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The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim

The Miccosukee Indians, a small tribe of indigenous people in South Florida, have a long-standing interest in protecting the land, waterways, and habitats of the Everglades, their ancestral home, which serves as a watershed for urban areas in Miami-Dade County and a... View Details

Keywords: Native Americans; Climate Change; Change; Leadership; Natural Environment; Florida; Everglades National Park

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13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

in every [Hummer] H2 around here." "I heard a rumor that Porsche was devoting their entire racing budget to the "Cayenne Challenge," an event that pits homemakers from different nations against each other in a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

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Jaume Plensa Inés 2013 | About

worldwide and is perhaps best known in the United States for his Crown Fountain in Chicago’s Millennium Park (2004). In 2014, he returned to Chicago to do a solo exhibition for Millennium Park, titled 1004 Portraits , which expanded upon... View Details

01 Aug 1998
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Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

interactive DVDs based on one of the top selling kids book series of all time. Sapphire Joseph Park Jason Liu Fai Leong Business Track Runner-Up Mobile local information service provider. Social Enterprise Track, 2004 Sun Edison Brian... View Details

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Drew Keller

took off! What is your favorite childhood memory? Thankfully I have a lot to choose from. But I think my all-time favorite memory is a day I spent with my parents and sister on Lake Powell in Utah, in the middle of a trip we took traveling to various View Details

26 May 2016
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Mary Callahan Erdoes, MBA 1993

summer vacations consist of touring national parks in an RV. “To be successful you need to have a passion not just for the job itself, but for the people you are doing it with.” “To be successful you need to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance

13 Nov 2017
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Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

increased insomnia. “The more time-pressed you feel, the lower your well-being,” Whillans says. She hopes the study—Buying Time Promotes Happiness, which was published in the August issue of Proceedings of the National Academy of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season

changing seasons. Go birding in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Visit the first rural, or "garden" cemetery in the United States, located on the edge of Cambridge. In addition to famous burials, remarkable monuments, and amazing plantings, this View Details

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

parks—responsible for spreading “pixie dust” for Disney’s “guests”—were supporters of these groups. Within Disney, employees were protesting on social media and organizing walkouts from company theme parks in Florida and elsewhere. In... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

‘Your tribal corn.’” Walker told Keen that big ag was displacing indigenous seeds in India with GMO crops, a story later told in the 2016 documentary Seed. At the time, Keen was serving as a representative on the Cherokee National... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

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Documenting the Wartime Effort | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

of industrial films, Richie took on assignments with Bethlehem Steel, Republic Steel, Jones & Laughlin Steel, and U.S. Steel. Both Korth and Henle, who were among a wave of German artists immigrating to the United States in the 1930s, found work with View Details

21 Nov 2018
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Harvard Square's Hidden History

Lexington and Concord in April 1775, but the king’s troops quickly reassembled it. Winthrop Park: Site of Newtowne Market Tiny Winthrop Park sits a quarter-mile up John F. Kennedy Street from Anderson bridge; near its southeast... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons

national training program geared toward recent college graduates. He was eventually placed as a mathematics teacher at Jersey City, New Jersey’s Liberty High, an ethnically diverse high school for students who have struggled in... View Details

Keywords: Lory Hough; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

17 Aug 2021
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Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?

Julian De Freitas. “We expect that they will make roads truly much safer.” In fact, De Freitas and colleagues recently argued in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that adopting driverless vehicles on a broad scale could... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Auto

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Anthony Gerace In the late 1970s, a dozen or so gay men found one another at HBS and decided to band together, calling themselves the Alternative Executive Lifestyles group. They posted notices around campus, discreetly... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2004
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Working the Street

Stripped to the waist in a clinic examining room, Mike, a burly white guy in his late 30s, is an illustrated man. His arms, chest, and neck are a tattooed maze of letters, numbers, and designs signaling his allegiance to the Aryan Nation... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; tattoo; removal; program; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

an entrepreneur. With several other HBS graduates, he undertook a decidedly low-tech startup: plastic phone book covers to carry local advertisements in Massachusetts. The company, the National Merchandising Corporation, was such a... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order

reallocated for city delivery work. That’s going to make things more efficient and strengthen supply-chain security.” Just Charge It That EV section of your nearby parking lot is only going to grow, says Molly Middaugh (MBA 2018). She’s... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

about how each of us contributes to and can address climate change, invest in public private partnerships to accelerate deploying existing and to promote new technologies addressing climate change, implement carbon taxes, and arrange for richer View Details

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