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- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Innovation: The Fish-Farming Fix
team of four experts in fields such as biochemistry, molecular biology, and electrical engineering from Harvard, MIT, and the University of Massachusetts. Just three years into developing a proprietary freezing process, they’ve already made a serious splash in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
business model that in many respects mirrors Go-Jek’s, down to the green helmets and jackets that its drivers wear. In a city short on a transportation infrastructure, the companies are also competing as... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Negotiating with Wal-Mart
For example, Frey Farms used school buses ($1,500 each) instead of tractors ($12,000 each) as a cheaper and faster way to transport melons to the warehouse. Talley also negotiated a coveted co-management supplier agreement with Wal-Mart,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
Courtesy Argos Pictures; iStock “Because Congress failed to make funds available for these loans, the plan I’m announcing today will be drawn from the financial rescue package Congress approved earlier this fall. The terms of the loans will require auto View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Buy the Book
television, and sports.” Deighton examines three classic ages of marketing by contrasting the strategies of the publishing industry, James Patterson, and book clubs. In 19th-century agricultural marketing, farmers transported their crops... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Rolling Thunder
1901 — two years before Harley-Davidson — Indian held nearly half of U.S. market share for the next fifty years before falling on hard times and filing for bankruptcy. The brand retains a cultlike following of enthusiasts even after a second attempt to restart the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
carbon offsets to account for the energy used in transportation and logistics. “Our diamonds are carbon negative, but as a company we’re currently carbon-neutral,” Hagemann explains. He’s not content with... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Stress Test
what we do,” says Andrew Kelley, III (MBA 2002), the chief commercial officer for BoxLock. He’s spent a lot of time thinking about what it means to do things right in the midst of a pandemic. Atlanta-based BoxLock began as a B2C company... View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
that the plant will be the first of many built by Sykué (“See-kway”) Bioenergia, as the new company is known. Recognizing the resources that will require, Sykué is negotiating a partnership with a larger energy player to realize those... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
gas, and those are natural vessels for us to put the CO2 back into the ground. DM: But that doesn't have to be the carbon's final destination. JM: I'm a big fan of CO2 as a building block to actually make things. And I've been involved with a number of View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
understood word and a catalyst for life. The bars, which are produced in North England, will be transported via Amit Gandhi’s (OPM 54, 2022) company, Atsworld. The bars will be received in Tukey by Billur Barlin (OPM 58, 2022) and her... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Can’t Forget the Motor City
many admirers is distressed-assets financier Wilbur Ross (MBA ’61), who got to know Bloom from across the bargaining table when Ross was trying to buy up steel companies that Bloom represented. Observed Ross, “He’s very, very pragmatic,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- News
A Community Hunger Solution with Global Ambitions
hundred cities. Our Robins would use free Uber rides to help the senior citizens with essentials like groceries and medicines throughout the lockdown.” The partnership with Uber has grown over the past two years, and the company has since... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
microprocessor. “The thought was, If I’m going to get involved, get involved in the company that’s at the heart of that business. Being in that flow was critical,” he recalls. After Intel, McMinn worked at Megatest, Interwest Partners,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
sidebar, next page) also underscores the opportunities for business and investors in a newly climate-conscious world. Efficiency has become a bottom-line imperative and sustainability an organizing principle that companies can use to... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
progress. And ultimately, build companies like Apple and Microsoft and Sun and Seagate and literally, a whole valley was built on that. White: You recently hosted the Blockchain Summit, can you explain what blockchain is and why you think... View Details