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- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Giving women more control over their biological clocks
Reproductive technology pioneer Christy Jones (MBA 2004) founded Extend Fertility in 2004 to enable women to freeze their eggs and then utilize them when the time is right. (Published November 2014) View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4
build a culture of innovation? What does that culture look like? How does it evolve and grow? How are teams most effectively created and then nurtured in this context? What is a leader's role in this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The Blue-Green Revolution
range of new applications in food and medicine. (Los Angeles Times/Getty Images) Having cracked the problem of boosting oil production, engineering algae to make petrochemicals ranging from fertilizers to... View Details
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
Nations Clean Development Mechanism Executive Board to China, for use of Arcadia's rice varieties, since they enabled farmers to reduce nitrogen fertilizer use, in turn lowering greenhouse gas emissions. But... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
cautious adoption of some of these recent conceptual developments offers fertile opportunities for further research in international business history. Navigating the Bind of Necessary Evils: Psychological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
John R. Simplot
utilized government funding to build a fertilizer empire, gaining 15% of the market in 1968. Simplot’s other achievements included the creation of processes to de-hydrate potatoes and freeze dry french... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 28 May 2008
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First Look: May 28, 2008
research efforts. Building on these results and experiences, we suggest that executive education in general, and action learning in particular, are fertile contexts where... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically undersupplied or dealing with bags of View Details
- 20 Feb 2018
- News
David Perry’s Green Revolution
the need for chemical fertilizers and pesticides in five important row crops: corn, rice, soybeans, cotton, and wheat. They coat seeds with these beneficial microbes to reduce the need for irrigation,... View Details
- 21 Feb 2018
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
reliance on petroleum-based fertilizers and sequestering large amounts of carbon dioxide in the ground. With his extensive background in green businesses, finance, and... View Details
- 03 Apr 2016
- News
The Tampon of the Future
2009), an entrepreneur with an engineering background. “I was trying to develop a way for women to monitor their own fertility at home,” she told the New York Times recently. “Those kinds of diagnostic tests require a lot of blood. So I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest
The School’s eighth annual Business Plan Contest proved that entrepreneurship is alive and well at HBS: Close to forty teams entered plans to be judged by a panel of experts. This year’s traditional track winner was Extend Fertility, Inc., a venture that allows women... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006
savings, or fertility behavior in African nations. However we do find weak evidence that AIDS has lead to a slow-down in education gains, as measured by youth literacy, and a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
America’s Hottest New Dating Sites: Business School Campuses
to the Forté Foundation, while that number is about 40% today. The Journal highlights HBS couple Sarina Richard (MBA 2015) and Drew Richard (MBA 2015), who met during a class discussion group. Why does HBS make for such fertile ground for... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Books: A Nation Transformed by Information
Edited by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., and James W. Cortada (Oxford University Press) In their new book, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present, HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: Information
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
not focused on them. In this paper we argue for greater recognition of repositioning costs, provide a repositioning cost typology, and demonstrate the fertility of this approach with a simple model of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation
A Resource for the Next Big Idea, and More The HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation is instrumental in bringing innovative projects to life at the School. Recent successful HBS initiatives that are advancing management... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Strike Up the Broad(band)
Mercer Management Consulting, shed some light on the allure and promise of broadband technology in an October 1999 article in Scientific American. In "The Light at the End of... View Details
- 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016
2016 Boston: Cengage Learning Management: An Integrated Approach By: Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony Mayo, and Nitin Nohria Abstract—The goal of Management: An Integrated Approach, 2nd ed., is to prepare students for leadership positions in 21st... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Erling Lorentzen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
where his family had shipping lines. Soon he saw an opportunity for a new business. His idea was to create eucalyptus forests in a deforested but fertile area of Brazil’s interior and to then turn the trees... View Details