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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is fueled by a mission to never have to “plug in” again. The CEO of WiTricity, a startup revolutionizing science with its magnetic resonance technology, hopes to soon relegate electrical wires and batteries to the... View Details
- Fast Answer
Market trends, opportunities in advanced technology fields
transportation technologies, biotechnology, chemicals, energy and resources, engineering, the environment, food and beverage, fuel cell and battery technologies, healthcare, information technology,... View Details
- 03 Aug 2020
- News
A Clean Start
for the chemical formula of carbon dioxide) with his father and fellow green chemical engineer, Terry Brix, and began to design a processing device that works a lot like a fuel cell, but in reverse. When a View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Profile
Andrew Baxter
common ground? Well, I found two guys who loved playing the bagpipes. When they discover I'm from Scotland, out come the cell phones. We're watching bagpipe videos, talking about golf, talking about St. Andrews. Suddenly, I'm best friends... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to generate most of our electricity... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Case 810-018 This case study provides an overview of Intuit's growth and, in particular, the sales and service initiatives that historically fueled the company's growth from start-up to a corporation. It also outlines certain processes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 26
Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (A) By: Shih, Willy, and Ying Zhou Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
M-Paisa—there was the question of establishing any cell phone service at all. A little over a decade ago, Afghans had two options for making a call: walk across the border to another country, including Pakistan or Tajikistan, or use an... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
computer ended the use of typewriters, or how electronic fuel injection systems replaced carburetors. It's probably more accurate to say the Apple Watch introduces several impressive incremental innovations that improve and combine... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
products. We also develop next generation type rechargeable battery, fuel cell, solar cell based on our advanced materials. Lydian LabsJoe Rodden, MBA 2022Lydian Labs aims to accelerate the decarbonization... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
census takers in Watford City, North Dakota—in the far west of the state, 50 miles from the Montana border—counted 1,435 people. Today, that number is estimated to be at least 10,000. A familiar fuel for American boomtowns fed the rapid... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
and the University of California, Berkeley were in the middle of a contentious patent dispute over which entity controlled a breakthrough gene editing technology called CRISPR-Cas9. With CRISPR-Cas9, scientists might soon be able to cure previously incurable genetic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new... View Details
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
goods, let alone political power, and as they are acquiring a share in this economy, they're buying cars and houses, and credit is fueling a lot of the current boom. Many of these participants in the economy just haven't had access to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the CFO
Harvard Department of Stem Cell and Regenerative Biology). With so many organizations requiring leaders who possess a broad skillset and perspective, this and other joint degree programs provide students with invaluable,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
fueling the automobile has dominated world industrial development." Another described the car as "revolutionizing the role of transportation in everyday life and business. It made more of America accessible, resulting in the generation of... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
began to undermine our competitiveness. I think it's possible to be people of faith and still respect the empirical truths of science. But because of religious ideology, restrictions were placed on a major form of science, stem cell... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
agonizing and stressful period in my career thus far. What are your thoughts on the future of global business? The current global slowdown will change the nature of business in lasting ways. First, we’ll be driven to create technologies and operations that are... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
worked with committee members to examine every expenditure, from staff cell phones to printing costs to health care concessions. Trimming was necessary but not enough; unthinkable as it seemed, all librarian positions in the district... View Details