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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Rowe explains. "The challenge was to find ways to conserve energy and make a profit." In the mid-1980s, New England Electric initiated pilot programs for its commercial and small industrial customers to help them conserve energy and thus forestall the View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
institution; a number of volunteer student organizations were formed to reach out to the surrounding community; and the term "social responsibility" found its way into case discussions with some degree of regularity. "Looking back, those two years are View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
model, to pick the right market to innovate in, will determine to great extent my success. The Bolden story is all about community. He probably couldn't have been successful in Boston or New York. New Orleans was an open community. It had... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
years. Research by our own George Baker (and George David Smith) shows that until the mid-1990s KKR, for example, had an average holding period of over six years, with very few under four years. And while this average has probably... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
weeknights on www.shovio.com, with podcasts at www.radiochick.com. Tell us about life before RadioChick. I grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut, where my dad ran a construction-related business, which is probably how I got business in my... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
get to my nicotine patch. When she suggests some other "items" that might be tossed off the plane unless they settle down, I decide it's probably prudent to go cold turkey for a few hours. So, after what feels like the longest flight in... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
and CEO Barry Diller. Mr. Diller was and is a brilliant businessman, but we simply had different management styles—I was unhappy and resigned after about a year. Leaving a position like that was certainly a failure, in my eyes at least (and View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
stages, and there probably are going to be more. But these were the ones that I could capture in talking to lots of people. And I try to bucket them. And so, I came up with the quarter concept. The first quarter is about starting. This is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
The School of Life
requires them to think about whether they can do better. We have many opportunities to help our children take courses in life—and not all of them are courses we should want them to take. Many parents, for example, find themselves in a situation that View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- News
My First Job
What I ended up doing at the end of the day was I ended up starting my own company, which I probably should have done from the get go. But it took me about 15 years to reach that point. It was not a happy first year after Harvard because... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
BULLETIN: We should probably begin with the most obvious question: Is the job turning out to be what you had expected? CLARK: I'd have to say yes, but more so. I assumed there were many things I had to learn about the School and its... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
also some sticks and penalties in it. The most important one is probably the first-of-its-kind fee on methane emissions from the oil and gas sector, which is boosting the developing market for equipment to detect and measure methane... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Light Years Ahead
among business schools or among the men and women who apply to them; they assume that all schools and all applicants are basically the same. In fact, business schools are quite different from each other, and Harvard probably is even more... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entrepreneurial. That whole culture carries over to acquisitions. We understand that when we acquire a trading company, we are acquiring the people. Frankly, a lot of the customers they have are probably common customers to us. Everybody... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
about the surprise and delight of being served. One thing I’m looking forward to is returning to New York City, where I spent a lot of time after college. There are a number of hole-in-the-wall places that I’m excited to get back to, partly because it means they’ve... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
The First Scrum
organize a seven-to-a-side tournament, a kind of abbreviated form of the game. And would you believe it, we won! Our first tournament victory. When I walked up to get that rather pathetic-looking trophy—which probably cost us $5 from the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
entrepreneurship, research, and academia. They also share a trait we can probably all relate to—more than a few had no idea they would end up where they did. Extreme Talent “The Atlantic was founded in 1857, and it had a fantastic 19th... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
and enjoying it on your own." So he decided to rent out some of the cottages. The first guests ate at a common table, as they do today. "You make a social investment here. People who get no return on a social investment probably shouldn't... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Clay. (Kentucky is the largest overseas exporter of live animals in the United States.) “Now we probably have more U.S. customers than we’ve had in the past.” BEATING THE ODDS: “We decide on a case-by-case basis how much equity we’ll take... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL
Seattle, Isaiah Kacyvenski (MBA 2011), all 250 pounds of him, was motoring full speed downfield on kick-off coverage, intent on destroying the St. Louis Rams returner. That's when a huge blindside block leveled him, probably rendering him... View Details