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- 01 Dec 2011
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Peak Earth?
“the rather burdensome thought is that people won’t listen to environmentalists, but they will sometimes listen to people like me.” He explained that “people are naturally much more responsive to finite resources than they are to climate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The End of Cows?
When Senior Lecturer José B. Alvarez was the CEO of Stop & Shop, he heard a recurring complaint from customers: The meat quality, they said, seemed to vary by the day. That’s the nature of meat: Nobody in the supply chain can guarantee... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships
Forest L. Reinhardt, John D. Black Professor of Business Administration Forest Reinhardt, an authority on the use of natural resources, serves as course head for the required Strategy course and also teaches the MBA elective Business and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Utopian Vision
dentists who got lucky on the stock market.” The development plan calls for a golf course with villas, a luxury boutique hotel, farms, a nature preserve and science research center, and a beach village with a nearby artists’ colony. Curry... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
especially when their employees are naturally proactive, according to a forthcoming article in the Academy of Management Journal by Associate Professor Francesca Gino and colleagues. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6494.html. Reversing the... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
valuable product. “Nature, through photosynthesis, has figured out how to convert carbon dioxide and water into all types of things, from wood and fibers to fruits and grains,” he observes. Surely humans could use this natural process—one... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
New Global Initiative Director Takes Broad Outlook
of staff for Tufts president John DiBiaggio and another five years coordinating one of the Fletcher School's academic programs with activities in Japan, China, Korea, Canada, and Russia. "Coming to the Global Initiative was a natural... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
strategic vision. He was a founding partner in a Lawrence, Massachusetts, hydroelectric plant which was the first venture to take advantage of the 1978 National Energy Act’s alternative energy incentives. Later, he and his team at J. Makowski Co. Inc. helped bring... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Merck’s Gilmartin on Vaccines, Global Health
thereby increasing competition, development, and production. Some of this activity, Gilmartin observed, could be stimulated by private-public partnerships and judicious government involvement in funding basic research and making binding purchase commitments where View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Exploring Vietnam and Cambodia
Photos by SARAH HALL Twenty-eight alumni and guests explored natural wonders, vibrant cities, and historical sites of Vietnam and Cambodia last spring during a ten-day trip sponsored by the HBS Alumni Travel Program. Starting in Hanoi on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leadership Fellows
Kennedy, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; Christopher Daniels, US Department of Education; Aaron Anderson, City of Sacramento Mayor's Office; Emily Rasmussen, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; Dileepan Siva, Endeavor Global; Evan Sketchley, The View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
A Climate Change Optimist
says. Green America’s sustainable supply chain networks provide peer learning, support, and connections to innovations. “I love the market-solution focus of what we do,” says Gravitz, noting that, in recent big utility buys, solar and wind—with battery backup—are less... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photo by Seth Lowe
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
1984) The Nature Conservancy Worldwide locations A charitable environmental organization that works to preserve the plants, animals, and natural communities that represent the diversity of life on Earth by... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
declines in almost any of the producing basins around the world. How will this shortage affect the U.S. and world economy? The price of oil and gas is going to have to go way up. Sixty dollars a barrel for crude oil is a preposterously cheap price for a scarce,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
and natural gas company in the Middle East. “When I was at HBS it was clearly the world’s leading business school. What it has become even more today is the leading business school for the world,” says Jafar, who has served on the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Wyss Celebrated for Career, Conservation
described as a critical link to conserving the Crown of the Continent — a 10-million-acre natural region that encompasses Glacier National Park and provides refuge for some of the last grizzly bears, Canada lynx, and wolverines in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Of Myth and Merlin: T.A. (Tom) Barron's Literary Odyssey
"because I printed it at my school, where they charged me every time I used their equipment." After graduating from Princeton, Barron won a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford, where he studied philosophy, politics, and economics. But outside the university's hallowed halls,... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
its reasonable hours allowed Cohen time to raise her children, Amanda (now a lawyer at the Natural Resources Defense Council) and Eli (JD/MBA ’06). During her NTHP tenure, from 1980 to 1993, she focused on developing programs to preserve... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
For the Greater Good
John A. Paulson (MBA 1980) is president of the investment firm Paulson & Co. and a 2018 recipient of the HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video he offers his views on the nature and role of philanthropy as a means to have a positive... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable technology businesses in the... View Details