International Relations - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2018
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The Long Run

arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While his work—first as an View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Melissa Golden

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

the School had made a strategic decision to become more diverse. There were also a number of international students and people from West Point and the Navy Nuclear Sub program. I had a lot of respect for the military people and shared... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Apr 2000
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Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

Named the 45th Commissioner of Internal Revenue in 1997, Charles O. Rossotti (MBA '64) heads the Internal Revenue Service, which has 102,000 employees, a $7.8 billion budget, and annual revenue collections... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Jan 2019
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Not Waiting for Progress

international film festivals. The foundation has also established dynamic relationships with media companies such as NBCUniversal, WarnerMedia, Netflix, and HBO. Talented and Together Throughout his career, in a variety of business and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 2001
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Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

as part of our Global Initiative, we have opened HBS research centers in Silicon Valley, the Asia-Pacific (Hong Kong), and Latin America (Buenos Aires). By providing our faculty with support of many types — including logistical, research, and technical — these offices... View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2020
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Post-Office

getting done or sharing information related to work, one model has been to codify everything. I’ll give you the example of GitLab. They have something called the “one handbook" policy. What that means is that they write down everything so... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

29 Apr 2025
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Challenge Accepted

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Nietzsche said it first: What doesn’t kill me makes me stronger. There’s a reason that saying has legs, nearly 140 years later. We all, at some point... View Details

Keywords: challenges; failure; advice; experience

01 Dec 2008
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Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team

Daniel Yergin is a founding partner of Cambridge Energy Research Associates and the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Prize, which chronicles oil’s rise and impact on the world. He was winding up a postdoctoral fellowship in View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

24 Mar 2022
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Well Said

graduated in May 2021. And I was, at HBS, in a very international environment, surrounded by international students who, a lot of them, had only recently moved to the US, and I saw them going through the... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

Whitehead (MBA 11/’47), Chairman, AEA Investors, Inc.; Founder, HBS Social Enterprise Initiative “Focus has always been Job One in my success. Globalization goes against that. International operations can create a real lack of focus if... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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All in the Family

importance of family-owned and -operated enterprises to the international economy, HBS has long been on the forefront of research in this field. Among the early pioneers were HBS professors emeriti Renato Tagiuri and Louis B. Barnes, who... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

04 Sep 2019
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Accelerating Scientific Discovery

example garnering worldwide attention is CRISPR-Cas9, a genome-editing tool that builds on the work of a host of international scientists. The effort began in 1993 with Francisco Mojica at the University of Alicante in Spain, subsequently... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2011
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New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste

Winning Smiles: BioMine CEO Privahini Bradoo with teammate and company VP Paolo Pacorini. Related Links Watch Privahini Bradoo talk about BioMine. Meet the 12 finalists (videos) Learn more about all twelve finalists View photos from the... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

01 Mar 2009
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Alumni Books

Catch Up and Win by Steven J. Spear (DBA ’99) (McGraw-Hill) Spear finds that the internal operations of such market leaders as Toyota, Alcoa, and top-tier teaching hospitals have one thing in common: the skillful management of complex... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 2002
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Back in Business

nonprofit consultant, has worked on some thirty cases since volunteering with ReSTART Central in mid-October. Her clients ("All nationalities," she notes, "like the UN") range from a one-woman clothing design business to a two hundred person View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

01 Sep 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Alumni Books The Saudi Kingdom by Ali Al Shihabi (MBA 1985) (Markus Wiener Publishers) Al Shihabi presents an analysis of Saudi Arabia’s political stability in light of mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country... View Details

21 Mar 2025
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What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”

know there is abundant biological evidence against this theory, but I’m going with it anyway.” I feel like you can get a sense of who he is from that quote, but what do you think drove him? What did he have internally that pushed him? TB:... View Details

Keywords: Finance

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

from hospital turnarounds to policy implementation and consumer product development. And its international unit has been busy exporting services to countries such as China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Mediva and Platanus apply the... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

13 Oct 2016
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Adding Muscle to the Fight Against Disease

is a devastating disease that leaves cognitive abilities intact, but robs people of their ability to move, essentially making them prisoners in their own bodies,” Blum says. “The therapeutic hypothesis with tirasemtiv relates to slowing... View Details