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- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
and refineries are at capacity. It's going to take about a decade for us to catch up with the ever-increasing demand for energy." Simmons uses a well-known Boston construction project for a dramatic analogy: "You would be hard-pressed to View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
location-which lies about 1,800 miles north of Toronto—a destination for ecotourists, will offer an economic boon to the area, and will forever alter the way the world thinks about the Arctic. “It turns people’s eyes to the north,” Balsillie says. Subtle changes in... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
40 percent of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of a coastline, putting wave and tidal power conveniently close to “demand loads” (aka customers). The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) estimates... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night. Many of the musicians were still living in hotels or... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
money out there looking for interesting new businesses. On the face of it, it’s a match made in heaven, with lots of positives; but beware the negatives. Those investment decisions will shape the future of your business. The standard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
In the Blood
million. Clay didn’t own the horse, but he makes a standard commission of 5 percent on managing the sale of some 250 horses a year like her. Boarding and sales are two facets of his business, Clay explains; he also breeds his own mares,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
Fienning, MBA Class of 1970, Section C. Five years after graduation, I was a partner in a mobile-home retailing company in Greensboro, North Carolina. I was a bachelor, living in a mobile home, and trying to create a manufactured housing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Tigers in the late twentieth. Many may consider this an old-fashioned way to develop, but as Sun argues, it's the only one that's proven to raise living standards across entire societies in a lasting way.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
club notes, has touched the lives of more than half a million people in India and has also exported medicines to many other hard-hit countries in Asia and Africa. Dr. Natarajan founded the Pune Platform for COVID Response (PPCR), which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
should bear the cost of insuring against it, just as commercial banks pay into an FDIC insurance pool. And the government should insist on appropriate capital standards and liquidity requirements to limit the type of risks that these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
educational products. A key aspect of LEGO’s approach to the educational toy market centers on educating parents about the importance of play. “Play is undervalued,” explains Moynihan. “Children’s lives are so structured that they often... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
provide electricity that is affordable, and reliable, and sustainable, using a technology called solar-powered mini-grids. What that means is, we provide electricity to people who don't have it in rural villages across West Africa. Morrell: If you View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Green Revolution has indeed begun," he said at the launch. From the beginning, Notore focused on Nigeria's smallholder farmers, who use about a tenth of the fertilizer of their peers elsewhere. Because farmers making a dollar or two a day couldn't afford the View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
will only increase as hospitals learn all it can do. Once they learn, they tend to incorporate Watson quickly. For instance, at the University of North Carolina’s teaching hospital, Watson moved from a novelty assisting doctors to the View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
mentors. They have a vision of how they want to live their lives, and I still try to emulate them. And HBS helped make it all possible! BARBARA HACKMAN FRANKLIN Barbara Hackman Franklin (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964), former US Commerce... View Details