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Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
business expertise with groups promoting farming and sustainable living practices in underserved communities, including Yunus Social Business in Haiti and Seed Street in New York City's Harlem neighborhood. At HBS, Atluri was known for...
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- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
it seriously. You can get that sense of the transcendent. Look, you've got to get small is the bottom line. Because if you're too big, well, that's not reality. That's not-- none of us is that big except for Oprah. And Winfrey: That's...
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by HBS Staff
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
This led owners to experiment with ways of increasing the pace of labor, Rosenthal explains, such as holding contests with small cash prizes for those who picked the most cotton, and then requiring the winners to pick that much cotton...
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by Katie Johnston
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor
up on a 1,200-acre dairy farm in rural Pennsylvania, with ponds and pastures to explore and frogs and turtles to play with, Roosevelt learned early on that “outdoors is the most interesting place to be.” At Harvard College, he majored in...
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- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate...
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by Rachel Layne
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Eduardo Avalos
your most memorable classroom moment? HBS has a section tradition called Flag Day in which we deliver small presentations on each country represented our classroom. I am a dual citizen of Mexico and the U.S. I proudly represent two...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
WindBy: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small March 2024 | Case | Faculty Research To activate the first wind turbines in the ocean off Martha’s Vineyard eventually supplying clean energy to 400,000 households, Vineyard Wind’s leaders...
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- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
executive officer, on a visit to Pola's head office in Tokyo, heard news of critical comments about the company and animal testing in a Facebook post from a group in South Australia where the brand had been founded as a small biodynamic...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on...
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
Gona: Great Farm Key concepts: Agricultural Development, Strategy, Nigeria Iberdrola: Leading the Energy Revolution Tesla in 2024: Holding on to the EV Lead? What IKEA Do We Want? Key concepts: Business models, Customer relationship...
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- 27 Oct 2015
- News
Sweet Success
stunning—completely untouched,” says Turner. They named the property Madava Farms after daughters Maddie and Ava. “There were no roads, no houses; just forest, trout streams, and wildlife,” he notes. “We’d walk in the woods and think how...
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Deborah Blagg
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Winners & Runners-up - New Venture Competition
response and communication. Be Mixed Cristina Ros Blankfein, Jennifer Ross Business Track Runner-Up Natural and zero-calorie mixer for cocktail sipping anytime, anywhere. 2015 Social Enterprise Track Focus Foods Julia Kurnik, Geoff Becker Social Enterprise Track Winner...
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- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
novel technologies and innovating business models that can reshape how we produce and consume energy. Doug's role prior to HBS was a Project Engineer at ExxonMobil. Jessie Pease (MBA 2024, Section K), Summer Internship: Digital Agriculture MBA Intern, BrightFarms...
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Past Issues - Alumni
off her career on the ground floor of a startup, taking one big bet on a very small screen Complete Table of Contents June 2019 A More Perfect Union America’s faith in democracy is fading. Daniella Ballou-Aares is leading a group of...
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- 23 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?
alternative fuels and trucks. These emissions are still relatively small compared to those at the farm level, so we were excited to learn about their farmer sustainability initiatives. Farmer Sustainability...
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Deposit Insurance SEC established Federal regulations prohibit false advertising Influence: Low 401940s19 Military spending explodes Graduated income tax, Victory Tax adopted to fund war effort Rationing Influence: Medium-Low 501950s19 Military spending shifts to...
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- 24 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class
are big questions but especially in today’s environment it’s important to continuing asking them of ourselves.” Ari Medoff Current Role: CEO and Co-Owner, Arosa – a social enterprise that seeks to build new models of care for seniors. Coming out of graduate school, I...
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- 05 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
Solving Climate Change Starts with an Idea
the pressure of work or classes get in the way? I needn’t have worried. People were fired up. When I asked participants to write down what their priorities were, I could see the notebooks and pencils moving, with pauses to think. And at the end of every session we had...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Rationing Influence: Medium-Low 501950s19 Military spending shifts to nuclear deterrents Small Business Administration created Influence: Medium 601960s19 Great Society Consumer and environmental protection movements strengthen Vehicle...
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