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Abe Plough
In 1908, with $125 borrowed from his father, Plough formed Plough, Incorporated by selling Antiseptic Heating Oil door to door. Over the next 65 years, Plough transformed his company from a small... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
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Jayon Wang
you are?” Welcome to the real world, boy. Big Oil brought me in, showed me who’s boss, and spit me right back out. With only strike-outs to my name, I started a company and set out to defy the real world’s... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the... View Details
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Robert G. James Lounge | About
the Central Intelligence Agency, an oil company executive, and a real estate investor. He was married to his wife, Ardis James, for over 60 years until her passing in 2011. They made their home together in... View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
David Perry’s Green Revolution
working on at an oil refinery for Exxon to startup CEO. (Perry exhibited his entrepreneurial vision while at HBS, telling the Bulletin in 2001 that he wrote four business plans while earning his MBA.) After running and selling two... View Details
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Emerging Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Oil and Gas and Mining Sectors’ Companies and Communities On Investors’ Role: “Directing capital to companies that can use it productively is ultimately the most profound... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7
Kingdom's National Health Service. We show that low levels of structural closure (i.e., structural holes) in a change agent's network aid the initiation and adoption of changes that diverge from the institutional status quo but hinder the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2001
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Q&A: Donna Dubinsky
war of the handhelds,” Dubinsky is well aware of the challenges facing Handspring. “This is an explosive market,” she says. “We need to create outstanding products, build a great company to deliver those products, and get some lucky... View Details
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
a permanent reality in corporate boardrooms—whether or not executives have a deep-seated passion for the social issues involved. Expectations are changing, agreed panelists. Oil corporations, for example, are well versed in the standard... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Sylvie Tran
these desperate conditions, any opportunity can be created. With passion as inspiring as this little boy's, I want to shape sustainable opportunities. I want to learn all of my mom's recipes so that our unique Canadian-Vietnamese culture continues to thrive in future... View Details
- 23 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 23, 2008
Working PapersA Resource Belief-Curse: Oil and Individualism Authors:Rafael Di Tella, Juan Dubra, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We study the correlation between a belief concerning individualism and a measure of luck in the US during... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Curse of Double-Digit Growth
suggests that it could grow even more quickly—that it could join the small number of nations achieving annual double-digit increases in real GDP. Liberia, Werker says, "could be the perfect storm for very fast growth." The other... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
eight years below the national average.) But with its manifold offerings and programs, all of which feed one another in ways both obvious and subtle, the school is a model for a radically diverse approach to economic development that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
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Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
imminent global impact of harmful carbon emissions have been circulating for months in anticipation of the June 2-4th meetings in Sweden, Stockholm+50 international environmental meetings. The United Nations General Assembly has convened... View Details
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Eric Sonnier
As a resident of Houston, Texas, it may have been inevitable that Eric Sonnier’s first business experience as a co-op student during his junior year in college was related to the oil and gas industry. At Caterpillar Global Petroleum... View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
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Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change
ever seen. By offering 10 years of policy certainty, the IRA encourages technology innovators to form companies and it reassures larger corporates to be their buyers. So as early-stage investors in clean energy, electrified... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public... View Details
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Ohio and West Virginia. Photographs in this album, circa 1939, record the stages of pouring, grinding, polishing, and cutting glass. Product Dept.--Fourth Floor. National Acme Manufacturing Company, Cleveland, Ohio Mss: 521 1915 N277 1... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference
his involvement in the circus to his other interests, Slifka observes that "the circus is something you feel with your belly, not with your head. And belly stuff is where humans connect." His eyes light up and his smile broadens as he talks about the annual United... View Details