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...create opportunities for yourself. And, when you’re in charge, provide others with that chance.” The preparation for this kind of leadership is the centerpiece of the HBS education he said. “For decades, Cambridge has supplied Wall Street, Main Street and Silicon Valley, London, Hong Kong, and Mumbai with a steady stream of leaders,” he said. “They achieved greatness not because their Harvard degrees entitled them to it, but because of their creativity, their determination, and their strong sense of accountability.” He praised...
...revolutionary material developed by Harvard physicists can absorb light much more efficiently than ordinary silicon, and it might one day make solar power more economical than oil- or gas-based heating...
...story starts in 1998, when Harvard physics professor Eric Mazur and a team of students took a silicon wafer and bombarded it with laser pulses...
...process, they stumbled upon “black silicon,” a new chip which is inscribed with billions of spikes in the space of a human fingernail...
...Black silicon reflects only 2 to 4 percent of light back into the air, absorbing the rest. Ordinary silicon, by contrast, reflects about 40 percent of light...