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Podcast - Business & Environment
interested in this field. Read the Transcript Previous Episodes Using AI and Satellite Data to Transform Agriculture: A Conversation with Alyssa Whitcraft 18 DEC 2024 | Climate Rising Dr. Alyssa Whitcraft is a professor at University of... View Details
Fiscal Development Under Sovereign and Colonial Rule
Dominant theories of state formation and nation-building lean heavily on the classic European tale of the simultaneous development of a ‘fiscal state’ and a ‘nation state’. However, this Euro-centered narrative does not factor in that more than two-thirds of the... View Details
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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
2007) Fellowship The Joseph P. Landon Fellowship was established with a gift from Joseph Landon (MBA 2007) in honor of his 10th Reunion. Landon, who has a lifelong passion for space exploration and studying engineering, began his career designing View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
1 percent of GDP on R&D, a ratio that has, in fact, been declining over time. In contrast, the US allocates 2.5 percent of GDP to R&D.” Gazette: How is that? Khanna: With SpaceX, Musk has been experimenting with launching View Details
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Geography of Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
exceeding complex patients. Not every hospital needs a heart transplant program, or even cardiac surgery, yet that is what has happened in US health care expansion today. Rational geographic expansion should occur through a hub-and-spoke model of View Details
- 30 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
office. Wu suspects some companies may even open satellite offices in an effort to shorten workers’ commutes. Wu doesn’t have a long commute himself; he lives in Cambridge, close enough to either walk or ride an electric scooter to HBS.... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Profiles - MBA
can find ways to apply engineering towards effective and innovative solutions that benefit our society. I would like to build the knowledge and expertise within fields intersecting robotics, aerospace, and autonomous systems to reach my eventual goals of building my... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
One of four daughters of Pakistani immigrants, Salma Qarnain (MBA 2002) grew up in the midwestern “I” states of Iowa, Illinois, and Indiana before attending Stanford University. “It was my first experience feeling happy and comfortable in a place that had diversity,”... View Details
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980
followed by a phenomenal increase in air traffic. The development of telex was a considerable advance over telephones in facilitating international communications and coordinating multinational business. In 1965 the first satellite for... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
Technology Mike is the CEO of Apollo Fusion, a startup that designs satellite propulsion systems and hybrid fusion power plants. At Google he was a Vice President, and he was the Project Leader of Project Loon. Mike was the CEO and... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
Favorite We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to satellite data through a software-enabled optical communications module and data transfer service, connecting individual satellites in any orbit to a... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
SOSV SOSV is an early-stage, deep-tech venture capital firm that is one of the most active firms in the world in climate tech investment. Brandon's role prior to HBS was a Founding engineer of Wafer, a satellite communications startup.... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Machine Learning and Behavioral Economics
policy to work on a side interest, a machine learning tool to help small businesses identify promising business opportunities. “Google has useful information on foot-traffic patterns, plus satellite imagery and other data that can help... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
first star men and women. Better yet, companies such as SpaceX and Orbital ATK (now a division of Northrup Grumman) have actually proven their launch vehicles by delivering satellites or payloads to extraterrestrial destinations. The... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association
attracted to the military and what it represents – discipline, camaraderie, and service over self. The tragedy of September 11, 2001 also motivated me to join the military. My interest in aviation led me to the U.S. Air Force, where I had the opportunity to launch... View Details
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Harvard Business School
company's satellite strategy. In 1984, Jones formed Corporate Organizational Dynamics, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in organizational effectiveness. Claudine B. Malone MBA 1972 Claudine B. Malone serves as CEO of Financial and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Eyes in the Skies
Image courtesy BlackSky There was a time not too long ago, says Amy Minnick (MBA 2000), when only governments and the military had the hardware and human resources necessary to acquire and interpret satellite imagery. But times have... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
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Teams | New Venture Competition
produce life-saving biologics more efficiently, in order to deliver cheaper drugs to patients worldwide. BEAM Nathan Dass (MBA 2025) Sara Ballantyne (MBA 2025) Business Track Crowd Favorite We provide continuous, high-bandwidth access to View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
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Maiden Voyage
have launch capability, with some also doing a brisk business putting satellites into orbit for other nations. (India, for example, has launched more than 40 satellites into orbit for 19 client countries.)... View Details