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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
met and conversed with Ted and told him that I had been conducting business with Russia and countries of the Soviet bloc. He was keen to hear about my thirty years of experience in dealing with the Soviets and intrigued to hear my opinion... View Details
- 22 Sep 2015
- News
Putting Entrepreneurial Skills to Work in City Hall
hard to help people, to make a difference in their lives, to make Boston a better place for jobs, a better place for families, and to give chances to kids to reach their full potential. We set, I hope, a bit of a standard for cities around the View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Power Trip
factors in how people gain access to power that have changed in ways that reflect how the country as a whole is evolving.” How did you develop the data that Paths to Power is based on? If you study art,... View Details
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
Researchers have long shown that there are differences in how socially responsible companies depend on the culture of their country of origin. Companies located in countries including Germany, Japan, and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 May 2015
- News
Changing the conversation on US infrastructure challenges
with the HBS US Competitiveness Project, Kanter convened a national summit at HBS that drew leaders from government, business, labor, technology, and community coalitions. Together, they worked on overcoming barriers that have prevented the United States from keeping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
hosted medical, law, and nonprofit offices. But by 2019, its small suites felt dated, and developers launched a four-year, $58 million project that would bring the building into the 21st century—not as offices, but as luxury apartments... View Details
- 22 Nov 2016
- Blog Post
Memoirs of an International First Year Student
There are going to be some cultural faux pas – at least likely to be, if you have never spent time in the USA or an international setting before. Do not fret over them but do learn from them. As an international student, one must also... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- Portrait Project
Dionne Hosten
I'm jealous. I've always been envious of my friends who knew exactly what they wanted to do with their lives. I don't know exactly what my Calling is, but after two years thinking about it, I have at least some glimpse. I want to help... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- News
A Toast to Macchu Pisco
countries are riding the pisco boom but the Peruvian version has a quality edge, the Times asserted. Explains Asher, “We get our grapes from a cooperative of women growers. We monitor the wild yeasts, use cold fermentation, and generally... View Details
- 28 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What is the HBS Health Care Initiative?
staff who support the many health care activities and programs both on and off campus. 2. Career education Later in the fall, the Health Care Initiative works with the Career and Professional Development (CPD) department to execute... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
conducting case writing and research," noted Clark, who has named Professor Robert H. Hayes to serve as faculty chair of the project. Currently an average of twenty HBS faculty travel to Asia at least once a year, and in the last three... View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 02 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-testing by sabbaticals
stress-free time off. But his first real experiment in using time off for hypothesis-testing was going to business school. At HBS, he wanted to test whether he should work in international development and live abroad, or work in... View Details
- October 2006
- Background Note
China's Financial Markets: 2006
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Li Jin and Tracy Manty
Provides an overview of capital markets in mainland China, evaluating the up-to-date performance of key components of the markets, highlighting concerns as China strives to modernize its financial system to meet global competition and support its fast growing economy. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Global Strategy; Markets; Competition; China
McFarlan, F. Warren, Li Jin, and Tracy Manty. "China's Financial Markets: 2006." Harvard Business School Background Note 307-058, October 2006.
- 20 Sep 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Did Entrepreneur Ernesto Tornquist Help or Hurt Argentina?
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
heart of public services decision making.” That’s why DeBere and Helga Mutasingwa, a doctor and public health professional based in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, cofounded Afya Pamoja in that country in 2020 with Patrick Anyanga and Robert... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
taxpayers. The result can sometimes be a less empowered, more quiescent patient population. Interestingly, many developing countries operate more like the United States. Lacking the resources to fund... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
traveling to 140 countries with his wife, Elaine, a specialist in early childhood education, he made it a practice to spend time with people in poor areas before visiting with heads of state or ngos. “We learned a lot that those leaders... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
pursue your business career as aggressively and professionally as you can so that when and if the opportunity arises you will be recognized for your expertise and interpersonal skills. It does not hurt to make sure you have developed some... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Uncovering Bad Factories All three studies were made possible by a social auditing company providing Toffel with data on more than 40,000 inspections in 66 countries that its auditors had conducted over several years. The first study,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding