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- 16 Apr 2013
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A Walkabout to the Ocean
the air outside New York City's JFK airport and eventually hitchhiked across the country." Merkl fell in love with California and decided to stay. Enrolling at the University of California at Santa Cruz, he studied environmental science,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right
predicted that his expertise in the business of flight would one day take him beyond the stratosphere and into cyberspace, and to an important role in the e-commerce revolution. After working in nearly every facet of the airline industry... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
The old-fashioned assumption of the environmental movement was that business and industry were the problem. World Wildlife Fund President and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA 1988) is bullish that they can be part of the solution. A new breed of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call
international students do seem more familiar with it from observing it in their own countries. As it happens, the Lincoln Electric Company is now a thriving multinational — and its Cleveland plant remains as successful as ever.” Good Wrap, Bum Wrap Case: Sealed View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
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George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
kind of undecided. Lam Chuan Leong (MBA ’78), who was my boss in the Air Force, had done his Harvard MBA and told me about his experience.” Yeo had interests beyond his science and engineering background in school and university, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
business leaders do have a duty to be competitive and to help restore the manufacturing base of our country. Nations that allow their manufacturing infrastructure to deteriorate often create a similar fate for themselves. Even as we all have a fiduciary duty to our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Buy the Book
retailers (such as Wal-Mart and Costco) that only stock twenty or so bestsellers yet are responsible for 34 percent of book sales in the United States. “Something hits as a success and dominates the market,” Deighton comments. “It’s similar to what has happened in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
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Prognosis
they were disproportionately coming from Chelsea, Revere, and East Boston. I think in this case the social determinants include living in crowded housing conditions, where the ventilation and air quality are not as good and which seems to... View Details
- 25 May 2011
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Singapore Star
reacted against it; they said: ‘You do the MPA, like everybody else. Why do you want to be different?’ I was kind of undecided. Lam Chuan Leong (MBA ’78), who was my boss in the Air Force, had done his Harvard MBA and told me about his... View Details
- 26 Sep 2014
- News
Where Creativity Rules
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
York; and Washington, D.C. Cleantech venture capital Fabienne Herlaut (MBA 1984) Eco Mobilite Partners, SNCF Paris Transportation Craig Huff (MBA 1993) Reservoir Capital Group LLC New York Private equity Jeffrey Immelt (MBA 1982) General... View Details
- 17 Apr 2015
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A Driving Force for a Sustainable World
that having this distinction, people look at me differently, especially as a woman. It forces me to be a role model. It gives me a status I have to respect.” Being a woman in a male-dominated industry has provided Herlaut a unique... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
In Baobab Studios’ VR film Invasion!, viewers interact with Chloe, a scared white rabbit that responds to their actions. (courtesy of Baobab Studios) With the promise of mind-boggling , out-of-body experiences, virtual reality is hyperbolic by design. And the... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Sep 2016
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The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
The US automotive industry collapse was one of the most important business stories to come out of the 2008 financial crisis—and like so many events of that time, it was big on headlines but short on nuance. To address that shortfall,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
Gustavo A. Herrero (MBA '76) heads the Latin American Research Center (LARC), located in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The School's third off-campus research facility, the LARC will officially open in August with a research conference in Buenos View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 20 Jan 2011
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A Precursor from the 1930s
with Harvard’s engineering department to offer a short-lived ‘Master in Engineering Administration’ degree program, graduates of which would be trained ‘for work in the air transport industry.’”) When... View Details
- 19 Jan 2016
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Electric Avenues
invests up front to develop and build the desalination facility, signing up local utilities to long-term contracts at firm prices. “It’s one of the first examples of a private company in the US water industry taking on development and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when change abates.” Most company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Fast Forward
several of the new research tracks the project has produced and how a few of these ideas are being put into action. Transportation and Infrastructure After organizing a transportation summit in February 2014... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Green Day
Erica Diamond demo the "modlet" View a list of alumni working in green industry What does it mean to be green? It’s a trendy color these days, but over the years HBS alumni have demonstrated a long-standing commitment to environmental... View Details