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- 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
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
products such as food containers and shopping bags that could be made with recycled plastic rather than virgin resin, helping to divert more plastic that might otherwise wind up in the ocean. Goodwin says they are currently working with a... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
The sun was setting and a light snow falling, creating a thin white blanket that covered the winding two-lane country road stretching in front of Joshua Margolis, when he suddenly felt his 1992 Volvo give into the slick surface, pull out... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
[He has] created a monument more lasting than bronze And loftier than the pyramids' royal pile, One that no wasting rain, nor furious north wind Can destroy, nor the immeasurable succession of years and flight of time. (Book III. Ode 30)... View Details
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cyber-Marketing: Scouting the Digital Communications Frontier
forthcoming book Digital Marketing (John Wiley & Sons), edited by Jerry Wind and Vijay Mahajan, John Deighton and coauthor Patrick Barwise of the London Business School identify three qualities that distinguish the Web from other mass... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
proprietary at all in a competitive space with razor-thin margins, and yet he made it work.” ‘People need this’ Like many other social entrepreneurs, Domingues’ road to success was not easy. He took a winding path from playing wing for a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?
do you think? Original Article Periodically, somebody comes up with the idea of turning the organization upside down, with the customer on top. Those serving customers in the frontline come next, and top management winds up at the bottom.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
companies out there in the world, whether or not they’re in the diamond industry.” For Aether, that means vertical integration, including the production of on-site wind and solar energy. And it means finding responsible partners such as... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
in recall, in turn, stems not from loss of memory, per se. Instead, it has to do with conflicts with other similar memories that wind up blocking efforts to recall the specific piece of information or story, the study finds. Stories have... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
projects, and whether those projects are going to deliver environmental benefits.” The projects include efforts to create alternative energy by building solar panels and wind turbines, as well as projects to improve water efficiency,... View Details
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
most attractive terms? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809031 Note on the Global Wind Industry Harvard Business School Note 709-005 This note provides background information on the global... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Saving Grace
jobs an average of 11 times in the course of their careers, and beyond the potential to misplace all that paperwork, any number of things can happen before a person reaches retirement age, says Romina Savova (MBA 2012). “The institution managing your money could View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
services industry that includes supermarket chains, shopping malls, wind energy, and banks. Both his son, Murat (MBA 2003), and daughter, Aysecan (who holds an MBA from Stanford), work closely with him. "I'm still a hands-on manager of my... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
Symbiosis taking off in the U.S. in the near future! ----- Read more posts in the IFC Series: Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind HySynergy and Crossbridge Energy Grundfos: Innovation &... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought
in the financial system, why do these moments seem to catch monetary policymakers off guard? Hanson offers two reasons: It’s hard to predict exactly when disaster will strike. Like the drought and high winds that portend a wildfire,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2014
- Op-Ed
A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform
stronger, more durable system, private capital would take the "first loss" in the event of a housing market downturn. After a multiyear transition period, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should wind down. Unlike the past, the... View Details
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
founded in 1997, is a fast-growing power-development company focused on wind. Already having built about 600 megawatts of wind turbines in Scotland and Ireland, Airtricity has now expanded to the United States. But its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think
paper estimates that the electrical efficiency of computation has doubled roughly every year and a half for more than six decades, outpacing Moore's law. The paper shows also that the costs of wind and solar power have also been falling... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Case Study: Farming It Out
I’ve been in the venture world for 20 years or so on the entrepreneurial side, and I’ve seen the second, third, or even fourth to market wind up in a much better position to take a leadership role, because the market is more proven by... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
From the Editors
twitch in a series of transactions by corporations and the public that can be qualified only as speculation. Men talk of squeezing the water out of securities but seem never to conceive of getting rid of the wind in their own prosperity... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg