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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
parking lot. As many as one hundred workers have been laboring on the site each day, pouring the concrete foundation and positioning the structural steel beams and columns.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
Early — much too early — on a rainy March morning, I find myself once again among a throng of bleary-eyed students trooping toward Aldrich Hall. The ritual of the herd, familiar to me and every HBS alum, certainly brings it all back. It’s... View Details
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
David Motley (MBA 1988) grew up in Lincoln-Larimer, a struggling neighborhood in Pittsburgh’s East End. He remembers the soot on the snow in the cold winters of the 1960s. And if he looked south, toward the Monongahela River, he could see... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Jan 2020
- News
What It Takes
it, and he thought it was great. The firm was so small somebody heard that he was looking at this. They came into my office and said, "We think it's terrible." And I said,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
are good at looking after people, and we could all use more looking after.” Franklin P. Johnson Jr., MBA 1952 JOHNSON: At home in Palo Alto. When Pitch Johnson left his position as an assistant superintendent in East Chicago’s Inland... View Details
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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
operator adjusts the oven because it "doesn't sound right" and prevents a disaster. A steel alloy salesperson who has kept his eye on emissions regulations knows what "the next big thing" in furnace... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 22 Jul 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #7: Turning Waste Heat to Power
don’t make the technology. But we help package the financing for improvements so the companies and the environment overall can enjoy the benefits. We get paid through the revenues of this process.” There are additional benefits, Janice... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
McKinsey in Cleveland as well as a Toyota plant in Kentucky. “My biggest immediate challenge when I return to India will be finding the cultural fit again.” Having worked summer jobs as a teenager in a TVS service station and View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981
Harvard College. Instead, he opted for HBS and then a job in Mumbai with his father at Mahindra Ugine Steel (MUSCO). Soon after he arrived, the young Harvard MBA was called on to restructure View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
to be in the future. And that’s worked well in the United States in places like Pittsburgh, where steel went away, and forward-thinking, committed civic leaders thought, ‘Let’s... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
Verdant’s turbines, for instance, sit on a massive steel frame that was custom-built in New Jersey; the entire assembly weighs 105 tons and had to be ferried into position on a barge before it could be... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Gravity, the space thriller released last week, features two of Hollywood's brightest stars: George Clooney and Sandra Bullock. It rocketed to an October record $55 million gross in its opening week, well on its way to returning a profit... View Details
- 26 May 2016
- News
Sunil B. Mittal, OPM 27, 1999
enjoyed cricket more than books, and after graduating from Panjab University at the age of 19, he and a friend set up a small bicycle-parts manufacturing business. Gradually he expanded the operations,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Photo credits: Meghan Kenny and Jonas Lee Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Meghan Kenny: Our prototype is called Hobbes. All of our major pieces of equipment are named after cartoon characters. Hobbes's... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
level. The global community tends to look to governments and multilaterals during public health crises, but in what contexts can the private sector be better equipped to act and in what ways? ArcelorMittal... View Details
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Commencement 2012 Address | About
identified for the school. Today, let me talk to you about 3Gs: Generosity, Grace, and Gratitude. The first story I’d like to share involves my grandfather, who was born at the beginning of the 20th century in India. My grandfather was an... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
resident Ronald ("Bobby") Escare is one of them. As described in a recent article in Harper's magazine, Bobby can make $3 on a good day foraging for copper wire and aluminum cans. During the eight... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
long-term goal of buying and managing his own company. Sharpe, who hired his wife, Debby Stein Sharpe (MBA ’81), as CFO, sold Extrusion Technology (an aluminum extrusion fabricator) to a private equity firm... View Details