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- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
building efficiency products such as heat pumps and insulation. As the specifics of how that can be applied and utilized are formalized, it should create some tremendous opportunities for incumbent players to de-risk scaling up new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
businesses from startup to scale up. An entrepreneur in the dental equipment business had just serviced a large government contract, which created issues with inventory. He went through our training program, applied for a low-interest... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Up to the Highest Heights
professional kiteboarder Susi Mai that combines high-level kiting and high-value networking. ACTAI Global—now a nonprofit with several thousand members and events around the world—has been called the “new TED,” and kiteboarding has been called the “new golf.” “I don’t... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
scale up, institutions might be able to solve problems completely on a quantum computer and solve much larger and more difficult problems than we can solve today,” he explains. Aliro’s second product, AQ.N, is aimed at cracking one of the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
this phase ended at the election, what I'd ask people to do on a weekly basis was to say on a scale of 1 to 10, where are you? If 1 is I'm going to vote for Clinton, the other end of the spectrum is I'm going to vote for Trump, you're... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2
suppose, attract that new wave of talent that you're seeing? JI: Yeah. Look. I think in two ways you've got to sell the mission harder. You know? And, and I think that's where big companies still have great strengths. Is that scale can... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
says. “Now manufacturing is back. We can compete with the best in the world because we tightened our belts during a difficult time.” “The economy has truly opened up,” Mittal remarks. “The main challenge of operating in India today is to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 02 Dec 2017
- News
Helping HBS Make Big Bets
Leadership Fellows program, she discovered nonprofit arts organizations as “an ideal way to scale the impact of the arts.” Established in 2001, the program connects graduating MBA students with nonprofit and public-sector organizations to... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
access to natural light. You have a human scale that really brings you into this space that feels comfortable and inviting. The entrance of Estes Funeral Chapel. "I was looking to have a design that was transformational in terms of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Jeffrey Dunn (MBA 1981)
transparent and accountable. Our theory of change is time-proven: One, education matters to your opportunities in life. Two, early education is determinative. Three, media and technology can deliver education at scale costeffectively. And... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Flex Time
Lauri Union (MBA 1992) manages Union Corrugating Company (UCC) from Boston, where she lives with her husband and two young children. While her early years at the company required more time on-site in North Carolina, she’s managed to scale... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
like Cisco, Microsoft, and Airbnb to scale their impact. Since its programs are driven by local needs across 40 geographies, they run the gamut, from agriculture and financial inclusion to food security, market development, policy, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Feedback
shown on the master plan seems to be a continuation of the volumes, rhythm, and scale of the existing buildings. To me this seems the right way to go. The danger is to fall in the trap of doing something architecturally completely off... View Details
Keywords: feedback
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
Giving millions of students a new path to learning
was going on, so I found myself working with 10 or 15 cousins every day after work, and I started writing some simple software for them so I could give them practice problems. “A friend said, ‘Well, you know how to help yourself scale up,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
philanthropist to give us $1 million to start a nonprofit to design, evaluate, and scale this service.” In 2015, Cole and Kremer launched Precision Agriculture for Development, together with Dan Björkegren of Brown University and Heiner... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
cholera was a waterborne disease, so he went looking for the root cause and found a canal system gridlocked with plastic garbage. Much of the plastic he found in the canals and on the beaches was recyclable, so he spent the next four years View Details
- 21 Oct 2020
- News
Cold Calculations
group’s current challenge well from his own VC experience: “It’s time for us to put our foot on the accelerator and really scale up,” he says. The Arctic Ice Project recently hired a new executive director and is in the process of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
VC Luminary John Doerr: Education Reform Critical to Success of New Economy
just one story. It's the kind of work that should go on throughout the country." Addressing questions about the future of technology, Doerr stated that the Internet is not only the key to social change but also to economic growth and income redistribution on a View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
be flexible in, a complex and evolving competitive environment. They need decisiveness—the ability to act with appropriate urgency and scale on key business issues. And, most importantly, global leaders need to be extremely good at... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Roger Ullman: Going Green with E2
in front of policymakers in Washington. We will scale the level of activity to your needs.” E2 is somewhat unusual; it’s a virtual organization with no paid employees that has partnered with another nonprofit, NRDC. Members are required... View Details