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- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Making a Difference
gain a better understanding of their migratory patterns. But that's just what Josh Haacker (HBS '03) did, in addition to strategic planning and numbers-crunching, as an HBS Summer Fellow at the Alaska View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
cogent comment of the third panelist, HBS professor and former Medtronic CEO Bill George, that we have been choosing “takers” instead of “givers” as our government leaders, Gergen took issue with Kanter’s aforementioned critique of View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 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 the position, Goodman, a fiscally View Details
- 09 Oct 2015
- News
Balancing Progress and Preservation
than just financial gain,” he stresses. Some of his most successful deals have involved conservation easements that minimize investment risk while creating economic value from parcels that merit conservation. He has worked extensively on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
creating a strategic plan to address the crisis, with the Department of Public Health leading the effort. A two-day meeting to gather information from stakeholders, including state legislators and public health officials, kick-started the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
Mobilizing Action on Climate Change and Water Quality
Micheal C. Kennedy (MBA 1985) is director of Ireland’s Environmental Protection Agency. In this video, he talks about the need for public education and cooperation in areas of water quality and how to combat climate change. “When I was here, I wrote a business View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit
can divide all leaders into two categories: the takers and the givers. We’ve been choosing the takers. We need to choose givers.” Taking issue with Kanter’s critique of conservative ideology, Gergen opined that the nation’s leadership... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Home Sweet (Modular) Home
drag on for weeks. Greentech’s solution? Stuntz plans to acquire a small finish-work construction company to guarantee timely completion of future projects. After an initial rush of orders, Greentech’s assembly line fell silent last... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
opening our first factory in the US and we are close on our second. All of our major growth plans are around renewables. We just can’t move fast enough. My sense is, the IRA will push us over the edge here in the US, and we will enter an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
people-watching, and the general ambience, it was extremely attractive to customers. Also, a key aspect of our strategy is to be preemptive; we get there ahead of the competition, and if we're a little late, we accelerate our development. Which markets does Starbucks... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
in the United States. A resident of the Boston suburb of Weston, MA, from 1960 until 2005, Uyterhoeven was active in that town’s affairs, serving as a member of the Planning Board and the Conservation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
did, launching a general contracting business after upgrading his carpentry and masonry skills through a historical conservation workshop that Marietta hosted at the school. At that point, Falce—a native of the region with a dry... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- News
Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest
producers and farmers and giving them an equal voice in the process,” Johnson-Hoffman said. Heidi Gilbertson (MBA 2017),an associate brand manager at MillerCoors, discussed a new effort by the company to conserve water by setting up... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965
environment being among them. The Wyss Foundation, for example, focuses on preserving extraordinary landscapes in the intermountain west and the Colorado Plateau, where Wyss first hiked and climbed as a 23-year-old exchange student. View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
demand and thus make Esquel's production planning as efficient as possible. Advances in engineering-from conserving natural resources such as energy and water to computerized color matching in the dyeing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
than 45 energy conservation measures, offsetting greenhouse gas emissions by the equivalent of 2,495 metric tons of carbon dioxide, reducing operating costs $920,000, and maximizing utility rebates totaling upwards of $830,000. Shad’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
community. Together, the two men developed remarkable plans for Tetiaroa that Bailey, on behalf of the Brando estate, is now implementing. The Louisiana-born Bailey is the managing director of Pacific Beachcomber SC, which owns six hotels... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
more balanced energy menu. After examining the pros and cons of various energy sources, such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, and solar, the book concludes that conservation (principally through energy efficiency) and solar energy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
But questions remain: How much of this is a Massachusetts miracle, and how much is mirage? The outlines of the plan are simple: According to what’s known as the “individual mandate,” nearly all residents over 18 are required to obtain... View Details