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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

production of next-generation ingredients. We leverage biotechnology as a scalable, sustainable alternative to industrial agriculture and recently launched Palmless , the platform for sustainable palm oil alternatives.” Sarah Wright MBA... View Details

06 Dec 2017
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Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

our country as ‘zombie’ towns, each state may have a larger part in how Amazon operates.” Guy Higgins pointed out distinctions between practices used to gain market power in the past and present. “Standard Oil was an abusive monopoly,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023

not go back to the drachma, to stay with the euro. It was very tough. The GDP of the country went down by more than 25 percent. I think that says it all.” 3 tips: “I was taught since I was a kid to drink a little bit of olive oil in the... View Details

Keywords: leadership; management; work-life balance

06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

invests in companies providing services, products and technologies for the energy industry. They have traditionally focused on services for the Oil & Gas industry but are now committing capital to companies operating to monitor and... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

Barring artificial constraints by government or unusual dislo-cations - such as the first oil embargo that came when we were students at HBS - I'd say existing factors point to a pretty good investment environment. How would you describe... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

12 Sep 2023
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Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle: Taking Climate Solutions from Idea to Action, Faster

undergraduates, some are industry veterans. They come from retail, mining, teaching, oil and gas, coding, clinical medicine, and the military. They represent countries around the world: We have founders from Indonesia, Uganda, Chile,... View Details

01 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

And they can immediately call up the producers and say, 'Listen, you're under water here.'" Lest students think the collateral model is totally risk-free, the authors of the case included an extreme cautionary tale—the so-called Salad View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

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Contemporary African Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Dark Poem Painting (What I Call You When I Think About You and You Are Not There) , 2005 Oil on stitched canvas 48 x 44 in. Schwartz Art Collection, Harvard Business School, 2006.10 Tuli Mekondjo (Namibian, born 1982) Otwa umbata oudjuu... View Details

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Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Breakup of Standard Oil and American Tobacco Clayton Antitrust Act Federal Reserve Act First Federal-Aid Highway Act Federal Trade Commission established Personal income tax reinstituted Influence: Low 20 1920 s 19 U.S. Steel and Alcoa... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

small number of rivals—for market power. (Indeed, at the Harvard Business School where I have taught business history to thousands of MBAs, students often compare the early growth of Standard Oil to that of Microsoft 100 years later. They... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

culture relate to its strategy. Use all this understanding to place innovative bets. This is what the early leaders of GM did. And this is what several generations of executives—beginning in the 1970s with the first oil shocks and the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

varied the set of customers or consumers being studied were in other ways. It was as if we had identified a secret code of thought. The seven deep metaphors discussed in Marketing Metaphoria are those appearing most often across a variety of products ranging from the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

have a solid business basis." Jennifer Moret Financial Analyst Develop distinctive approaches and frameworks that help you navigate complex industries, such as oil and gas, power, pharmaceuticals, and financial services. Today, I am... View Details

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Wilder House | About

investment banking to enter the world of politics and public policy. He was appointed chairman and chief executive officer of Canadian Arctic Gas, a consortium of twenty-six Canadian and U.S. oil and gas companies to build a... View Details

01 Jan 2011
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Karen Gordon Mills, MBA 1977

of Mexico shrimp fisherman who stayed in business with low-interest economic injury loans after the BP oil spill, to a Pennsylvania drill bit manufacturer whose SBA-financed technology was instrumental in rescuing the trapped Chilean... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

successes so that people can learn from them. Q: What are you working on now? A: We are currently doing research on offshore oil production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. These are fascinating to us because they are the quintessential... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

How to Avoid a Price Increase

types of products for which customers are more quantity-conscious than others? What products won't this work for? A: There are certainly categories where a change in package size is more noticeable. These would include any category where a certain quantity of something... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

22 Mar 2024
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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)

was interested in the oil and gas industry, and was drawn to engineering because of the challenge. “I always want to push myself,” she said, “and I saw engineering as an opportunity to stretch myself and take me out of my comfort... View Details

11 May 2022
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MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

girl! The whole section AND my Finance professor applauded. It was so beautiful I cried! And now my daughter's birth announcement to an HBS classroom lives in a recording. Claudia Lopez Lopez Year: Second Mom of: Lucy (1 year), Santiago (2 months) Pre-HBS Industry:... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Big Oils and Utilities’ Diverging Strategies for Energy Convergence ,” The Goldman Sachs Groups, July 10, 2019. “ Access to Electricity (% of population) ,” The World Bank, 2019, accessed September 8, 2019. Scott Nyquist, “ Energy 2050:... View Details

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