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07 Jan 2016
News

Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

Greg Saunders (MBA 1990) is the chief executive officer of CleanFund Commercial PACE Capital, a California–based financing firm focused on empowering commercial property owners to reduce their the carbon... View Details

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

not commercialize the innovations. It was Steve Jobs and his Apple team that saw the possibilities during visits in 1979 and made them the cornerstone of the Macintosh. In other words, while Xerox may have invented many wonderful things,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

20 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

joining HBS. Cal Brooks (MBA 2022, Section A), Summer Internship: Commercialization Strategy Intern at Malta Malta is building a new type of electro-thermal energy storage system that can collect and store energy from any source (i.e.... View Details

01 Sep 2008
News

Business Plan Contest Winners

seven-person DFA team, invited to ring the NYSE’s opening bell in honor of its achievement, included Jon Puz and Gilbert Tang (both MBA ’08), Krishna Yeshwant (HBS ’09), and colleagues from Harvard and MIT. The Harvard team members were drawn from a multidisciplinary... View Details

Keywords: awards; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Dec 1999
News

Now Hear This

The voiceover industry is booming. Those dulcet tones and distinctive pipes you've long heard on radio and TV commercials are now much in demand for CD-ROMs and the Internet, as well as for traditional markets such as cartoons and... View Details

11 Jun 2015
News

Leading the way in sustainable style

pro-environmental policies are not only a social good, she says. They are also money savers that helped Esquel weather the economic downturn. Now she wants to share her company’s successful strategies with the industry through sustainability conferences and factory... View Details

October 2009 (Revised June 2010)
Case

1366 Technologies

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, Ramana Nanda and David Kiron

Just months after declaring their intent to become a solar cell equipment supplier, van Mierlo and Sachs were again revisiting the issue of what the company should be. Becoming a successful solar cell manufacturer would potentially be much more lucrative than becoming... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Energy Generation; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Commercialization; Corporate Strategy; Green Technology Industry

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01 Jun 2013
News

Accelerating Therapies

supporting early-stage technologies, enhancing their value, and making them attractive candidates for licensing, startup formation, and commercial development. The idea for the Blavatnik Fellows program resulted from conversations between... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

28 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Real Estate

The crisis may have started with residential real estate but it is also affecting commercial real estate. Asset prices have fallen and are expect to decline further; there are likely to be massive defaults; and debt is virtually... View Details

Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson; Construction; Real Estate

01 Dec 2017
News

Bridging Domains

knowledge sharing across Harvard will spark multidisciplinary consideration of societal issues brought on by the rapid development and commercialization of technology and science. “I believe Harvard is well placed to help lead a national... View Details

11 Apr 2017
News

Keeping the Missions Under Control

sets [I needed] and the blind spots I had that I was not aware of, working internationally, and working with our corporate partnerships, which is really kind of new for NASA. “We’re partnering with commercial entities like SpaceX and... View Details

24 Jun 2016
News

Reinventing Pharma

and commercial operations before becoming the firm's head of operations and planning in 2014. In a recent interview, Donaldson told the industry website eyeforpharma.com that she credits Professor Clay Christensen and his work on... View Details

Keywords: Scientific Research and Development Services

Career Coach

Erika Osterling

Erika (HBS '09, ITESM '00) brings 20 years of experience as an operating leader and advisor. She has spent most of her career within Energy & Industrial, with additional roles in Consumer and Retail. Erika's 12+ year career at GE progressed from supply chain to... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Oil & Gas; Energy; Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing

Career Coach

Cindy Horowitz

Cindy (HBS ’81) brings 20 years of broad management experience to coaching students interested in general management, finance, operations and other corporate roles. She helps students understand the various roles open to them and the career paths to advancement in... View Details

Keywords: Commercial Banking; Commercial Banking; Commercial Banking; Commercial Banking; Commercial Banking

30 Apr 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

own money in outlets such as television commercials and billboards that are more frequently used for fast food than books. Patterson represents a supplier who builds a persistent demand and designs production to perpetuate that brand's... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Sports; Publishing; Auto

Profile

Arjun Goyal

“marries a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

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Hakeem Belo-Osagie | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Transcript (PDF) Hakeem Belo-Osagie, HBS 1980, grew up in Nigeria, England, and the United States. After graduating from HBS, he returned to Nigeria to work in financial services. He started at a securities trading outfit and soon realized there was little trading... View Details

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

Amyris Biotechnologies: Commercializing Biofuel Gary P. Pisano and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 610-031 In 2009, Amyris Biotechnologies was building a plant in Brazil that used synthetic biology to convert... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace