Roads - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2013
News

A Start-Up with Giddyup

A Start-Up with Giddyup FORD: These boots were made for business. Photo courtesy Sarah Ford Whether you're the real deal or all hat and no cattle, you can cowboy up in style with custom-made boots from Sarah Ford (MBA 2007). Ford founded Texas-based Ranch View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

05 Sep 2024
Blog Post

District Heating in Denmark: How Fjernvarme Fyn fuels an integrated and sustainable future

In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)

was then — stranded at the B-School with food running low. The days crawl and the years fly! Here we are 25 years later with a lot of road behind us and more road ahead of us than any other generation has... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

Portrait Project

Jonathan Wilkins

spirit will recover. Should my body stiffen, I will seek to be revived. I will run knowing this race is contingent upon my will rather than my speed. Regardless, I will do my best to remain in my lane and on my course. I will run the race set before me. The View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Thinking Inside the Box

purchase, “the brothers got sidetracked by the boxes in which the treats were shipped, and started down a road that led them from Denver and a world of high finance to Baltimore and a life of corrugated cardboard,” the Baltimore Sun... View Details

Profile

Benjamin Peterson

was generally interested in foreign aid and, specifically, on road building,” says Ben. “What explained road conditions? Was it just weather, climate, materials? After accounting for variables, I found that... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Examining Climate Change From a Business Perspective

Assistant Professor Vincent Pons discussed the case he wrote, “Climate Change: Paris, and the Road Ahead,” with students in a Business, Government, and the International Economy class in spring 2019. (photo by Kavita Pillay) Assistant... View Details

01 Oct 2000
News

Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship

and partner at Goldman Sachs. "It makes sense that our class wanted to fund a chair in entrepreneurship," Corbett told the Bulletin, "because so many of us are now going down that road ourselves." View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

27 Mar 2019
News

Life Is a Startup

not thought of as being part of the founder DNA, but it is a critical one of for you to have as you’re grappling with this. There are at least two levels of the self awareness. One of them we already talked about a little bit where it’s the awareness of the View Details

Profile

Juan Camargo

car—which is due in showrooms next month—for the American market. (Though that was nice, too.) The moment also represented a high point in a love affair with cars that began with childhood kart racing and included a few HBS-to-Montreal View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Technology; Consumer Products

01 Dec 2019
News

3-Minute Briefing: Leslie Hale (MBA 2001)

a statistic. I was determined not to be a statistic. I fell in love with finance. I fell in love with the concept of being able to take a dollar and make it into two. You can have a great vision, but if you don’t have your balance sheet in order, then you can’t make it... View Details

Keywords: April White; real estate; leadership; diversity; African American; career paths; women in business; Real Estate

Portrait Project

Zachary Surak

little heaven on earth was only a few miles down the road at the college I had grown up visiting — Princeton. "Zack, that's just not going to happen." I wish I could have seen the look on my face. How does someone look when his... View Details

James J. Hill

Hill, a railroad builder and entrepreneur, was a pioneer of the Northwest in a variety of ways. He located his roads and terminal facilities in potentially productive areas, he constructed them for economical operation at minimum cost... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

world. The numbers tell the story: There are approximately 1.2 billion vehicles on the road worldwide, and more than 250 million—roughly one in six—are in the US. Each of them spends more time than their drivers would like, either moving... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

28 May 2017
Blog Post

HBS on the Road: Ghana, Nigeria, and Côte d'Ivoire

Summer means one thing for the Admissions team at Dillon House: it’s outreach season. Team members head out on the road to spread the word about the HBS MBA and meet with prospective students around the world. Last month Admissions... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

A Force for Good

School’s agenda for the 21st century. Back to the Future In 1979, a team of HBS researchers produced Energy Future, a national bestseller with a road map for U.S. energy independence. A look at this still timely book and at current energy... View Details

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Cabot Brown Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results The Long Road to Impact (and a Bit of Déjà Vu All Over Again) Cabot Brown 13 Jun 2018... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Lessons from Private Equity

potential of your company Developing a road map to get to that potential Accelerating current organizational performance Harnessing and rewarding top talent Leveraging cash as productively as possible Fostering a results-oriented mindset.... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

we need less office space; e-commerce will mean we will need less retail space and new kinds of industrial buildings. Autonomous vehicles—if the ethical, legal, and technical issues can be resolved—may reduce the need for roads and... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

Solomon D. Warfield

and New York. As president, Warfield continued this trend, expanding the road further west and south, and by the end of his tenure as president, Seaboard controlled some 4,500 miles of track. View Details