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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
A Call to Innovation
decline: an eroding educational system relative to other top nations, a talent drain, the drop-off of spending for basic R&D, and a lackluster telecommunications infrastructure. Meanwhile, Finland — with the same population as... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
conducted for the case. He learned that although ANA is one of the world’s most pro table airlines, a majority of its revenues come from the domestic market, which is shrinking due to Japan’s declining population and competition from the... View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
argument . . . is that it is necessary to look at both the costs imposed upon others without their consent and the rights denied to others, also without their consent, from multiple lenses." Does the business world look different in a Hosmer and Barry universe? Yes. It... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
(MBA 1963) Xulon Press Have you ever wondered how a nation feeding a starving population during the Great Depression could, 20 years later, be approaching the greatest growth period in history? This book could be the story of you, your... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
1,000 customers eat at the 525-seat restaurant in one hour, washing down slices of homemade pie or a maple-iced donut with cups of the store’s famous five-cent coffee. In a town with a population of 800 people, Wall Drug bolsters its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
CHIDAMBARAM: In Mumbai after his HBS visit, with Tata Industries’ Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975 ) at left and U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson (MBA ’70). SAJ JAD HUSSAIN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES Just twenty years from now, India’s population of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
year. Despite the wealth of people like Wu Yajun and Yin Mingshan, the average Chinese lives on less than $2,000. Why would the latter want, in effect, to lend money to the former, who is twenty-two times richer? The answer is that, until recently, the best way for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Paradox of the American Metropolis by Alan Rabinowitz (MBA 1950) (CreateSpace) This is a citizen’s guide to dealing with citywide problems: transportation, climate change, public safety, etc. The context is the worldwide increase in urban View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
building a conservation agreement for the Canadian boreal forest, a 2.2-million-mile area—equal to about 60 percent of the US landmass. Smith says that he imparted lessons from the agreements with other First Nations from Nunavut in northern Quebec to native View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 12 May 2022
- News
Turning a Moment into a Movement
boards. But going forward, it will push for the full range of diversity. “The overall goal is to make sure that boardrooms really represent the population they serve, which is the American people,” he says. “We really want boardrooms—top... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
clusters due to population densities. Enable them to congregate with part-time access to coworking offices. They will self-organize according to project necessity or their own desires for face time. Remote-first will not be without... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
how over the next thirty years the world is going to go through a bottleneck because of population and consumption growth. If we don’t make commitments now to conserve endangered places, they won’t be here thirty years from now. But... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
population of only 3.8 million, Ireland, Barry acknowledges, can't always provide enough career opportunities to attract HBS graduates — but the country, particularly Dublin (population 985,000), feels more like a supportive community... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
the last decade when they reported that there was a 50 percent increase in the percentage of the U.S. population with a master’s degree. I suspect a lot of that is actually folks going back to get an extra credential that gives them a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
2,000 conventional ventilators for a population of 210 million people. “When ventilator shortages became an issue in the United States, we knew we had a proven product that could help,” says Gupta. The company moved quickly to establish a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Enron’s Legacy
to independent directors. First, public companies need to consider a different population of directors to include the large pool of former executives and successful entrepreneurs who have stepped down after decades of accomplishment and... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
ahead. But they had virtually no experience in the roles of government and private sector in creating a dynamic economy. Putting Myanmar in perspective, it's the size of Texas, and it has a population of 54 million-- same as California... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
this activity: Egypt's population is approaching 110 million, the highest in the MENA region, with about half of its citizens between the ages of 15 and 45 and the range of mobile-phone penetration well over 90 percent. The market to meet... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
extensively about Native Americans and is one of the "good guys," Keen says. In the past, academics would sometimes claim to be more of an expert on indigenous populations than the people themselves. Keen says Walker was before his time... View Details