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- 28 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Omowale Casselle (MBA 2009)
protagonist coming in and talking about how things went, my team and I get to see the decision play out in the immediate future." What are the best and most challenges parts of this job? "The best part is that we have identified an opportunity—interactive sample View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- News
The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 07 Oct 2013
- News
Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
Bart Howe (MBA 2011) envisions a time when tablet computers are self-charging and when buildings will generate their own power. Ubiquitous Energy, a company he cofounded that is creating a new generation of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
GILER: A better way, through wireless. Suzanne Kreiter/Boston Globe/Landov Nothing seems to hold back the tech revolution — nothing except all those batteries, wires, cables, and other impedimenta that are always running out of power, getting tripped over, becoming... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The way to measure success
people worldwide, with manufacturing and distribution facilities, executive office buildings, and sports stadiums located on four continents. Kraft’s commitment to philanthropy, with an emphasis in the areas of education, health care, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
A Russian Giant Grows, Despite a Bad Rap THE BIG CHILL: Russia and Ukraine’s gas wars give Europe the shivers. In a virtual replay of events this past January, in 2006 Russia’s energy giant Gazprom cut off its supply of natural gas to Ukraine’s energy company in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger
John Batcha (MBA '54) was ready to grow his own organization. With a $50,000 grant from the Kellogg Foundation, he teamed with Partners of the Americas, the largest private volunteer organization in the Western Hemisphere, to develop a program to View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
market differentiation are now even more important than they have been historically. These truths apply across the manufacturing sector, but general industrial equipment and electronics are two areas where these forces are particularly... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Record-Breaking Gift for Fellowships
recently contributed $12 million to support fellowships at HBS, the largest single gift for financial aid the School has ever received. Their generous contribution establishes two endowed funds—the Lavine Family Fellowship and the Herbert... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
and his cofounders saw an opportunity to create a new kind of energy company—a hybrid of a traditional utility and a financial entity. Guzman Energy, a subsidiary of Guzman & Company, would not be weighed down by the same legacy investments in carbon-based power View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
finding brands in every aisle that align with their values. An entire generation of these consumers expects their purchasing power to be deployed as a force for good, whether that means supporting humane working conditions or social or... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Just Chillin’
Keeping things cool at HBS during the hot summer months is the chilled water plant, a 19,700-square-foot facility located underground near the B-School parking lot. With hundreds of thousands of gallons coursing through miles of pipe, the plant operates on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over
non-sponsor companies. For example, at the 2006 Cup in Germany, a Dutch brewery distributed to Dutch fans thousands of pairs of lederhosen of the same orange color worn by their team. Because Budweiser was an official Cup partner, and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Start It Up
which manufactures solar-paneled generators that require only minimal diesel to help recharge their batteries. In Iraq, “I’d see huge generators running all the time but powering very little,” Moorehead... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Jeremiah P. Murphy, Jr.
jewelry and furs to sweatshirts and school supplies,” quips the tall, affable, Charlestown, Massachusetts, native, who in 1991 left his job as general manager at Neiman Marcus in Texas to accept the challenge of “putting the Coop on track... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
breakdown was hastened by Enron’s turbocharged incentives, which offered executives enormous bonuses tied to estimated future profits and a very generous stock-option plan that paid out richly as Enron’s stock became increasingly... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
world’s top corporations. Why do some of these organizations enjoy generations of success while so many others flounder? “The answer,” say Lorsch and Tierney, “lies in the ability to develop and motivate star talent, while explicitly... View Details