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- 06 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Van den Ende Rozen: Greenhouse Rose Production
quality Red Naomi roses per year. Franco Muzzio, Blake Li, & Sonal Chaudhry, excited to see the roses! Image source: The authors. Our day started in Rotterdam, the base camp for all our visits in the Netherlands during the IFC’s second week. On the hourlong bus... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
Alan B. Slifka On a bus in Israel, two seven-year-old boys talk about their interest in sports. One makes a joke, the other laughs. The boys, one Jewish, one Arab, are new friends. They met at a day camp designed to bring two of the world's most strife-ridden groups... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
commensurate with military goals. Can the U.S. economy grow if the war on terrorism is prolonged and inconclusive? Because the American economy rides on the back of the American consumer, the fundamental issue is whether we can restore... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
bones and were prepared to ride out the storm. Randi Altschul and Andrea Silbert Starting a business did look like a cinch until recently. According to panel moderator Lynda M. Applegate, a Harvard Business School professor who... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
increasing their value. Denise Rickman grabs a magazine from the rack while in the supermarket checkout lane. Imran Jafar rides his scooter to work, enjoying the benefits of close-to-the-road transportation, exercise, and what sounds a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
following a bike ride with his wife, Julie, on Sunday, Jan. 28. “As he wished, my father lived life to the fullest and passed away peacefully,” Moon said. At the time of his death, Uyterhoeven was the School’s Timken Professor of Business... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- News
Your Whole Self
most love doing was helping people, working with people, riding alongside other great people who wanted to make a difference in the world. That really opened me to this whole idea of becoming an executive coach. April: I want to dig into... View Details
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
Indeed, Morgantown's system provides more than 10,000 rides per day, continuing for decades with good reliability. Q: What is the potential now for PRTs to "take off," so to speak? What are the incentives both for PRT businesses... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- News
Reimagining Capitalism in a World on Fire
and electric vehicles, and ride sharing. They also spoke in favor of smart agriculture and plant-heavy diets. Beef consumption is especially challenging, they said, as demand for protein to feed the world’s rapidly growing population will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
University Press) Innovating in a Global Crisis: Riding the Whirlwind of Recession by Fons Trompenaars and Charles Hampden-Turner (MBA ’63) (Infinite Ideas Limited) Fortunes of War: Six Sentinels (a thriller) by Gordon Zuckerman (MBA ’63)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders
company like Roomi launches on the crowdfunding platform Republic, all of a sudden anyone with some spare cash can ride the highs and lows of its future performance. Until recently, the only way in for mom-and-pop investors was to wait... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- Web
Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
2009) wrote her HBS application essay about her desire to serve the social good. “I was drawn to... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), Misan Rewane (MBA... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
to create successful frameworks. "At VIA, we're doing the same thing." A case in point was artist Doug Aitken's high-reaching Station to Station, a "cultural happening" that took the form of a nine-car, cross-country train ride that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A View from the Top
implications.” It’s important to build up reserves of trust with customers and markets to call on in hard times, he added, and don’t try to start the process when times are already difficult. Dubinsky recalled her media ride on the... View Details
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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment
Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business & Environment... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
heads to keep them dry. Wading through the water, we had to watch out for snakes that had been driven from their homes by the flooding." Civilization was only 60 kilometers away, in the state capital of Cuttack, where Parija's uncle lived. "I took the eight-hour bus... View Details
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Match.com, there's Farmers Only, aimed at rural lonely hearts; The Atlasphere, connecting Ayn Rand fans since 2003; and EquestrianCupid.com, for lovelorn riding enthusiasts. In fact, the $2 billion online dating industry comprises more... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
the details of their business is crazy," Hargrove declares. "Michael Eisner, for example, works on the design of rides at Disney World and has input into all of Disney's films." Updated advice: All your coaching and... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
catastrophe, suggests that the failure to acknowledge the risks posed by climate change means that the entire financial system is riding on a carbon “bubble” that will cause havoc when it bursts. Why have we been so slow to respond? Even... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
view is better when you’re closer to the precipice.’ ” MMG (Multinational Management Group) was launched in London, Paris, and Chicago in early 1972, but with Great Britain’s economy then bogged down with state-owned enterprises, high unemployment, and crushing tax... View Details