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- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
on the ground, supporting our faculty in their research and bringing a global perspective to our classrooms. Through this network, HBS faculty can quickly get insights into global developments such as the COVID-19 pandemic and how different View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- News
HBS Votes
K1 Investment Management, is leading an effort in his investment firm to give time off for voting for all K1 employees and over 5,000 portfolio company employees. K1 recently announced election day as a paid holiday on LinkedIn. “People... View Details
- 26 Jul 2018
- News
Running the Numbers
acclaim as Harvard Female Athlete of the Year. Yet, despite all that, when the talented point guard was approached to play professionally in Europe at the end of her senior year, she recalls, “It had never occurred to me that I could play professional basketball.” In... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
Forty percent of all Fortune 500 companies were started by either an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. Those 200 companies together would make up the fourth largest economy in the world. We need to... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home
You wouldn’t know it from most American media, but many sub-Saharan African nations have booming economies. And although the press may have missed the boat on this African success story, many business schools and business leaders know... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 12 Jun 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)
Bollywood stage production. And when Bollywood was exploding across college campuses in my undergrad years at UC Berkeley, I was leading my dance team to sweep national competitions. It feels like BollyX had always been in the cards. "It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
General Motors morphed into a nation driven by small and nimble venture-backed start-ups such as Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel Corporation, Microsoft, Starbucks, and many others. Ever since, those small, innovative View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
How to Survive Past Start-up
from the MBA Class of 1998: Marc Cenedella, founder of the Internet job search site TheLadders; Marla Malcolm Beck, cofounder of national cosmetics retailer bluemercury; and Chris Michel, cofounder of early professional social networks... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
(Photo courtesy of KDC Solar) Launched in 2011, QE solar is an operations and maintenance company focused on servicing large-scale, commercial solar energy structures—the kind typically owned by large utility companies. The View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
laundering and illegal flight capital." These are among the most opaque problems the world faces," Baker says. "In this era of globalization, they constitute the biggest loophole in the free-market system." You assert that Western banks and View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
generation. When you have an oil company saying that, by 2030, one-third of all car sales are going to be electric vehicles [EVs]—an oil company... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
surprise “Keep America Rolling” zero-percent financing campaign on GM vehicles to keep GM's, and its suppliers', production lines rolling in the face of an unprecedented national crisis. Rick's quick and decisive action against... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China, McFarlan has watched the leaders of a nation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Capitalist Revolutions Analyzed in MBA "Foundations" Course
particular companies in each country. To catch students' attention immediately, they chose companies with name recognition, such as Toyota, Wedgwood, Ford, and IBM. The View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
country’s oil-based economy. AlMadani, an entrepreneur who cofounded National Talents Co. to improve STEM education in Saudi Arabia, joined the effort in 2016, shortly after Saudi Vision 2030 was announced. He served as CEO of the General... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
no national reputation — was appointed,” Ferguson recalled. “But he listens to everyone, judges ideas on their quality rather than on their source, and makes better decisions because of that.” Financial consultant Andrew Brimmer, the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
education and business competitiveness." Balancing the Books Four ways that business is partnering with PK-12 Enabling innovation. Companies in San Antonio, Texas, worked to gain voter approval for a tax increase to fund quality... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
government is trying to open them to well-controlled commercial logging but most of the companies entering Liberia’s forests today are unqualified and unscrupulous. Bribery drives the allocation process. The government is not yet capable... View Details
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
problem, not the root cause,” he says. To learn more about the private sector, Goodwin left the air force to work for a multinational company and to prepare for business school. But his path changed course in early 2001 when President... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
they worked so hard to bake. If the company becomes the next Facebook, says Professor Josh Lerner, that’s all well and good. If not, “you might be better off with 100 percent of the smaller pie.” In addition, says Lerner, the standard VC... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand