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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
Joel Bines (MBA 1999) spent his high school summers wearing a tricorn hat and waiting for tour buses to disgorge visitors at the Battle Green in his hometown of Lexington, Massachusetts, where the first blood of the American Revolutionary... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
this. We are also looking at two alternative markets. The first is using formic acid as a means of making other chemicals, the precursors of plastics, road materials, and a wide variety of other products. The second is using formic acid to transport View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
Green Stuff: Value, Risk, and Environmental Management Environmental issues increasingly influence companies in their approach to fundamental business concerns. How these matters play out in terms of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
are getting hit hard in the recession. It’s only very recently that we’re seeing the proverbial green shoots. The hotel business is cyclical; it’s managing those cycles that is important. I do think we’re... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
On October 18, 1995, U.S. Army Captain Ray Jefferson was excited about his future. The West Point graduate had eagerly accepted challenging assignments commanding Ranger and Green Beret units in the United States and in Japan. He was a... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Alumni Books
others in a positive way. Nature's Fortune: How Business and Society Thrive by Investing in Nature by Mark R. Tercek (MBA 1984) and Jonathan S. Adams (Basic Books) Nature Conservancy CEO Tercek and his coauthor argue that nature is a... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
was your experience? I remember sitting beside a colleague in the office one day, early on in my career. Both of us were minding our own business when a higher-up from the company walked by and said to my colleague, “Are you so-and-so?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
How much is the Grand Canyon worth? What would you pay to prevent developers from building condos on the Cape Cod National Seashore? As difficult as it may seem to answer those questions, Linda Bilmes (MBA 1984) has made it her business... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
says Bailey. “If we lose these, we have nothing.” Accordingly, green technology and sustainability are not just nice add-ons but business imperatives. Yet traditional bottom-line considerations pertain as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
(CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Taylor Gibbs chronicles more than 200 years of her paternal family’s history and highlights their contributions to the civil rights movement in the United States. The Human Element: The Foundation of View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
roaring into the modern world. World 3.0: Global Prosperity and How to Achieve It by Pankaj Ghemawat (PhDBE '82) (Harvard Business Review Press) Reacting to the global financial crisis, governments are pushing for increased protectionism.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2019
- News
A Righteous Path
recent study found that children who arrive at the southern border unaccompanied have an 85 percent chance of receiving a green card and a path to citizenship, but only if they have a lawyer representing them. Children in the same... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
the road will run over the nearby railroad tracks. In its place, where some of the area’s most dangerous housing now stands, Rodríguez Larreta envisions a park for a community that has had almost no green space. His plan is also an... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2025
Protection of the Environment Thanks, Mom: “When I was 16, I took my savings to the bank and bought some shares of a neighbor’s scaffolding company. At 25, I sold the shares to my mother to help pay for business school. Very soon after... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Inside Out
spend. Don’t get us wrong, these costs are critically important, but this has been the sole focus of the building sector for far too long. Think about it this way: the entire green building movement, with billions of square feet of office... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
At Your Service
Frei and Morriss: No heroics, please—partner with customers to make strategic service choices instead of trying to be the best at everything. In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
travelers with the promise of private-flight amenities without the costs of ownership. Most of those startups have pursued a shared charter model—an Uber-like, asset-light approach at odds with most successful aviation business models.... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
that there might just be too many activities available and too much to do, thus decreasing the serendipity of chance social encounters among residents as they crisscross the community’s lush green grounds. Even so, Marshall, a marketing... View Details