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- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
into electricity. The Jacobs Wind Energy Company would soon be a major player in creating machines that would electrify rural areas across America, and eventually be sold on all five continents. “We've lost the plot of these entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
a dealer's back lot, it will nonetheless embody a defining moment in a global race for supremacy. Manufactured by Toyota, this is the car that will propel the Japanese company ahead of General Motors as the world's largest automaker, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy
excited to contribute to companies who are increasing energy efficiency, investing in energy innovations, improving infrastructure for transportation and natural resources, and making improvements to the smart grid. There are also... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Whistleblower,” tells the story of Sherry Hunt, Citibank, and the frauds that caused the Great Recession. Hunt started at Citi as a mortgage quality control officer in 2004, just as the housing bubble was swelling up. She saw the company... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
U.S. Sahil Patel, MBA '05 PhytoTEK biologic infection solutions Watch their pitch. Northwestern U.S. Privahini Bradoo, MBA '08 BioMine e-waste mining solutions Watch their pitch. Southwestern U.S. Ali Fakhari, MBA '07 WikiPay mobile payment/marketing platform Watch... View Details
- 29 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
New Life for Old Tech: Startup Provides Network Security Solutions for Obsolete Devices
companies for a sale, and customers are going to be more skeptical, wondering who is selling snake oil and who is providing a service that will actually make their lives easier,” she said. “Trying to shine... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
a permanent reality in corporate boardrooms—whether or not executives have a deep-seated passion for the social issues involved. Expectations are changing, agreed panelists. Oil corporations, for example, are well versed in the standard... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
learn how to do a DCF, and how to read a balance sheet. Tuition well spent! Sometimes the cases we’d read to apply these concepts were about oil rigs or department stores—and sometimes they were about technology companies, too. All the... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
probability of being the wrong decision. If you can apply some data, you will heighten your probability of making a better decision." Howe isn't speaking theoretically. Today companies like his can capture, store, and analyze massive data... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
WHITMAN When Meg Whitman joined a fledgling online auction start-up in 1998, not many people outside of serious collectors of Beanie Babies had heard of eBay. After ten years under her leadership, the company now has 16,000 employees in... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
masterminded a unique way to provide Singapore's oil refineries and chemical companies with the land they desperately needed to keep growing. By joining seven of Singapore's southern islands with landfill to... View Details
- Web
Remote Work Extends to Factories and Farmlands | Working Knowledge
workers. I am currently studying the digital twin model at the Turkish energy company Enerjisa Üretim. The company has created a digital twin headquarters in Istanbul, centralizing all operations in a single... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
New Releases
Sense & Respond Stephen P. Bradley and Richard L. Nolan, editors (Harvard Business School Press) In the Network Era - where access to and use of information technology is increasing at an ever-faster pace - the way companies interact with... View Details
- Web
Art Nature Business
Artifacts Collection. Virtual Tour HENRY P. HUNT Cutting Ice at Spy Pond, Arlington, Massachusetts , 1859 Oil on canvas Gift of Frederic Tudor to the Business Historical Society, 1934 HBS Art and Artifacts Collection, 1934.2 This painting... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
strategic execution, and beneficial stakeholder participation. Successfully replacing the oil resource curse requires several factors, including unwavering political will, market and trade focus, and access to finance—all complemented by... View Details
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
redesign? The predictable, responsive, and lower-cost care today's health-care leaders—and patients—seek. Sovereign Wealth in Abu Dhabi Author:Rawi Abdelal Publication:Geopolitics 14, no. 2 (April 2009): 317-327 Abstract By the turn of the century, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
oil by 2050. Written by energy analyst and physicist Amory Lovins, the book noted the lack of efficiency of modern auto manufacturing. Rogers saw an opportunity. And after seeing firsthand the political and human consequences of the... View Details