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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
biotech company cofounded by genomics pioneer Craig Venter and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, together with writer and life sciences investor Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986). And it may soon come to fruition: Last March, in the wake of a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
Michael Jensen, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, is an authority on organizational theory, organizational strategy, and finance. He is codirector of The Monitor Company Organizational Strategy... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
2018. The deadline to apply is January 22, 2019. Semi-finalists from around the world will compete in the live finale at the Rock Center on April 23, 2019. Leading up to this year’s event, we checked in with a few past winners to find out where their View Details
- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Natty. The pair grew up in Burnaby, British Columbia, where the proprietor of a local forest products company spotted McArthur’s potential and helped fund his college education. Upon earning his MBA, McArthur entered the DBA program and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
function. One important element will be time-based pricing that stimulates demand when renewables are producing abundant electricity. Additionally, electrification of whole new sectors such as transportation (through electric vehicles) or... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
situation; indeed, they can help to shape it. Up until several months ago, for example, there was no door-to-door transport agreement between Jordan and Israel. This meant that a company wanting to View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
gas, and those are natural vessels for us to put the CO2 back into the ground. DM: But that doesn't have to be the carbon's final destination. JM: I'm a big fan of CO2 as a building block to actually make things. And I've been involved with a number of View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
and remarkably prescient.” Now 89, Alden is again in the PRT—personal rapid transit—business: ”After decades away from PRT, he reunited with a group of other transportation experts to build a new system called Airport Personal Transport,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
former consultants and ex-investment bankers). The company handles projects for startups and enterprise clients alike. It also offers online certificate courses through the Wharton School on the economics of blockchain and business in the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
Continental -- Brier went dot-com in 1998. He cofounded and became president of Priceline Travel, a division of Priceline.com, the e-commerce company that enables its customers to name their own low price for airline tickets, hotel rooms,... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
In an effort to expand the reach of its Asia-Pacific Research Center, HBS has opened a satellite office in Japan. Masako Egawa (MBA '86) has been named executive director of the Japan Research Office in Tokyo. Formerly an executive director in charge of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
fares, “Peanut Fares,” to unfriendly acquisitions—that helped the company survive. “Deregulation bred a very different kind of management. Suddenly, managers could see there were opportunities to be creative.” “In my first appearance in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
long-distance oil and gas pipelines are guided by modern regulations and an infrastructure blueprint,” Skelly explains. “But existing US electric lines were erected by utility companies several decades ago, to connect local customers to... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Getting There
the notion that the mobile phone revolution might help unlock a chronic problem in Southeast Asia: safe and reliable on-demand transportation. They launched Grab in Malaysia in 2012. In its earliest days, the company offered an app to... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
understood word and a catalyst for life. The bars, which are produced in North England, will be transported via Amit Gandhi’s (OPM 54, 2022) company, Atsworld. The bars will be received in Tukey by Billur Barlin (OPM 58, 2022) and her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
completion of his HBS degree marks a final step toward a long-held dream: to return to India and join the TVS Group, an umbrella for 32 holding companies that represents the country’s largest supplier of automotive parts. The $1.5 billion... View Details