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- 01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
Inventing the Electronic Century: The Epic Story of the Consumer Electronics and Computer Industries (The Free Press) is the fourth major book by Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., the School's Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus. It is the heretofore untold... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Noted & Quoted
"I was always a windup toy for achievement." —Barry Rowan (MBA 1983), on taking a "purposeful pause" in his career before moving to Cool Planet Energy Systems. (CFO.com, December 19, 2012) View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
the faculty, no one wanted to teach a course whose utility and intellectual rigor were considered suspect in the academy, in an area that had no clear track for academic advancement or excellence. It was 1980, and McArthur knew that for... View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
required a mindset of willingness to see opportunity in hardship and recognize that, OK, I'm going through a very difficult time, but I now have resources that I didn't have before. And how can that be utilized to benefit other family... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Just Chillin’
Keeping things cool at HBS during the hot summer months is the chilled water plant, a 19,700-square-foot facility located underground near the B-School parking lot. With hundreds of thousands of gallons coursing through miles of pipe, the plant operates on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
A Wonderful Whirl
Mounted atop the Soldiers Field Park Garage, two wind turbines — 40-foot towers with 11.5-foot blades — represent Harvard’s biggest wind-energy project to date. Weighing more than 1,000 pounds each, the turbines are expected to supply 5 to 10 percent of the seven-story... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
focus their energy based on how people’s spending is changing. Also, it's forcing us to think more about the non-spending aspects of someone's carbon footprint. Right now, we ask people for some survey information to tell us about their home energy use, because many of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
imperfectionism, and show and tell. Imperfectionists are curious, they look at problems from several perspectives, and gather new data and approaches, including from outside their current industry. They deliberately step into risk, proceeding through trial and error,... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
From One to Many
In the years after Keith Ferrazzi (MBA 1992) published Never Eat Alone, he confessed some reluctance in being labeled “the networking guy.” “But 20 years after writing that first book, and after coaching thousands of teams, I’ve finally recognized there’s a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
it always has. It is too expensive; it carries too much investment risk for even the largest utilities without massive transfer of risk to taxpayers and/or ratepayers; and it takes too long from conception to operation to play a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Silver Lining
Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member of Enron’s international... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
emphasizing high-end quality and performance in its design and manufacturing, and with an innovative, technologically advanced, and energy-efficient product mix, including customization options. “The biggest factor in our success is that we can quickly View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Kelleher: Yeah, you're certainly not taking a vinyl record to the gym on the treadmill. I joke with our team we should do an April Fool's video like that, "Portable vinyl." The utility of digital is important, and discovery too, right?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
A Silent Workplace Crisis
resources or employee assistance programs. One simple change, to have information and referral requests managed by experienced geriatric-care managers, would dramatically improve utilization of services. Corporate wellness programs and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Back to School
shinier, too. And yet I supply pencils and paper. When I ran out of lined paper, I tried to be “green” and use the blank side of obsolete handouts. The students said this was “too ghetto” and refused to use the paper. When I demonstrate the View Details
- 24 Oct 2013
- News
Engineering a More Secure World
Management. Harris approached the three decades after HBS as if he were tackling case studies in entrepreneurship. From executive positions at utility companies and owning a car dealership, to launching a Silicon Valley startup, each of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
HBS alumnus Philip Rettger on partnering with the Harvard endowment
Philip Rettger (MBA 1985) has focused his career on renewable and sustainable energy. "While none of us knows what the future will offer for investment returns, I am pleased that the charitable remainder trust that I established several years ago is being invested by... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
spotlight on managers trying to utilize information technology and grappling with actual problems. At the end of their stay in San Francisco, alumni praised the conference's focus, organization, and the presentations by its panelists and... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as much to go around—and when a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?
has developed a "three-dimensional" model that, in addition to utilizing two familiar and traditional aspects of negotiation, offers a third, multifaceted approach that has enormous potential to increase effective negotiation. According... View Details
Keywords: Anita M. Harris