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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Class Day & Commencement
administration. Devoting the bulk of his remarks to the subject of leadership, Whitehead observed that different problems require different leadership styles. When things are going well — “when the wind is at your back” — a thoughtful,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Coach “Chuck” Jukes Convention
’Tis the season for bowl games and playoffs! If you’re stuck at midfield on your shopping list with the clock winding down, The Complete Handbook of Coaching Wide Receivers would make a great Hail Mary holiday gift. The treatise’s author... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Wiviott. “We’re the first scalable version of this model. Because it’s bigtime American agriculture, we can do a series of these $100 million funds. Each fund is the equivalent carbon offset as if we had built an $86 million wind farm.”... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
market, up from $40 million in 1993 when the bearing was first introduced. The company is also focusing on new outlets for its products, having just developed an integrated flex pin bearing for the nascent wind energy market. This... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
check the masthead wind vane. With the muscle fatigue of three months at sea, this last phase was the hardest for me. But you must stay disciplined: study the weather data, make the sail changes, write for the schools, grind the winches.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
- 18 May 2023
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Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
planning to wind down the program, as the last of the "Can-Do kids" entered their mid-twenties, but scholarship recipients convinced her otherwise. Now, with their assistance to raise money and recruit volunteers, she's hoping to launch... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
be big enough to support a company, and then you see where you can grow from there." After graduation, Dawe worked as a project manager in Maine for Horizon Wind Energy, led by fellow HBS grad Michael Skelly (MBA 1991), for just over a... View Details
- 10 Oct 2024
- News
Cultivating Can-Do Attitudes
to include a mentoring component, at the request of the students themselves. As the 20th anniversary of Can Do approached in 2022, Wilfong was planning to wind down the program, but the scholarship recipients again shaped the program’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
since people preferred Amazon’s free two-day shipping. Occasionally, scammers would return cheaper, used boots in Ranch Road boxes for a full refund, and Ford was anxious that an unwitting customer would wind up with the wrong product and... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
we had built an $86 million wind farm.” Going Green Wiviott has been focused on helping the environment for a long time. He received his undergraduate degree in environmental studies from Dartmouth and then founded an environmental... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
charities. The federal government contributed as well. SVA offered 12 percent return. Wind the clock forward eight years, and we met and exceeded our targets. We repaid the debt two years before expected, and there’s better quality early... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
that seeming progress, the nonpartisan, nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) notes that wind and solar still only accounted for 2.9 percent and 0.7 percent, respectively, of total global power generation in 2014. How can we hasten the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
consistent electricity. The sun doesn’t shine all the time, and the wind doesn’t blow all the time, so that may mean a new life for nuclear.” —Professor Richard Vietor Return to Year in Review 2017 View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
returning four days later. He didn’t reach Katahdin—his diary offers no explanation for the change of plans—but he would forever view the trip as his “emancipation.” Moore thrived on the freedom. A few years later, while attending Williams College, he set off to canoe... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Long-Term Investor: Dick Jenrette
to time." The seeds of Jenrette's passion for historic houses were planted as he grew up in Raleigh during the Depression. In his book, Jenrette recalls seeing the movie Gone with the Wind in 1939, when he was 10: "It came at a time when... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Leaning In to Gender Equity
and let opportunities for advancement pass them by—at least compared to their male peers. These observations are the real surprise thread winding through Lean In, and they have landed her in hot water with critics who prefer to pin most... View Details
- 14 Jul 2010
- News
The Concerts in the Chapel
17th-century Baroque composer Henry Purcell to 20th-century figures like Olivier Messaien (Quartet for the End of Time) and two Boston-area composers, John Harbison and Daniel Pinkham. who wrote a concerto for organ and winds with the... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
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Beyond the Plastisphere
products such as food containers and shopping bags that could be made with recycled plastic rather than virgin resin, helping to divert more plastic that might otherwise wind up in the ocean. Goodwin says they are currently working with a... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities
purely economic perspective—turning off the carbon-based energy production and building wind farms and solar farms can save people money,” he explains. But he saw that, in many of those places, the transition wasn’t happening. Often,... View Details