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- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
industry during the previous decade, the company posted its first losses ever, and for the last five years, American has strived to trim some of its excess growth. Donald Carty, American's president since March 1995, says that dealing... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
helped to establish in 1994. As a managing director at the Carlyle Group, Mathias is active in identifying and funding companies with high, sustained growth potential. In addition, he serves as something of a utility player in helping to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Off Script
according to one study—and the limited lifespan of patent rights. What can the pharmaceutical industry and government regulators do to improve conditions? We put your queries to Fred Hassan (MBA 1972), a managing director at Warburg... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 03 Feb 2021
- News
Power Play
a ways off. But as he watched innovations like battery storage and solar drive sharp increases in demand, that clean-energy future didn’t seem so far away any longer. “We are moving off fossil fuels at a clip faster than anybody, even View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
reflects the same flawed assumptions shared by many otherwise astute individuals having no experience or expertise in the power industry. I am an energy industry professional of 28 years, one who has no quarrel with nuclear in principle.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
But It's All Right Now (In Fact, It's a Gas)
to New England. Industry observers thought his proposal for an LNG plant there, small by industry standards, was “totally harebrained,” Shearer recalled, but Trinidadian officials liked it. Three years of... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Sharing the Road
that allows car owners and car users to be able to connect. We brought together all the stakeholders that go into owning a vehicle and made it into a subscription product. As a car owner, because your car sitting at home was getting View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
Partners. “Government can help smaller innovators by pushing utilities to adopt new technologies,” he added. But Prend favors government carrots, not sticks. The other panelists — Jim Matheson (MBA ’01), general partner at Flagship... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
- News
Electric Avenues
invests up front to develop and build the desalination facility, signing up local utilities to long-term contracts at firm prices. “It’s one of the first examples of a private company in the US water View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries (The Free Press) is the fourth major book by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus.... View Details
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
different lessons from David Crane, formerly CEO of NRG, and Paul Polman of Unilever. Chan, of Citigroup, spoke of the enormous potential and necessity of greening every industry and called for taking personal responsibility--even if just... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- News
Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community
also to give her the flexibility to change industries in the future. “I chose HBS for its world-class program and powerful alumni network.” Lien likens the rigors of her first year to boot camp and was grateful for the support of the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Nature, Purpose, and Practice of the Movie Business, by David Mamet “My penchant is for building brands that find a place in the customer’s mind and for developing businesses that live or die by how well they connect with the consumer.” Anand Mahindra considered going... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
From Das’s Desk
and retirees, alumnae, MBA and Executive Education alumni—and across all industries and time zones, further proving the need for lifelong-learning content, whether strictly virtual, in-person, or in some hybrid format still to come.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Lighting It Up
used to be a one-season event,” Wilkins noted. “Now most customers want to leave lighting up year-round because it signifies a special event.” Wilkins is excited by the prospect that more American cities may come to look like Hong Kong and thrilled to be involved in... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- News
Protecting the Power Grid
chairman and president; sectionmate Paul Schwarzbaum (MBA 1988) agreed to serve as a director. “We aim to protect industrialized societies against the long-term collapse of infrastructure through technical and regulatory solutions,” says... View Details
- 20 Aug 2016
- News
The Business of Improving Health Care Delivery
Josue Zapata (MD/MBA 2012) is chief resident in internal medicine at the University of California in San Francisco. In this interview he discusses how he is utilizing his business training to make a difference in patient treatment and... View Details