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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center
special student advisory committee, call for a building that will serve both academic and practical functions. Sited across the lawn behind Aldrich Hall (see rendering), the new structure will extend into a small portion of the parking... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 30 Apr 2020
- Book
Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism
Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details
- January 2023 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Cobalt Robotics: Scaling Workplace Robotics
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Nicole Tempest Keller and Kyung Keun Park
Founded in 2016, Cobalt Robotics, based in Fremont, California, was a Robot-as-a-Service (RaaS) company that built autonomous workplace robots that were designed to replace or supplement human security guards. Outfitted with over 60 sensors, Cobalt robots patrolled... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Invention; Marketing Strategy; Marketing Channels; Customers; Technology Industry; United States; California
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Nicole Tempest Keller, and Kyung Keun Park. "Cobalt Robotics: Scaling Workplace Robotics." Harvard Business School Case 823-096, January 2023. (Revised April 2023.)
- 25 May 2011
- HBS Case
QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off
clean bathrooms and parking lots, along with quick, friendly service. The result? In 2010, its by-store profit was almost double that of the top quartile of competitors. Since its founding in 1958 by Chester Cadieux and Burt B. Holmes,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
Angulo (MBA 1983); John Kemp (MBA 1981); Fred Mann (MBA 1983); Ravenell “Ricky” Keller (MBA 1989); and Richard Zayas (MBA 1996). These are only the ones about whom we know. I found out about Ric Angulo when I went to Central View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
The COVID-19 pandemic has profoundly influenced the lives of most people on the planet. It has changed daily activities; something as simple as a walk in the park is perceived very differently now. The same is true for businesses. Many... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- July 2023 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
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
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Joyce J. Kim. "The Miccosukee Tribe and the Battle to Save the Everglades: A Miami Climate Action Story." Harvard Business School Case 324-002, July 2023. (Revised November 2023.)
- 30 May 2023
- News
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
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
addressing this critical issue and is quite simply broken. HBS’s own Professor Rebecca Henderson has emphasized this fact and underscored the conclusion that “business is central to finding a solution.” A parallel may be drawn to the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2018
- News
For the Greater Good
Applied Science—I think that will have a huge difference in the world. “I also supported Central Park in New York. That is the heart and soul of New York City. It's an 873-acre View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Passion Projects
research its making with coauthor Stephen Archer. The resulting Aston Martin DB4GT—itself a collector’s item with only 402 published—is both history and ode to the storied car. Exploring Central Park When... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Web
Campus Vehicular Access | About
Parking Attendant and walking their package to its destination or delivering to Central Receiving. Other arrangements for campus access must be made with Operations/Security personnel in advance. Exceptions... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Artist Christo Visits HBS
To illustrate entrepreneurship from a different angle, HBS professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon and research associate Ann Leamon wrote a case about Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-wife team known for their massive, self-funded outdoor art projects. (Their... View Details
- 25 Mar 2015
- News
The Greening of Houston
Course. The park is central to the city and to Thacker and his family. He lives across the street from it and it borders Rice University, where his wife Allison (MBA 2000) is chief investment officer. “The... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Sustaining a commitment to the environment
Pound Ridge, New York, Zofnass and his family established a 250-acre nature preserve (with a 10-mile walking trail). In addition, he created a two-mile "tree identification" trail (the East Side Zofnass Walk) in New York City's Central... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Utopian Vision
(The New Yorker, March 20, 2006). At the moment, his would-be utopia is an undeveloped 2,200-acre tract — nearly three times the size of Central Park — acquired for $50 million. Aiming for a highbrow... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
pricing scheme, bond markets will be central to financing climate change and other environmental interventions. So-called green bonds appeal to investors who are looking for a safe place to park their money,... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
Reacting to a spate of nations adopting negative interest rates—essentially charging depositors for parking their money—World Bank Vice President and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) told Bloomberg News that the policy could weaken banks.... View Details