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01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices

For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), founder, Hull Street Energy

01 Mar 2004
News

Ex-Con Talks Ethics with HBS Students

official. He eventually turned himself in and served four years in prison in Costa Rica and the United States. Currently on probation, he spoke at HBS last November as part of the Leadership & Ethics Forum (LEF), a student-led... View Details

Keywords: Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Mar 2011
News

Where the Jobs Are

uses state-of-the-art machines to fabricate component parts for a worldwide customer base. For the Kirlin Company, technologically advanced lighting designed and manufactured in the United States keeps the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

from Fort Worth’s southern suburbs to Crawford, Waco, and east to College Station, home of Texas A&M University and the presidential library of Bush’s father, George H.W. Bush. Political analysts rank Texas 17 as the nation’s most... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

in the United States and Europe. Within this new scenario, three groups play unique roles: policymakers who identify and use groups for support; companies that understand the interests of diffuse groups and... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Dec 2000
News

Vivek Ranadivé

"dream" in conversation more frequently than "market cap," "stock options," or "IPO." A native of Bombay, India, Ranadivé says he feels both international and American. "You can have big dreams here," he remarks. "The United View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; Information; Air Transportation; Transportation

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

advantage; other options include auctioning permits to the highest bidders, or assessing each firm's operations by size and industry and then estimating benchmark pollution levels; if a firm exceeded those levels, it would need to buy additional permits. Trading In The... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

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Graybar Syndications

By: William J. Poorvu

A potential investor evaluates a proposed offering—a major office building in downtown Manhattan. View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Investment; Construction; City; Valuation; Real Estate Industry; Construction Industry; New York (city, NY)

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Zukor independently built numerous theatres in major United States cities. Because of the popularity of these theatres, he began to invest heavily in movie production, convinced that big-name actors in large... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment & Broadcast Media

William Nickerson, Jr.

Nickerson founded and led the first African American life insurance business established in the state of California. Under his leadership, Golden State expanded to other states... View Details

Keywords: Finance

Crawford H. Greenewalt

As the tenth president of duPont Corporation, Greenewalt built the Savannah River Plant for nuclear processing, one of the largest construction projects in the United States. As CEO, Greenewalt generated a stellar return on equity... View Details

Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial

01 Jun 1998
News

New Releases

Franchise Organizations by Jeffrey L. Bradach (Harvard Business School Press) How much impact do chains such as Pizza Hut and McDonald's have on today's economy? Here are some telling numbers: a new franchise opens in the United View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Roads to Recovery

lights in working order? Maybe not. The state of the nation's highways, bridges, airports, dams, seaports, and tunnels collectively rate a grade of D+, says the American Society of Civil Engineers, which has called for a $3.6 trillion... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

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Films & TV | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

steel mill plant in Pennsylvania and the Fairless Hills community for plant employees. The film underscores the corporation’s outreach efforts with the local community. Full film available at: https://vimeo.com/353587440 United View Details

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

'03 David Merle, MBA '03 Superdome building integrated photovoltaics India HBS Club of India Vikram Sharma, MBA '06 Crossover Energy sustainable energy services Latin America HBS Club of Brazil Thomaz Srougi, GMP 6 2009 Dr. Consulta affordable healthcare solutions... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

05 Jul 2006
First Look

First Look: July 5, 2006

case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206078 Southern States Communications 806-170 Managers receiving letters claiming that their products or services violate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2011
News

Whale Wars

Thoren Photo courtesy Beth Thoren Related Links View video of confrontations in the Southern Ocean Have you noticed that when you live in a big city long enough, your thoughts can struggle to travel further than the building in front of... View Details

Keywords: Marybeth I. Thoren; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

12 Apr 2012
News

HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups

augmented-reality instructions southwestern us HBS Association of Southern California Brandon Molina, MBA 2010 CEO Swing by Swing Golf technology for the greens 2012 HBS Alumni New Venture Contest legal services sponsor: Cooley, LLP... View Details

Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest

01 Jun 2002
News

East Side Story

In January, veteran New York state senator Roy Goodman (MBA '53) was appointed president and CEO of the United Nations Development Corporation by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA '66). In accepting... View Details

11 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses

says. “What we’re asking is, can we build algorithms that will help find better matches that will allow people to integrate more easily?” The paper presents data from Switzerland and the United States that... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

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