afraid of AI
apart! Skynet has become self-aware. In one hour it will initiate a massive nuclear attack on its enemy. What enemy? Us! Humans!” But Donna Dubinsky (MBA 1981), CEO of Numenta, says all that Hollywood-inspired fear of artificial...
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- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
New Model for Active Management No abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218046-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 717-038 Iran on the Brink: The Nuclear Deal and the Future of the Islamic...
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Carmen Nobel
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
success, especially with respect to Iran's nuclear program. Taking John Limbert's book, Negotiating with Iran as a point of departure, this essay develops such a perspective, suggesting several means of influence. Read the paper:
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
catastrophes like the BP oil spill or the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster) would be included directly in the prices of each of the various energy sources, not somehow shielded from the eyes of consumers. In a competitive world,...
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