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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
The Road Taken: One Family's Worldly Adventure
Simon cautions, "First, recognize that this is a family trip, not just a trip for you and your spouse. It has to be oriented toward everyone. If you plan to have a great time with your kids, then it will work." The family slept in tents, hotels, lodges, and palaces.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
guests. “There is great pressure in this job,” says Djelic. “There are so many needs and so little money. Letting off steam is important for me and my colleagues.” The go-go pace of his work life can serve a useful political purpose,... View Details
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
A final explanation is intriguing. It states that new inventions, even manifestly useful ones such as computers, require some "percolation" time before they are productively employed. Studies of the history of steam and electric... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Tipping Point
Illustration by Erin Robinson At one end of the global coffee supply chain are the diners who gather for brunch at the sidewalk tables outside Chloe’s Cafe in San Francisco’s Noe Valley neighborhood. Regulars there order the fluffy banana-walnut pancakes and View Details
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Key Metrics | Annual Report 2024
increases GHG emissions). Harvard University calculates its GHG emissions factor, but there is a delay in getting current grid data to feed into that calculation. Energy includes steam and electricity from Harvard’s Blackstone View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Ian Walsh
helicopter. He was on the firing line in Marine operations in Somalia and Haiti, but it was in Eastern Europe that he was put to his greatest test. At 4:30 a.m. on June 8, 1995, Walsh, by then a captain, was the lead pilot as four helicopters lifted off the deck of the... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
will be held July 13Ð25, 1997. "It's an incredibly exciting time for the MIS Interest Group," says Nolan. "New technologies create new opportunities to capture economic value, and information technologies are the most robust technologies since the advent of the View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- Fast Answer
Turnarounds and Transformation
href="https://www.forbes.com/sites/qai/2023/02/01/peloton-turnaround-gains-some-steam-despite-eighth-straight-quarterly-loss/?sh=2d355a232283" style="color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline">Peloton Turnaround Gains Some Steam Despite... View Details
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
and lift the waste into the incinerator. The two incinerators can process up to 42 tons per hour at temperatures as high as 1,100°C (2000°F). The exhaust stream reaches twin boilers which produce high pressure steam. The steam powers a... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
level of rescuing. THE GROUCHO CRITERION “Remember when the Marx Brothers were burning the train to keep it going?” says Steinwender, referring to the notorious scene in Go West where Harpo and the gang chop up the train mid-motion so that Groucho can feed the View Details
- 08 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model
and infrastructure to launch new product lines or businesses, or enter new markets. Industrial Age business innovation's favored producers. The innovations included: Physical or analog production and distribution technologies (machines, railroads, View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 08 Jan 2014
- What Do You Think?
Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?
social inequality." Romuald Kepa added: "The invention of the steam engine and resulting shifts in the society are great providers of insight… Luckily, (the) world did not collapse " Others were not so sure that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance. The trend of mandatory sustainability reporting picked up steam as consumers, investors, and civil society in general increasingly demonstrated that they value the social... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
years ago, as being as important as the first machine age they attribute to the development of steam power. These are ideas that can expand the potential for growth, if not for jobs and greater economic equality. But on the other hand,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
high-throughput genome engineering capabilities[v] that enable dramatically faster genetic innovation. Coupled with the discovery of extremely fast-growing photosynthetic microalgae and racing against a worsening climate outlook, we’re full View Details
- 04 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: JESSE LOU (MBA 2022) – WORKING TO CHANGE THE FOOD SYSTEM
high-throughput genome engineering capabilities[v] that enable dramatically faster genetic innovation. Coupled with the discovery of extremely fast-growing photosynthetic microalgae and racing against a worsening climate outlook, we’re full View Details
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System
high-throughput genome engineering capabilities[v] that enable dramatically faster genetic innovation. Coupled with the discovery of extremely fast-growing photosynthetic microalgae and racing against a worsening climate outlook, we’re full View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
posted a slide show of pictures, and several of them were of me working a steam drill," Mukunda says. "I was buried under so much gear that, as I discovered weeks later, the students had no idea that was me." While Mukunda... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
cystic fibrosis. “He taught Joey how to shoot his first spitball,” O’Donnell continues. “And every Christmas Eve, he and Natty would show up, and John would have some ungodly-sized Christmas present for Joey. “Invariably, the assembly time was brutal. And one time he... View Details