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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
In a spontaneous act of friendship, Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA '71) recently made a generous gift to the School in the name of his longtime friend and HBS classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA '71). To give special recognition to the gift... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Beans, and Mandan Squash—the “Three Sisters” of Native American lore that thrive when planted together—Sacred Seed is modeling a different approach based on agricultural practices that are thousands of years old. Cornstalks provide a... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
model could have implications well beyond the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun. “What Nadine is doing is essential for the future of Baltimore—and for the future of all of our cities,” Abdelal says. The stop-work order that has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Every Trick in the Book
bookstore; small, privately owned shops were the predominant model for bookselling throughout the United States in the early 1970s. That was the original model for Borders, which also opened in 1971 with a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Apr 2023
- News
Leading the Way
finance, but lacked role models to show him the way. That's when he joined ASU's Hispanic Students Business Association and met a local investment banker and entrepreneur named Gary Trujillo (MBA 1990), who became a life-changing mentor.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
marketplace differently. Monotype got its name from the Lanston Monotype Machine Company, a printing machine manufacturer and type foundry in Philadelphia, established in 1887. Today, in addition to the thousands of fonts and trademarks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Internet's Next Frontier
business leaders navigate this rapidly evolving next frontier of the internet, build new ventures in it, and adapt existing business models so that companies and organizations can take advantage of opportunities that are emerging because... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
(PhDOB 2019) has studied the issues facing local papers from multiple angles. Now, as cofounder and CEO of the National Trust for Local News, she has developed a first-of-its-kind model to preserve local news as a public good. The premise... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
expected to grow. Those combined forces present an existential challenge—and a megalopolis-sized opportunity—for entrepreneurs. “As population growth and weather-related pressures increase, the necessity of using our existing resources more efficiently will make the... View Details
Keywords: Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by; energy; environment; sustainability; entrepreneurship; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
puts Brazil squarely on the stage as a global player, thanks to André's commitment." In addition to the Esteves gift, fellow Brazilian businessman and philanthropist Jorge Paulo Lemann, a 1961 graduate of Harvard College, made a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
oversubscribed by 30 times, generating $100 million. Significantly, a cultural shift occurred after the 2011 revolution when, suddenly, anything seemed possible. Amal Enan (MBA 2014) witnessed these transformations firsthand, from roles... View Details
- 12 Oct 2017
- News
Fighting Poverty One Neighborhood at a Time
local business, civic, community, and nonprofit leaders—in different cities across the country. The group is also in contact with representatives from 30 additional communities that are in the earlier stages of thinking about... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
High Fives
for a multitude of sins.” Investment outlook over the next five years: “I'm generally bullish.” Views on investing in emerging markets: “We're conservative at Berkshire. We've made major commitments in New Zealand, Great Britain, and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an extraordinary demand for the handful of available places each... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Institute at Harvard. In addition to teaching, Serafeim conducts research focusing on the intersection between the sustainability transformation and the digital and AI transformation, concentrating on the use of View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
model for delivering electricity to off-grid populations in the world. “There are 1.2 billion people who have no access to electricity,” Jaegle says. “Millions cannot afford grid power or rely on it; elementa uses proven technology in a... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
cofounders saw an opportunity to create a new kind of energy company—a hybrid of a traditional utility and a financial entity. Guzman Energy, a subsidiary of Guzman & Company, would not be weighed down by the same legacy investments in carbon-based power View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective
Microsoft and Cisco, Nolan said the mature business model of a hierarchical organizational structure with a "make-and-sell" strategy can't be adapted to the virtual, information-enabled world of dot-coms. There, the real-time speed,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
choices between safety and affordability, all of us involved in policy cannot rest,” he told an audience of some two hundred participants gathered in Spangler Auditorium. Massachusetts Attorney General Thomas F. Reilly took an opposing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Gregg Petersmeyer
understanding of the importance of helping one another.” After graduating from HBS with his wife and classmate, Fitzie, Petersmeyer was working for General Atlantic Energy in Denver when tragedy struck in 1985. Fitzie succumbed to cancer,... View Details