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23 Jan 2017
News

The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee

change everything,” Fernandes said, but maintaining the standards set by Peet’s founder, which include careful coffee sourcing and hand-roasting, has been important to keeping the brand popular among its longtime Bay Area following and... View Details

01 Feb 2002
News

Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future

country. Guillaume Hannezo, CFO and senior EVP at Vivendi Universal, delivered the opening keynote address on Saturday morning. Suggesting that the events of September 11 have created a new collective reality for the United States and... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

or before the first week of August following the April application intake, i.e. you must begin working within three months of graduation. You are in good academic and community standing and remain so for the duration of your fellowship... View Details

11 Jul 2019

HBS Women's Information Session

Join us for an information session about the Harvard Business School MBA Program. This event is designed for prospective students who want to learn about the community of women at HBS and the MBA Program. The event is designed for women,... View Details

19 May 2021
News

Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

are a source of new perspectives and ideas, and they can be really helpful if you’re dealing with a decision, a challenge, or new career direction.” Danciu says the seven clubs are already looking forward to presenting another virtual... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 May 2016
News

Food Rescue Is on a Mission

Central to the food rescue is the organization’s trademarked program, Community Connect, which facilitates redistribution through volunteers and groups such as local Rotary International chapters and church organizations, which transport... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

Profile

Konstantin Chebotar

year, Konstantin helped organize an energy panel for the private equity conference held on campus last February. "I met dozens of private-equity oil and gas experts open to talking to me," he says. For his summer internship,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

Dallas Children’s Museum. One of her pressing details involves predicting the future of handheld technology at the museum. “Right now we need to figure out which handheld device people will own when the museum opens in three years,” says... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

08 May 2020
Research & Ideas

We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years

This month marks the twentieth anniversary of the beginning of my “What do you think?” column. The Working Knowledge website was the brainchild of a faculty and staff committee organized in 2000 by then Dean Kim Clark to communicate the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

intersection of autonomy, sensing, and connectivity, you’ll find we are rapidly approaching that day.” Cell phones may also be a potentially rich source of useful data for cities, but citizens might be wary of having that data collected.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

17 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - The Future of Green Building

as a pivotal point of discussion towards reducing global carbon emissions. The push to decarbonize the building sector stems from statistics compiled by sources such as Architecture 2030, which indicate that activities related to... View Details

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

innovations by single user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Sep 2016
News

The Solution That Doesn’t Get Discussed About How to Get More Women On Corporate Boards

on the topic, corporate boardrooms are stuck. The first challenge to adding women to boards is that there are just not enough open board seats to fill and the second is that of the very few open spots (7% of... View Details

17 Nov 2015
News

Carbon Neutral

implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

22 Mar 2016
First Look

March 22, 2016

Information Systems Research Open Content, Linus' Law, and Neutral Point of View By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—The diffusion of the Internet and digital technologies has enabled many organizations to use the open-content... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World

overlap in executive authority slows down the approval of new projects and reduces coordination across initiatives. Delegating more planning authority to local wards and communities could help accelerate climate action, especially because... View Details

18 Jan 2012
News

Charter Supporter

in opening a lot of doors for me.” Shortly after the initial Capital Times story about Burke, the paper ran another one about her a few days later. It announced that Burke had made a gift of $2.5 million for a proposed charter school,... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

20 Oct 2016
News

Uncharted Territory

(Uncharted Play) (Uncharted Play) Jessica Matthews’s (MBA 2014) startup Uncharted Play made headlines when it debuted Soccket, a soccer ball that captures kinetic energy to power a lamp. The simple idea could change life in poor, rural View Details

29 Mar 2023
News

Giving Hope and Comfort

bigger challenge today is sourcing these vital products in the face of inflation and snags in the supply chain. Today, Hope and Comfort is still one of the few nonprofits distributing hygiene products, says Feingold, who retired from his... View Details

14 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 14

Working PapersIndustry Equilibrium with Open Source and Proprietary Firms Authors:Gastón Llanes and Ramiro de Elejalde Abstract We present a model of industry equilibrium to study the coexistence of View Details