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- 01 Dec 2022
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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
- 25 Feb 2020
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Task Force
Monroy can make that claim. Based in Mexico City, Zubale crowdsources the expensive and inefficient task of merchandising, using its app to connect independent contractors with major brands looking for the on-the-ground help needed to get their View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Future Vision
Illustration by PJ Loughron Illustration by PJ Loughron How has your experience as Dean of the School differed from your experience as a member of the faculty? Being on campus and engaging with faculty, staff, and students is something I have done for many years, and...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
accelerate adoption of high-performance, energy-efficient materials and practices across the American construction industry. “Our building sector today is responsible for 40 percent of the country’s energy use and emissions,” notes Yang,...
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Kathleen Fu, Deborah Blagg, Julia Hanna, and Maureen Harmon; illustrations by;
energy;
environment;
sustainability;
entrepreneurship;
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation;
Transportation;
Water, Sewage and Supply Systems;
Utilities;
Construction of Buildings;
Construction;
Waste Management and Remediation Services;
Corporate Services
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
expanded into other parts of the country, added four production facilities, and saw sales top $7 million. In 1960, Barford sold his share of the business to his partners and returned home with his family to Toronto. The following year, he...
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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution issue - namely, misplaced View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Stacey Lawson (MBA '96)
illustrations of standard parts, such as valves, pumps, and gears. Today Lawson is the vice president of marketing at InPart, a company she cofounded upon graduating from HBS. InPart, now fifty employees strong, is creating a library of information about standard...
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- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
Reacting to a spate of nations adopting negative interest rates—essentially charging depositors for parking their money—World Bank Vice President and Treasurer Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990) told Bloomberg News that the policy could weaken banks....
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Just Extraordinary
TURNER: A World Cup goal. Matt Mendelsohn The world’s most popular sporting event — and the reason global productivity declines for several weeks every four years — soccer’s World Cup kicks off this month in South Africa. Stacie Scott...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Seeing glass in a new light
Rao Mulpuri (AMP 171, 2006) wants to transform the building industry by disrupting a common product: glass. View Dynamic Glass brings smart windows to buildings, and is gaining rapid adoption in North America—the California-based company...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Teaching for the Ages: the MBA Classroom in the 21st Century
their market? Did they miss important, competitive developments? “There’s all too often an assumption with technological products that people like you should sit back and let the technical folks do it,” says MacCormack, pointing out an...
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- 01 Oct 1999
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Running on empty
Week (June 29, 1999), using $10,000 in savings and working in a partner's garage, Hubbard discovered a way to remove the volatile elements from gasoline. Rendered inert and nonflammable, the resulting liquid product - dubbed "SpareTank" -...
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- 01 Feb 1999
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A Taste of Tradition
Kikkoman Corporation, whose roots stretch back to the seventeenth century, when the Mogi family began soy sauce production in Japan. The company was incorporated in 1917 as Noda Shoyu Co., Ltd., went public in 1949, and changed its name...
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Judith A. Ross
- 09 May 2022
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Green House
so little energy, the solar production will far exceed the annual energy demand. Many high-performance homes are boxy, modern structures. But an energy-efficient house can’t leak air where walls meet, as typical houses do, making more...
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- 13 Apr 2021
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Face Value
As a teenager in Houston, Texas, and one of the few Asian students in her high school, Vicky Tsai (MBA 2006) recognized that didn’t fit the accepted beauty standard. She was more drawn to the Western luxury skincare brands her mother sold in her beauty View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
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To create breakthrough strategies, harness creativity to the scientific method
"Conventional strategic planning is not actually scientific," argues Jan W. Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. "To produce novel strategies, teams need to adopt a step-by-step process in which creative...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Elevator Pitch: Common Knowledge
Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Matthew Ross (MBA 2022) Cofounder and CEO, Trove Health 2022–2023 Blavatnik Fellow Concept: Trove is building the world’s largest longitudinal database of patients and their health information across geographies...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
governance, discussed in a presentation by HBS professor Krishna G. Palepu and associate professor Tarun Khanna. They suggested that the need to compete in global product and labor markets actually preceded capital-market concerns as a...
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- 01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?
institutions in order to increase farmers’ efficiency, yields, product quality, and sustainability. This leads to a bigger revenue pie for farmers and the companies that do business with them. The time has come for a new conception of...
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