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01 Sep 2024
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Fueling Innovation

By giving to the HBS Fund, alumni and friends support the School’s core priorities and help catalyze the launch of new programs and initiatives and sustain their growth. Featured here are a few key examples of innovations at HBS that would not have been possible... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Letters to the Editor

was 57 years ago! After earning my MBA in 1954 and doctorate in 1957, both from HBS, I became a professor at the University of Washington. As a visiting professor at Stanford in 1966, I taught a course in entrepreneurship from which at View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

11 Apr 2018
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The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)

the country in 2018, and of furthering engagement in our cities by having more veterans take on volunteer leadership roles. I’m also working with our national team to bring our third-annual Mass Deployment program to Los Angeles in 2018.... View Details

01 Feb 1999
News

Fred Lazarus: Art Work at the Office

support for the arts and stimulating new resources available to the arts; Promoting the use of the arts as an economic resource to the country as a whole; Creating an environment that fosters the development... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Lazar

21 Mar 2014
Blog Post

East Asia MBA Market Update

showing commitment to the region and local knowledge. Malaysia Malaysia aims to become a developed economy by 2020 and as a result it has been undergone major reforms to be more business friendly and encourage increased foreign direct... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail

20 Apr 2015
Blog Post

India Conference 2015

need to tweak the Indian National Congress’s own communication strategy, considering the 2014 election results, he warned that “if the secular character of the country was disturbed that all bets were off”. This year’s conference was... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

designing a new model and developing it into a profitable and thriving enterprise. The Loudest Duck: Moving Beyond Diversity while Embracing Differences to Achieve Success at Work by Laura Liswood (MBA ’76) (Wiley) This book takes its... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

04 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities

Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of US Invention. The rest of the country wants the jobs that come with such a boost. Some 238 US cities bid for Amazon’s second headquarters, HQ2, before... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

growth. One respondent turned the topic on its head, posing a more interesting question of whether equality fosters productivity. Several felt that innovation and productivity increases are leading to inequality. As Donald Shaw put it, "Technology View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

Yili focused on research and development and innovative ways to improve the industry. Proving that it could shift industry standards and lead a country not accustomed to dairy consumption, to a point where... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

conflicts between work and life more broadly defined. Joe Violette suggests that at least in the project-oriented environment in which he works, one should "Make your family a part of your work team and you'll create a good work-life... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

countries with limited resources, implies that project finance should continue to loom large in the years ahead. Despite the magnitude of annual investment and recent growth, however, there has been relatively little academic work in this... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

given African country is likely composed of numerous distinct urban and/or regional markets.” Winning in a given country requires serving these distinct markets, and each market is likely to need a tailored... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain

Government, and the International Economy Unit—often works with HBS’s 15 global research centers and offices to ensure that different countries and sectors of the industry are well represented. Alvarez’s research has frequently taken him... View Details

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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

The Green Industrial Strategy Project More Research Projects The Green Industrial Strategy Project examines how business and government can create, scale, and compete in clean tech markets to accelerate decarbonization. As clean technologies have entered the mass... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Net Gains

incredible," he says. He points to China as a prime example of the league's international potential realized. Thanks to a decades-long campaign, the country is now the NBA's largest international market, with more than 100 employees, wide... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

information, connected car services, and analytics, founded by Bryan Mistele (MBA 1995). The figures aren’t much better in the United States, where Los Angeles tops the list at 81 hours. And in the rankings of nations, the US, with an overall average of 50 hours, is... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

March 2024 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Doing Business in São Paulo, Brazil

By: Laura Alfaro, Hise O. Gibson, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Pedro Levindo

The case gives readers an overview of key factors of doing business in Brazil, including Brazil’s economic transformation since its colonial years until 2023, when leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in for his third term, after the most polarized... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; International Relations; Political Elections; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; Brazil; Latin America; Sao Paulo

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01 Jun 2015
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Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

presence in this dynamic South Asian country has become critical to furthering the global understanding of the School’s students and faculty members. HBS opened the India Research Center (IRC) in Mumbai in 2006. It is one of nine Global... View Details

16 Nov 2016
Blog Post

My HBS Journey

heartbroken, as I will miss so much everyone I connected with here, but I am completely certain that choosing to pursue an MBA at HBS has been one of the best decisions I ever made. The HBS experience is meticulously designed to maximize your personal View Details

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