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- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
Kenny (MBA 2019), the director of strategy and projects at Carbon Capture Inc. She's describing the technology at the heart of the young company's ambitious decarbonization efforts. MORE Hear all three episodes of this series Skydeck... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
at around $450 for months). I don’t expect volatility to go away anytime soon, as it is still highly speculative, highly concentrated and doesn’t have enough liquidity yet. Most people think gold and silver have always been extremely stable; but looking back between... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Exploring Cleantech at HBS
1.3 billion people around the world lack access to energy, and for everyone else, most of their energy comes from sources that are often unreliable, expensive, and detrimental to the environment. I had worked on sustainable transportation... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
Funding: Bridging the "Valley of Death." The case discusses the Department of Energy's attempt to bolster the green economy by investing more than $32 billion in clean-energy efforts, including $16.8 million for to energy... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
We are in a unique moment in time, where the United States’ chance to make a difference on climate is greater – and more necessary – than ever. With the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) in August, business leaders have a nearly $370 View Details
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo
and address her doubts about the law. A chance to work on a technology-based project triggered two results: she became intrigued with technology and realized that business, not law, was her calling. Marcelo decided to pursue a joint... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
middlemen and defaulted on their loans. The risk of such events may explain, at least partly, why many seemingly more profitable export crops are not adopted. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-065.pdf Catering through Nominal Share View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat to the Windows franchise posed by Sony expanding the original PlayStation into a broad entertainment platform with the PlayStation 2. Seamus... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
unlikely to suffice. Many voters are now looking not just for problem-solving skills but for specific policy solutions that hold up under scrutiny.Third, Trump is under-leveraging Twitter. Though he feeds his followers a continuing diet of controversial tweets that... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion annually in View Details
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Scott Wu
little bit of help could make a big difference, and everybody just needs a chance.” Wu got his start in international aid work early. After getting his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth, he worked on development projects in Tanzania and... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
with the exception of the very large ones like the United States, will represent the interests of a handful of other countries. In 2008, the IBRD and the IDA committed nearly $25 billion in loans and grants through some 300 development... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?
Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
delivery business in a number of countries, including the UK, France, Italy, Brazil, and Canada. It went public in 2014, became a FTSE-100 company in 2017, and is currently worth $5 billion. That’s the price of an incorrect answer to... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both companies at a breathtaking pace.... View Details
- 27 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 27
outcomes while controlling for the endogenous matching of projects and organizational forms. Solo firm leases are less profitable than alliance leases because alliance members combine their information and expertise. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
latent or explicit. It involves branding these products and services, communicating their benefits to intermediaries and end consumers, and distributing them. All of these activities involve value creation. In return, producers extract value through the View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808104 Partners in Health: The PACT Project Harvard Business School Case 608-065 Partners in Health (PIH) is a Boston-based, not-for-profit that provides health care to people... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
University, embarked on a research project analyzing the future impact of "high Federal taxes on the formation and growth of new enterprises in the postwar period." 89 Butters and Lintner's series of studies, which included the Polaroid... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
down from the semicircular banks of seats in Aldrich 9. Price tags (retailers wouldn't have to re-mark them for discounted sales). Billboards. Sheet music (self-turning scores). Eyeglasses with news headlines View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg