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- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
affiliate in Hawaii couldn't pick it up," he recalls. "We shipped them tapes of the programming. "Fast-forward to today, HBO has multiple networks with over 100 million subscribers worldwide, only 40 million of whom are in the United... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
Partnership (TPP) with the United States, Singapore, Australia, Chile, and seven other countries. “Strong political sensitivities over comprehensive tariff elimination—a TPP negotiating principle—made Japan’s participation extremely... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- News
Leading on Climate Change
Almheiri, the Minister of Climate Change and Environment for the United Arab Emirates At the national level, Almheiri is leading the UAE’s recently launched Net Zero by 2050 strategic initiative, a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Explains Fields, “Especially since the recession, to be more competitive, we’ve looked beyond things like labor costs when deciding where to locate new business.” He believes that the United States can often claim competitive advantage in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
RIVKIN: “In the private sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long.” Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Navy Destroyer Named After HBS Alumnus
The United States Navy recently christened its newest guided missile destroyer in honor of an MBA alumnus. The USS Paul Ignatius was christened April 8 in Pascagoula, Mississippi, in honor of Paul Ignatius (MBA 1947), who served as the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
the Coosawattee Foundation had grown to become one of the largest archaeological education organizations in the United States. He told Shaw he would talk but wouldn’t be able to take on whatever he was pitching. “Ten minutes into the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
Kanter: Seeking to help shift the national mood from depression to optimism. An internationally respected authority on strategy, innovation, and leadership for change, HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter advocates solving many of the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
William F. Connell (MBA '63)
expensive, and many observers were questioning the ability of this country to compete in the world economy. Convinced that the postindustrial era had arrived in America, the chairman of the Ogden Corporation, a giant New York-based conglomerate whose operating View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
Photo courtesy of Barbara Bry The words connection and communication define Barbara Bry's career, from her student days to her current position as vice president for business development at Proflowers.com, the largest direct-from-the-grower flower company in the View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A reformed fiscal policy is vital to renewing US productivity
Richard H. K. Vietor, Baker Foundation Professor, is an expert on how nations compete—and he’s worried about the United States. Vietor focuses on government policies, laws, and other actions that affect... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never imagined. Wanting to help, he... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
electrical engineering and 58 patents, asked the venture capitalist for help in setting up the organization. In the intervening years, the small nonprofit has attracted interest from such organizations as the United View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
strategic vision. He was a founding partner in a Lawrence, Massachusetts, hydroelectric plant which was the first venture to take advantage of the 1978 National Energy Act’s alternative energy incentives. Later, he and his team at J.... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Playing to Win
Seldom, if ever, has global competition been so glamorous, or so passionately beheld. At soccer's World Cup in France this summer, hundreds of thousands of spectators and a cumulative TV audience of 37 billion cheered and wept as 32 View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
about how things could be done better. That’s definitely outside of your purview as a portfolio manager.” Tiller saw a need to diversify away from oil, not in 50 or 100 years, but right now, for the sake of the environment and national... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
process of change in a developing country. His 1970 book, Engines of Change: United States Interests and Revolution in Latin America, inspired the U.S. Congress to establish the Inter-American Foundation, an independent agency devoted to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
to create. But life in America, which began when he left Iran as a one-year-old, taught him about the qualities that immigrants bring to the country—perseverance, entrepreneurialism, a willingness to adapt to new cultures—that made it possible, he says, for the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Mar 2015
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Providing an Environment for Ideas to Grow
that I have.” Neeley’s research focuses on the challenges organizations face when coordinating operations across linguistic and national boundaries. As a doctoral student at Stanford, she participated in a large-scale global teams study... View Details
- 11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash
partnership is funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and Visa, and hosted by the View Details