Filter Results:
(1,268)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,268)
- People (2)
- News (287)
- Research (804)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (18)
- Faculty Publications (504)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(1,268)
- People (2)
- News (287)
- Research (804)
- Events (14)
- Multimedia (18)
- Faculty Publications (504)
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) to manufacture battery systems for the Chinese market presents its own questions, Vietor notes. For one, the joint venture is considered a foreign subsidiary, so A123 can only report its... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
contributed to the development of a business-oriented society with increased short-term opportunity for MNCs. "The dot-com bubble brought practices, ambitions, and goals to China that are here to stay," he added. "Increasingly, MNCs will see corporatized... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
2015 Modern China Studies Free at Last, Now What: The Soviet and Chinese Attempts to Offer a Roadmap for the Post-Colonial World By: Friedman, Jeremy Abstract—This article seeks to understand the motivations behind the People's Republic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a unique geoeconomic constellation that the authors call "Chimerica": a world economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S. overconsumption on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
responsibility to do something in this sector,” says Chen. “Impact investing is still in the very early stages in China and lacks human capital, government support, and high-quality investees. There is a clear need to build a platform for View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
End of Campaign Celebrated
advisers, regulators, and various transaction facilitators. Higgins presented an overview of venture capital in Asia, noting that most deals involve investments in late-stage companies and that over half of the capital comes from abroad. In China, he said, the best... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- News
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 products store... View Details
- 02 Apr 2020
- News
Patriots Plane Delivers a Million Masks from China
Chinese officials, members of his own administration, and the owner and president of the New England Patriots, Robert Kraft (MBA 1965) and Jonathan Kraft (MBA 1990), for the successful collaboration across public and private sectors. “It... View Details
- Student-Profile
Yueran Ma
growing up also had a major influence on my interests in finance. I travelled with my family in China, and everywhere I saw firms and entrepreneurs struggling to raise funding as the financial system was riddled with frictions and barriers. I also witnessed the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
governance and structure, China has not developed strong internal scanning mechanisms for confronting its public health problems,” notes Barrett. “I do feel optimistic, however, because these workshops have created a body of community wisdom that the View Details
- Portrait Project
Jodi Yang
and the U.S. at a crucial time for these two nations in our history. My dream is to make an impact worthy of my grandparents' legacy — one that will improve the lives of thousands of my countrymen — both Chinese and American. I will live... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
firm. China and Globalization The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society by Douglas Guthrie (Routledge) This book is about the economic reforms sweeping across China over the last 25 years. Visiting Professor... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
a Chinese migrant, it might be more important to go back home during the Chinese New Year, rather than during the December break.” Although the study was able to exploit the random assignment of workers to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
http://harvardbusiness.org/product/how-to-combat-online-ad-fraud/an/F0912D-PDF-ENG Chinese Railroads, Local Society, and Foreign Presence: The Tianjin-Pukou Line in pre-1949 Shandong Author: Elisabeth Köll Publication: In Manchurian... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
four children. In her 40s she entered local politics. I was very accustomed to constituents visiting our home at all hours.” Favorite morning routine: “When I’m home, soft-sand running along Cottesloe Beach [west of Perth, on the Indian Ocean] is a great way to start... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
price appreciation,” she concludes. If these seeds are carefully tended to by pioneering companies, Thakor says, a virtuous cycle will kick in as other companies strive to emulate industry leaders. Back to top Ly·ing flat (verb) It started with a post earlier this... View Details
- 15 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Prime Day: The Logic Behind a Retailer’s Made-up Holiday
huge motivation to try something like this." Amazon is not the first to try launching its own shopping holiday. Chinese e-commerce behemoth Alibaba manufactured its own event in 2009 with "Singles Day," which takes place on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
deciding to stay for good. Long-heralded for its therapeutic applications, the global market for the bitter root was on the rise, driven by the expansion of the Chinese middle class; today, genuine Wisconsin ginseng can fetch $200 a pound... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs