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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
grass that fuels their company’s $43 million, 30-megawatt thermoelectric plant located in Bahia, Brazil. Photo courtesy Sykue Bioenergia Native to Africa, elephant grass isn’t picky. If it has sunshine, warmth, and some moisture, the... View Details
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Esther Koh | MBA
Esther Koh Bioengineering (SB), Secondary in Global Health & Health Policy Kirkland 2022 Cohort 3 Bridging experiments in the lab with commercialization strategies in industry fuels my drive to turn innovative delivery medical device... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Gotta Dance
lyrics, soaring harmonies, and finely tuned choreography. More importantly, it had an average view time of over two minutes, far beyond the usual five-second skip time allowed on YouTube. More recently, a project for e.l.f. Cosmetics on the video-sharing app TikTok saw... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Profiles from the Class of 2002
Pictured from left to right: Ken Baumgartner, Ipsita Dasgupta, Martin Gonzalez, Lori Schock, Tony Sanchez, and Demola Gbadegesin (photography by Robert Schoen) Members of the Class of 2002 graduate this June into a world transformed by recent events. The giddy economic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
traffic congestion, which is public enemy number one on passenger car fuel efficiency. The second thing we could do is address our agricultural food distribution system. If we went back to localized farming, it’s amazing how we could... View Details
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Paul Scharfman
created jobs and improved his community’s water system. Focusing on efficiencies to fuel growth and create jobs, Scharfman’s Specialty Cheese has doubled its workforce to 100 people over the past five years. By partnering with government... View Details
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Fabrizio Serafini | MBA
experiences that fueled my interest in the intersection of technology and business. While working to optimize production processes for a chemical group that produces biofuels, I learned firsthand the tremendous power technology holds in... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Running on empty
the gallon or so of gasoline that typically remains in a car's fuel system even when the gas gauge reads empty, SpareTank becomes flammable, and presto, you're on your way. "It's one of the great problem-solving products of all time,"... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups "R" Us
(MBA ’85), aka Leslie Gold, traces her entrepreneurial ventures in manufacturing, talk radio, and, most recently, talk-back TV. Finally, we review HBS Entrepreneur-in-Residence Jeffrey Bussgang’s (MBA ’95) book, Mastering the VC Game, which describes the inner workings... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
From observers to active participants in the global economy
By investing in African countries, moving them beyond subsistence, Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972) fuels some of the world’s potentially fastest-growing markets. As deputy vice president for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), he... View Details
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also challenges to lives and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Hail to the Chief
oil from these ecologically sensitive areas would fuel North America’s energy needs for just two weeks. That stark fact took on a human face when Sander met Santiago, chief of the Achuar, a rain-forest tribe. “Alison, you need to go back... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Batteries Included
economy.” Globally, shipping transports more than 10 billion metric tons of cargo each year. According to Yale Climate Connections, almost all of these ships run on fossil fuels and emit carbon pollution. Maritime shipping causes about 3... View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
Their answers suggest that clean power will take off over the next decade or so, but hydrocarbon fuels will remain dominant. The E & E Club teamed up with the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) to host the receptions—one in New... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Finance and the Economic Recovery
alumni giving to the HBS Fund fuels the School’s efforts to educate leaders who are equipped to navigate the challenges facing business and society today, such as those posed by the pandemic, as well as those that will arise in the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Powering on wireless electricity
Eric Giler (MBA 1982) is fueled by a mission to never have to “plug in” again. The CEO of WiTricity, a startup revolutionizing science with its magnetic resonance technology, hopes to soon relegate electrical wires and batteries to the... View Details
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Juan Camargo
eventually graduate to the luxe level. FASHION WITH FUNCTION "People want to do the right thing, but they want to do it in style," says Camargo, who describes the ELR as a mix of "art and science." The early mass-market alternative View Details
- 26 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Austin Regalado (MBA 2026)
obligation to make my family proud. My heritage is the rising tide that lifts all boats. Our work fuels the roaring engine of global economic progress and innovation. My heritage led me here just like it led Pepito. The pursuit for the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa
Yeboah said: “While for some, returning to the continent may be an option, for me it will always be a duty. I plan to be a part of fueling the hope that currently exists, changing the narrative of a continent that has often been... View Details