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11 Apr 2023
Blog Post

BTG Bioliquids: Creating Fast Pyrolysis Bio-Oil from Biomass Residue Streams

fuels was in line with what other companies supported: $100-150/ton of CO2. For their business model, BTG Bioliquids chose the technology licensing route, instead of a capital-intensive model where they would build and operate their own... View Details

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

massive growth in world FDI in mining. As petroleum consumption grew with new uses, the search for oil became worldwide. Oil was the only fuel that could drive the new motor car, while the demand for rubber tyres for cars created an... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

24 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

The 'Amazon Effect' Is Changing Online Price Competition—and the Fed Needs to Pay Attention

quickly to world events The upshot, Cavallo says, is that retail prices have become less insulated from economic shocks, like changes in fuel costs or exchange rates, as retailers capture changing costs more quickly. This helps explain... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Retail

29 May 2023
News

Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

it fuels the entrepreneurial passions of students and alumni across all 13 Harvard schools, illustrating the power of “One Harvard.” The Harvard Innovation Labs—encompassing the student i-lab, Launch Lab X GEO, and the Pagliuca Harvard... View Details

July 2018 (Revised July 2018)
Teaching Note

Argentina Power—Don’t Cry for Me Argentina

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Sayiddah Fatima McCree

Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-041. This case concerns a complex potential energy infrastructure investment in Argentina by a global conglomerate shortly after Mauricio Macri (“Macri”) became President of Argentina in 2015. The central issues are (i) why was a country... View Details

Keywords: Argentina; Argentine Exceptionalism; Infrastructure Finance; Investing; Finance; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Energy Generation; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Argentina; South America

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24 Sep 2019
Blog Post

Launching a Career in Clean Energy

cliché, but I watched Al Gore’s movie, An Inconvenient Truth. Lionel Bony (MBA 2006), a sectionmate at HBS, was also influential. He worked with the School on its efforts to implement sustainability practices and was vocal about the connection between fossil View Details

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

tackle different sorts of markets or different sorts of problems.” How to boost patents by women In recent years, progress has been made toward gender parity in science, as more women enter STEM fields and enroll in technical degree programs. The shift started in the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Paper A Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism? By: Paula Rettl , Diane Bolet, Catherine E. De Vries, Simone Cremaschi, Tarik Abou-Chadi and Sergi Pardos-Prado The growing... View Details

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

day-to-day together. Many projects lie ahead that make us dream about what’s going to happen with our lives. The cities where we will live, the careers we will build, the puppies we will adopt – that is the constant fuel for our every... View Details

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

up with innovative business ideas that could help both groups/cultures. A team of experienced entrepreneurs judged the business ideas on creativity—for example, broadband Internet, while useful, scored low on the creativity scale, while a long-lasting View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 May 2018
News

Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

first arrived at HBS for the OPM Program in 1985, he was skeptical of what the School could offer. The case method in particular did not appeal to him, a fact he now admits with a laugh. That skepticism quickly dissolved as he saw how effective the discussions were at... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

Officer at 3Degrees Climate Rising episode: How Harvard is Going Fossil Fuel Free “Rather than saying, I want to get into climate change and therefore, what should I do? I would think of it the other way around, which is, What really... View Details

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Mireya Iglesias Ayala

with Mexico or OXXO. I had a lot of fun sharing my perspective! What is one thing you brought with you to campus, and one thing you'll be leaving with? I brought with me a metaphorical "compass"—an innate sense of direction fueled by my... View Details

10 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

command module. There wasn't enough fuel to stop its momentum and turn back for Earth. So the crew decided to let the moon's gravity do the work for them. Moving faster and faster, they orbited the moon once, used a single powerful burst... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson

01 Mar 2008
News

THE 6 MYTHS OF CREATIVITY

don’t think about pay on a day-to-day basis. Time Pressure Fuels Creativity. People are least creative when they’re fighting the clock “on a treadmill,” having a fragmented day that doesn’t allow them to concentrate on a single important... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services; Management

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

marketed the idea of better-selling-through-cellophane, releasing several self-funded studies on the efficacy of visual marketing. “DuPont’s research concluded that 85 percent of all food purchase was done by the eye,” Hisano writes. The company View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

poorer, emerging economies to curtail their fossil fuel use. Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994) General Partner, MPower Partners Maximizing What Japan Has to Offer BIO As manifestations of climate change intensify around the world, Japan’s... View Details

11 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Second Life: Reflections on Complementing Success with an Encore Career

make it OK to help others, not just the bottom line. I believe that will help build a culture to continue to fuel our growth plans.” This article was first published in 2019. View Details

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

exceeding the optimal point of inequality and descending into an era of a vanishing middle class and, with it, the spending power and inclination with which it fuels an economy? A growing number of observers are saying yes, pointing to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

with climate change will make safe drinking water less available in many regions, increasing the risk of water-born disease, famine, and draught [7] . Air Pollution Burning fossil fuels causes air pollution that is responsible for killing... View Details

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