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- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
Jingsheng Huang, managing executive director of the Harvard Center Shanghai, to organize an impact investing conference in Shanghai. (photo courtesy Harvard Center Shanghai) It takes drive and conviction for an MBA student to organize a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Straddling Two Worlds
equity. Firmly established in the business world, in the late 1980s, Tierney set out to find a way to fight poverty in Latin America and Africa. “I had been involved in various efforts since my Peace Corps... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
goods and services — from a second or third vehicle to health clubs to text messaging — that their great-grandparents could hardly have dreamed of. At the same time, the underlying sources for all this consumption — our View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) is part urban... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
turnaround value and potential for wealth creation: Societies find it easier to return to high levels they once held than to achieve them for the first time. And after... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Smart Choices Regarding your December cover story on Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97), CEO of Crispin Porter + Bogusky, I find it interesting that in the many articles written about the firm, the principals never seem to acknowledge the fact that their early View Details
- 10 Aug 2022
- News
Skydeck Live: Stage Not Age
problem, whereas a lot of companies were always looking at their customers were aging and aging out. They saw that as an opportunity to rethink how are they going to develop their wealth management products.... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
(formerly known as the Crittenton Women’s Union), a Boston-based nonprofit that helps people move out of poverty and also licenses its coaching tools to other organizations across the country. “It was a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity of government funds" At first glance, it seems counterintuitive that a massive continent with more than 50 independent nations, dozens of currencies, no... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
people while visiting 34 diverse countries—places without available medical care, where corruption and poverty have ruled, and where armed people are part of the daily scene.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
nation's cultural, intellectual, educational, and spiritual wealth is a very different thing from simply contributing to the gross national product," observes Brown. "You need to have a long-term vision that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; museums; marketing; management; nonprofits; education; facilities; Internet; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
and Chief Investment Strategist of GMO, LLC, who has pledged $1 billion of his own wealth to fighting climate change through the Grantham Foundation. “Time is not on our side. We should act as if we are... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Daniel L. Vasella, M.D.
57th PMD, 1989 Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©Jason Grow EARLIER EDUCATION University of Fribourg and University of Bern, 1979 M.D. LIFELONG IMPACT OF HBS "HBS exposed me for the first time to a truly interactive View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Think Globally, Teach Locally
When HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan moved to Vevey, Switzerland, in 1973, it was his first experience living outside the United States. “I had three degrees from Harvard, and my major lifetime move had been from the western suburbs of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Tools & Resources | Institute for Business in Global Society
to encourage more inclusive organizations and communities. Doing business in a divided world This report provides an overview of various dimensions of inequality in the United States, drawing from a wealth... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
(photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty) When F. Warren McFarlan and a small group of HBS colleagues arrived in Beijing in July 1979, they stepped off the plane into a country struggling for a toehold in the 20th century. “They brought ladders up to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
brought back 60 or 70 percent of what I studied, but there was so much. In all honesty, I probably brought back only 40 percent, but it was enough, and it made me very rich." One final payoff from AMP for Parija: it put him in touch with... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
Our class has lived and worked in a prolonged period of unprecedented economic growth, resulting in great wealth for our nation and opportunities for individual prosperity. Our... View Details