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- 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 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
companies, requiring the same critical, honest thinking about leadership development. Improving the cross-fertilization between business and education would help. It'd be great to have a kind of CEO-in-residence be part of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
collect — may sicken or even kill them. The ocean-dominated Earth is indeed the “blue planet,” but only 1 percent of its water, the equivalent of one tablespoonful in a gallon, is fresh and accessible. Agriculture and industry are thirsty... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Carving a Niche
for a long time, the major ski manufacturers just kept doing what worked last year.” Meanwhile, snowboarding companies were pushing the limits of production technology and design. The Faction Collective, where Hoye is cofounder and CEO, has built its View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
Sequoia Fund,” according to the article. Feldberg’s roommate was Marvin Traub, who later ran Bloomingdale’s, the high-end department store chain. After HBS, Feldberg worked for his father at Bell Shops, where he unpacked and inspected merchandise. “Mr. Feldberg soon... View Details
- 19 Aug 2017
- News
Getting Off the Well-worn Farm Track
As CEO of Landcorps, New Zealand’s largest farming company, Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is a careful observer of food trends. "My job, given that we have got a million acres of land, and that it takes a long time to shift from one land use to another, is very much... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
implications,” says Orzetti. “The issues we were addressing became so much more tangible when our client gave us a demo and hacked our car as we drove around an empty parking lot!” He adds that his summer internship at Tesla between years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Feedback
from Nigeria's agriculture minister. No Small Beer Re: Alumni brewers You omitted Peter Doering (MBA 1987), a local HBS alumnus, who started a brewery about 15 months ago. We did an HBS alumni club event at his brewery recently, and it... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
every business has to be gigantic, of course. But if that is your goal, you need to be first to reach scale. How can established companies apply these techniques? Every established company needs to blitzscale new View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
change is in the air. While trucks continue to rumble in and out of the container-cargo rail yard opposite the HBS parking lot, the depot’s days are numbered. Adjacent to it, several blocks of low-rise commercial buildings are already... View Details
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
best model for humanity and nature living together” and revels in sharing the region with visitors. Adirondack Park is the largest publicly protected area in the continental United States, comprising 6 million acres, of which 45 percent... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
developer. In the Whole Foods parking lot, Cummings had seen Detroit pride, which he shares. But he also saw something more, something he hadn’t seen in the city in recent years: business opportunity. Sure,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Supporting our Exceptional Faculty
practitioners. It was a particular honor for me to be named the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business in 1998. Established 60 years ago, this chair helped launch agribusiness as a field of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
tech founder and startup consultant. Burned out, Staff took a few months off before enrolling at HBS to park a borrowed Airstream trailer in various towns around the Mountain West. That was an experiment in tiny living; in Bozeman,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Labs Enable Large-scale Research
is conducted at the School. The labs will drive foundational and applied research in six topical areas that address key business and societal challenges of the new digital world. Faculty members from across Harvard, serving as principal... View Details
- 06 Nov 2020
- News
Signal Boost
In her role as executive director of the Lakeshore Ethnic Diversity Alliance (LEDA), Gloria Lara (MBA 1983) focuses on a big question: Once a community, business, or organization becomes more diverse, what happens next? LEDA, a nonprofit that focuses on diversity and... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- News
“The Star of the North”
The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
phone. Through the entrepreneurship program, Sounouvou received training, mentorship, networking, and $5,000 in seed funding, among other benefits. “The training helped me greatly in improving our business plan and understanding the View Details
Keywords: April White
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
Leveraging the power of yes
programs as well as its efforts to distill and disseminate best practices by understanding the true social impact of investing in early-stage companies that provide affordable access to agricultural inputs, high-quality education, clean... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
pull it off. But it’s, it’s a hard thing and it’s a battle every day. Julia: One Brussels sprout sandwich at a time. Ayr: Yes, that’s right. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture