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14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

1993), co-CEO and co-founder of Reservoir Capital Group, said that rather than focusing on brand-new energy sources, his firm often focuses on companies that make current energy sources more efficient. Urban buildings consume 40 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Jul 2024
News

Next Level

inclusion and investing into underrepresented communities,” she says. “Great games can come from anywhere. The company’s called Midwest as they are headquartered in Wisconsin and are focused on highlighting talent from underrepresented... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace

Profile

Tiffany Pham

and UStream, to drive initiatives in support of women. As shown in Forbes, for example, MOGUL produces an original series called “How She Did It,” which features women around the world speaking on their various journeys and how they rose... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entertainment / Media; Technology

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

navigate conflicts both external and internal. Today, more than ever, markets exert continual pressure on organizations to cut costs and return capital to the bottom line, but building value demands that much of that same View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

less" in his talk, "The Technology Redesign of NASA." After Goldin's presentation, Philip Quigley, chairman and CEO of Pacific Telesis, called the "packaging, bundling, and arbitraging of services" the key to the rapidly restructuring... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

20 Dec 2024
News

Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024

meet and network with other LGBTQ alumni. What was your favorite/most impactful class at HBS? Paul: There was a class in 1980 called Self-Assessment and Career Development. I came out in that class and that changed my life. John: My... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

ability to use customer information for pricing or whether even larger rewards could be found in leveraging the connection to the GM family. However, although jointly selling auto insurance and cars is common in many countries, the ability to do so at the GM Group is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Casey Gerald

throw in the towel. Eventually, with support from HBS alumni like venture philanthropist Arthur Reimers, who wrote a check for $50,000, and an infusion of capital from such outlets as the Rock Accelerator, MBAs Across America became an... View Details

01 Jan 2006
News

William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

companies that would eventually become big successes in the 1960s, including ACNielsen, Dun & Bradstreet, and Xerox. During those years, as DLJ began to diversify by managing corporate pension funds in its Alliance Capital Management unit... View Details

01 Jan 2007
News

A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968

ground, he was spotting enemy positions from a light plane and calling in air strikes and artillery fire. After a year, Mixon left Vietnam with several Air Medals and a citation recognizing his "exceptionally valorous actions" in combat.... View Details

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

learn from business? I think there's a lot of room for cross-learning here. One of the things I think the religious community can learn from the business community is that the realm of business is not as simple as it tends to think it is, that View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

What it Takes to Lead Through Turmoil

and experiments throughout the company, pursuing systemic and lifestyle shifts that remake the fabric of the firm. Ideas for change and experimentation do not descend from the top down, but rather emerge from all levels of the company and flow upwards, in what Kanter... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Nairobi Love: Heading Home

openness to technology adoption (e.g., M-KOPA)? I believe that the private sector will generate the majority of capital for our future growth, but how can it work together with the public sector to ensure that growth generates... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

Father of Modern Management by Bob Buford (OPM 2, 1977) (Worthy Publishing) Where Does It Hurt?: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Fixing Health Care by Jonathan Bush (MBA 1997) and Stephen Baker (Portfolio) Bush, the cofounder and CEO of athenahealth, View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

over a new job or leave an old one, there is an immense waste of knowledge. Not that a newcomer wants to use everything that was in her predecessor's head—some of it was mere flotsam and jetsam, and some was obsolete. But the good stuff? Her mental Rolodex would be... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

01 Dec 1997
News

Banking on HBS

Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education W. Earl Sasser, Jr., who oversaw the formal development and implementation of EDP, calls it "the most ambitious customized executive education program the School has ever undertaken." The... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1996
News

An Entrepreneurial Journey

multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,... View Details

20 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 20

Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

call that goal the "Utilitarian criterion" after the philosophical framework that supports it. Since pioneering work in the 1970s by Nobel laureate James Mirrlees, the Utilitarian criterion has dominated tax research. It has had enormous... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

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