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- 09 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Port Esbjerg: Deploying Offshore Wind
up-close view of a set of wind turbines installed along the beach. Though installed on land, these were offshore turbines, which are typically bigger than their onshore counterparts. These land-based offshore turbines provide companies a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
marketing for the budding business. “It provides all the charting information on your computer, but it also connects to Internet databases and brings in all the latest weather and other flight condition information.” Hamilton discovered... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Urban Renewal
Heidi Duckler, has had a modern dance company that performs in unusual urban spaces all over the world—the firing range of the LA Police Academy, a laundromat. Her work causes us to see the ordinary in extraordinary ways.” Pas de deux:... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
Communications and creator of The Weather Channel; and Bill George (MBA '66), chairman of Medtronic, Clark cited a "pattern of broad and deep leadership" that is global in perspective, entrepreneurial in spirit, literate in information... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut... View Details
- Profile
Shana Hoffman
The very thing that attracted Shana Hoffman to engineering (she completed a BSE in electrical systems engineering at the University of Pennsylvania) frustrated her when she and her family were doing their best to help her father weather a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
forces, differentiation—Professor Porter’s conceptual frameworks are the foundation for understanding how companies achieve and sustain competitive success. A senior associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness at HBS,... View Details
- 30 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 30, 2007
Course MaterialsBASIX Harvard Business School Case 207-099 BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
Cornell works for Blue Origin, where she is head of astronaut strategy and sales and supports engine sales for the space exploration company. Along with a few dozen fellow employees, all dressed in royal blue company polo shirts—including... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Marketable Skill
four hundred purveyors of the market's assorted handmade crafts, antiques, second-hand clothing, artwork, fresh produce, and exotica. Of these many merchants who set up shop - weather permitting - each weekend morning on the blacktopped... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- Student-Profile
Rowan Clarke
HBS.” Research As part of one research project, Rowan is currently collaborating with the largest FinTech company in South Africa to investigate how small and medium businesses respond to shocks. For example, rolling blackouts are causing... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
Karen Gordon Mills served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as head of the Small Business Administration (SBA) during the height of the Great Recession. “Back then, I thought small businesses were weathering the worst financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
event for MBA students to come together to learn and discuss the business implications of climate change. At ClimateCAP, students were able to gain a deeper understanding of the tangible business impacts of the climate crisis and how View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
The weather in New York City was dreary drizzle on a fall day last October 25, but on the third floor of 42nd Street's Grand Hyatt Hotel, there was pure sparkle in the air. More than one hundred HBS alumnae from all over the country and... View Details
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
Having previously worked as a banker, she started the company in 2018 to tackle the environmental degradation resulting from the disposal and burning of car tires in Nigerian landfills. Due to tropical View Details
- 08 May 2017
- Blog Post
Learning through the Case Method
I grew up in a few different places. My dad’s business took us from New Jersey to Georgia, then off to San Diego during the early 90’s. I went to school at the University of Chicago—much different weather there than in San Diego, by the... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- News
Alumni Summit Explores Leadership for a Sustainable Future
organizing committee. “Consumers, workers, government, and financial institutions are putting increasing pressure on companies to provide more sustainable products and services. We felt it would be interesting to share how leadership is... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
as low-fat latte and Frappuccino(r). Starbucks, the Seattle-based company that started in 1971 as a retailer of bulk coffee, tea, and spices, is largely responsible for this new state of coffee consciousness. Today, the View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel