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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment
materials and required for handling waste streams. Because closed-looped processes are more efficient, they emit few greenhouse gases. Major Impact Areas Refrigerant Management Refrigerant gases, commonly used in air conditioning, are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Charged Up
out of MIT, A123’s patented rechargeable batteries include a breakthrough Nanophosphate powder that increases conductivity, providing higher power levels and longer battery life. With initial applications for commercial customers (such as Black & Decker), the View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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The Well-Healed Athlete
science, but there are tools out there that, if applied to this area of research, can lead to major breakthroughs.” That’s why she and her husband donated $220 million to launch the Wu Tsai Human Performance Alliance, a collaborative... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
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Educating the Whole Student
the typical school admits students at age five, The Primary School enrolls students as close to birth as possible. “We know the majority of brain development happens in the first few years of life,” Liu explains. In the future, she hopes... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
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The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
and ranked. In February 2018, tronc, the company formerly known as Tribune Publishing, purchased a majority stake in BestReviews.com. What inspired you to launch BestReviews.com? Ben:“We both grew up reading Consumer Reports regularly and... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
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Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?
You cite this decline as a root cause of widespread uneasiness among Americans about their future. What's gone wrong? One major structural change is that traditional mass production for a huge domestic market - the unique situation that... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
next day, three major buildings lay in ruins, and some three thousand workers faced the prospect of losing their jobs. But not only did Malden Mills' CEO Aaron Feurstein vow to rebuild his facility, he also promised to pay his workers... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Apr 1999
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Time to Vote in University Elections
and to the institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to... View Details
- 12 Apr 2012
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HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
sponsorships to Fortune 500 companies trying to reach our network of millions of K-12 students and their parents. new england TrophoMax® is the brand name for patented agricultural seed and leaf inoculants that have demonstrated crop yields and biomass increases of... View Details
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Standard & Poor's NetAdvantage | Baker Library
provide recent industry-level valuation, profitability, performance and financial risk data.. Click IndustrySurveys tab and navigate to industry of interest. Argus Industry Review and outlook reports provide comprehensive reports on major... View Details
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Jeff Nelson
Since his undergraduate days at Cornell, housing has been a major theme in Jeff Nelson’s career. As a college student, he volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, building houses in the upstate New York communities near his campus, and in... View Details
- 28 Feb 2011
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Rebooting the Human Condition
Synthetic Genomics, a company that is developing genomics-driven solutions for major global issues, he partnered with and was a major funder of the J. Craig Venter Institute's recent breakthrough, the... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
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Business has a responsibility to solve social problems
Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), CEO of Executives Without Borders, talks about how the business community has a responsibility to help solve major social challenges. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
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and product markets." Jensen and his contributors detail three major systems that play a critical role in organizational strategy and help address control problems within the decentralized organization. They are a system for allocating... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21
A business unit leader faces a major decision when an employee critical to a high profile transaction asks for a unique compensation arrangement that has implications for the culture of the business. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
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First Look: May 31
make purchases. Retailers, however, felt that major credit and debit card issuers had too much market power which was leading to higher costs for retailers to accept such payment forms. Consumers were increasingly adopting smart phones... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4
"going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
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Health Care Research and Prospects
a lot of the leaders of major biotech companies, they come out of Baxter. And so there is a Baxter imprinting effect on the industry. That should be a fascinating piece of work. Marta Wosinska, who is in marketing, has been looking at the... View Details
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Michael Maples
style of investing,” Maples explained. “I don’t know if there is a right way or wrong way, but I like to spend my time developing roadmaps for the future. I try to capture the things in the world that are going through major... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
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Seismic Shift
serious belt tightening. Leaders of major companies looked around and had to make cuts based on keeping people and systems in place that were critical to the business. CFO? Have to have one of those. IT? Business can’t function without... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon