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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
W50 Next Steps
Carroll (MBA 1989) as CEO of global mining giant Anglo American. Both cases center on her decisions around the temporary shutdown of mines in South Africa, one of many steps the company would take under her...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo
shuttered for the season in late October. Not only were they not shuttered, every single parking spot had an oil truck in it. “I ran into this high school classmate of mine who—like a lot of my classmates in my little class of 34—stayed...
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- 25 Apr 2014
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In emerging economies, business opportunities provide lessons in leadership
these countries develop more efficient and equitable ways of doing business," says Leach, who anticipates a career in the mining or energy sectors. In Accra, Leach was part of a student team assigned to help a Ghanaian multimedia company,...
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- 12 Apr 2011
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Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS
Mid-Atlantic/Southeastern U.S. HBS Club of New York HBS Club of Washington, D.C. Sahil Patel, MBA '05 PhytoTEK biologic infection solutions Northwestern U.S. HBS Association of Northern California HBS Tech Alumni Club Privahini Bradoo, MBA '08 BioMine e-waste View Details
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Ken Baumgartner - Sticking with It
Photography by Robert Schoen As a boy growing up in Flin Flon, a small mining town four hundred miles north of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Ken Baumgartner did what many Canadian boys do to pass the long winters: He played hockey. But unlike many...
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- 09 Jun 2015
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Building change from the ground up
endured years of poverty, conflict, and corruption. “I’m passionate about the difference technology can make in people’s lives,” he says. In six months, Khoja and his workforce of willing yet largely untrained workers had cleared roads of land View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
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Sustainability Is Good Business
business and environmentalists to collaborate to develop sustainable enterprises. He described, for example, how Nature Conservancy scientists are working with Rio Tinto, a global mining behemoth, to craft an environmentally sensitive...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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The Sparkles in Our Skies
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer Aether Diamonds makes its precious gems out of thin air—literally. The three-year-old company uses carbon dioxide drawn from the atmosphere to synthesize stones that are chemically identical and shine just...
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- 01 Mar 2018
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Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
image by Edmon de Haro image by Edmon de Haro Boris Eykher (MBA 2009) and Ilya Chernilovskiy (MBA 2013) watched the 2015 global price slump in commodities with horror. Prices for commodities fell to their lowest levels since the financial crisis, sending View Details
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Nicole Torres
- 01 Dec 2014
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Making Big Data Fashionable
get designs to consumers in as little as four weeks—and at an affordable price. In 2012, Moon—who has a background in fashion design, investment banking, corporate strategy, and social commerce startups—launched Trendalytics, a visual analytics platform that View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Research Brief: Pocket Change
Illustration by Jim Frazier Women and ethnic minorities donate small amounts of money to political candidates in ways that have helped to democratize the American electoral process, suggests Associate Professor Vincent Pons. In his “Small Campaign Donors” paper, Pons...
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Jill Radsken
- 11 Feb 2016
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Many Voices Working Toward a Solution
problem of how do you get multiple creative people to work together more effectively to solve the seemingly intractable problems of the world that don’t fit within a neat categorization. “A partner of mine and I have been engaged in a...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
at home.” Futures market: “Australia is in its 24th year of consecutive economic growth; over the next 10 years I believe the country will achieve even more due not only to our mining and energy assets, but also to our capacity to harness...
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Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 18 Sep 2017
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Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact
see is that there is no one path,” says Stevenson. The team’s research has been mined for a book for the HBS community that was released in 2019. The book—titled Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a Difference in the World—describes the...
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- 02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities
Utah’s coal country, where three generations of Rileys have mined and where his family still lives. But Riley thinks Guzman Energy has a role to play in that transition. “I’m trying to cultivate a culture inside the reusable-energy sector...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Ink
not nearly enough are aiming to be market leaders in 2025. Foresight is a muscle that can be developed.” —Alison Sander (MBA 1986), director of Boston Consulting Group’s Center for Sensing & Mining the Future, from her October 2014...
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- 01 Apr 2001
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The Small Business Difference: How Smaller Companies Manage with Less
was software that could mine huge databases and organize information that was both usable and affordable for small businesses. But when it didn’t take off with its target customers, Slayton and his team were quick to adapt. Sensing a new...
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- 01 Sep 2013
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A Hollywood Backstory
an abrupt halt: Ellen will not be involved in anything that even remotely suggests cruelty to animals. Similarly, a friend of mine who's an Oscar-nominated cinematographer will not even consider working on films that show children getting...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Students Win Energy Competition
In October, a team of five HBS students won the National Energy Finance Challenge at the University of Texas’s McCombs School of Business, the Harbus reported. Marwan Chaar, Puja Jain, Anh Pham-Vu, Ravi Sarin, and Christine Telyan (all HBS ’09) bested teams from...
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