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- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
publicly funded. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) Japan’s demographic time bomb is a bittersweet result of its robust recovery after World War II. Within two generations, the country catapulted from a state of ruin to the second-strongest economy... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera
training, and dramatically lower compensation. (Mulroney provides his services pro bono.) "The nonprofit world can be difficult for executives who are accustomed to efficiency and large-company, big-budget solutions to problems," Mulroney... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
two or three days a week on the road, out in the countryside, having direct contact with citizens. I attend local council meetings, talk with entrepreneurs, visit trade unions — I've intervened to stop about eighteen strikes; that's... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
left the corporate world to pursue that passion full-time. His long list of travels include hiking the Appalachian Trail, walking from Mexico to Canada and back on the Continental Divide, and completing two three-year tours of all 25... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Action Plan: Role-Play
When you encounter the phrase private investigator, chances are good the character you conjure up in your mind doesn’t resemble Sarah Carson (MBA 1971). So much the better for Carson, whose work has often required convincing people she was a small-business employee... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Channel by Connie Sage (University of Virginia Press) Among his many accomplishments, the late Frank Batten Sr. (MBA 1952) created the Weather Channel in 1982, which became the largest private weather company in the world and an American... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
and decision trees." "It's an exciting industry for anyone who has a technical, commercial, and financial background," says James T. Hackett (MBA '79), president, CEO, and chairman of Houston-based Ocean Energy, Inc., a company that employs 1,150 workers worldwide and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
bucked the odds, winning the company accolades in the press, shelf space at major (and minor) retailers, and the Game of the Year awards at the American International Toy Fair, the industry’s annual trade show, in 2001 and 2002. Like... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
multilateral trade mechanisms in the aftermath of the Second World War, is changing rapidly and creating waves of uncertainty. This is especially true in higher education, a field increasingly built on... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
government and saved my earnings. Afterward I invested the money to develop a life-saving aviation technology but couldn’t attract resources to commercialize it. I was offered the chance to fly it on the Rutan Voyager (the first aircraft to fly around the View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
administrators, and students," he notes. Toward that end, Dobron and SA Technology Committee chair Judy Stahl (MBA '96) helped put into place the School's new information technology platform, which included establishing a site on the View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
influence over so many areas of business and society. "World War II catalyzed mass production techniques, quantitative analysis methods, women in the workplace, and world trade through the Marshall Plan and... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
just have to be willing to participate with others in the work." "Real estate is the thread that's run through my career," adds Spencer, who most recently served as president of Cogdell Spencer Inc., a publicly traded health care, real... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
how individuals can capitalize on the new, equal-opportunity economy and all of its exciting possibilities. Davis and Meyer describe a world in the not-so-distant future in which we will trade everything of... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
discussed China's inclusion in the World Trade Organization (WTO). As a member of the WTO, Barshefsky said, China is moving from a protectionist position to a more active, strategic role, an international... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
turn to the water-rich countries for grains and other foods. This trade in comestibles — flowing from lush lands to parched places — has earned wheat, rice, and other crops the sobriquet “virtual water.” For most water-stressed or... View Details