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- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
the employees’ understanding of the strategy—and the culture. We see so many organizations work so hard on strategy and then put it on a shelf, or they keep it in the minds of 10 people. It's a tragedy. So, we have a chapter on strategy. Why on View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details
- 17 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Being the Boss
now-classic book is popular not just among newbies but also among leaders with decades of experience. “Unless you manage the context in which your team resides, there's no way that your team can be successful.” "I've always been surprised by why on View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
on those foundations to accelerate the time to deployment.” At Harvard College, Hilton started an energy club and set up a solar technology demonstration for Earth Day. He studied engineering and sought out “classes on energy policy,... View Details
Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty
Best-Selling Cases:
1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
A Safer, Smarter Future for Tech Trash
being the cost of it. That was the inspiration." Since its founding, BlueOak has been developing plans for mini-refineries that use proven, capital-efficient refining processes to extract precious metals and rare View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
rocket fly more than 62 miles up in the sky on November 23, deliver a vehicle into suborbital space, and return to Earth intact on a landing pad a few miles away. The experience was visceral: A sonic boom when the rocket entered the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
straightforward equation: climate instability exacerbates the risk of armed conflict around the world. Examples are happening around the world every day. They include mass migration as food and water resources literally dry up; mass death resulting from extreme heat;... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
If there were ever any doubts that HBS graduates would travel to the ends of the earth to reestablish their ties to the School, those doubts can now be put to rest. Although the venue required at least a ten-hour flight for most... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
changing the way she stores and releases carbon and heat.” Tell us about the Arctic Commission’s mandate and activities. Seven of us are appointed by the President to recommend research goals and to help the United States build international cooperation in Arctic... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
and their attendant costs.” This April, before the IRA was passed, Banyan raised an $8.2 million Series A round led by VoLo Earth Ventures with additional investment from Ulu Ventures, Vista Verde Capital, Nomadic Venture Partners and... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
also rely on one another daily and expect to work in all kinds of weather, much like soldiers in the field. It’s just rare that anyone would stumble into ranching the way Minden did. COWBOY UP Minden was invited to ride for the first time... View Details
- 07 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
Massachusetts, and TerraPower of Bellevue, Washington. Each is working on new nuclear reactor designs to harvest and run on radioactive waste fuels, such as thorium (a waste product of rare earth mining),... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
finding is that societies that depend heavily on oil, and perhaps natural resources more generally, will experience a heavier demand for government intervention. We argue that this is one aspect that the good design of policies on the extraction of oil and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
inexplicable skyrocketing of prices of tulip bulbs that ultimately crashed back to earth after a wild ride of erratic up-and-down price swings,” he says. What is different about the meme-stock era is technology, which has given investors... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
often sought some equity in mining and other foreign investment projects, but as shareholders they have rarely gained what they anticipated. Only in special cases might the benefits to governments outweigh the risks and often... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
required to manufacture superconducting microchips: There are industrial lasers, machines that can deposit a layer of gas one atom thick, and rare earth elements like niobium and tantalum waiting to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
plant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, to introduce a new pilot project designed to enhance the motivation and performance of a group of 200 employees. A rare female manager at Frito-Lay, Johnson finds that her youth, inexperience, and... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
Contents March 2008 One-on-One with Jim Breyer Partner, Accel Partners Innovation, Inc. Three HBS professors share their most recent research on creativity, that seemingly rare flower with a very real role in getting new ventures off the... View Details