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- 01 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami
Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to confront climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas, trends, opportunities, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
cofounder and COO of FarmTogether, a startup connecting investors to farmland investment opportunities. “There is a strong coalition of alumni working in various roles and industries here in New York City who are committed to generating... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
purpose into their core operations, generating powerful win-win decisions that benefit everyone, with little compromise—if any—required on any side. A manufacturing company might change wasteful processes, for instance, using less View Details
- Profile
Ben Faw
of duty, previous injuries from an airborne exercise worsened on the field, leading him to seek less strenuous duty. In a move that is unusual for an infantry officer, Ben became an aide-de-camp to a one-star general in the Army Corp of... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
format when he served as his country’s pavilion director during the Shanghai Expo, in 2009. The experience led to his leadership role as commissioner general for Colombia at Expo Milano 2015. This year’s Milan gathering runs through... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
which he said “takes sustained energy and communication that you have to project into the world.” McCarthy, on the other hand, has faith in the next generation of business leaders to do the right thing.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Sunday evening in a Baker Lawn “pavilion” erected for the summit’s general sessions. Nearly everyone failed to understand how much the global financial system had changed in recent years, and how fragile it had become because of... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Evolving HBS Campus
the official opening of the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center. Through a generous gift from a Dr. James Si-Cheng Chao and family foundation, the facility has already become a hub for executives who use its meeting rooms, dining facilities, and... View Details
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
Offshore Wind Energy in the USA Harvard Business School Case 708-022 Cape Wind is an extreme example of NIMBY—not in my backyard syndrome. This is the first offshore wind project planned for the United States, in Nantucket Sound, just... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
+Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994) General Partner, MPower PartnersMaximizing What Japan Has to Offer +Girish Nadkarni (MBA 1988) President, TotalEnergies VenturesA Cri de Coeur +Richard Needham, Jr. (MBA 2002) Partner, View Details
- 19 May 2023
- Blog Post
Choosing To Be Optimistic about Climate Change
explained that transforming global energy systems will require additional investments of some $2.4 trillion annually—the equivalent to about one-quarter of U.S. corporate profits, or half of federal tax receipts; or 8 to 9 percent of GDP.... View Details
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog
representation on boards, and even the potential to create social good. Covering both public and private markets, the course will present the unprecedented opportunities that have arisen due to energy transition and other trends through... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
offsets such as investing in reforestation projects to counteract the carbon that’s released from the energy that heats, cools, and electrifies their buildings. But what everyone needs to remember is that’s hardly sufficient. And I worry... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Charter Supporter
headquartered in Waterloo, Wisconsin. While there, she set up Trek’s sales and distribution companies across Europe and worked in forecasting and planning. Since 2007, she has devoted her energy and skills full time to the nonprofit... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
worries by emphasizing green energy use and decreased water consumption. Meanwhile, lab-grown diamonds, which first entered the commercial jewelry market in the late 1980s and are forecasted to be 10 percent of the market by 2030, have... View Details
- 14 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?
“It’s critical that tomorrow’s leaders learn how to think about the important societal issues of our generation and the role that business plays.” The BiGS team collaborated with student leaders of the Africa Business Club, Tech Club,... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
the "institutional appropriateness" of their controls. Importantly, the fate of the competing control systems was contingent, not on how well their technologies addressed the problem of EurInsurance's capital adequacy, but rather on the controllers' capacity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
- News
Remembering William Wilder
Gundy, becoming executive vice president/EVP in 1961 at the age of 38, and six years later president and chief executive. Under his leadership, the firm played a dominant role in financing Canada’s big energy companies and their projects.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Multimedia Simulation Provides Real-World Reality Check
four of these teams are then aggregated into an industry. Team members study data and collaborate on beer design, pricing, and packaging, as well as on decisions concerning manufacturing and marketing. After each round, reports are View Details