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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Cathy A. Nichols
Hollywood theme park, home of the highly acclaimed City Walk, Back to the Future, and Jurassic Park attractions. Named chairman and CEO of Universal Studios Recreation Group in June, Nichols is back in Los Angeles on a July afternoon... View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 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 Edward Sibley Barnard (PMD 32,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
and build the capacity to create a second brand that focuses on off-the-rack dress. Many examples are available in fashion and the hospitality industry, such as Banana Republic and Old Navy or Andaz and Hyatt Place hotels. —Cindy Park... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
Street Smarts
The next time you get to work on time or find a parking spot with ease, you may have Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995) to thank. Since 2005, his company, INRIX, has been working to cure one of modern society’s biggest headaches—traffic congestion.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Rent Out Your Ride
CLARK: A bright idea for utilizing untold idle capacity, America’s privately owned autos. It’s estimated that a privately owned midsize car costs about $8,000 a year to own and operate. In cities, it also spends most of its time parked... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Ink: Alumni Books and Recommendations
services. The first really magnificent building was 998 Fifth Avenue, built in the early 1900s. It was known as simply 998. Everybody knew what it was. The same was true of 740 Park Avenue and 834 Fifth Avenue—where Rockefellers did live.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
MacHour, who brought together the original group around the idea of EWB. Goodwin led the effort to turn their concept into reality and the group asked him to take the reins as CEO in 2008. Classmates Subra Iyer and James “Jimmy” Park... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
Names: Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA ’97) Company: Finale Dessert Company (established 1998) Locations: Park Plaza, Boston & Harvard Square, Cambridge Web: www.finaledesserts.com With vision, fortitude, and a whole lot of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
propositions to a new customer base. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Stay with the current target market and own it—don’t be distracted by other rabbits to chase. —Peter Anderson (MBA 1981) According to the California Department of Education,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
their experience, real estate, and logistics. In exchange, you can expand their product offerings and grow their customer segment. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Here are my quick thoughts based on years of emerging and developed market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A Wonderful Whirl
Mounted atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage, two wind turbines — 40-foot towers with 11.5-foot blades — represent Harvard’s biggest wind-energy project to date. Weighing more than 1,000 pounds each, the turbines are expected to supply 5... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
How much is the Grand Canyon worth? What would you pay to prevent developers from building condos on the Cape Cod National Seashore? As difficult as it may seem to answer those questions, Linda Bilmes (MBA 1984) has made it her business to do so in this, the National... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Just Chillin’
Keeping things cool at HBS during the hot summer months is the chilled water plant, a 19,700-square-foot facility located underground near the B-School parking lot. With hundreds of thousands of gallons coursing through miles of pipe, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths; 111 men, 9 women; average age: 45 Enjoys:... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
At Work in the Fields with the Lord
Currently, the migrants are forced to seek shelter in dilapidated, overcrowded mobile-home parks, or to live in parking lots or in the brush, sleeping on flattened cardboard boxes. “These are people who are visible to drive our economy,... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Vertically Inclined
the firm’s current focus on Manhattan’s Hudson Yards district, an area of warehouses, parking lots, and factories that was rezoned for residential development in 2005, the New York Times reported (February 25, 2007). Elghanayan, who is a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Powering Up
cellphones, their real impact may be in the development of electric cars. Drivers could recharge their vehicles overnight by parking them on special mats in their home garages, thus avoiding the often-cited inconvenience of having to plug... View Details
- 16 Oct 2013
- News
Progress Through Preservation
role with the Trust, a national nonprofit that works to conserve land for use as parks and gardens, from the inner city to the wilderness, is to ensure that nature sticks around for quite some time—for his kids and their kids. "Children,"... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Why I’m Donating One Billion Dollars to Save the Planet
Zimbabwe. Wyss writes that he is inspired by the example set by Yellowstone, which was the world’s first national park when it was created in 1872. Since then, 15 percent of the planet’s land and 7 percent of its oceans have been... View Details