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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives
year our yield (the rate of acceptance on offers of admissions) surpassed an astounding 90 percent — the highest of any business or professional school. Global Outreach On the global front, we officially launched the Japan Research Office... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
crucially, by selling billions of dollars of bonds to the People’s Bank of China, the United States has been able to enjoy significantly lower interest rates than would otherwise have been the case. Welcome to the wonderful dual country... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
At HBS, I actively engaged in building the Africa Business Club and ramping up the Social Enterprise Initiative. This period really shaped my career focus and propelled my desire to return to Nigeria. Over the past 20 years, I have worked... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
don’t, the better. Data is the differentiator and will only become increasingly important. Can you give an example? For the past 30 years we’ve operated in an environment where interest rates have slowly declined. I don’t know what the... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Marketing; Entrepreneurship, Creativity, and Organization; Real Property Asset Management; Venture Capital and Private Equity; Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector; and Running and Growing the Small Company. Several related courses... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
too.” —Yong Tao, Chairman, Strategic Decision Resources Group “Executives who now make 350 times what the lowest worker in their firms make are behaving in an especially unbecoming way when they seek to explain that raising the top marginal tax View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
of consumer media, you know how important Reddit is because it’s where all your editors are finding ideas. It’s where they get their memes for the social handle. It’s where they do quick surveys. It’s when they see trends, like cultural... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
“It’s good social engineering,” Gould says, explaining that creating housing in historic neighborhoods allows more people to live in dense, walkable communities, reducing transportation-related emissions and preserving open space... View Details
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
professor for a father and an enthusiastic community volunteer for a mother, Anderson recalls that talk at the family dinner table often revolved around social problems such as the exploding US prison population, and how to fix them.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
average compounded growth rate over that time has been about 22 percent. Acquisitions have been an important part of your growth strategy since the mid-1990s. How do you manage to fold an acquired firm into Li & Fung? To be bigger, we... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
pandemic. The program provides an opportunity for students to develop skills and knowledge while having significant responsibility and high impact. This summer, HBS is supporting a record 162 Social Enterprise Summer Fellows, with many of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
making the process too complicated and focusing on the BSC process rather than the outcome. Dead Eye Trilogy by Burt Avedon (MBA 1950) An action-adventure retelling of Avedon’s life, chronicling almost 100 years of war and dynamic social... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the IT workforce. Dandelion—an innovative collaboration between HPE and the Department of Human Services and Specialisterne, a... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
she says, noting that Brazil offers incentives in the form of discounted transmission rates for biomass-generated electricity. (Brazil is almost entirely independent of fossil fuels, relying primarily on... View Details
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
workers. And let's hope that's not just sort of PR. And that it really is something that's happening because we do need to change the dynamics for the working class. April: One of the things you emphasized in the book is that these social... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
first decade of the new century. Professor McFarlan has visited China more than 70 times in the past 37 years. (photo by Webb Chappell) What were the first red flags that indicated to you that China’s economy was beginning to slow down? You could see the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
insights gleaned from the survey, Kempczinski says that the customers’ negative ratings on McDonald’s convenience were the most surprising. “We felt like we had a birthright on convenience,” he says, “so that was a wake-up call.” Again,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1984) and Dan Olmsted Skyhorse Publishing Even as the autism rate soars and the cost to our nation climbs into the billions, a dangerous new idea is taking hold: There simply is no autism epidemic. The authors believe autism is new,... View Details