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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
support. And the Rwanda-based staff traveled to India to procure machinery to make sanitary pads. Meanwhile, a team at North Carolina State University has developed the fiber process for the filling of the pads, and the Rwanda Workforce... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Working World
have MBA students who envision a company that has its R&D in India and manufacturing in China with a couple of key executives in London. So a key point that I’ve been narrowing in on is how well companies build globalization directly into... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
(MBA 1997) Founder and CEO, Central Square Foundation, New Delhi, India A UNIFIED FRONT "Businesses tend to support individual programs or schools. The impact could be much larger if corporations partnered to take collective action on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
States? Indeed, much of the rhetoric on investing environments argues that the major destinations for U.S. outbound FDI — the developed markets of Europe and Japan and the emerging markets of China and India — are filled with capital... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
“change of course,” he says that the United States and Europe need to pay closer attention to the emerging influence of India and China with regard to Africa’s economic and humanitarian challenges, global energy issues, climate change,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Ready for Launch
A daily apartment cleaning service (Fresh Maid). An organizer of one-day extreme endurance events for men (Tough Mudder). A market-based solution to increase the milk production of cattle in rural India (Doodh Bhandar). These are just a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Research Brief: Field Research
Illustration by Joe Waldron Illustration by Joe Waldron Back in 2010, HBS finance professor Shawn Cole embarked on a two-year randomized control trial with Nilesh Fernando, then a PhD candidate at Harvard, to evaluate whether a mobile phone–based advisory service might... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
period, multinational pharmas reported a growth rate of only 1 percent.) The case outlines Hamied’s impact — for one, pressuring global pharmas to cut the price of AIDS drugs by exporting a low-cost alternative to South Africa — and also presents his dilemma: As a... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
officials, tours, and other activities—which HBS’s Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong and India Research Center in Mumbai helped coordinate—to get to know the people, projects, and issues firsthand. The following are a few... View Details
- 01 May 2013
- News
Dhruv Agarwala, MBA 2002
real-estate marketing service headquartered in New Delhi. In appreciation of the part HBS has played in his life as well as his ties to India, Agarwala designated his 10th Reunion gift in 2012 to support the School’s India Research Center... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Short Takes
statistical data from five hundred business groups in India and spoke to dozens of managers in Malaysia, Indonesia, and Chile. The pair found that companies outside the United States perform better when they replicate the quality... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
the world, in India it has only just emerged over the past twenty years. In her study, which draws on interviews with over forty designers and others associated with the industry, as well as analysis of Indian magazine articles, Khaire... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
such a bad tradeoff to make. But Reinhardt points out that we’ve seen this story before. “In the 1970s, we said that prices would never go down again, and they did,” he remarks. “Will demand from India and China change the equation?... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
a “guilty pleasure” author? Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni’s books, particularly The Vine of Desire. She’s a great storyteller. What’s one of your favorite books? A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry is about four people from different origins in contemporary View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
and hazards of some of humanity's most controversial technologies, which may nevertheless provide the key to saving our world. What the Heck Do I Do With My Life? By Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992) Rupa Publications India Our world will change... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
word to their families, friends, and customers. It's quite amazing when such a simple concept can have such a big impact." The reordering of mindsets and attitudes toward life can work both ways, interns find. Neera Nundy is a Canadian citizen whose parents, both... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
children, especially from low-income communities; also a founder of Ashoka University The pandemic has been a disaster for education overall and has exacerbated inequity as well. Unlike in the United States and Europe, all public and private schools in View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
consider a partnership with a bank, building your own payment gateway, or taking cash on delivery. A lot of e-commerce companies in India take cash on delivery for online orders. —Kiran Brahmandam (GMP 15, 2013) Partner with home goods... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details