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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
growing medium that won’t blow away or compact over time. While it retains water, it also drains well to protect plants from drowning even in heavy rainfall. Beneath the layer of shale lies a moisture-retention fabric to hold water for... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
- News
Embracing Chaos
he says, is the archetype for all emerging markets. "If you can't succeed here, you're not going to do well anywhere," says Venkatesan, who most recently served as chairman of Microsoft India from 2004 to 2011. "Emerging markets are... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
communication, networking, and policy advocacy. As COO, Brooks is the steadying force who keeps the ship on course, by overseeing strategic planning, operations, and finances, as well as evaluating programs to determine what is working... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
their lives in the office, they'd like that time to be spiritually as well as materially rewarding." Leading experts on the topic, including Peter B. Vaill (MBA '60, DBA '64), a professor at the University of St. Thomas business school in... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
What’s usual today dates back nearly fifty years to a 1959 Ford Foundation report that sparked a revolution in American business education. The report characterized MBA programs as “vocational” in content and “indefensible” in quality,... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
achieve price parity with diesel trucks in 2023, five years sooner than previously forecasted. This is leading to big investments by EV battery manufacturers in the US, as well as fleet electrification investment opportunities. While most... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 30 Sep 2024
- News
The Making of a Streaming Sensation
own works. And so my first book that published, which is called Meta Wars, came out around the same time as Holly's book. And so I was on the hunt looking for things that I thought would translate well specifically to TV. And I remembered... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
Image by John Ritter In 2019, US restaurants topped $860 billion in revenues; prior to COVID-19, Americans spent more for food away from home than food purchased for at-home consumption, whether it be a pitstop at fast food drive-through,... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
content of the work, the context in which I worked, the issues that I was dealing with, the unfolding of the global financial markets, as well as the political and economic situation that shaped especially the emerging markets of Latin... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
drawn from studies in Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, Everglades National Park, and Chesapeake Bay. This book will be of great interest to professionals and students in environmental economics, land management, and... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
advisor to us and has kept us apprised of ongoing commitment by HBS to support entrepreneurs well beyond graduation. She posted about the Alumni NVC in our Slack group, so we applied.” Borkenstein adds that the HBS Club of New York played... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
Michael Roberto and published this year, is “Managing National Intelligence (A): Before 9/11.” The case plumbs the background of what will likely be remembered as one of the most tragic organizational failings in American history: the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
or where you are in the world. Woodrow Wilson: The Light Withdrawn By Christopher Cox (MBA 1997) Simon & Schuster More than a century after he dominated American politics, Woodrow Wilson still fascinates. With panoramic sweep, Woodrow... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
did it” winemaker stories each finish with original family recipes that pair well with their wines. More at www.WineriesOfTheSierraFoothills.com. Capital and the Common Good: How Innovative Finance is Tackling the World’s Most Urgent... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
as doctoral candidates, our MBA alumni are particularly well suited to ask and answer the big questions tied to the real world of practice. They combine an ambition for big, relevant ideas with an intellectual curiosity and rigor.”... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
energy at the district level as well as sourcing clean energy from large-scale suppliers. For cities and businesses, millions of dollars saved is equal to millions of dollars earned, and that can readily be achieved through greater... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
of big money in the world of sports seems to have aggravated public disenchantment with many aspects of the professional game, from high ticket prices to athletes' personal behavior. That does not bode well long term for an industry that... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons