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- 11 Apr 2019
- Blog Post
Kel Jackson, MBA 2019: "[My Job] Matters. I Didn't Want a Role that Would Box Me In."
[aviation] acronyms.” says Jackson. “For me, it was a really great combination. I ended up getting a lot of autonomy. I didn’t want a role that would box me in. It gave me an opportunity to jump in the ocean and use the skills I had and... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Apr 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami
recent case studies. Her insights illuminated how passionate believers are driving meaningful change across various sectors. Harnessing Ocean Energy: Vineyard Wind Professor Kanter began with the groundbreaking Vineyard Wind project,... View Details
- 10 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures
transparent. Clean Water Contestants DetoXyFiRishon Benjamin, MBA 2022We aim to provide everyone with access to clean drinking water by commercializing low-cost, natural, comprehensive water filtration devices. Ocean CycleRobert Goodwin,... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- Blog Post
Making the Move into Digital Health and Software Engineering
US, UK, Canada and India. It was crazy. Harvard also provided many academic opportunities during the Second Year to build my technical and digital health skill set. Last fall, Julia Austin, a Senior Lecturer at HBS and CTO of Digital View Details
- 25 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID
social utility. I am working this summer with Circulate Capital, an investment fund focused on waste and recycling businesses that fight ocean plastic waste and advance the cause of a circular economy. The work has allowed me to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Making Eco Easy
microplastics per liter. “All the plastic our society is consuming is ending up in our oceans and waterways, where it is breaking down into tiny pieces and appearing in the water we drink, the food we eat, and the formula I was making for... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
helping to rescue passengers and ships, and as pirates, for exploiting these shipwrecks for their treasure, the wrecker captains operated from the early 19th century to the early 20th century. Their exploits took them from the Atlantic to the Pacific View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
climate change, ocean acidification, or depleting the topsoil, because business as a whole is going to suffer from the results of environmental degradation. There is a very strong collective case for business action, but from a... View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
infrastructure—e.g., low carbon cement, green fertilizers, ocean alkalinity enhancement. How do you see your current role and/or company having an impact on climate change? For novel climate tech startups, it is incredibly challenging to... View Details
- 18 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language
Does the federal deficit matter? Oceans of ink track and report this monster tally (current estimates for fiscal year 2006 stand at $260 billion), yet Jerry Green of Harvard Business School and Laurence J. Kotlikoff of Boston University... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
to weather. Beyond business, ClimaCell is working on providing weather data to developing countries that don’t have the radar and weather station coverage of the sort provided by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. In... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)
infrastructure—e.g., low carbon cement, green fertilizers, ocean alkalinity enhancement. How do you see your current role and/or company having an impact on climate change? For novel climate tech startups, it is incredibly challenging to... View Details
- Web
Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
Flood Prevention Methods Reduce, Transfer, and Bear Show Hide Details Concepts Heat Water Scarcity Wildfires Storms and Floods Sea-Level Rise Changes in the Ocean Featured Exercises Consider how your firm assesses climate change’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
Welcome to Tanzania, the self-described “home of the safari” situated on the Indian Ocean in East Africa. Visitors come to see Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest freestanding peak in the world; the Serengeti National Park; the Ngorongoro... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
produces continual improvement and allows them to rapidly adapt to change without succumbing to complexity. Dorade: The History of an Ocean Racing Yacht by Douglas D. Adkins (MBA 1975) (David R. Godine) This is a history of the Dorade,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
country are trying to develop and advance such metrics. "For decades people have said there is just no way to measure nonprofit value creation. How can you value a forest or a clean ocean or living in a nonracist society? But I think... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)
themed series in 2022 covered several angles of corporate decarbonization—from HP’s climate plan to startup BlocPower’s strategy to electrify and decarbonize buildings, Aspen Institute’s collaborative initiative to help decarbonize ocean... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
will perform in different environments. Essentially, we can boil the ocean in a way that would be much more difficult if we didn’t have this infrastructure, which saves a huge amount of time and resources. The quicker you can make a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
right things were done that day." It's easy to hear the note of satisfaction and pride in Smith's voice, and while he's too modest to openly acknowledge his leadership role in Starbucks' phenomenal success, he's too honest to discount the effort it involved. "If you... View Details
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
accidently, as sources are written in languages not easily understood. The globalization of the world in the 19th century, as a third speaker discussed, has been written from a Euro-centric perspective. In reality, the bazaars and local merchants of the India View Details