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- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
Conference Looks at Future of Hong Kong as a Global Leader The HBS Association of Hong Kong (HBSAHK) celebrated the club’s 45thanniversary in February, with its 2025 Signature Conference at Cloud 39, a rooftop ballroom at The Henderson skyscraper in central Hong Kong.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
systems and nonfunctional governance systems." "In the 1980s," says Jensen, "there were many more takeovers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings intended to create efficiency and value. While some of this is happening now,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
village, she went to Johannesburg to live with a white family while spending a postgraduate high school year at an otherwise all-boys, mostly white private school. Formal apartheid had been recently abolished, but nonetheless, Mahlare... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
research to administrative agencies that might not have the resources to gather such data on their own. There have been instances where companies have had a huge impact on the laws that govern them. In 1998, for instance, management and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
Governance in the First British Empire, is set in the eighteenth century. She and McCraw were determined to challenge their students. "We wanted to give them materials that were chock-full of relevant issues," Koehn says. For example,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
The Business World: Moral and Spiritual Inquiry Through Literature, adds, "What we're seeing is an increasingly felt need for people to integrate the spiritual dimension of their lives into what they do for most of the day. People are starting to realize that if... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 13 May 2025
- News
If I Knew Then
sensational way to spend your older years. It gives you a sense of real purpose and it’s enjoyable. JH: That’s excellent advice. Looking back on your own time at HBS, I wonder if you could tell me what’s the takeaway for you from your... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
process, managing turnarounds of Carnegie Hall and the Kennedy Center, and three decades of leadership in international finance. He and two of his children recently launched Wolfensohn & Company, LLC, a private investment firm and adviser to corporations and View Details
- 09 Jun 2017
- News
Curating the Cuisine of Southwest China
organization. And they came to Yunnan province in southwest China where I am from. They were attracted, first of all, by the amazing biodiversity and cultural diversity of Yunnan region. And they wanted to explore helping Chinese View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
School of New York and countless other small ateliers and workshops well off the beaten paths and often unknown and unseen. Here are the hundreds of WPA artists, supported by the federal government during the Great Depression, who worked... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
grassroots community organizations; the increasing tendency of businesses, large and small, to identify the inner city as an untapped market; a drop in urban crime rates; and the "unshackling" of inner cities from the entrenched and outmoded bureaucracies that have... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
worth the resources they might require and the money we might spend and the time we devote to using them. You write that being an entrepreneur is more about tenacity than intellect. Was that something you always knew you had? I knew I had... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
say two things about that: First, in most countries, it’s the government that addresses the social determinants of health. The social spending in this country pales in comparison to most other Western... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
across the globe, where government rules, regulations, labor laws, cultures, and tax structures vary significantly. The consumer sees a cool product and an awesome brand, but there’s a huge amount of unglamorous business activities behind... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
residents.” (Safe to say Draper’s envisioned government is smaller than what exists today, with fewer regulations in the business realm. “Libertarian” is one word that has been used to describe his politics, although he resists party... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
Increasingly, we are also seeing the expansion of the purview of business to issues that typically fall to government and policymakers as a way to improve outcomes for society and the planet overall. For example, let us suppose that a... View Details
- 19 Aug 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
example of what can push the system to a new approach. Another example, which I plan to visit, is Rocketship Education, a charter school system where students spend the first few hours of the morning in a computer learning lab and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
information revolution pose for managers, and what important principles should govern management's response? In a plenary session on March 21, Jeremy Coote, president of the applications software producer SAP America, offered answers to... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice