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- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
atmosphere each year. Jonas Lee: When we wrote our mission statement, it's like it's pretty simple. Like, we're here to decarbonize the atmosphere and we don't need a lot of flowery language around that. It's a big deal. DM: That's Jonas Lee (MBA 1993), chief View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
streets. It had become a ghost town. “It was a really shocking sight,” says Hori, and one at odds with the bustling commercial hub he remembered. The experience led him to start the Downtown Mito Rebirth Project in 2016, a public-private... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
three decades. The same has been true for the number of brain-related patents granted, which is a marker of commercialization potential.” But here’s the bad news, says Amadio: “There are still an estimated 2 billion people worldwide who... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
(Smith burst out laughing.) One of the most contentious issues was deciding what percentage of the lands could be logged for commercial use. The starting point had been unofficially set by the environmental groups and major forest... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
founded Alibris, an e-commerce company that sells used, rare, and out-of-print books. We failed, a lot—HBS has a case on our more interesting failures. Our biggest setback came early. We planned to launch our commercial website and close... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
New Jersey–based company, which services large-scale, commercial solar energy structures, expand to California and other potentially lucrative but geographically distant markets? “We’ve been hesitant to take on opportunities outside our... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but also retailers, processors,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
because traditional sources wanted a commercial return, and they all had different objectives,” says Traill, who now serves as chair of Goodstart Early Learning, as the acquiring syndicate was named. “We acquired the business for $95... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
Ickis (MBA 1971, DBA 1978) REISNER: One of the hottest areas of investment growth is in cross-border shipping, but there are two core problems: In an age of terrorism, customs are commercial constraints and also valuable public safety... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
partnerships, however, science with commercial applications began thriving outside corporate R&D silos. And the availability of venture capital for technology start–ups made it harder to keep scientists with hot new ideas in–house. The... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
graduation from Harvard Business School and which successfully developed and commercialized a market-leading drug to treat cardiovascular disease. But in addition to drawing on technical degrees and experience, as the leader of a company... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
commercial construction and regular business loans, Camino also offers tips on navigating government-sponsored COVID-relief programs. “We have a great member-services team that is there for people when they need to speak to someone, and I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
The Race Against Resistance
people die as a result. And yet, there are only 42 antibiotics currently in clinical development, and typically only 20 percent of infectious disease drugs that enter phase 1 clinical trials will receive FDA approval. Eric Kimble (MBA 1994), chief View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
microorganisms use sunlight, water, and carbon dioxide to photosynthesize sugar, proteins, and fat—the latter in the form of an oil that can replace fossil fuels in applications where batteries either can’t store enough power or are simply too heavy to lug around, like... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Stanley's continuously offered products group, experiences the daily challenge of having to look for new ways to market and position products such as medium-term notes and commercial paper. "So often in business, especially when things... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
next two decades, Christensen’s academic career progressed under the influence of a number of distinguished HBS professors and mentors, including Fritz J. Roethlisberger, Richard Meriam, and Edmund P. Learned. After earning his Doctor of View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
business and commercial development at Millennium Pharmaceuticals in Cambridge, Massachusetts. "It will revolutionize how medicine is practiced," he states simply. "Right now the doctor listens to your heart with a stethoscope and maybe... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
the Age of Options Executive Education workshop. A graduate of Harvard College (1958) as well as HBS, Sloane has served as a consultant to industrial and commercial companies in the areas of corporate strategic development and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Illustration by Chris Gash Illustration by Chris Gash In his pre-HBS life, Ross Lerner (MBA 2020) worked alongside Paul Holder at a software company that served some of the largest owners of commercial real estate in the world. While many... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
as "symbiotic," Cheng noted that Hong KongÐbased investments in mainland China total US$80 billion (over 50 percent of foreign investment in China), that Chinese leaders "have quite well-developed commercial instincts" and are keen to... View Details