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Rachel Silverstein

stronger." "Despite the size of the program," Rachel notes, "it's amazing how close-knit it is. Part of it is the section experience, but it's also the Field Global Immersion, the discussion groups, and the View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Retail/Hospitality; CPG

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni asked probing questions of HBS... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2003
News

Brazil Banks on Experience

Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd AMP), former head of global... View Details

Keywords: Finance

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2007
News

Faculty Books

Redefining Global Strategy by Pankaj Ghemawat (HBS Press) Why do so many global strategies fail despite companies’ powerful brands and border-crossing advantages? In this “semiglobalized” world,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

Since its official launch four years ago, the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise has flourished, providing ever-greater support and know-how for HBS students, alumni, and nonprofit leaders who are keen on bringing their expertise to... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

24 Apr 2014
News

Helping smallholder farmers feed the world

create the conditions where that doesn't recur.” A native of what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ferrari brings a global perspective and more than 40 years of business and social entrepreneurial... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: The Cup Runneth Over

deep into the tournament a team will go, because that will affect the number of over-the-air impressions that are generated for the brand. They must consider many other factors such as the global appeal of an opponent or of a particular... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

2016
Working Paper

Mapping the Economic Grand Tour: Travel and International Emulation in Enlightenment Europe

By: Sophus A. Reinert

As the itinerant wizard (technically one of the Maiar, if not the Istari) Gandalf wrote to the then domestically-inclined hobbit Frodo Baggins in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings, “Not all those who wander are lost.” Indeed, as the recent brouhaha over the... View Details

Keywords: Behavior; Globalization

Citation

Read Now

16 Sep 2010
News

Idea Takes Root

Almost without notice in the American press, a new international effort is under way to create a standardized global reporting model for operating sustainable businesses in the 21st century. HBS professor Robert G. Eccles is on the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Corporate Services

10 Mar 2021
News

Chasing the Silver Tsunami

businesses that could be created and, instead, maybe the business that I should create is an investment firm to promote founders entering the space and innovation in the sector.” She discovered that investor Alan Patricof, founder of Apax Partners and venture capital... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; illustration by Dan Page; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

clearer-a profoundly disturbing attitude. US prosperity and social mobility have attracted millions of immigrants, including me. But America's reign as the global ideal seems to be waning. In the following... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Jan 2016
News

Real-World Learning for the Digital Generation

Marc Prensky (MBA 1980) is founder and executive director of the Global Future Education Foundation and Institute, which is promoting new educations goals for 21st-century learners. In this video, he explains the basis of his ideas for... View Details

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

"With the virtual mobility of global labor insured, only those companies and nations will grow ... that make the best use of entrepreneurial qualities...." How governments should spend money in support of innovation clearly... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

How can managers better identify, describe, and confront the issues of environmental and social sustainability that their companies increasingly encounter? One answer is One Report, a method of integrating information about financial and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2010
News

RX for Change

groups are where the rubber hits the road,” Grant comments. “You get a sense of how people are really applying what they’re learning.” With participants from countries as far-flung as Nigeria, Ireland, Mexico, and Saudi Arabia, there’s also the potential to get a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Aug 2013
News

A Cure for Cold Storage

easier," he says. Though the product is still four or five years of regulatory hurdles away from market by Schrader's estimate, Vaxess has started working with various global health organizations to figure out how to apply its silk... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; vaccines; Health, Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2008
News

UN President Speaks at HBS

The keynote speaker for last October’s International Week at HBS, UN General Assembly president Srgjan Kerim, called on the future leaders in his audience to use capital not only to realize profits but also in ways that promote and advance economic growth, View Details

Keywords: Government

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

twentieth century, neither country would see such glory again. “Before 1914, [Argentina] was one of the most dynamic nations in the first global economy, attracting a record amount of foreign investment and massive inflows of immigrants,”... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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