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Delivering Hope in Her “Fourth Quarter”
13 May 2025 Skydeck If I Knew Then Re: Bonnie Cohen (MBA 1967); Vittorio Colao (MBA 1990); Debby Farrington (MBA 1976); Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966); John Rice (MBA 1992) 15 Dec 2024 HBS Magazine Crucible: Give It Up Re: Mark Adams (MBA 1995); By: Mark Adams; Illustration by Caroline Tomlinson 23 Oct 2024 HBS Alumni News Running Man Re: Eric Spector (MBA 1972); By: Christine Speer Lejeune; photos by Alison Yin 03 Jul 2024 Skydeck Surviving the Iditarod Re: Suz Stroeer (MBA 2011) More Related...
A Recipe for Health
As the general public begins to recognize the medicinal power of food, Johnson & Wales is poised to meet the opportunity — and responsibility — of making the world a healthier place. When Assistant Professor Jonathan Poyourow '03, RD, LD, CSCS was an officer and a dietitian in the Army in 2006, he was in charge of a dozen soldiers, and one of their monthly exercises was a 12-mile road march around the Fort Campbell, Kentucky, base.
Embracing organic can save our wild isles
David Attenborough’s latest TV series Wild Isles is delightful, astonishing, and harrowing in equal measure. His incredible insights into the natural world are inspiring. But, as he points out, the UK is one of the most nature-depleted places on Earth. Helen Browning, the chief executive of the Soil Association, will be speaking at the SMALL IS THE FUTURE event taking place on Saturday, 17 June 2023. Speakers include Dr Ann Pettifor, Charlie Hertzog Young, Gareth Dale Professor Herbert Girardet.
Clearing the Air
When the United States Congress passed the Inflation Reduction Act in the summer of 2022, it was heralded as a landmark investment in the environment. “This bill is the biggest step forward on climate ever,” President Joe Biden said when he signed the legislation, which included $369 billion for efforts such as advancing clean energy, curbing pollution, and incentivizing consumer adoption of environmentally friendly technology.
Open Market
Finding the Next Big Thing One of the biggest challenges Howard faces in her COO role is the vast amount of available opportunities. “We have so much we want to do at Robinhood,” she says. “There’s a lot of room for new ideas across this space. Probably the hardest thing we’ve had to do as a company is prioritize, focus, and say no to things.” Howard is not a fan of the peanut butter approach, where you cover a lot of ground, but without any depth or quality.
Hydroponics are not organic
Bringing hydroponics under the banner of organic would create a marketing ‘glow’ for hydroponics - but it would be to the detriment of organic. True solutions tend to have deeper roots – quite literally. Donate The Ecologist has a formidable reputation built on fifty years of investigative journalism and compelling commentary from writers across the world.
Growing Home - Alumni - Harvard Business School
07 Sep 2021 Growing Home Yoshito Hori is revitalizing his hometown—and hoping to inspire other entrepreneurs to do the same Re: Yoshi Hori (MBA 1991); By: Dan Morrell Topics: Leadership-Leading ChangeManagement-Growth and Development StrategySociety-Urban Development ShareBar Illustration by PJ Loughran Video Embed Music by Steven Collins.
Good food must be a right for everyone
The empty supermarket shelves we experienced in Spring this year were a shock to most of us and a sobering reminder of just how vulnerable our food system really is. Up until now, many of us never had to think about how or where our food is produced or the complex just-in-time supply chains that bring us that extraordinary kaleidoscope of choice in the aisles. The Covid-19 pandemic reminded us of the role food plays in our daily lives.
Fix nitrogen to fix climate change
Nitrogen is essential for all life on earth and fundamental for farming. But to tackle the climate impact of farming we must turn off the synthetic nitrogen tap and manage nitrogen better. Pollution from nitrogen use and manufacture of synthetic fertilisers is driving climate change. To tackle the climate impact of farming we must turn off the synthetic nitrogen tap and manage nitrogen better.
Story Details - Alumni - Harvard Business School
05 Mar 2020 Green Light How an unlikely farmer is plotting the future of food By: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles Topics: Agribusiness-Plant-Based AgribusinessInnovation-Disruptive InnovationLeadership-Leading Change ShareBar In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food.
Story Details - Alumni - Harvard Business School
25 Feb 2020 Green Light How an unlikely farmer is plotting the future of food By: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles Topics: Agribusiness-Plant-Based AgribusinessInnovation-Disruptive InnovationLeadership-Leading Change ShareBar In a nondescript former root beer plant, tucked behind the Curtain & Bath Outlet off Main Street in Millis, Massachusetts, FreshBox Farms is growing the future of food.
