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- 11 Mar 2020
- News
America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses
to the Forté Foundation, while that number is about 40% today. The Journal highlights HBS couple Sarina Richard (MBA 2015) and Drew Richard (MBA 2015), who met during a class discussion group. Why does HBS make for such fertile ground for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
open-standards, fertile software platform from which thousands of novel applications will bloom." While many of those new applications will benefit consumers, the authors raise concerns that the technology might exacerbate the "Big... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
mining and exporting raw phosphate rock—its traditional focus, which it performed at a relatively low cost—towards greater production of phosphoric acid and finished fertilizer products. In the next phase of the program, OCP planned to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
are foundational elements of the School’s mission. These are far-reaching and often expensive areas of focus that require ongoing funding from multiple sources. For more than a century, Harvard Business School has proven fertile ground... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
traced to the proliferation of information and to the technologies, systems, and infrastructure built to convey it. Americans’ commitment to democratic ideals, their fascination with technology, and their commercial and entrepreneurial spirit created View Details
Keywords: Information
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Erling Lorentzen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
where his family had shipping lines. Soon he saw an opportunity for a new business. His idea was to create eucalyptus forests in a deforested but fertile area of Brazil’s interior and to then turn the trees into pulp for paper. Erling... View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
high-production conventional farms in Iowa and converts them to organic, thus reducing reliance on petroleum-based fertilizers and sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the ground. LAUNCHING A CAREER IN CLEAN ENERGYHeather March... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
for creating and acquiring children is, Spar argues, disorganized, legally conflicted, and virtually unfettered. It includes people who sell their eggs; buy sperm from strangers; undergo fertilization procedures; pay surrogates to bear... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
Enterprise recently embarked on an endeavor to understand the fast-changing and fertile arena of social capital markets. "The question has become, can we extract bedrock lessons from the for-profit world and apply them to philanthropy?"... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
response to escalating health-care costs, and HBS professor Debora L. Spar on the market realities of adoption and in vitro fertilization (see “The Business of Babies”). For more information about the HBS Health Industry Alumni... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
Chimneys for a fee of $100,000. “We’re nothing more than glorified farmers here, but it’s a fun business, and there’s a little bit of glamour to it,” says Clay, who grew up in the small town of Mt. Sterling, Kentucky. His family was in the tobacco business and also... View Details
- 31 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Change Pioneers in the Class of 1978
protect against pests and diseases, enhance grain and fruit quality, and improve plant nutrition. Some of the microbes under development may soon be used to reduce fertilizer usage and to substantially reduce methane gas escapage. Rick... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409003 In-Vitro Fertilization: Outcomes Measurement Harvard Business School Case 709-403 As of 2007, there were very few examples of widespread measurement and reporting of health outcomes, a critical quality measure. In-vitro View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
crucible. Crucibles—by design—are boot camps of a sort, where the heat and pressure make or break the participant." Lim Yung Hui commented, "Business schools can only create a context that is fertile for the emergence of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
everyone to own a home, and so homeownership became a national obsession, fertilizing the roots of this mess. I’ve spent a lot of time asking people why some of the most important decisions received such little discussion. Here’s the most... View Details
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
impediments to the diffusion of strategy field ideas into antitrust. Publisher's link: https://federallegalpublications.com/antitrust-bulletin/201501/atb-2014-59-4-05-greene-influences-of-strategic-management-antitrust-disco February 2015 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
managers even as we strengthen our management processes with an eye to future growth.” Africa also looked like fertile ground for the same partnering approach Bharti first developed inside India—blending multinational and local-management... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
farmer working 2,000 fertile acres in Iowa, the outcome will not be good, especially when no safety nets are in place. The real per capita GNP in Mexico is about the same as it was in 1973. The average manufacturing wage has dropped 60... View Details
- 10 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology
partners. Beginning with using machine learning to help select the healthiest embryo to transfer during IVF, the company hopes to eventually build a suite of tools to help fertility specialists deliver the best possible care to patients.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
potential fertility with her ob-gyn, Tariyal was told that she could come back for a clinical workup after she had tried and failed to conceive for a year. Determined to give women more agency over their health, Tariyal cofounded NextGen... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint