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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
the unique juncture at which the United States now finds itself, with many speakers urging their audience to get involved in the issues of the day. The event also featured some twenty sessions led by HBS faculty on a variety of subjects related to the GLF’s title, “The...
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- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector Describing his organization's mission as one focused on issues of poverty and equity, World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59) addressed the...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
boutique-filled neighborhood and ending in another. Over at Niedlov’s Breadworks, there are iced lattes and avocado toast—the litmus test for millennial happiness. And humming through it all is a citywide 10-gigabit network, courtesy of the View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
technological aspects of business. They want to integrate the technical training and experience they have with a broader general management perspective to lead those businesses forward. I expect interest in these sectors to grow. How has...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
manufacturers ready to build the electric trucks to incorporate that tech, as well as a scalable market strategy. That strategy depends on TuSimple’s Autonomous Freight Network, the world’s first, which Lu likens to a railroad network of...
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Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Sijh Diagne (photo by Michael Bucher) In March 2020, Sijh Diagne (MBA 2017) was asked to serve as an advisor to Senegal’s minister of economy, planning, and cooperation. He was charged with leading the country’s private-sector development; but just as became the case...
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- 23 Jan 2024
- News
A Wide Net
Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup...
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April White
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Made in Italy
HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and...
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April White
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
to launch than the sector in which he would be working. “We wanted to start a company that helps people and benefits society,” he recalls. The energy sector, which was at the beginning of what Riley calls the “renewable power revolution,”...
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- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
percent of cars from the city. We also completed a significant recapitalization of Altus Power, a market-leading solar power company that provides clean electricity to clients across the United States. We know that every View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
function. One important element will be time-based pricing that stimulates demand when renewables are producing abundant electricity. Additionally, electrification of whole new sectors such as transportation (through View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast MORE For a deeper dive, check out our three-part Skydeck podcast series on carbon capture. Skydeck podcast When the United States Congress passed the Inflation...
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- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
carbon costs were paid for by the producers. MT: Right. It strikes me that perhaps the closest analogy to what you're doing in the marketplace in the US are these opt up electricity deals that in many places around the country you can opt...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fast Casual
Privately owned, with 1,350 locations in 37 states and $1.4 billion in annual sales, PRG is in the “fast casual” sector of the restaurant business — that’s shorthand for not selling hamburgers — and is best known for its Panda Express...
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- 20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
economy. “For a long time, we’ve looked to the government to address almost all of the issues,” Elumelu says of the economic and social concerns in Nigeria and Africa. “The government cannot do everything alone. The private sector is in a...
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April White
- 14 Jan 2022
- News
Power Play
betting on the future and recognizing a shift in the industry. “We’re looking ahead and thinking very deeply about where the industry is going as a result of innovation, as opposed to looking in the past,” he says. One sector where the...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Stewards of the Seventh Generation
heat-trapping gases such as carbon dioxide that are released into the atmosphere when coal and petroleum products are burned. That same day, the Wall Street Journal reported that in California and Arizona, General Motors would this year begin selling battery-powered...
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- 02 Jan 2020
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Empowering Rural Communities
type of firm he wanted to launch than the sector in which he would work. “We wanted to start a company that helps people and benefits society,” he says. The energy sector, which was at the beginning of what Riley calls the “renewable...
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- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
we collectively use them, and that also have no natural limits on how much you can use them—things like computation, communication, biotechnology, renewable energy, and energy storage. “The environment and human well-being are way bigger than the View Details