Meadowlands YMCA Winter Open House
Visit the Meadowlands YMCA for a fun-filled day of activities for the whole family. On Saturday, February 22nd, the annual Winter Open House is the perfect chance to experience all that the Meadowlands YMCA has to offer.
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
01 Dec 2019 Capitalizing the Corner Shop What a fintech startup mobilizing mom-and-pop lending in Nigeria can tell us about innovation in emerging markets by Dan Morrell Topics: photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow, and banks in Nigeria just don’t operate at the same speed as Ejeh.
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
Photo by Chris Sorensen Bitcoin turned 10 this year, with the currency’s creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, mining the first 50 tokens in January 2009. Yet the cryptocurrency space still feels undefined—a result of both its impenetrability and its volatility.
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
Photo by Chris Sorensen Bitcoin turned 10 this year, with the currency’s creator, the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto, mining the first 50 tokens in January 2009. Yet the cryptocurrency space still feels undefined—a result of both its impenetrability and its volatility.
More Than a Game
Above: photo by Peter Taylor Fernando Aguirre (PPL 2009) owns the Erie SeaWolves minor league baseball team, and he runs it with the same management strategies he employed during his career in consumer goods. One is a hands-on approach: While CEO of Chiquita, he once worked in lettuce fields as part of the TV show Undercover Boss ; in his first year as SeaWolves owner, he served as a color commentator for the home radio broad casts and sometimes helped the grounds crew pull the tarp on the field.
Meadowlands YMCA's Spring Fling Open House
Meadowlands YMCA Spring Fling Open House Flyer Visit the Meadowlands YMCA for a fun-filled day of activities for the whole family! On Saturday, April 27th, they will be hosting the annual Spring Open House, which is the perfect chance to experience the new Meadowlands YMCA and check out everything the largest YMCA facility in NJ has to offer.
A Wider Net - Alumni - Harvard Business School
01 Mar 2019 44 44 views A Wider Net Professional soccer has never been more popular in the United States. So why aren’t more kids playing it? US Soccer President Carlos Cordeiro says the problem isn’t a lack of interest—it’s a lack of access by Dan Morrell Topics: Illustration by Neil Webb When the United States men’s National Soccer Team failed to qualify for the 2018 World Cup—for the first time in 32 years—the critiques were scathing.
Winter 2019 - Game Over
Game Over The esports revolution has arrived, says Cloud9 President Dan Fiden ’97. And it might just change traditional sports as we know it. By Dan Morrell Illustration by Fabio Consoli “I’m firmly in Generation X,” says Dan Fiden ’97. “Video games were a part of my life probably earlier than some other people.” That was both uncommon for his generation, says Fiden, and totally uncool. But for the kids these days?
Source Code - Alumni - Harvard Business School
ShareBar Picture a dog. The image you have in your mind probably has a long history. It likely started when you were very young and came across a dog for the first time: Maybe you pet the dog, maybe it licked your hand. You met a few other dogs, and you got a sense of how they move, what they feel like, the space they occupy, what they sound like.
Source Code - Alumni - Harvard Business School
Picture a dog. The image you have in your mind probably has a long history. It likely started when you were very young and came across a dog for the first time: Maybe you pet the dog, maybe it licked your hand. You met a few other dogs, and you got a sense of how they move, what they feel like, the space they occupy, what they sound like.
Havana Rising - Alumni - Harvard Business School
When hotel manager Alessandro Benedetti worked for Kempinski chain locations in Spain and Switzerland, morning meetings were a time to go over the numbers and discuss strategy for the days ahead.
What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)
Three years ago, Minnie Ingersoll pressed her career coach with a basic query: What does a COO actually do? After 12 years at Google, Ingersoll had cofounded the online car marketplace Shift in 2013, taking on the unfamiliar role.
Ask the Expert: Star Search
Nobody, says Kate Gulliver (MBA 2009), chooses to work somewhere just because they offer a free lunch. “I think people care far more about being excited about the content of the work they’re doing,” says Gulliver, the global head of talent at online home goods retailer Wayfair. “They want to know, ‘Do I feel like I can add value and make a difference?’” Gulliver manages a 300-person team at Wayfair dedicated to helping the growing e-commerce company recruit and retain talent.
More Than a Game
Fernando Aguirre (PPL 2009) owns the Erie SeaWolves minor league baseball team, and he runs it with the same management strategies he employed during his career in consumer goods. One is a hands-on approach: While CEO of Chiquita, he once worked in lettuce fields as part of the TV show Undercover Boss ; in his first year as SeaWolves owner, he served as a color commentator for the home radio broad casts and sometimes helped the grounds crew pull the tarp on the field.
