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- 18 Aug 2015
- News
New HBS Fund Chairs
worked at Chemical Bank and MasterCard after receiving her MBA. Raised as a Quaker with a life-long interest in service, in 1994 she began working at the All Souls Soup Kitchen and for the next 19 years she took a leadership... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
In June, the School conferred its highest honors, the Distinguished Service Award and the Alumni Achievement Award, on four professors emeriti and five alumni, respectively. This is a profile of a Distinguished Service honoree. On his way up the corporate ladder in the... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
How to Prepare for Shark Tank
What’s it like to appear on ABC-TV’s popular start-up series Shark Tank? In a word, nerve-wracking. Just ask Desiree Stolar and Nate Barbera (both MBA 2015), cofounders of Unshrinkit, a Harvard-born startup that has developed a formula that brings shrunken sweaters... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A lifelong mission to save the oceans
a big toe in the water because the river was, at that time, a chemical and organic cesspool,” he remembers. Today, Merkl is helping to shift environmental thinking with initiatives that balance conservation with business acumen: “We know... View Details
- 20 Jan 2011
- News
Oil Spill Solution
that has proven effective in pollutant absorption both above and beneath the surface of water. Smith has been working closely with fishermen in the Gulf area to help rid the affected waters of the propylene glycol (a chemical found in... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in the face of complex challenges
founded in the 1930s as Hess Oil and Chemical Company. A longtime advocate for and supporter of HBS, Hess is at the helm of an effort that also seeks to actively engage the alumni community. He considers the mobilization of alumni as... 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... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
chemical fertilizers. Soil from the average cultivated field contains 0.5 to 1 percent carbon, while soil from the average virgin land, including forest and prairie, contains 3 to 7 percent. “Carbon capture is the only way to get out of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
Paine: “We want students to realize their full potential as business leaders.” Courtesy HBS Communications When Andy Mulkerin (HBS ’05), a chemical engineer by training, came to HBS he knew that his class would be the first to take... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
cofounder and CEO of Ocochem, a startup developing an electrochemical process to turn carbon dioxide into formic acid. Now, formic acid is not something most people are familiar with, but it's a pretty important chemical compound. It's... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
appearance of healthy-looking skin.” Rosemary is the source of a natural antirancidity agent. “In a synthetic form, the chemical compound butylated hydroxytoluene (BHT) would perform the same function,” Levy notes, “but many consumers... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
chemical engineering from MIT and a JD from Harvard Law School. His résumé also includes stints at Disney and the Texas Pacific Group. With some $2 billion invested in more than 30 countries, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa, Helios's focus... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
focuses on six worldwide corporate brands, including Nestlé, Nescafé, Nestea, Buitoni, Maggi, and Friskies, which are complemented by regional brands such as Stouffer's and Crosse & Blackwell. After graduating from HBS, Corti took a job as a corporate planner at Kaiser... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
in this effort, including Southwest Airlines (with its Southwest Airlines One Report), United Technologies Corporation (UTC), the Dutch electronics and health-care giant Philips, the German chemical company BASF, and Danish pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
with one another, making it far easier to do everything from discovering new medicines to designing better batteries. The pharmaceutical and chemical industries have taken note: The venture capital arm of the pharma giant Merck, for... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers
cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
As a way to delve deeper into the link between motivation and creativity, Amabile and her husband, psychologist Steven J. Kramer, conducted a three-year study of 238 professionals from seven companies in the high-tech, consumer products, and View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
Carson and the New Yorker magazine, which had published the work in its entirety over three issues. During the summer of 1962, Carson’s critics initiated a series of counterattacks, with the chemical industry leading the charge. The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
There and Back Again: The Challenges and Rewards of Working Abroad
to Cabot Corporation, a specialty chemicals firm, where he is general manager of the Performance Products Business Group. He believes his Taiwan experience demonstrated his ability to adapt quickly in new situations, making his new... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
HBX: Reimagining HBS for the Digital Age
Terceros, HBX Live participant, chemical engineering administrator “HBX Live felt like a real classroom, or even like an enhanced classroom. The experience is so well designed and supported that I felt like I was sitting in the same room... View Details