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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
New Urban Order
surface, a green roof, or supporting solar panels or wind turbines when possible,” Carty says. “And building wastewater can be treated and reused for flushing toilets and watering plants, for example, which...
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- 16 Nov 2010
- News
The HBS Tunnels
mysterious at all, except for the closed-off parts. Like another local underground system, the MBTA, the HBS tunnels are color-coded — with red, blue, green, and orange “lines,” plus purple, brown, gray, and yellow branches. They reach all View Details
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Keith Larson
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
yourself, build your professional network, and navigate sensitive workplace issues. Discover how to position yourself for promotion and decipher the unspoken “soft skills” that are paramount to success in the professional realm. Grounded...
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- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
Case Howard (Ted) Greene (MBA 1967) “Ant Financial” Rebecca E. Katz (AMP 193, 2017) “Lisa Sherman” Alterrell Mills (MBA 2016) “Fenchel Lampshade” Julie Lopez Santiago (MBA 1994) “Danaher Corporation” Bala V. Sathyanarayanan (AMP 192,...
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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
company that does business in more than 200 countries and uses more than 25 crops sourced from over 7 million acres in 60 different countries, PepsiCo has an opportunity and a responsibility to use our size and scale to help build a food...
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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
six-story, mixed-use building will soon rise above the dirt and gravel. The ground floor will feature an Afrocentric bookstore-café where customers can peruse books by African authors while sipping hibiscus tea and baobab juice. (Dlodlo,...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Americans have the option to opt into green energy through their utility provider. I don't know what current rates are today, but this is actually the next action that we're building into the app as well...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
Subramanian and Pelet, on the runway with Aero (Courtesy Uma Subramanian) Subramanian and Pelet, on the runway with Aero (Courtesy Uma Subramanian) When Uma Subramanian (MBA 2008) joined Aero Technologies as CEO in March 2019, the company was “just a kernel of an...
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April White;
aviation;
airlines;
entrepreneurship;
leadership;
innovation;
Air Transportation;
Transportation
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
One Western Avenue
Over the summer, the University’s newest residential building, One Western Avenue, opened at the corner of Western Avenue and Soldiers Field Road, adjacent to HBS. The building contains 235 apartments and will house about 350 occupants,...
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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Innovative Loan Fund Yields Big Returns
Through its use of Harvard’s innovative Green Campus Loan Fund, HBS has cut energy expenditures and provided a model for conservation-minded schools around the University to follow. The loan fund provides capital for projects that reduce...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
sum total of my work experience was two summer internships. It was a very steep learning curve, but I persevered. HBS gave me an invaluable foundation to build my career. Before joining eBay, you bounced around a lot. Why? In part because...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
that there might just be too many activities available and too much to do, thus decreasing the serendipity of chance social encounters among residents as they crisscross the community’s lush green grounds. Even so, Marshall, a marketing...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
fun. Godtfred championed slow, steady growth. Because of this, it could take years for a new product to go to market. Green bricks, for instance, appeared in play sets only after a decade-long decision-making process. The snail's pace...
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- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
Boston Green Ribbon Commission, a group of business, institutional, and civic leaders developing strategies to fight climate change and meet Mayor Marty Walsh’s 2050 carbon-neutrality goal. However, McCarthy added, “the city is slow to...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Water for Life
Issue Focus: Business and the Environment Zobel de Ayala Photographs by Tom Epperson Issue Focus The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS The City Solution Green Day Related Links Watch Ayala discuss sustainability Sixteen years...
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- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
teams think about their target audience, core user benefits, and which features to build to deliver real value to users—to work that looks more like content programming, where we inform what content we should bring to the platform; to...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New HBS Portal Offers Alumni Just-In-Time Business Information
Directors. Through surveys and interviews, the group provided critical feedback to be used in setting parameters for the design of the portal. When Dean Clark gave the project the green light last June, Michalak formed a portal steering...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
Since its founding in 2010, the Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) at HBS has worked to educate students and business leaders about the environmental challenges and opportunities confronting companies and organizations today, and advance faculty research that...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM...
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Manufacturing