Warren Brown: Stars escaping the Milky Way help map matter in our galaxy
The center of the Milky Way galaxy is a crowded, busy neighborhood: clusters upon clusters of pulsating young stars, giant clouds of gas, dying stars exploding, and, in the middle of it all, a massive black hole. So powerful is the gravitational pull of the black hole that stars in closest orbit have been measured circling it at 26.8 million miles per hour--far faster than the sun, which pokes around the galaxy at a mere 500,000 miles per hour.
Malcolm Whitman reveals how an ancient Chinese remedy stops autoimmune disease
The blue evergreen hydrangea’s history as a natural treatment for fever and malaria dates back in Chinese lore at least two thousand years, to the Han dynasty (206 b.c.–a.d. 220).
Higher Ground - Alumni - Harvard Business School
Eight months after the levees broke, the Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra returned to New Orleans to play a concert. They weren’t home yet, though. Their usual venue, the 87-year-old Orpheum Theater downtown, was in ruins, still covered in mud and sludge. The only venue available for the April concert was Tulane University’s Dixon Hall, with a stage that could barely fit all 67 orchestra members. Location was perhaps the least of the LPO’s challenges that night.
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand and operate in the business world—and beyond.(Click the ideas to explore.) PLUS: Alumni experts on what big ideas we’ll see in 2016.
The coming surge of Cuban baseball players.
Trade embargo notwithstanding, we are clearly in the midst of a boom in Cuban baseball imports. Yahoo Sports recently reported that at least 19 Cuban émigrés have been cleared to play by Major League Baseball since 2009—more Cuban nationals than entered the majors between 2000 and 2009. What's behind the sudden push? Big-league money is attractive to Cuban players, who are estimated to make somewhere between $20 to $40 a month. But that's always been the case.
At Last, a Flight Check-In System That Doesn’t Suck
The groans that follow a canceled flight announcement aren’t just recognition of instant inconvenience but also anticipation of frustrations to come: waiting in line, watching ticket agents hammer keyboards, wondering why getting on the next flight has to be so difficult. Don’t aim your ire at the poor ticket agent. The problem, says ITA Software CEO Jeremy Wertheimer, is the system.
Amartya Sen proposes a measure of poverty that looks beyond income
If poverty means more than just the weight of a wallet, the world’s poor may be more numerous than previously believed. World Bank estimates put the population of global poor at 1.44 billion people--but a recent poverty index based on the work of Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, Lamont University Professor and professor of economics and philosophy, raises that number to 1.71 billion. The differences lie in how poverty is measured.
Your Own Medicine
There's this picture of Charley Seckler from last summer that his mom has sent to everyone: Her 12-year-old son, sitting cross-legged on a hospital bed in jeans and Chuck Taylors, mussed brown hair, smiling just enough to reveal dimples, with his hand out in front of him, holding two small white pills. "First dose of HT-100. That's it," she says, pulling up the photo on the computer at her office in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Torturers think victims expressing pain are guilty
Nowhere in the pages of the Malleus Maleficarum (The Hammer of Witches), a fifteenth-century German book that served as a kind of witch-hunt manual, is there any guidance on what one should do if the witch is innocent. “The idea, apparently, was to keep going until the witch confesses, at which point, you burn her,” says Kurt Gray, a Ph.D. student in social psychology. Modern victims of torture face similarly poor odds of convincing their tormentors of their innocence, says Gray.
Online voting system Helios offers prototype for transparent, secure elections
The typical voter experience, as Ben Adida sees it, involves too much trust. “There is a disconnect the moment you drop off your ballot,” says the fellow of Harvard’s Center for Research on Computation and Society and faculty researcher at Harvard Medical School. After a ballot is cast, voters can only wait for the results to appear on their smart phones, or on the evening news.
How Spindrift Makes Natural Sodas Without High Fructose Corn Syrup (It’s Harder Than You Think)
to smaller, specialty sodas such as Jones’s and Boylan’s, but most of those are still made with sweetened soda that lives up to the FDA’s strict or syrups. His Spindrift Soda is just the tally of costs incurred because isn’t set up to be juice-friendy. It took nearly a year for Creelman to figure out how to flavor the soda–mostly hunting down places whose nectar qualifies as FDA-certified fresh. “There are plenty of people who make fresh-squeezed juice on a small scale,” says Creelman.
Michael Greenberg studies molecular-level memory formation and eRNA
In the early 1960s, Harvard Medical School (HMS) researchers (and future Nobel laureates) David Hubel and Torsten Wiesel began a series of landmark experiments investigating the effects of experience on the brain. In one trial, the pair closed a kitten’s eye at birth to measure the effects of sensory deprivation. After six months, they reopened the eyelid and found that the animal was almost completely blind in that eye.
