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- 16 Nov 2015
- News
Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
me in.” His exploration of ancient, indigenous traditions led Sprinkles to apprentice to become initiated as a healer in the way of ancient Huichol and Nahua cultures in 2000 and 2006, respectively. Today, he and his wife, Annie Eagan, serve the Blue Deer Center in... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change
The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
panelists were collectively bullish on solar energy, electric drive technology that powers hybrid and electric cars, and biofuels (including ethanol). By contrast, they were cautiously optimistic about clean coal, nuclear power, and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues
emergency relief and support community development and civil society initiatives. "There's a direct connection between economic and social stability. September 11 pushed NGOs into the gray area of politics." The sector needs new ideas and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
from fossil fuels to alternative sources of energy. We will need to finance research in technology innovation and biotechnology, including stem cell research. We will need to generate most of our electricity using nuclear fuel. We will... View Details
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3 Technologies that Will Change the World - Course Catalog
behavior. They learn and improve relentlessly. They make better decisions than humans in an increasing number of contexts. They are unconstrained by moral boundaries. Are these technologies different from other ground-breaking technologies such as electricity, View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
And can it execute either in a timely enough fashion to begin breaking even? “It’s a familiar issue,” Vietor says. “How does a new venture company manage its cash as it is developing its technology over time?” A123 raised $378 million... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
weeks later Surette was connected with TB12, a brand new company at the time, through a fellow HBS alum. He joined the company as a freelance consultant to help establish the business plan and grow the impact of TB12 over time, including... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life
For several decades, the career path of Alfred L. Cheauré (MBA '71) was fairly straightforward. A first-generation immigrant American from Germany, Cheauré grew up in New Jersey and attended the U.S. Naval Academy. He began his 27-year... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
You sometimes hear people say things like, "I believe in global warming" or "I don't believe in climate change." It seems odd to approach climate change in this way, as though it were a question of belief, like religion. Most of the time when we confront uncertainty in... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership
Corporations are facing great uncertainty. For the world to avoid the worst impacts of climate change, the United States eventually will have to put a price on carbon dioxide emissions, as has been done by Europe, parts of Canada, and California. To plan for the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- News
A Man on a Mission
the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and in 1968, his entry to NASA, which early on sent him to the University of Michigan for a doctorate in radiation physics. Even as he rose through the ranks at the space agency, Earls' scientific... View Details
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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
Japan asked Professor of Management Practice Hirotaka Takeuchi to lead a service-oriented learning trip to T ō hoku, a region devastated by the 2011 Great East Japan earthquake, tsunami, and Fukushima nuclear explosion. It launched what... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
generations of oil." David Hirsch seconds this notion, saying, "There is nothing our technology (including revisiting our ‘revulsion toward nuclear power') cannot achieve." There is a great deal of support as well for the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jul 2021
- News
Mentoring Fashion Startups in Singapore; Rising Star Accolades for Mid-Career Women
Clubs News Clubs News Singapore War Room Sessions Link Startups with HBS Alumni Mentors The HBS Club of Singapore (HBSCS), in collaboration with the Textile and Fashion Federation (TaFF) and its signature... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 May 2020
- Blog Post
Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12
weeks later Surette was connected with TB12, a brand new company at the time, through a fellow HBS alum. He joined the company as a freelance consultant to help establish the business plan and grow the impact of TB12 over time, including... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- News
A Leader’s Call to Action
leadership has become a personal and professional mission for Nick, who was coaxed out of retirement last year to take a new post as president and CEO of Dairyland Power Cooperative, a multisource energy provider made up of 25 local... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
It's common in Harvard Business School classrooms to discuss the "pivot," the moment an enterprise changes direction to pursue a new strategy. On a visit to eastern Japan, MBA students talked to Masamichi Ono, CEO of... View Details