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- 01 Jun 2001
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Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
and their role in emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Strategy scholars have often emphasized how industry- and firm-specific characteristics affect... View Details
- 16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos
Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and brought both to dominate their... View Details
- 05 May 2017
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Barnes & Noble Names Demos Parneros CEO
Demos Parneros (AMP78, 2010), who had been working as Barnes & Noble’s COO for the last five months, has been named the booksellers new CEO. A story in the New York Times details the company’s recent struggles, which includes everything from View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
rethink our corporate governance structure in fundamental ways for the 21st century. There are three things we have to think about during the conference. First, when did executive pay become unmoored from internal View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Relief Program (TARP). It was a losing battle. Over the course of an hour, he fielded a half-dozen urgent calls from his staff regarding a draft version of a report on TARP expenditures due to Congress the next day (December 10). Silvers’s formative experience with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was a takeover movement, then junk bonds, and then leveraged... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
and modernizing its capital markets. Prospects are intriguing: Last year, of Africa’s twenty stock markets, the indexes of Kenya and Uganda performed in the top ten globally, with Ghana’s stock market finishing number one in the world... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Cutting Edge
an executive at several food companies, Silk had revived other century-old brands such as Jell-O, Lea & Perrins, Hebrew National, and Armour. Based on those successes, New York–based hedge fund York Capital Management asked Silk to become... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
Executive Education — typically contribute more than half of the total budget. But both units are vulnerable to economic downturns, and demand for HBP products and programs offered by Executive Education... View Details
- 08 Dec 2009
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Don’t Scare the Bankers
intended) of Foxwoods than Bretton Woods, it is the bankers who have scared the rest of us to death. A measure of that concern can be found in the work of Professor David Moss, an expert on systemic risk in financial markets and an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
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Ask the Expert: A Fair Share
Rent out your house, your car, even your bike—are there any limits to what people will part with (and what regulators will allow) in the new sharing economy? We called on Shelby Clark (MBA 2010)—founder of the car-sharing service RelayRides and View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Profiting from the World’s Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends by Bud Conrad (MBA ’71) (Wiley) Conrad predicts a rough road ahead, due to economic imbalances that have built up over the past... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
Building an Evidence Base for Emerging Markets It’s one thing to research the history of companies in Europe, the United States, or Japan, where libraries, archives, and public records are abundant. But what about emerging markets, where... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Case Study: Something New
sold for $5,000 in a boutique might cost as little as $200 in labor and supplies. By working directly with the factories, Anomalie can produce a custom gown for about $1,200. In the first two months that it was open for business, Anomalie... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
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Global Perspectives
Shih, Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice, who cochaired the one-week immersion with Dennis Campbell, Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration. “We started with a very basic question: ‘What should we really know about Southeast... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered
of Tom’s classes could ever forget him.” Kennedy developed an expertise in international labor relations while teaching from 1976 to 1978 in an Executive Education program then offered by HBS in Switzerland.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
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Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
generation. “Last year, we were a mere 99.5 years from real gender equity,” says Heather Stark (MBA 1999), an executive coaching and leadership development consultant and founder and president of Stark Coaching. “Now, one year and a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
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Antitrust in Historical Perspective
1890. Most people would like to see business provide good jobs at good wages. Yet, many successful businesses ship their jobs overseas, and some companies that have tried paternalistically to guarantee good jobs have, in the past decade, been blasted in the products... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
one example of how Chinese companies are looking at their own environment and finding interesting opportunities that someone in the United States wouldn’t even consider.” Key Themes Since the opening of the HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center, View Details