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- 01 Apr 1998
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World Class Learning
Education Programs, bringing their valuable global perspective to classroom discussions. While welcoming students from other countries to its classrooms over the years, HBS has engaged in numerous other international outreach activities.... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
percent in the next two years. Global patent filings from the EU also dropped to record lows, hovering at a dismal 5.8 percent of global filings in 2013. (In comparison, the United States was at 22.3 percent, China at 32.1 percent.) And state-level regulatory... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Action Plan: Finding Fluency
accidental timeline of the COVID era: Duolingo saw a 101 percent increase in users in March 2020, as many countries put travel restrictions in place. In the United States, new downloads jumped by 66 percent the week of March 16. In the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
the way I want to discuss it is by asking questions. They may sometimes seem rhetorical, but they’re not. They may sometimes seem straightforward, but they’re not. Because these choices are usually hard ones, and tests not just of intellect but of character. They are... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
energy to population centers across the country by expanding the US electric-transmission grid. “If you look at the wind-power equation, you quickly see that transmitting energy from rural wind farms across long distances to large cities... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
firms in the US, why have only 140 companies been able to exceed the $100 million mark? What do these firms do differently from the rest? Do they have a better strategy or talent? Are they simply beneficiaries of good fortune? While each... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
biggest beauty brand, was worth $11.3 billion in 2008. Unilever’s Dove and P&G’s Pantene, in second and third place, had sales of $5.3 billion and $4.5 billion, respectively . Equally striking are the wide variations between countries in... View Details
- 06 Jan 2017
- News
Mental Illness and the Workplace
managing very well. You did-- I believe-- have another psychotic break, is that correct? Switz: Yes, I went from HBS to McKinsey for three years and then, to GE Capital in a strategy role. And a couple of weeks after my wedding, had my... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley’s personal involvement in its digital strategy and the recruitment of key positions is clear. But that success has been like the man himself—dramatic yet understated. The turnaround deployed two key tactics central to any... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
that was targeted at US-born Latino youth, like second and third-generation. So their parents had come to this country and now they're navigating two worlds. We wanted to target that population at MTV, but to do so was a complicated... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
relatively high costs for labor and energy as well as the investment and time required to build factories in a country that has much more stringent environmental standards. “COVID-19 has changed only a few of the variables across... View Details
- 18 Mar 2020
- News
Leading Change
Leadership in the Age of Climate Change that HBS has been organizing around the country in partnership with alumni clubs to understand how climate change is shaping the future of business,” says Jennifer Nash, Director of BEI, who... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
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Former HBS Dean Fouraker Dies at 74
interrupted by service in the U.S. Army from 1943 to 1946 but after his discharge, he resumed his studies there, receiving a bachelor's degree in 1947 and a master's in 1948, both in economics. He earned a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Colorado in 1951. An... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
measure of trust from the mothers, sisters, daughters, and wives living at the compound. The CSTs were able to search adult women for weapons and gather crucial intelligence. They could build relationships—woman to woman—in ways that male soldiers in an Islamic View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
in developing countries where laying fiber just doesn’t make sense, although there are real questions about cost and sustainability. Apart from the hard-core mobile gamers, though, what will the average consumer do with all this speed?... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2017
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The End of the Noncompete Clause
the country to embrace labor organizing as a tool to end the widespread use of noncompete clauses. “Many tech employees are union-averse, so it’s going to be hard for them to consider joining an established union,” says Johnson. But... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977
historians—not just modern business gurus—if you're interested in mastering the power of strategy and the power of execution in your job." CURRENT READING Bush at War, by Bob Woodward A.G. Lafley has been credited with turning around... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint
average compounded growth rate over that time has been about 22 percent. Acquisitions have been an important part of your growth strategy since the mid-1990s. How do you manage to fold an acquired firm into Li & Fung? To be bigger, we... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners
alumni and friends, dozens of whom stepped up to sponsor 152 student team projects. First-year MBAs weren’t the only HBS students taking part in global experiences during the January Term. Some 133 second-year students traveled to six View Details
- 26 May 2022
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Bidding Up
delivering papers and I got paid $2.45 a week for delivering papers. I mean, I worked in a bottling plant and I got paid 75 cents an hour. It was just a little local bottlers, we’d collect bottles off of the country roads and clean them,... View Details