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12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Brittani Rettig

Your Twitter bio reads like that of a superhero ("Management consultant by day, fitness instructor & wellness blogger by night"). Can you tell us about your day and evening jobs? "By day I'm a manager at Deloitte Consulting. I View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Services; Health Care

10 Oct 2018
News

Building Paths to Success

influence.” That small act led to an epiphany for Traill, who set out on a mission to create venture philanthropy that could back social entrepreneurs with strategy and guidance to support young people. A year later, he founded Social Ventures Australia (SVA), where he... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

25 Aug 2022
News

Vision: To Go-Go

off the ground? That is exactly what Juan Azuero and Daniela Izquierdo (both MBA 2019) are doing with Foodology, a foodtech startup with operations in Colombia, Mexico, Brazil, and Peru. Azuero and Izquierdo both grew up in Bogotá, both View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; entrepreneurship; foodtech; startup; Latin America

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

On February 1, 2016, a line of First Nations drummers in traditional regalia—elaborate headdresses, each cheek bearing two red streaks—entered from the rear of a packed hall at the University of British Columbia’s Museum of Anthropology,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

from the epicenter, the rotating power outages promise to be a significant near term challenge. An e-mail exchange with a good friend at a major Japanese multinational over the weekend highlighted for me the uncertainty that lies ahead.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2024 Commencement Remarks | About

think about how you as a leader will instill hard work in your organization, there’s much you can learn from Jamie and Mary. Next, how do you get an organization to behave with humility ? You do it by... View Details

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

Economic Research, Gompers teamed with Will Gornall of the University of British Columbia, Steven N. Kaplan of the University of Chicago, and Stanford University’s Ilya A. Strebulaev to survey more than 1,000 venture capitalists at 900 firms View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

01 Sep 2007
News

Ali Allawi

Governing Council. A member of a prominent Shia family who fled after the revolution of 1958, Allawi was educated in England and the United States, worked for the World Bank, and later became an investment banker. He watched the fall of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; National Security and International Affairs; Government

09 Sep 2024
News

Basket Chase

and work from home, and so I decided to try and buy a small business on my own. Rick Ruback: A couple questions about your search. First of all, why did it take so long? I mean, your search took three years.... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

(Tambor) coming out to his family as transgender, was only available via streaming to members of Amazon Prime’s Instant Video service. The show also took home the award for Best TV Series, Musical or Comedy, marking the first time an... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2020
News

Meal Plan

Image by John Ritter In 2019, US restaurants topped $860 billion in revenues; prior to COVID-19, Americans spent more for food away from home than food purchased for at-home consumption, whether it be a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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Michael R. Bloomberg

customers, the lifeblood of startups.” This is heady stuff for a middle-class kid from Medford, Mass. who believed deeply in the hard work required to get anywhere in the world. He graduated View Details

27 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Should I Pay the Bribe?

corruption exposes the managers and the organizations they work for. But it may also be quite profitable. And, as I explain in the comment to the HBR case, it may sometimes be unavoidable. Q: How can managers avoid paying bribes and still... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell

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MBA 2024 Alumni Transition - Alumni

data You will not lose data, but any data over the 100GB threshold will become read only until it is relocated to another storage medium (cloud service or local storage device). OneDrive for Business benefits include: Store, sync, and share your individual View Details

10 Aug 2022
News

Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age

science and health services from Harvard’s School of Public Health, even she couldn’t successfully navigate the health care system for her mom. It set her on a path of discovery that led to not only a better understanding of the... View Details

01 Jan 2002
News

Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)

and Budget, 1977-80, 1985-87 Northern Air Freight and Danzas Corporation, 1987-90 Why HBS? "I took a year off from college to work at Boeing. There were rows of engineers sitting at desks. After about six... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Vision: A Unicorn Evolves

was that, in the sales-tracking sector, there was only one software Outreach would need to be compatible with: Salesforce. “Suddenly we were working around the clock every day. It was exhilarating,” recalls Medina, who also took on the... View Details

Keywords: April White; entrepreneurship; technology; startups; leadership

01 Mar 2018
News

‘We were just doing what needed to be done’

feelings and felt really out of place. I can’t say I faced overt racism or sexism—it was more a feeling of being invisible. CLIF DARDEN arrived at HBS having driven across the country from his home in Los... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Raising the Barrio

waterfront. An elevated six-lane highway cuts through the heart of it all. Below the traffic, the narrow and often unpaved streets are crowded with makeshift brick and corrugated tin buildings, home to some 43,000 people. “Most porteños... View Details

Keywords: April White

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