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- 01 Jun 2001
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Richard Pechter: Learning New Lessons
but is part of another world in socioeconomic terms. Having traded in his power lunches for cafeteria duty, Pechter was in for another revelation. “I wasn’t prepared for the leadership of a fantastic principal, the commitment of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Research Brief: Weatherproofing Renewables
energy, and already 70 to 80 percent of its power comes from hydroelectric dams. But the volatility also means moments of scarcity, when renewable energy can’t be relied upon to keep the lights on. These fluctuations in the weather... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
carbon emissions. What percent of a nation’s electricity has to come from non-fossil fuels before electric cars lead to a net reduction in carbon emissions? —Mark Caron (MBA 1993) KORTENHORST and KORMI:... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
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Breaking News
environment has very different economics. Local news outlets that once relied on monopoly-pricing power on the print side, and to a certain extent on the circulation side, just don’t have that in the digital media space. With a shift in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
technology adds an increasingly dynamic dimension by dint of its exponential power to boost output while reducing costs through speed and efficiency. Another feature of technology, its ability to produce innovation, can also quickly... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Feb 2024
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GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
government, and NGOs, sharing insights on a range of issues including health care, national talent, food security, and sustainability. They also talked about the role of the private sector in meeting goals of Vision 2030, the impact of soft View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
finding out how other people actually think—those other people being the customers or clients you hope to do business with. The Dollar General case has a lot to say about the political schism in America today. Folks just don’t take the... View Details
- 11 Mar 2021
- News
Leading with Heart
what that situation was like? Chaudhary: Well, I think you're being very generous to me. I still remember vividly me coming to your house, end of 2019 and saying, "Man, I'm really struggling." And it was overwhelming, the transformation... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
at home, and they weren’t allowed to bring their office chairs home. The policy communicated a lack of empathy and general cluelessness about the employee experience—signals that were particularly important to working moms. The answer is... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thai Lee, MBA 1985
globe. The firm regularly receives awards and accolades—including partner of the year from Dell, Microsoft, and VMware—and Lee was named Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur Of The Year in 2012. In a field generally dominated by men, SHI is the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
when locked-down viewers turned to sports for respite. His two decades in banking had been focused on development—funding bridges, dams, electrical power stations, agricultural installations, and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
emissions are produced by the industry, and the amount of textile waste generated each year could fill 20,000 football stadiums, Theuerkauf explains, adding that, “even in 2022, excess inventory is still put in landfills and burned.” To... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
best locations to generate it are far from the densely populated areas that need it. Wind-generated electricity traveling from western Kansas to St. Louis, for example, loses up to 15 percent of its energy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A Wonderful Whirl
Mounted atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage, two wind turbines — 40-foot towers with 11.5-foot blades — represent Harvard’s biggest wind-energy project to date. Weighing more than 1,000 pounds each, the turbines are expected to supply 5 to 10 percent of the seven-story... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
What’s next in energy? “Electric cars. Everyone knows they are coming, but the energy sector isn’t ready. There are two main questions: Is there going to be a market for gasoline in 25 years? And where are we going to get the electricity... View Details
- 24 Jan 2020
- News
Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67
students and colleagues,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “His research and writings transformed the way aspiring MBAs, industries, and companies look at management. He was a beloved professor and role model whose brilliant teaching and wisdom inspired View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Graduate's Gift Honors HBS Friend
In a spontaneous act of friendship, Nathaniel de Rothschild (MBA '71) recently made a generous gift to the School in the name of his longtime friend and HBS classmate Franklin R. Anderson (MBA '71). To give special recognition to the gift... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
layoffs. Even so, I remember someone pointing at me in a bar, and we hustled out of there. It certainly left a taste in my mouth of the power of strategy and thought, but I felt really bad about it.” The tension between straight-ahead... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
controls the recruitment and tenure of directors, sets the board’s agenda, selects the information that flows to the board, and oversees the process of evaluating CEO performance, directors will find it difficult to shift the power... View Details