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- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
change. JM: Primarily all of my focus for the last 10 or 15 years has been in climate and sustainability and the impact that that technology can have as it scales to meet the size of the problem that we're facing in climate change. DM: In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
I’ll look to take it on.” While Karsenti says he got his “first MBA” by going through the near-failure and ultimate success of his first company, he came to HBS to learn how to manage expectations, expand his perspective to a global view, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
flatware, and glassware. Choosing a pattern was a decision of great importance, since one had to live with that decision for some time. Today, the movement is toward settings that aren’t “matchy-match”; Steuben’s new lines of glassware work together and View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
office products, building products, and paper, had expanded production capacity to meet the strong demand for paper in the late 1980s but bore the brunt when demand began to taper off in 1990. The company — which started up in 1957,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Opening Doors
Priorities Including Financial Aid An easy way for all alumni to support financial aid is through the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation. Annual gifts to the HBS Fund play a critical role in the School’s ability to meet the growing... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Turning Point: Addiction’s Impact
image by Jeffrey Decoster image by Jeffrey Decoster I was blindsided when my daughter told me, “I’m a heroin addict.” It was November 16, 2009, at a meeting with her drug counselor at Boston College. After I uttered a profanity and... View Details
Keywords: Melissa Weiksnar (MBA 1982)
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
We’re going to have to do business in fundamentally different ways. The days of jumping on a plane to go for a two-hour lunch meeting to close a deal? Those days are over. People are discovering that you really can close that deal on... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
Kyung-Ah Park (MBA 1998), managing director and head of Environmental Markets at Goldman Sachs, who will be meeting with members of the investment team at her company. Grant says the gathering “was useful in helping me to develop a... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
build a headquarters in New York.) For Moret, the bigger moment came months later, as the Virginia General Assembly began funding the tech-talent pipeline VEDP had been poised to propose even before the Amazon RFP. “It will certainly help Amazon View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
Noah, Stephen Colbert, George Bush, Bill Clinton. “I have never been anywhere with Chris where half the people in the room did not already know him,” observes Harshman. Given his vast, varied experiences, Howard usually makes connections quickly when he View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Jun 2021
- News
On the Road Less Traveled
friends. And he was at the first meeting and so forth. But my mother and I had a really good time and we took her all over the place, took her to our houses in Nantucket and in Florida. And, and she had a couple great grandchildren, which... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
who is invested in keeping it that way. The book presents a new vision of how health care could work if it were truly designed to meet consumer needs, creating a call to action on how to demand and help create such a system. A wake-up... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Development: The African Renaissance." The conference, to be held in Cape Town in March, will be a two-day intensive seminar on the economics, politics, and investment opportunities of southern Africa. It will also provide a chance to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
considering that the Nasdaq had been in a free fall for almost a year, wiping out billions in venture investments. Wilcox, invited to a partners meeting at a “relatively well-known” venture-capital firm, arrived to find only one partner... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
for long-term grant commitments) encompassed investments in irrigation and roads, community services, and the farmer-training program cited by Bloom. To qualify for funding, MCC partner countries must meet a majority of 20 economic,... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Tech for the People
project to livestream city council meetings on Facebook Live. His collaborations also included a partnership with the cloud file-storage company Box to archive videos of city council meetings, and a registry designed with IBM to monitor... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 04 May 2017
- News
How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
She started sneaking out of the office early, sometimes placing a decoy jacket on her chair, leaving the light on at her desk, or scheduling afternoon meetings in other buildings so her colleagues wouldn’t see her leave. The subterfuge... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
impacts. Seeing an opportunity in the vast amount of waste within the food system, Imperfect Foods began purchasing “number twos” directly from farmers in California’s Central Valley in 2015. Those are the slightly lumpy tomatoes or twisted carrots that don’t View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Case Study: Off to a Fine Art
product/market fit (PMF). On that note, my recommendation would be to continue to test and learn in search of PMF, starting with your sales approach. One way to do this would be to meet with dozens of florists and caterers to see if you... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Case Study: Confidence Builder
differentiate the Confi program—most other prevention programs are designed to meet compliance standards, not foster conversation—but the marketplace is dominated by a few big companies. Schools pay about $1 per student each year for such... View Details