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- 01 Sep 2011
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Making a Difference in the World
The City Solution: Facts and Figures p. 32 “half the world’s people ” U.N. Habitat report (“Cities and Climate Change – Global Report on Human Settlements”) March 2011 p. 33 “2 percent land mass most of its emissions.” UN Habitat Report... View Details
- 04 Aug 2015
- News
Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
and its faculty and alumni on the major challenges facing business and society today. “Harvard changed my life,” said Jakurski. “It enabled me to look at risks in a completely different way, to not be afraid of really taking risks, of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
business, organizational, financial, and institutional problems,” West recalls. Since Harvard University, with its medical school, teaching hospitals, and Nobel Prize winners, is perhaps the world’s leading View Details
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Sphere of Influence
incubators that offer training, education, and networking opportunities to women of all backgrounds and social classes. “For a program to succeed, it needs to be integrated—through partnerships—into local communities and within View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Nurturing students who can think outside of the box
Chen Weiming (MBA 1993) is reimagining the way China views education. As founder of Xing Wei College, a first-of-its-kind, privately run institution outside of Shanghai, Chen is at the forefront of a radical transformation of China’s... View Details
- 02 Feb 2017
- News
Enabling Everyone in a Community to Contribute
institution in Ontario about two years ago; they said he could not live with other roommates. He was aggressive, he was violent. Within three months, he was off all the meds that he was on; he has a job working in the community; he has... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
announced as the 2001 conference site. After two days packed with dynamic breakout sessions and inspiring keynote addresses by HBS faculty and some of the world's leading business executives, however, no one was laughing. The conference, "Leading in a View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
Both transitions have strategic and competitive implications for firms operating in and out of the region. The current "reconstruction" of Asia offers insights about differentiating systemic from asystemic risks and illuminates possible View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979
says, involves her role on the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her suggestion to HMS about how to structure the relationship between the hospitals and HMS differently resulted in $36 million in payments to HMS. “In addition to the financial benefit,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Porter's Paradox
associated institutions in particular fields that compete but also cooperate." In a recent interview in Working Knowledge, a quarterly report on research at HBS, Porter was asked whether clusters and other local economic circumstances... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Case Study: The Doctor Deficit
that today’s nurse shortage could reach 1.2 million vacancies in the same time frame. Alexi Nazem (MBA 2011) has seen the impact of these shortages firsthand. “Health care is a very broken system,” says the doctor and cofounder of Nomad Health, an online marketplace... View Details
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- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
senior fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry; and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has written and lectured on Japan’s Asia policy and Asian economic integration. Her 2006 book, Transforming... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
El-Hage Takes Alumni Post
of the reason we are such a great institution today is the generous support of alumni,” he continues. “It is precisely because of their support that we have been able to accomplish so much. We don’t expect, and we never have expected,... View Details
- 03 Apr 2015
- News
Texas Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Vision for the 21st Century” events in Dallas and Houston as part of the world tour of The Harvard Business School Campaign. The George W. Bush Institute in Dallas was the setting on March 30 for an evening presentation and reception,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
An Emphasis on Teamwork
changing jobs frequently, relocating, and starting families—to find the bandwidth to regularly give back to the institutions that helped them succeed,” says Krebs. “But for me, the consistency of the HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
In a predawn phone call on October 14, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences informed HBS professor Robert C. Merton that he had won the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics. Merton's work evaluating risk has changed the nature of financial... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
’59; OPM 13, 1988) Potomac, MD Levitt’s Personal Touch Changed Lives and Institutions I just read Julia Hanna’s piece on Professor Ted Levitt in the September 2008 Bulletin and belatedly hasten to add the... 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
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Books
Innovation and Its Discontents by Josh Lerner and Adam B. Jaffe (Princeton University Press) Innovation and Its Discontents tells the story of how recent changes in patenting — an institutional process that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
held real estate services firm, regards this relatively recent change in attitude as a paradigm shift. “People now look to real estate as an alternative to other investments,” she says. Perhaps most telling is that large View Details