Everglades National Park - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

streamline regulations and approvals. Phu My Hung was funded by industrialists from Taiwan who were systems thinkers, long horizon investors, and nation builders. King Abdullah Economic City was funded by private investors and with... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

01 Feb 1998
News

Running Up the Score

industry as another catalyst was gathering critical mass: the dynamic pairing of television and sports. Neil R. Austrian (MBA '68), president of the National Football League, explains: "The 1958 Colts-Giants overtime game was the NFL's... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

serving as a representative on the Cherokee National Council. During a meeting of its Environmental Resources Group, Senior Director Pat Gwin showed the group a photo of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a meticulously cataloged collection... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

forming on their eyebrows. It was an ordeal that Green’s survival training in a bucolic Virginia national park two years earlier had left him ill-prepared to face. Still, he attempted to keep discipline and... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Jun 2006
News

One-on-One with Tom Oreck

Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

25 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Harvard Climate Leaders Program

vegetable garden with my parents and going to national parks with my family, so I have always had an appreciation for nature and the environment around me. I started my career as an investor at Bessemer... View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

Life in modern India, despite all of the advances of the last decade, is still barely controlled chaos. On the crowded streets, camels and donkeys mix with handcarts, three-wheeled scooter taxis, massive Tata trucks, luxury cars, and pedestrians. The construction of... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

09 Oct 2015
News

Balancing Progress and Preservation

Sites Program, which helps New York’s churches and synagogues renovate interiors, replace roofs, and restore stained glass windows. “It’s the only nonprofit in the nation that tries to meet the needs of historic religious properties on a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2017
News

City of Dreams

everything from mangoes to light bulbs to plastic flowers. Just across the road is Fort Railway Station, a major transportation hub used by over 200,000 people every day. For now, this spot at the water’s edge is no more than an ad hoc View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

19 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

PublicationsLabor Regulations and European Venture Capital Authors:Bozkaya, Ant, and William R. Kerr Publication:Journal of Economics & Management Strategy Abstract European nations substitute between employment protection... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

over 80 of her lipsticks to the luncheon as table gifts. Unlike most lipsticks at the time, these were housed in metal cases. Lunch guests noticed the unusual packaging and the lipstick's color and texture. As the event broke up, Fiske recalled, "there formed a... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

rich and poor. We find evidence that for wealthy Germans, and for the rich half of European nations, higher levels of per capita income don't buy greater happiness. The reason appears to be adaptation. However even for the rich half of European View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

shuttered for the season in late October. Not only were they not shuttered, every single parking spot had an oil truck in it. “I ran into this high school classmate of mine who—like a lot of my classmates in my little class of 34—stayed... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

90 days. (These countries include Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen.) The order provoked a great deal of opposition, including an online petition entitled “Academics Against Immigration Executive Order,” which argues that the order is... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

this is a huge difference in energy usage and would have a profound effect on our economy, not to mention our national security. Emerging Markets There is tremendous real estate growth in emerging markets. If the U.S. is replacing under 2... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate

01 Sep 2011
News

The Spangler Effect

around food and drink. A frequent campus visitor, Dick Spangler remembers the day in Dean Clark’s office when the subject of a campus center first came up. “The Dean said, ‘I need to talk to you about something. Let’s walk over here to the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

reliable, branded beauty services in office parks and hotels, but she focused first on the high-visibility airport market, where customers in transit needed the services she could provide—and might relish them as an alternative to waiting... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

11 Apr 2018
News

The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

Photos courtesy of Regan Turner Regan Turner (MBA/MPP 2013) is executive director of The Mission Continues, a national nonprofit that “deploys” military veterans to community-impact projects to help them find purpose and to serve as role... View Details

28 Jun 2016
First Look

June 28, 2016

entrepreneurs, many of them expatriate Americans, helped ensure that formally protected areas remained sustainable parks and reserves by providing revenues, conservation education to tourists, and community development and jobs.... View Details