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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Retrofitting our commercial building stock, not to mention our residential building stock, will require millions of workers at a decent skill level. These are elements of a strategy. Will it work? I don’t know, but the idea that we can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
family median income and wealth parity, the proper public policy goal. “Those revenues would be used for grants for down payments on primary residences; for high-quality, targeted public education; and for capital grants into commercial... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
enjoyable," a machine that is nothing short of "the greatest leverage of human potential ever developed." "As the commercial world moves from manufacturing to information, the tool is the personal computer," one alum noted, while another... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
greatest investment successes is Vistaar, a financing firm that offers funding to small- and medium-sized businesses in India that fall into the “missing middle”: too small for commercial bank loans, too big for microfinance. Since its... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
very good at developing, qualifying, and commercializing innovation, we're not necessarily any better than others at creating it. So when we learned about a toothbrush that an entrepreneur had made from a spinning toy he had developed, we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
early 2020. But it will happen. “I tell my kids, one day you guys are going to ride a metro,” Mawilmada says. “Just know that I was a part of it in some small way.” Development in Colombo’s historic Fort district, the city’s commercial... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
chemical fertilizers. Soil from the average cultivated field contains 0.5 to 1 percent carbon, while soil from the average virgin land, including forest and prairie, contains 3 to 7 percent. “Carbon capture is the only way to get out of this,” he said, explaining his... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Entrepreneur Daniel S. Bricklin: A Class Act
taken seriously." Nevertheless, he decided that his new software program was better suited to PC use. Before long, Bricklin and Frankston had launched their first product: VisiCalc, the first commercially available electronic spreadsheet.... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 20 Feb 2013
- News
Thanking Veterans Online
commercial perks and government benefits to veterans, Hall feels gratified that his business venture is directly serving men and women who have served their country. He thinks of a sniper who fought under his command. In Iraq, the soldier... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
penned one of the most damning indictments. In The Commercial Agency “System” of the United States and Canada Exposed (1876), he writes of credit reporting work, “It can only be performed...by the ill-at-ease, struggling, acrid spirits of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
understanding of the oceans. When the Five Deeps Expedition is completed, Vescovo hopes to sell the Triton-built Limiting Factor and other essential equipment for the dives to a government, philanthropic organization, or university. “We’ve now constructed a vessel that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
graduated from the School in 1926. We understand that he has been an active member of the Harvard Club of Tokio [sic] and observe that his alumni dues are paid through October, 1942! War Notes Winter 1955 Married college sweetheart and went with View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Harvard Business School with the hope of returning to his banking career. “Harvard showed me a whole different aspect to banking,” he says. “Professor Charlie Williams, who taught Commercial Banking, was my mentor. He made banking... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
and shipping them to restaurants. His idea was to use a similar procedure as the basis for a commercial ready-to-heat soup operation. Eager for a new challenge and armed with both legal and business know-how, Shafir joined with Nessen to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 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
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
understand, first of all, don't get confused by purpose statements. Theranos had one. Purdue Pharmaceutical had one. Facebook pulled one out in 2016 when they were in trouble. And you read those statements and you’re like, you gotta be kidding me. So the first thing is... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
property might fetch 20 percent more now, he adds. Like many other sectors in Greece, commercial real estate is on the rebound. It’s a direct response to the July 2019 national election in which Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995) of the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
to be a boon to the brand. The addition of more modular units also allowed the company to grow different types of greens, enhancing R&D and commercial growth. This diversity came into play when they were bidding for the Emirates contract.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details