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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
across a far-flung network of operations, and motivating everyone with a clear understanding of the new company’s mission. Add to those formidable tasks the steep learning curve Parker faced by moving from the service-based rigors of insurance to the product-driven... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
40 percent of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of a coastline, putting wave and tidal power conveniently close to “demand loads” (aka customers). The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) estimates... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
beyond the reach of many. Today, the demand for affordable housing exceeds the supply by a record 5.3 million units. READ MORE William Jones: Builder With a Mission Bart Harvey: Opportunity for Others READ MORE William Jones: Builder With... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
there would be demand for a joint degree program with the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences for innovators who aspired to launch and lead technology ventures. We did extensive primary research, including... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
reshored factories, or requiring a certain percentage of demand to be available from US or USMCA sources. Those would admittedly be bold moves, notes Fuller, but it’s the kind of thinking needed to have reshoring make real economic sense:... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine have estimated the world needs an additional 10 billion tons of carbon dioxide removal each year through various mitigation strategies in order to meet that goal. But can we afford... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
citizens; in Afghanistan, the average annual income at the time was about $100. (Current estimates are more like $700.) Roshan, which translates from the Dari and Pashto languages to “light,” was a name chosen by the Afghan people through... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
connected and on task throughout the day. Here, the agenda is less structured. Most villagers survive on sales of handmade rugs and subsistence farming. But there’s also a tension in the village between a communal way of life and external pressures. With an View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
field-based cases, notes, and software models have been created for Entrepreneurial Finance. "I started the course to shed light on how individuals and teams identify opportunities, how they marshall the required resources, including capital, and how they exploit those... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
early pioneer of this proactive approach, also undertaken by Kathy Giusti’s MBA 1985 Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation and John Crowley’s MBA 1997 Amicus Therapeutics.) The MJFF demands accountability and results, brings together... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
store grew, the space became so crowded that at times the copier was rolled out onto the sidewalk and used for self-service customers. Today, some analysts estimate annual revenues from the privately held chain's 850 business services and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Fight Beyond
estimated 90,000 people would die there before the end of the war. Commandant Franz Ziereis, who oversaw the brutality at the camp, supervised the beatings and interrogations of the OSS team personally. He interrupted one to View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
access to some kind of electronic records system, only about half really use them. And backsliding into their old clipboard-and-paper ways of doing things leads to mistakes. For example, an estimated 30 percent of abnormal Pap smear... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
Marketing—and a longtime attendee of the School’s Agribusiness Seminar—has closely tracked the industry’s ascent. He estimates that there’s some $2 billion invested in the space right now, with money flowing in from VCs, sustainable... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
than 100 volunteers from across the US, Europe, and Asia. The nonprofit matches those who need PPE with verified suppliers who can provide vetted products. The demand shock to the supply chain in March left many without any access to... View Details