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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
diabetes by creating new beta cells in the pancreas. This is difficult work that is high risk but high reward. You have come to grips with the many ethical considerations in working with stem cells derived from embryos that were created... View Details
- 12 Jul 2018
- News
In the Market for Environmental Change
Amendments to the Clean Air Act. “The Environmental Defense Fund derives its programmatic focus from markets. Markets, in their belief, can create much faster, more complete change than mandates from government agencies and others, not... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into a sustainable enterprise that provides income for indigenous Mexican families
that allows indigenous Mexican populations to earn vital income by planting seedlings and developing pine-tree forests on their degraded lands. Arias-King, president of T&R Chemicals in Texas, uses natural pine resin tapped from trees to make View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
New Releases
text introducing risk-reducing strategies such as hedging, portfolio diversification, insurance, and derivative market mechanisms. In addition, the book trains the reader in relevant methodologies, including exposure analysis, the capital... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Action Plan: Fruit of the Vine
the middle of its 600-foot altitude range. (The higher the elevation, the lower the sugar content—perfect for sparkling wines, not so much for still.) And the vineyard’s Jory soil—rich, well-drained, and derived from volcanic basalt—is... View Details
Keywords: Ryan Jones
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
friend in the electronic greeting-card business, who thought flower marketing could derive great advantages from the efficiencies of the Internet and wanted Bry's online expertise. Proflowers was the result. Seated in her no-frills office... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
insider’s advice, into his well-received 2008 book, Managing the Dragon: How I’m Building a Billion-Dollar Business in China. But he derived his moniker, Mr. China, from a 2005 memoir with the same title penned by one of his former top... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
2005) took alumni questions on the energy transition, adoption strategies, and the practical steps to a fossil fuel–free future. Nigeria is the sixth-largest producer of fossil fuel in the world, and its national economy derives 90... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
businesses. Such companies gain advantage because regulators tend to look to the most technologically advanced operations when setting industry standards. On the whole, larger and more prominent firms are most likely to need, want, and be able to View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Perspective: The Morning After 9/11
dictates that success often derives from predictable patterns so that people know how to plan and where to follow. But twenty years after sitting through her class that morning, I can confidently say that I’ll never forget the lesson... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
a better water bottle I could use that product as a way to tell people about the billion people in the world who didn’t have access to that water. So it took a long time, and then it was actually quite sudden. OW: What do you want your customers to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
only the costs for capital, labor, and traded goods but also social costs like the effect of air pollution on health or even the value people derive from the continued survival of an endangered species. At the same time, managers are... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
While Enron made the headlines, Mills says, these other actors were culpable as well. The title of Mills' book derives from a comment made by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt regarding the actions of teenager Jonathan Lebed who broke... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs from the late 1990s and winnowed the lot down to three: Marla Malcolm Beck, Chris Michel, and Marc Cenedella. From their stories, he derived key lessons learned, often the hard way, as they built successful businesses,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
derives 80 percent of its data from a lengthy questionnaire filled out by the schools, heavily weighting student career services, diversity of corporate recruiting, and starting salaries. With such a wide range of approaches, the results... View Details
- 21 Feb 2020
- News
Style for Everyone
Nadia Boujarwah and Lydia Gilbert (both MBA 2013) cofounded Dia & Co right out of HBS, producing fashion and online services for plus-size women. In this interview, they talk about the inspiration for the idea and the need it serves. “Dia & Co View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
Dodgers will give us the capability and flexibility to build related businesses and programming," Carey says. The sports franchise, he elaborates, will furnish the stimulus and content for derivative ventures such as TV stations, a cable... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
consumer. "Managers can't expect customer information to represent a free good forever," explains Rayport. "Eventually, customers will want a piece of the value companies derive from information collected about themselves." But the... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Career to Smile About
Whether jetting around the world or working from Colgate-Palmolive's midtown Manhattan headquarters, Lois Juliber has helped her company become a consumer-products powerhouse that does business in 212 countries and derives 75 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.