How to Build a Fuel Efficient Car: Make It Superlight
This story first appeared on Slate and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When anonymous Ford executives told the Wall Street Journal this summer that the company would be switching out the steel body of its iconic F-150 pickup for an all-aluminum one beginning in 2014, many brand loyalists at the Ford Truck Enthusiasts forum were somewhat skeptical. Price was a concern, given that aluminum can cost as much as four times as much as steel.
From Human Nature to Human Resources
In 1990, just as professor of organizational behavior Paul Lawrence was preparing to retire from the Business School, he began to notice a new leadership model gaining traction among some of his colleagues. “Agency theory” argued that managers’ prime responsibility was to work in the best interest of shareholders, he says, and was widely embraced.
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
You can tell Rethink Robotics’ products by their faces: A small, white digital screen with two expressive eyes. They have names, too: Baxter is its first-generation two-armed robot, meant for simpler jobs like unpacking boxes; Sawyer is a one-armed robot designed for more precise tasks like placing memory cards into motherboards. The humanizing is intentional and essential to integrating the bots into a factory’s workflow.
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs, and when he visits them, he always keeps his eye out for a surefire sign of trouble: A customer talking to a manager. It means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out.
Who Are We? - Alumni - Harvard Business School
The Bulletin staff set out to answer a question they hear all the time: Who ARE the HBS alumni? Digging into the alumni database,* they found a network that ranged from farmers to financiers, and just about everything in between. Here, a few of the stories behind the stats. *Numbers seem off? Update your info and help us get a better picture of HBS alumni.
Better Hiring Through Brain Science
Frida Polli (MBA 2012) came to HBS as a neuroscientist in search of a business problem to solve, and she found it during the recruitment season. All of these companies and job-seekers searching for hints of a good fit in handshakes and CVs—it seemed so, well, unscientific to her. Besides, the world was already awash with sophisticated algorithms employed to match people with the perfect Amazon purchase, Netflix binge, or Friday night date.
The New Venture Competition Crowns a New Crop
NVC 20: This year marked the 20th anniversary of the New Venture Competition, which began in 1997 as the HBS Business Plan Contest. (photo by Susan Young) After surviving among a pool of 171 alumni teams from 14 different regions, four alumni New Venture Competition finalists made their final pitches to a crowd at Burden in late April.
Net Gains - Alumni - Harvard Business School
On his first day at HBS, Mark Tatum (MBA 1998) went to the career office, told them he wanted a job in the business of sports, and came home with a printout of every relevant alumnus in the HBS database. Then he hit the phones. "Remember, this is before email," he says with a laugh. "I was cold calling them." His persistence paid off: He's marking his 15th anniversary with the National Basketball Association next month—and he'll be celebrating it in a new office.
Swimming with the Stream
When Kiran Gandhi (MBA 2015) thinks about marketing her music, she thinks about it in consumer product terms. A feminist activist and former drummer for Grammy-nominated artist M.I.A., she wants her new electronic solo project, Madame Gandhi, to be more than just a jogging soundtrack. “How can I be the person people think of when they think about power and inspiration? How can I be the go-to destination for music and feminism?” she says.
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
Your credit card has already been stolen. You just don’t know it yet. Thomas knows it, though. (A 12-year IT security veteran, Thomas requested anonymity to protect the reputation of his employers, which have included Fortune 100 companies and several of New England’s biggest tech firms.) In the analogy of cyberdefense as a castle—a favorite of his—he tends to the moats, the walls, and the gates. Get past those, and he deploys the dogs.
The People’s Pods
Between 2008 and 2015, the percentage of Americans who listen to podcasts nearly doubled, according to Pew Research, jumping from 9 percent to 17 percent. What’s driving the growth? And how did a 10-year-old medium suddenly become the next big thing? Two alumni podcasters—James Allworth (MBA 2010) and Roben Farzad (MBA 2005)—weigh in. HBS: Why did it take so long for the form to find its footing? RF: Technology.
Ready for Takeoff
From her São Paulo office, Claudia Sender (MBA 2002) has a clear view of the Octávio Frias de Oliveira Bridge, a spectacular 450-foot-tall structure of yellow steel cables laid over an X-shaped support tower that spans the Pinheiros River and connects the city's financial district of Brooklin to the favelas of Real Parque. Cars buzz by. "See here?" she says, pointing to the bridge. At 6:30 p.m. on most days, it is a sea of snarled traffic, a city hallmark.
When it comes to fuel efficiency, car companies are seeing the light
When anonymous Ford executives told the Wall Street Journal this summer that the company would be switching out the steel body of its iconic F-150 pickup for an all-aluminum one beginning in 2014, many brand loyalists at the Ford Truck Enthusiasts forum were somewhat skeptical. Price was a concern, given that aluminum can cost as much as four times as much as steel.
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