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- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
As a result, SEEQC could take some of the uncertainty out of a sector whose core technology relies on the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. Indeed, if Levy succeeds, the company might wind up supplying the technology that closes the door... View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
at 3:00 a.m. and asked to perform. We call this pattern your trust “anchor.” Your anchor is the attribute that’s least likely to get wobbly on you, even when the proverbial clouds start to gather and winds start to howl. Reprinted by... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 24 May 2017
- News
Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979
for their first fund and bought 12 companies: airports, ports, pipelines, power plants, and a wind farm, to name a few. “We found that by applying some basic business techniques we could really make a difference,” he says. That simple... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
customers. Eventually, of course, the integrated mills ran out of markets to flee to. 3. Disruptive opportunities require a separate business-planning process. All innovative ideas start out as half-baked propositions. They then go through a shaping process as they... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival
indeed, Scott became a martyr, a great hero for English history. This meant that Shackleton was perceived to be out of the loop when he started to raise money. And as the winds of what would become World War I started whipping across... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note
in school with the option to join the company when they graduate, Fuller’s analysis finds that three-quarters of employers wind up happy with their trainees and two-thirds of apprentices go on to college or career. “Employers see a real... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Policy Drivers for Environmental Justice: What Businesses Need to Know
these factories. Otherwise, these factories will cause harm to the DACs that they are supposed to revitalize and create opportunities in. Thanks to IRA green manufacturing incentives, General Electric Vernova, a subsidiary of General Electric, announced a $50 million... View Details
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C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection | About
C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection Collection In 2021, Harvard Business School acquired Wind Sculpture (SG) V (2019) by Yinka Shonibare CBE RA for the C. Ludens Ringnes Sculpture Collection. Yinka Shonibare CBE RA View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
require major changes in this vital sector of the economy. 40 % Of total Green House Gas Emissions is from Electricity Generation. 20 % Of the world's population currently lives without access to electricity. 4-5x Quicker growth in wind... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
which share an unmistakable synergy: “I’m just trying to put wind at the backs of black women,” she says. It was the reason she broke her silence. It’s the motivation behind her startup—which she plans to pick up again as soon as the dust... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
each coming into play to a varying degree at different times. The best leaders can sense the winds of change and adapt with the times. Great American Business Leaders: 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s the 20 th... View Details
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
effort. They’ve reached out to the community—but are they really in touch with it? Is the ballot effort really, as a Detroit YALPer suggests, just “important people doing important-people things?” When the discussion winds down,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2013
- News
How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case
slightly suspect at that point) concept and practice known as entrepreneurship. Reiss phoned Stevenson and arranged a visit. The two men discussed the R&R deal, which Reiss was then winding up, and Stevenson asked Reiss if he could write... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- Blog Post
The Importance of Mentorship: A Conversation With Professor Ting Zhang
my radar until I ventured onto HBS campus one day to attend an info session for what I thought was for getting an MBA, and instead turned out to be about doctoral programs in business schools. Becoming a faculty member is a long and View Details
- 13 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion
Eight of us (six HBS students, a translator, and a driver) packed into a nine-passenger minivan for a winding drive through the bustling streets of Seoul. Our driver navigated us to a small office building as child-like anticipation grew... View Details
- 18 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal
its emphasis on individual heroes, cycling is very much a team sport, one where the team supports the leader and works for his success. Riders help shield their leader from other cyclists in tight packs, draft in front of him to reduce View Details
- 06 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are You a Level-Six Leader?
was sentenced to 24 years and four months in prison. Level Three: Chameleon At the next level sits Chameleons. These are the "leaders" who bend with the wind and strive to please as many people as possible at all times. In some... View Details
Keywords: by Mitch Maidique
- 30 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way
Markets," looks at a wide range of practices, legal and illegal, from dwarf tossing to slavery to California's ban on the human consumption of horse meat, and asks how economists can find a common language, if not a common point of view, with the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace