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- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
performance on average. Silverthorne: For entrepreneurs who decide to stay the course, what does the funding outlook look like? Roche: Funding opportunities may dry up as venture capitalists increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
Despite its name, the Great Wall of China began as a series of smaller, isolated defensive fortifications. Those structures grew and were later unified into the imposing structure that exists today. The Great Wall is a great metaphor for the Chinese economy. By... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Making Progress on Strategic Priorities
Fund for Leadership and Innovation has an immediate impact on the School’s ability to pursue new initiatives, and is the cornerstone of HBS’s economic model. Field-Based Learning FIELD 2 global immersions offer first-year MBA students a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
technology that would adapt to my playing style in real time instead of forcing me to fit a recording." Chao was right. She found former concert oboist Christopher Raphael, now chair of computer science at Indiana University, who was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
outlook. Since its inception in 2001, 89 MBAs have taken part in the program, working at 43 organizations as diverse as the City of Boston Mayor’s Office, Teach For America, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and Mercy Corps. Fellows receive a one-year salary of... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
Righting the Ship
When Ross Stuckey (PLDA 21, 2016) joined the NAVSEA Warfare Centers—a part of the naval research labs responsible for developing science and tech for national defense—as their capital improvement program (CIP) manager in 2016, he was... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
PublicationsHappy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending Authors:Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton Publication:Simon & Schuster, forthcoming Abstract If you think money can't buy happiness, you're not spending it right. Two rising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
building and well-being. The fellowship’s unique model provides funding for one graduating student to join an organization dedicated to creating local financial and business opportunities. The RISE Career Fellow selects a company and... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Starting Lineup: Upturning Travel
websites. FLYR CEO Jean Tripier (MBA 1992) Founded in 2013 “The data science company that ends the guessing game of booking airfares.” When JetBlue created a venture capital arm earlier this year, its first investment was in FLYR’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Profile
Tessa Vacher-Desvernais
analytics, but truly appreciate aesthetics. I’m very conscious of my inner tension between analytical and creative thinking.” Following her mathematical and sciences baccalaureate, she pursued liberal arts at an all-girl military boarding... View Details
- 13 Oct 2016
- News
Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease
where he endowed the Blum Family Venture Philanthropy Fund to promote discoveries with potential to benefit the Israeli life-sciences economy. Closer to home, Blum established the Tikkun Olam Youth Science... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
Europe in order to ensure compatibility of UK produced products with European markets. And it will be essential to maintain the strong ties that have led to much EU research funding going to the UK. Britain needs to follow the lead of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Health is Wealth | The Path to Creating a Venture
levels. Collectively, Rachel and Wallerstofer saw an opportunity to build a precision nutrition brand that was more data driven, science backed, and truly personalized. “We came together on this mission to empower individuals to leverage... View Details
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Business Review, and Boston Review. Victor’s work has been funded by the Ford Foundation, and the National Science Foundation. His first book On Critical Race Theory: Why it Matters & Why You Should Care is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
finalist in MIT’s $100K business plan competition, won Fish 2.0’s $25,000 second prize, and earned a $100,000 FOUNDER.org grant. And all the attention—as well as lessons Kozachenok learned in HBS professor Vicki Sato’s Commercializing View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
FemTech, the segment of the health care and life sciences industry focused on women’s health. A combined 175 alumni attended the discussions which featured alumni panelists who are investing in, or leading, companies in the FemTech space.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Aug 2015
- First Look
First Look Tuesday
Publications Forthcoming Management Science How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics By: Chung, Doug J. Abstract—Intercollegiate athletics in the United States have become a multibillion-dollar industry over... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lumry Chair Supports IT and Entrepreneurship
A generous gift from Rufus W. Lumry III (MBA 1974) will establish a new chair at HBS and support teaching and learning in the field of information technology as it relates to the Internet and entrepreneurial studies at Harvard University. The joint gift to HBS and the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services