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- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Ross MacDonald Here’s the humbling truth: no matter how high your career soars, how many awards you win or companies you sell or differences you make in this... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
This episode of Climate Rising features a conversation between Professor and host Mike Toffel and Sanchali Pal (MBA 2018), founder and CEO of Commons, an app designed to help consumers make more climate-friendly purchasing decisions by... View Details
- 19 Apr 2024
- News
Alumni Host Energy CEO Summit in Houston; Austin Club Co-Hosts SXSW Reception
venue. The restaurant is supported by DeWolff’s organization, InKind, which provides startup funding for minority-owned restaurants in the Austin area. Bishop says the feedback from the gathering has been overwhelmingly positive. “It was... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
Michael Norton explores the common occurrence of “conversational blindness.” See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6066.html. Thinking Twice about Supply-Chain Layoffs Cutting the wrong employees can be counterproductive for retailers, new research from Assistant Professor... View Details
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
we worked for over a decade on a renewable energy transmission project that will deliver 1,250 MW of clean energy to New York by 2025, enough to power over 1 million homes and decrease CO2 emissions by an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
several high-rise condo buildings on a barrier island on Florida’s West Coast. As the book’s heroes had feared and warned, the island is overflooded by a hurricane of biblical proportions. The buildings collapse, many people die, all... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Students Serve the Community
assistant professor Zeynep Ton, the initiative’s faculty adviser, told the Harbus. “We wanted our students to get to know the community around them, to develop both compassion and respect for that community, and to see service as part of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste
Representing the HBS Association of Northern California, BioMine, cofounder and CEO Bradoo’s company, received the 2011 Alumni New Venture Contest’s $25,000 first prize for its plan to mine the 40 million tons of “e-waste” generated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Baker’s Man of Steel
A day at the office is a little different for Bobby Delaney. As crane operator for the Baker Library construction project, he uses a combination of levers and foot pedals to swing tons of steel through the air, placing the load in just... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fueling a sustainable enterprise in Brazil
grass native to Africa generates 25 times as much energy as fossil fuel, thanks in part to a remarkable annual average yield of 30 to 40 tons of biomass per hectare. By comparison, the energy balance ratio... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Going Green at HBS
conservation, eliminate the potential annual discharge of some 1,000 tons of carbon dioxide into the environment. Also at HBS, the Hamilton Hall renovation project, begun this past summer, is using “green” approaches to materials... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
United States. They call the effort "Project Bison." If everything goes according to plan, several of Hobbes' successors will be in place in Wyoming by late 2023. By 2030—that's just seven years from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Reinventing the Wheel
Carbon. Tires, in particular, are a gold mine. But with every tire change, that potential carbon black—4.5 million tons annually, worth 4.5 billion euros—typically heads to landfills (or worse, up in smoke). “It’s like throwing out the... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Ideas That Stick
memorable. Dan spoke from his home in North Carolina. How did you get the idea to write a book about sticky ideas? We were puzzled and a little disturbed by the fact that a lot of “junk” ideas succeed in the world, while a lot of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
administration, we need mentors, money, and space,’ all requests that the School was mostly on top of already.” The first item was covered by the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence program; the second quickly resulted in the MVP Fund; the last... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
A Change of Life
performance of disadvantaged schoolkids. It would be a big change, said Waldron, who recalled, “I wondered whether I should run a big company and make a ton of money doing it. I felt it was one way you proved you were smart, accomplished,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
was designed to provide business expertise to places in need; Goodwin brought his emergency-response experience to provide safe water systems and support medical programs. Months later, he was alarmed by a cholera outbreak rapidly... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Two Kinds of Green
in its manufacturing facility by the time the case was taught for the first time last fall, down from 344 tons in 2006.) The question of how the relationship between Clorox and Burt’s will play out offers... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
industry is hard,” she says. “You need tons of money to get started. Almost all restaurants go broke after the first year. And very few people get beyond one or two locations.” Azuero was intrigued, yet it wasn’t until the pair met for... View Details