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- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
from where it is grown to the tables where it is consumed. The global population is rising, with the United Nations projecting it to swell to 9.7 billion from its current 7.7 billion by 2050. “We also have to solve the calorie deficiency... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
says. “We would be in Mrs. Bradley’s library with the card tables set up, and the phone would ring. We’d pick up and say, ‘Research Counsel of Washington, may I help you?’ The absurdity of the situation is inescapable, right? But you have to View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
goes to education—about $800 million. Business people are also allocating a lot of private philanthropy money. JOSEPH FULLER Professor of Management Practice and Co-chair of HBS’s Managing the Future of Work project The funding mechanisms... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
almost implies a consumer Internet bubble, with a number of me-too projects that will continue to get funded. We simply do not ever want to be chasing hot sectors. As we think about Internet opportunities, Web 2.0 would no longer... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
Photos courtesy of Regan Turner Regan Turner (MBA/MPP 2013) is executive director of The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that “deploys” military veterans to community-impact projects to help them find purpose and to serve as role... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
professions, organizations, and industries. Extreme Teaming provides new insights into the world of complex, cross industry projects and the ways they must be managed. The authors analyze contemporary cases that expose the complex demands... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
successful model that way,” he says. Set a low bar and you’ll end up with mediocre projects. “And it’s never going to scale, and it’s never going to create an industry, so it’s always going to stay as a cute little project that is just... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
players to the table, none driven by purely economic rationale, says Lee Sandwen (MBA ’77, JD ’78), the former head of real estate for Fidelity Management & Research Company in Boston who now handles special projects for Fidelity. Real... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
useful when jobs of the future are still being invented? Will jobs even exist or are we moving to a world of projects and gig work? How do you make sense of all this and more? In What the Heck Do I Do With My Life? Ravi Venkatesan makes... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
agencies focused on development projects and private-sector growth in emerging economies often seen as too risky for most investors. But this new assignment was something else entirely. “I have a phenomenal job and I’m living in a safe... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Before he attended HBS, Katzir worked on a pro bono education project at Bain & Co. "I found it fascinating that the business skills I was learning at Bain were so applicable to public education," he recalls. "I wanted to come to HBS to... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
billions of dollars every year on nuclear weapons they are hoping to never use, so what about spending a couple of billion dollars to build plants, teams, and scientific work and projects to equip ourselves so this never happens again?”... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
designed to descend a maximum of 1,000 meters. Could the company build a vehicle capable of diving more than 10 times deeper, Vescovo asked. “That’s something I had wanted to do for many years,” says Lahey. “But without someone who’s going to finance a View Details
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
items that you circle that you think, hmm. I could have won myself back 30 minutes here or 30 minutes there. And more importantly as you go, you’ll see some themes. Maybe you tend to be a little bit of a perfectionist. You’re always kind of hovering on View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
Charlotte and I were married and John was an assistant professor working on a research project in France, we received a wedding present from him and his wife, Natty. As dean, he frequently sent out personal notes of thanks or... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
Professor of Business Administration and Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair of Harvard Innovation Labs Currency Why do startups fail? That question caught Tom Eisenmann by surprise when he realized he couldn’t answer it. So he launched a multiyear research View Details