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- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
late 2015, “the environmental groups said, ‘We have all that we need. We’re signing off.’ ” The final deal protected 85 percent of Great Bear from logging while offering forestry companies a process for certainty of operational volumes... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
organs. My husband, an MIT physicist, started a company that developed technology intended to keep a diseased heart beating while the patient was awaiting a transplant. Working with him on that start-up was a fascinating experience that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
contending with fallout from the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989. “As a general manager you’re going to get letters from organizations that say do X, Y, or Z,” Oberholzer-Gee observes. “How should you think about them? There are a number... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families Program, which became the View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
that the attacks had caused financial damage that went well beyond losses in passenger revenues, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch (September 20, 2001) reported. "Many insurance companies have notified airlines of astronomic premium increases,"... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020. The View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
generation. When you have an oil company saying that, by 2030, one-third of all car sales are going to be electric vehicles [EVs]—an oil company... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
peak. It’s a “fourteener,” as mountaineers say, meaning more than 14,000 feet high. Vertical adventure, in other words. GoLite Mobile: The company car makes a statement wherever the couple drive in Boulder. (photos of courtesy of GoLite)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
in the standard of living. An individual company, though, can move assets anywhere. So companies can reward their shareholders regardless of what happens to the national economy. As a result, the interest of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Managing a Master
It's the night before the presidential inauguration and Washington's cavernous National Cathedral is packed to capacity. The crowd applauds enthusiastically as seven young men walk down an aisle and take their places on a center stage... View Details
Keywords: Jeff Lazar
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
Kanter: Seeking to help shift the national mood from depression to optimism. An internationally respected authority on strategy, innovation, and leadership for change, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter advocates solving many of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
company to Cargill, and I moved to the farm full time.” Today Three Chimneys employs 140 and encompasses 1,800 acres spread over six parcels of land: four are dedicated to mares and foals, one to yearlings, and the last to the farm’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
international firms, “corporate culture trumps national culture,” is in line with what other studies show. They indicate that as high-performing global companies implement transnational strategy and strive... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
led it back to profitability during the oil boom of the 1970s. By 1983, however, boom had turned to bust. After restructuring the company to a more suitable size, Strassler cashed out and helped his brother... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
the day—the evening drop has melatonin, for example—and we're now rolling out a line of medicated lozenges." A Higher Authority When Steve Silk took over at Hebrew National in 1999, the company had lost $6... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
ripe for enormous revolution." In addition to chili peppers, Mustapha's farm grows onions, tomatoes, maize, and sugarcane. To witness the limits of government intervention, Nigerians once needed to look no further than the state-owned View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
offers: one from an oil and gas company and another from the consulting firm Bain, which had just set up an office in the country in 1997. She turned to longtime friend and chemical engineering classmate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
RIVKIN: “In the private sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long.” Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in... View Details