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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
The Protagonist Goes Prime Time
classmate working at IDEO connected him with the company. Unlike traditional case writing where a scenario can often be re-created, however, a multimedia case is most compelling when a company is in the midst of a project or challenge—and while the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
20 million doses by the end of the year. One advantage to the Moderna vaccine is that it does not need ultra-cold storage, making it easier to transport and store. To read more about Moderna and Bancel, visit the HBS Alumni Stories page.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
end of the studio’s decade-long string of successes that included Toy Story, Monsters, Inc., and Finding Nemo—each movie breaking new ground in its own way, pushing the boundaries in terms of both technology and storytelling. It was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were all View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
promotions, oversees much of the marketing end of the 1996 Olympic Arts Festival. "We market the festival as a once-in-a-lifetime experience to go along with the once-in-a-lifetime cachet of the Olympics," Segerlind says. "With the Games... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
managers' ability to put this new technology to effective use, McFarlan stated, "Making it happen is very hard. The major challenge in 1996 is much less the vision than it is the messy, complex problem of implementation." For the next two... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
of future generations to meet their own needs," it is slowly becoming a part of the lexicon of business leaders around the world. Easy Being Green? "One of the problems with turning the idea of environmental sustainability into a viable... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Cummings saw the potential of the city dwindling. The change was partially economic—the city’s credit rating, which had improved by the end of the 1990s, slipped again in the 2000s—and partially personal: Cumming’s children had graduated... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
that we’re smart in the things we’re attacking, and to try to solve real-world problems that make an impact.” Watson General Manager David Kenny (MBA 1986) adds: “The tech sector tends to reward short-term thinking.” But Watson is... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
the ambient atmosphere. The density of those molecules is much lower, so it’s a much more difficult energy-mass problem. And energy-mass challenges turn into cost problems in the end. So it’s really about asking, Can we capture these... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation — so-called say on pay; grants substantial shareholders a new right to have their director candidates’ names included on the ballots sent out by the company (dissident shareholders now must send out... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
intense and very structured: take a concept idea and get to a real prototype for customers to interact with by the end of the day,” Sapone says. On Wednesday of that first Startup Lockdown, the group worked on a concept then called... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Putting Ghosts to Rest
quantify, the process may be as valuable as the end product. While the programs are rolled out, the “cow annuity” and the small businesses formed by the co-ops bring families, neighbors, and communities together. Therefore, when weighing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
with some of firms’ highest-achieving employees often ended with questions about how to manage the demands of parenting and work. Much of the information she found was long on platitudes and short on practical, actionable advice—so she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
however, when I realized the limitations to the coach’s drive to always win big. As usual, they’d made it all the way to the championship game. But this year, the team they were competing against was playing particularly well. By the end... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
the landscape. “People often say, ‘Oh, we need more Harvard PhDs,’ and while that might be great, that’s not really the problem. The problem is we need more individuals entering the security profession.” A 2015 report by Cisco estimated... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
but also what the end of this process means. I think people have a lot of questions. DM: In October 2022, the company held a town hall meeting on Project Bison in Rock Springs, Wyoming. About 130 people attended the meeting, which... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
opening several “desal” plants a year worldwide, costing up to $300 million each. “Seawater desalination provides the ultimate answer for water-supply problems because its source is effectively limitless,” says Brown. “Its drawbacks are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
growth market with a sector leader and a smart, trustworthy, deep-pocketed partner, do it and figure out the fund issues later. Your investors will be happy you did! Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976) StarVest Partners Still Buffering I was an... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
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Green Light
“We have to produce 70 percent more calories than we produce today to feed that population.” Addressing a problem with that kind of span requires scaling beyond the 8' x 40' units—and beyond Millis. “The modular unit that’s going into... View Details