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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems - Course Catalog
Blackstone Senior Advisor and Senior Managing Director for almost 20 years. Mr. Dionne was a Member of the Private Equity and Alternative Credit investment committees and has led View Details
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
work—rather than a sporadic trip to the office could prove invaluable in designing flows in and out of a city’s center. Another example: Designers developing new infrastructure for electric vehicles might benefit from knowing driving... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
software. Jim Heskett Others of you cited examples of your use of hard-wiring. Jay Cross offers it as an alternative to traditional pricing. Although clients don't bite, he claims that it gets him credibility points, more business, and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 May 2019
- News
How Sonja Hoel Perkins Saved John McAfee from an Especially Bad Deal
out an alternative deal: “We’ll value your company at $20 million, and you keep half. You sell half the company for the same valuation, hold on to the upside, and still get money up front.” McAfee said, “I’d love that. I hadn’t even... View Details
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
stringent measures to regulate the industry. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51895 Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: A Circular Journey Through JSW Cement - From Steel Slag to Stronger Shores
imported from the UAE, and responsible for the majority of cement's carbon footprint. Low-clinker cements are paving the way for a more sustainable future. These innovative materials significantly reduce clinker content, often by 50% or more, by incorporating View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
The Key to Innovation: Flexible Funding
thought leadership. We must experiment more extensively with alternative modes of teaching, collaborate more (both internally and with other Harvard schools), and find ways to deliver more real-world experience to our students. It is also... View Details
Keywords: Robert Steven Kaplan
- 17 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #14: Bonita Stewart (MBA 1983) – A Career Devoted to Creating the Future
through digital marketing. Moving the world from ICE (internal combustion engines) to electric vehicles was a transformation I didn’t want to miss.” She added, “Both Volta Charging and my personal investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill
Some of the best entrepreneurial ventures begin with a small revelation. For Luke O'Neill (MBA '95), the founder of a unique alternative high school in Massachusetts, that revelation came from an eight-year-old boy named Robert. As an... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 26 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: New York City
EnergyHub offices in Brooklyn to network with each other and discuss their career goals. While there, I met alumni working on a wide range of issues such as investing in the circular economy, starting a company focused on sustainable... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Doubts about Applying to HBS
I am a first generation Mexican-American born and raised in farming and immigrant communities in Arizona. I earned my undergraduate economics degree from Arizona State University. After graduating, I worked for Bank of America Merrill Lynch as an View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
international provisions. My comments attempt to outline briefly the origins of these transactions, the range of alternative solutions, guidelines for evaluating alternative reforms and some reforms that... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
shock, Nichols credits HBS with providing excellent skills and training for her subsequent career: consulting. After graduation and work as an investment banker in New York and Los Angeles, on a lark Nichols interviewed with McKinsey's... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
Last year, Echoing Green, which invests in social entrepreneurs, chose SHE as one of the most innovative social change organizations worldwide, providing it with seed money and technical support. It has been a fast-paced two years since... View Details
- 22 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018
PFA Pension was the biggest commercial pension provider in Denmark. At the end of 2015, the company had decided to boost its investments into the alternative asset class, an area where it was lagging behind... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
game and then enter another game that will allow you to go after the same kinds of results you've been aiming for in the current game. And Option C is to quit this game and go to a different kind of game that produces a different type of results. If you View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Changes in employee management and training had an enormous impact. It took 22,000 workers to produce 1 million vehicles in 2000, for example, but only half that number to make 1.8 million four years later. In addition, Bajaj Auto has... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future
2001 to 9 million today), especially girls. But the bad news is they have no jobs to look forward to. Although stability and security facilitate investing for the long term, they are not enough. Afghans must have credible information... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna