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John Bracaglia

A 2+2 HBS admit, John Bracaglia spent the employment portion of his program working on projects that involved elements of machine learning, collaborating with some of the world's leading technology pioneers, including Google, on... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy; Tech; CPG

01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

producing 10,000 barrels of algae biofuel a day by 2025. According to Enriquez, who directed HBS’s Life Sciences Project prior to his current role as managing director of Excel... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

14 May 2020
Blog Post

A PRIDE Farewell

Transgender and Gender Non-Conforming students, faculty, and staff. In partnership with HBS Operations, advised on a project to re-designate single use restrooms across campus as ‘All Gender’ (the first of which is updated in the student... View Details

February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
Supplement

The Big Easy, Not So Easy: The Letter

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas and Ben Creo

A short, supplemental case to "The Big Easy, Not So Easy" (208-068). Doris Koo must respond to new challenges at Lafitte in New Orleans. View Details

Keywords: Natural Disasters; Housing; Projects; Risk Management; Urban Development; Reputation; New Orleans

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24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2000
News

Managing the Map

direction is largely determined by the needs of its scientists and by the direction of the life sciences themselves. "Management's role therefore tends to be more of a resource provider," he says. Even so,... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Dec 2013
News

To Market, to Market

Life Science Entrepreneurship Program, which connects recent HBS alumni with Accelerator projects, and is directed by HBS Professor of Management Practice Vicki Sato. Blavatnik Fellows receive a one-year... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

Career Coach

Rebecca Emerick

and building and managing relationships with MBA and alumni recruiting partners. Rebecca has spent most of her professional career at Harvard University in a variety of management roles at the Harvard Kennedy School (Belfer Center for View Details

Keywords: Consulting

05 May 2016
Blog Post

Being a Student Mom at HBS

the topic of motherhood into my studies. My classmate Carina Rutgers and I had the opportunity to turn this into an independent project on motherhood at HBS that was supervised by Professor Frances X. Frei. The View Details

30 Nov 2017
News

SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

The beam going up (photos by Ashley Garrett, MBA 1987) The Harvard community marked a major milestone on Wednesday as members gathered along Western Avenue in Allston to celebrate the “topping-off” of the new Science and Engineering... View Details

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Terrance McGuire

the onerous regulatory processes to the marketplace. The ability to pivot, he suggested, is far easier on the technology side. “If it doesn’t work, kill it, move on to the next idea,” he said. “On the life View Details

21 Dec 2021
Blog Post

Three Appointed to Endowed Professorships

investment — examining how firms compete in foreign markets and how government policies shape and constrain their options. Having spent several years examining information-based industries, such as media and entertainment, her latest research View Details

Keywords: fellowships; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

April 2003
Background Note

Sunk Costs: The Plan to Dump the Brent Spar (E)

This case summarizes the technical evaluation methodology Shell employed to evaluate the alternative proposals submitted to its engineering competition for disposing of the Brent Spar. It also details the results of the evaluation process. View Details

Keywords: Natural Environment; Business and Community Relations; Projects; Energy Sources; Energy Industry

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11 Sep 2017
Blog Post

7 Lessons from My Time at HBS

initially certain my way of thinking was the right one. Yet at the end of the project, I realized often that a specific point I had not understood led the project to new directions and ways of thinking. Post-MBA I will seek out diverse... 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

Keywords: Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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Litsa Kapsalis | MBA

Litsa Kapsalis Bioengineering (AB/SM) Pforzheimer 2024 Cohort 6 The rapid development of revolutionary breakthroughs in the translational life sciences and biotechnology promise to transform healthcare... View Details

Eric Boutin

Longwood Fund, a life sciences venture capital fund, where he led early-stage biotech deals and founded Flex Pharma, a neuromuscular sports performance company, which went on to IPO (NASDAQ: FLKS). Eric... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

02 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-Testing by Sabbaticals

involve at least one additional stakeholder—but there’s a few years of life and many questions to accumulate before deciding. The Sabbatical Project Blog Series This article is part of a series on... View Details

19 Sep 2019
News

Predicting Human Behaviors

partner, Honda) began in August 2014, when Misra started his year as a Blavatnik Fellow in Life Science Entrepreneurship, a program launched in 2013 at HBS. Among the numerous scientists Misra met with in... View Details

Keywords: April White

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