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- 12 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?
August, Starbucks Wi-Fi traffic has jumped 450 percent, Hostin said, with most usage in the afternoon and evening. Another benefit: Wi-Fi users stay in the store longer than the non-connected customer, although some people sit in their... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
weak." A conference attendee from Seattle noted that bus fares in his city are higher during rush hour than at any other time—which, he said, only discourages him from taking the bus to work. Another panelist noted that while public trains are important to any... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Web
Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care
Faculty & Research Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator About the Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator From 2015–2020, the Harvard Business School Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator (KPMA) worked to create business solutions which would... View Details
- Portrait Project
Tomiwa Igun
power-consulting agency in Nigeria to provide consistent, affordable electricity solutions and advise policy makers to develop sustainable energy policies around West Africa. I will live my life fighting the darkness while pushing against... View Details
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
showcase best practices in the topic, to be distributed among all participating agents. Our objective is to disseminate knowledge and facilitate implementation of the most efficient solutions for... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
governments to fund, design, and accomplish new cities all over the world that are economically competitive, that use water and energy effectively, and which are healthy for their citizens." With the support of REAI's recently launched... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Paying It Forward
year,” he recalls. “I made a note of it, and then came back to it in my second year. I led a field study on the problem with Professor Walter Salmon.” Kundu discovered that every retail company faced the problem of inventory loss but that, owing to the thin margins on... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 18 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry
SAVP of Sustainability? This is a fairly new role, but this all started from the notion that sustainability is important not just for us to advocate on the outside, but also practice on campus. When I talked about this role with the Chief... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
of any or all make sense. Here is my perspective on the many ways available to get professional help. Adviser Most business advisers are domain experts or experienced operators in a particular area such as product, marketing, sales, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
members Joseph Fuller and Debora Spar, and alumni John Alford (MBA 2001), Stacey Childress (MBA 2000), and Ashish Dhawan (MBA 1997) have identified important ways business leaders can use their insights and resources to help solve these problems. Key among the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
You’re an Old Fuelie
For his first year at HBS, Jan Hyde (MBA ’66) arrived in style, driving all the way from San Francisco to Soldiers Field behind the wheel of a silver-and-white 1960 Chevrolet Corvette, a fuel-injected model known to aficionados as a... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Facebook’s Future
are already encouraging us to share private information automatically. For example, if you are using Google Maps on your iPhone, you are most likely sending information to Google about your location and speed—data the company aggregates to present us with up-to-date... View Details
Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski
- 28 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
It Takes a Village: Global Field Courses at Harvard Business School
may be dizzying for anyone, but for Mitkevicius it’s all part of the job. Mitkevicius is part of the Harvard Business School team that organizes and oversees field courses for MBA students: the MBA Program Global Experience Office, or... View Details
- 05 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship
(MBA 2023), Heung Kim Faced with a problem all surgeons have struggled with for decades—the buildup of fluid (blood) that prevents effective and safe tissue dissection—the ClearCut Surgical team prototyped a simple View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
philosopher, social activist, seer, loving daughter of immigrants from Belize – Kameale Terry redefines the role of a CEO or co-founder. Her success is undeniable. In May of 2021, she formally launched ChargerHelp!, a technology-enabled View Details
- Profile
Sekou Calliste
conviction. "I found HBS alums from Trinidad and contacted them – they all had leadership positions and were doing phenomenal things!" But taking the lead, Sekou has discovered at HBS, "is rarely a black-and-white issue.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
that was confronting some problems. Early in the discussion, Marty asked one of the more vociferous members of the class what he thought of how the CEO was handling the problems. This classmate immediately tore into the actions of the CEO, listed View Details
- 16 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future
venture firm called The Engine. During my second internship at The Engine, I discovered cell-cultured meat. I was immediately captivated by the potential of growing meat without animals! It felt like a revolutionary solution to multiple... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that highlights their reflections on... View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
common questions about the potential positive and negative impacts of AI, from how it will improve business to how it might affect humanity in general. “Everybody is up in arms about how AI—particularly generative AI—is going to do everything from ruining education to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley