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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Lessons from the Tsunami Disaster
villagers to clear debris or move fishing boats from their inland resting places. “We started with 80 workers in one village and ended with more than 4,000 in twenty villages,” he recalls. “This program returned over seventy boats to the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mira Lee
In my lifetime I want to question everything always feel the "first kiss tingles" every time I kiss experience absolute bliss fly fishing in Montana, climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, visiting the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, seeing the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
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Felipe Núñez
Saturday, my mom decides we’ll go for an impromptu day trip somewhere. We drive for a few hours and end up at some beach, I’ll never remember the name. We sit by the water, enjoy the sun, and eat the most delicious fish and chips ever... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A passion for the sea doubles the percent of ocean set aside for conservation
Ocean, the largest reserve of its kind on earth. Bertarelli, among a small group of philanthropists who have chosen to support sustainability, has had a big impact on the environment—increasing the area of marine conservation from 0.5 percent to 1 percent. Within a few... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the two set about the tasks of renting suitable manufacturing space, scrounging defunct factories for affordable machinery, developing recipes, and building a business from the ground up. It was a slow process, marked by sixteen-hour workdays that began on local View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- Portrait Project
Glenn Bean
Most importantly, I will strive to feed others. Whether it's a foolproof tri-tip, a flopped profiterole, or hearty peanut butter, there are billions with far less than me. I'll have the fish tonight, I think. You are always welcome: come... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Gardella Joins Alumni Career Services
ACS provides, Gardella (email: rgardella@hbs.edu) hopes to "add value to every alumni interaction" through services that help job-seekers sharpen résumés, improve interview skills, and conduct research on firms and careers. "My goal," he says, "is not to View Details
Keywords: Caroline Chauncey
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
Pacific, which plans to use modern agricultural technology and management to enable people living on remote Pacific islands to grow fresh vegetables and fish to replace unhealthful diets high in calories and low in nutrition. Second place... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Water, Water Everywhere
privatize water services." A big fish in the industry is Rebecca Mark (MBA '90), chairman and CEO of Azurix, an affiliate of energy giant Enron that she helped create and which recently went public. (See first item, preceding page.) "We... View Details
- Portrait Project
Cristian van Tienhoven
racing car, never be afraid to tell someone I love them, write a personal check for $1 million to charity, have lots of kids, go to the north pole, fly fish in Iceland, give back more than I take (very important), and, finally, make sure... View Details
- 28 May 2021
- News
Unspent Love
of paper origami fish to swim across the ceiling of the family dining room, Kingston writes. “My mother, who put her business degree to use running a small nutritional beverage company with my father in Santa Rosa, Calif., while raising... View Details
- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
are a number of "chicken and egg" processes, or feedback loops here. I learned a saying in Chinese: "You can catch big fish in murky water." That means that the big fish are hiding when... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Max Bazerman
industry. The story of forester Ben Cone Jr. is a touchstone for ESA critics. In 1991, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service found 29 red-cockaded woodpeckers, an endangered species, living on Cone's North Carolina land. Acting under the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Ian Calhoun (MBA 2010)
onions. We preserve our own onions at the restaurant and use batch-made gin from Berkshire Mountain Distillers in Massachusetts." Kitchen essentials: "A really nice, heavy sauté pan that can also go in the oven. A pair of tongs. A fish... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested
“My first entrepreneurial venture was around age 10, catching fish off a jetty near my house and selling them to fishermen as live bait. They paid 20 cents per fish, and for a dollar I could buy my own game of mini golf.” First order:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Take Time to Transition (If it’s Time)
Edited by Julia Hanna and Jen McFarland Flint; illustrations by Rose Wong When Mary Lindley Burton (MBA 1976) came to HBS in the mid-1970s, the Smith College religion major “felt like a fish out of water.” What saved her, she says, was a... View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
sort out a complex tangle of interdependent contributing factors. Environmental and legal issues muddy the water, for example. In the mid-2000s efforts to save a 3-inch fish called the delta smelt from extinction led to a ruling by a US... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Latin American Conference Highlights Region's Diversity
and controlling stakes in the company. “It seemed we were a big fish to eat, and everybody wanted a piece of us,” she told the audience with a wry grin, going on to describe how the three fought to keep control of the corporation.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
and the company showcased before a national audience. As “John,” I swept streets, took tickets, waited tables, window-washed gigantic fish tanks, and even cocaptained an amphibious vehicle. From those different vantage points, I wanted to... View Details