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- 01 Sep 2006
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Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce the University’s environmental... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
my dad, and I listen to 15 minutes before bed every night. There’s a lot that goes over my head, but there’s at least one lesson that speaks to me every day. —Mira Mehta (MBA 2014) Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site, by Sherri Duskey... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
skyward above the flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site’s several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future — and on a... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- News
Many Rivers to Cross
legacy by promoting economic development. Past experience in the construction and coffee industries and former postings as Colombia’s ambassador to West Germany, and CEO of the Agricultural Bank of Colombia, convinced Ospina that South... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
you can’t study a leader in isolation; there’s a relational construct between a person and society. Clinical psychology gets into the underlying motivation for people who seek leadership positions. In political science, we saw the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Faculty Books
their experience that they tell their stories to others, persuade them to try a product, and provide constructive criticism and new product ideas. Employee-owners are so enthusiastic about their organization that they infect customers... View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- News
From Harvard to INSEAD: Change Management in a Disruptive World
Chamber of Commerce of the value and the opportunity of such a project. Quickly, the question of the leadership emerged: who to coordinate the construction work and eventually lead this new institution? It was clear from the beginning... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
teaching and learning processes in business schools worldwide, Hunt was 93. Hunt was one of the first to bring to the attention of the academic community the problems related to the management of working capital and to make constructive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Escape from Alcatraz
Borg in the United States in Malden, a suburb of Boston, last year. (Matt DuPlessie [MBA 2003] is a minority owner; his company, 5 Wits, constructed some of the quests.) Boda Borg Boston is designed first and foremost to be fun—with 17... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Aug 2008
- News
Stylin’ at Gallatin
percent of the discarded materials were recycled in some way. Three thousands bricks were reused in the renovation. Gallatin is the second residence hall and fifth building on the HBS campus to achieve LEED certification for construction... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
To The Rescue
Life in modern India, despite all of the advances of the last decade, is still barely controlled chaos. On the crowded streets, camels and donkeys mix with handcarts, three-wheeled scooter taxis, massive Tata trucks, luxury cars, and pedestrians. The View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
It's the night before the presidential inauguration and Washington's cavernous National Cathedral is packed to capacity. The crowd applauds enthusiastically as seven young men walk down an aisle and take their places on a center stage specially View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Volunteers Crack Case, Consider School's Future
presentation focused on current construction projects and plans for the future of the campus. By the end of the afternoon, we volunteers — nearly one hundred altogether, spanning classes from 1935 to 2000 — felt well informed. At dinner,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Straight to the Heart
independence benefits within the construct of a marriage and a family. Brad is very athletic and outdoorsy, so he heliskis with his dad and brother. I like documentary movies, and my girlfriends and I go to film festivals. What are some... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
features are designed to attract foreign companies. (As of 2009, some 60,000 residents and 418 companies or research centers were in New Songdo, or pledged to be there.) Forty percent of the city, constructed around a Central Park–like... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
design doesn’t need to enter the commercial arena. The perception exists that creative businesses can just start up, when in fact it takes a while for an entire ecosystem to actually generate an industry. There’s a construction of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
Business School’s case method compresses many hundreds of real-life decision-making constructs into a two-year academic experience. HBS students learn to build decision-making teams, assess problems, gather information, debate, and... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jul 2013
- News
The Nature of Business
constructive dialogue between environmentalists and the rest of society. His own career path could have been a case study for the book. After graduating from Harvard Business School, Tercek spent 21 years as an investment banker at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Green Dreams: Eco-Friendly Countertops
recession as feeling “like someone turned off the faucet” in construction. Still, Magagnini hopes IceStone can break even this year and turn a profit next year. The green building market is with her: McGraw-Hill Construction projects it... View Details