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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
late 2010s, Professor Paul Gompers started noticing clusters of entrepreneurial ecosystems popping up in places around the world not known for such activity: Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines. What was driving their emergence? What could other View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
My First Job
was to help Taiwan build a presence in the semiconductor business. Taiwan’s government had set up an economic planning group led by Morris Chang, formerly of Texas Instruments, who conceived of and started what is now Taiwan Semiconductor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
Facebook and Google, for example, own user data and keep 100 percent of profits with advertisers. In Web3, companies share revenue with users. “This is a new way to organize economic activity and incentivize humans,” Wu says about the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 31 Oct 2023
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Special Drawing Rights (international reserve assets that supplement a country’s official reserves); and negotiating agreements to fund some of flagship projects laid out in the 2019–2023 Priority Action Plan, a development model that... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
threat," recalls Jacobson, who also led the product development team. "It was an incredible turnaround. The team grew the company by $200 million." With Converse back on its feet, in 1994 Jacobson left to work as a consultant and was then... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
which collects used garments in Europe. “And as long as that’s the case, we have a problem.” It’s one of several, perhaps. The World Economic Forum estimates that the $1.5 trillion apparel industry is responsible for a 2 percent share of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2020
- News
Making Club History in Japan; Startup Accelerator Case Goes Virtual in Atlanta
making the HBS Club of Japan a source of inspiration and connection for alumni.” According to Tanaka, Japan ranks the lowest among developed countries in the World Economic Forum’s Gender Gap Index. “Female... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
certification program. He is also a Special Programs Instructor, teaching Applied Circular Economics and Regenerative Economics at the Sustainability Graduate Programs and at the Global View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2024
- News
GCC Crossroads Aims for a Bright Future; Seattle Alumni Talk Leadership in Tech; Italy Preps for European Alumni Summit
economic growth, enhances our global visibility, informs policy decisions, and promotes cultural exchange—all contributing to positive development across sectors” he says. “At the same time, all the main... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Hands-on Learning About Global Markets
A certificate of appreciation was presented to Ellie Care representatives Francisco Garcia Zavaleta (COO) and Gervasio Videla Dorna (cofounder and CEO), at left, and to Patricio Alba (cofounder and CIO), far right, by HBS students Maxwell Nii Laryea, third from left,... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 May 2019
- News
Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997
others. That was her north star,” says the Harvard College graduate and former McKinsey consultant. Palandjian’s embodiment of her forebearers’ values is a theme in all aspects of her life, including her leadership of Social Finance, a thriving nonprofit that View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
extension, cultivate peace and economic opportunity in a region where growing saffron has become a more viable alternative to growing opium. “What better way to use our HBS education than for sustainable agriculture and business in... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
A Continuum of Innovation
As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
- too much product (and too much production capability) chasing too few buyers - is hardly a new phenomenon. As a factor in market capitalism, overcapacity has been recognized and analyzed as a business-cycle reality by economic thinkers... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
David Tunnell (MBA 1997) David Tunnell (MBA 1997) is a longtime advocate of crossing traditional academic boundaries at Harvard. For his Harvard College senior thesis on efficient markets, the economics major conducted most of his... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Leveraging Generative AI
are pursuing research into the opportunities and challenges facing businesses in today’s AI world, and are leveraging GenAI for case development and classroom exercises. Weiss has experimented extensively with ChatGPT-4 to outline the... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
owners of small businesses, as well as Japanese society as a whole, Mikitani began working on a web-based shopping mall. “At the time, the Internet was at an early stage,” he notes. “No one was buying things online in Japan.” Working with three partners, he View Details