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- 01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987
threat," recalls Jacobson, who also led the product development team. "It was an incredible turnaround. The team grew the company by $200 million." With Converse back on its feet, in 1994 Jacobson left to work as a consultant and was then... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
level," notes Ebrahim. "It doesn't disappear into other government agencies. The reasoning is that you can't achieve results without an accountable, locally embedded authority directly championed by the country's executive leadership. In... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Portraits from the Class of 2003
Street Journal Rank out of 500,000 Candidates in India's Civil Service Exam: 1 Research Interests: disruptive technologies, investment climate, competitiveness and development Recent Honor: named one of the World View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
possible by a gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), the lab will offer shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. It will provide learning and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Paulson Speaks on China at HBS
intellectual property protection, and domestic consumption. In addition, Paulson said, the Chinese will not “be able to develop the financial markets and banks they want unless they have a currency that reflects View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
planning and implementation for a 15-year, $40 billion initiative with the goal of creating sustainable development and economic revitalization for Colombo and its surrounding provinces, population 5.8... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
Starting Up America
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
world's largest producers of milk. These days, Goldberg has witnessed a resurgence of interest in agricultural entrepreneurship at HBS and elsewhere. "The students have rediscovered food, agriculture, and economic View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
(MBA 2007). Mobius’s founder, British entrepreneur Joel Jackson, moved to rural Kenya to work in a micro-forestry enterprise in 2009. During his field visits, he encountered the problem of expensive secondhand vehicles, many of them sedans ill-equipped to handle View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
have been written, and 99 Chinese students have received MBAs from HBS. Nearly one in six HBS faculty members lists China as a primary research interest. China’s research potential is almost limitless. The country’s development over the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
Zingales, who discussed the real effects of local financial development. The second day of presentations focused on economic development and context. "While virtually all... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
eight years below the national average.) But with its manifold offerings and programs, all of which feed one another in ways both obvious and subtle, the school is a model for a radically diverse approach to economic View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
“Brick Bank” in partnership with a building supply retailer that would enable local residents to invest their savings in inflation-proof building materials, thus accumulating the necessary materials over time. “We take some things for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
prices leading to an economic collapse? —Bruce Johnstone (MBA 1966) KIRBY: Unlikely. Prices have fallen considerably in secondary and tertiary cities but are firm in the first tier. Property is, of course, a speculative investment in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues in this Q&A that the current... View Details
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
A Whole New Game
After leading a group of investors to purchase the Sacramento Kings in 2013, Vivek Ranadivé (MBA 1983) partnered with local government in California’s capital to open a new arena and 1-million-square-foot mixed-use View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
CEO of Competitiveness.com, he brings experience in nearly 200 economic development initiatives in Europe and Latin America to his World Bank job. Comparing his previous View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
friend of Sheets, is the director of the Bush Institute-SMU Economic Growth Initiative, an adjunct professor of economics at SMU, and leads the Bush Institute’s work on domestic View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
students did just that when they traveled to New Orleans with the HBS Hurricane Relief Trek. Some students worked with Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission, brainstorming economic development... View Details
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