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IFC: India; Development While Decarbonizing - India’s Path to Net Zero - Course Catalog
irreversible climate crisis. As a result, countries and companies have committed to decarbonization initiatives and announced net zero targets. While there are significant climate-related problems that are common across the world, there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
fares, “Peanut Fares,” to unfriendly acquisitions—that helped the company survive. “Deregulation bred a very different kind of management. Suddenly, managers could see there were opportunities to be creative.” “In my first appearance in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Jan 2023
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Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
already in the VC space. I knew one woman, that’s it,” she said. “It’s hard to start if you don’t already have the contacts to get introductions.” Garg suggested that women founders need to get used to directly asking their networks for... View Details
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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
The Green Industrial Strategy Project More Research Projects The Green Industrial Strategy Project examines how business and government can create, scale, and compete in clean tech markets to accelerate decarbonization. As clean technologies have entered the mass... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
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Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
papers catalogued by the Society of Petroleum Engineers, the book refutes optimistic projections by the Saudis and offers the public the first detailed examination of that country’s largest oil fields. He knows the business well, as the chairman and CEO of Simmons &... View Details
- 15 Dec 2014
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Deconstructing the Price Tag
When a company sets a price for a product, shoppers typically have no idea what it costs to produce that item. But it turns out that consumers reward efforts to lay out these figures—to deconstruct the price tag. In fact, new research... View Details
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Photograph Albums - Photography Collections - Historical Collections
Depths. Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company Mss: 351 1930 P544 2 albums, 84 photographs The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, a subsidiary of the Philadelphia and Reading Rail Road, was founded in 1871 to allow... View Details
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Oliver Bladek
Early in his career as a consultant with McKinsey, Oliver Bladek recognized the hard impact of so-called "soft" skills. "I was working on a major, $10-billion oil project that included everything from drilling thousands of wells to View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | MBA
extracurricular activities available? What percentage of students live on campus? What are my transportation options? What social opportunities do Harvard Square and Cambridge/Boston offer? What housing, community, and employment... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
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Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
by what you've called the darkest and scariest moments of your career, and that was the bankruptcy. Tell me about that moment. FL: Well, we tried to get the unions to recognize that Continental was a troubled company when we took it over.... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
- 27 Sep 2019
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HBS Alumni and Students Take On the Climate Crisis
prairies west of Houston to mitigate the environmental impact of development through investment in conserving water-absorbing grasslands. THE BLUE-GREEN REVOLUTION Synthetic Genomics Inc., a private biotech company co-founded by Juan... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
To me, it’s really the human-psychology factor playing out in a new setting. Eugene Soltes: When I look at the failures at FTX, I see a company that grew dramatically, and at some point between day one and the day it ultimately fell, they... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative
Issue Focus: Innovation In a hypercompetitive global economy, creativity has never been more important for success . But how do you create a company that unleashes and capitalizes on innovation? For answers, we turned to five HBS faculty... View Details
- 10 May 2004
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Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
considering JVs. Cynthia D. Churchwell: You and your colleagues found that companies are increasingly willing to "go it alone" without local partners. Did these results surprise you? Mihir Desai: Given the popular rhetoric on... View Details
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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship
international selection of large cities. Data include costs of goods, rental rates, transportation and incomes. Demographics &... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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An Excerpt from The Innovator’s Prescription: A Disruptive Solution for Health Care
changes. As an illustration, when color television was invented, nobody would buy color TVs because no network was broadcasting in color. And networks would not broadcast in color because nobody owned color... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 23 Jul 2024
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The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
Meanwhile, the United States has become increasingly less open as both of its political parties espouse protectionist policies. A few examples: New passenger cars for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA), Boston’s ancient... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
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Straddling Two Worlds
one-year stint ended, Tierney joined the corporate finance division of White, Weld & Co. in New York and settled with his wife and three children in Connecticut. At White Weld, he developed a department that focused on transportation... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young