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- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
more than 2 billion are malnourished, even though we produce enough food today to feed everyone. The carbon footprint of food waste totals 3.3 billion metric tons, enough to rank as the third-largest country in the world in greenhouse gas emissions. Wasted food View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Inside Intel
find excuses to visit Fab 3 just so they could put a bunny suit on.” Fab 3 was also important because it introduced the “McDonald’s approach” to erecting fabs. They were to be made as similar as possible. In the world of “McIntel,” exact replication would View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
meaning of life and on adversity. I think it should be required reading at HBS because it will challenge students to consider how they'd behave in a true crisis. —Nick Soman (MBA 2010) View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Regional Alumni Events Address Climate Change
have built a community of alumni interested in learning more and have gotten a much clearer sense of how they think about climate change and what it means to them in their professional roles,” explains Nash. “It’s incredibly rewarding to... View Details
Keywords: Jen Myers
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
slang to describe the company’s approach: tachles. (It sounds a bit like the word “tactless,” and it means “give it to me straight.”) “We tend to be really explicit with the companies we work with. There is going to be some discomfort,”... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
$100 million after just one year. “Private equity has become more acceptable than it was five years ago,” says Dhawan. “At one time, entrepreneurs were afraid that taking money would mean a loss of control.” As the number of success... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
Purchasing directly from producers instead of relying on a middleman lowers the cost of sourcing, for instance. Relying on its own fleet of trucks enables the company to pick up produce just before shipping, avoiding the cost and delay of warehousing. It View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
in central and eastern Europe, each employing five to 500 software engineers, are often locked out of larger enterprise deals. What’s more, their target clients and projects are relatively small, which means valuable resources are left on... View Details
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
Debbi, who told him to stop justifying his decision. If he was going to make the move, just do it. They had planned financially for the moment, fully aware that going the nonprofit route would mean a substantial pay cut. That part was... View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
everyone would make out under the deal. “The coal industry, which is already losing market share, would go out of business faster,” allows Eacho. That means some coal-producing states would be harder hit than other states—but those side... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
remittances, derivatives, and other financial platforms. I understand how Bitcoin can work as long as the buyer and seller have confidence in it and continue to use it as a means of exchange of equal goods. What I don’t understand is why... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
remain a 'reseller,' taking inventory of products from users and reselling them to wholesalers. This means its advantage can only come from scale. The problem then is that Gazelle's direct-to-consumer approach on its buy side places it at... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Ruling from the Bench
in the DA’s various bureaus, she recalls, was an education in itself and a means of attaining her immediate goal: a transfer to the homicide bureau. Her ambition was met with skepticism in that all-male world; women were thought too... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
to millions. "Global recycling rates are only around 30 percent," says Birnbaum, meaning that 70 percent of bottles and cans end up at the dump. "It's criminal." Birnbaum revels in challenging Big Soda. He likes that his product... View Details
- 31 Mar 2023
- News
How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?
of the K–12 system in the United States and the teaching profession. How would you describe the state of the teaching profession today? Mallory Dwinal-Palisch: We're in a race to the bottom. And what I mean by that is, there are 4 million... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
people have all agreed that it has value. Dollars, or other established fiat currencies, are useful because lots of people are willing to exchange them for goods and services. Which means that if you’re holding a dollar, you’re pretty... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
DeBere, who worked previously in international development in Nairobi, Kenya, and consulting in his native London, incubated the idea for Afya Pamoja—which means “health together” in Swahili—at HBS and the Harvard Kennedy School (HKS),... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
that are shaping the world of the future and offers guidance on how to avoid being eaten alive. The Wind Blew Innocent: A Memoir by Donna Arp Weitzman (OPM 37 2008) (Howard Bond Media Group LLC) Claustrophobia. I didn't know the meaning... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
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Pushing the Next Generation Forward
pilot program in the 1990s, built the organization around what Owusu-Kesse calls a “whatever-it-takes ethos,” which can be seen throughout the 2,000-employee organization today. For Owusu-Kesse, this culture means that, on any given day,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
CURRENT STUDENTS "Follow your passion. Don't wait until you are 50 to find meaning and purpose in your life. Focus on building your life and the resume will follow. Choose faith, not fear, as your prime motivator. Trust people, trust the... View Details