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- 01 Mar 2012
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How to Close the Health Gap
and Peter Singer (AMP 171, 2006) in their new book, The Grandest Challenge: Taking Life-Saving Science from Lab to Village (Doubleday Canada). Daar and Singer are professors at the University of Toronto and directors of the university’s McLaughlin-Rotman Centre for... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
What Building a “Jeopardy!” Robot Taught IBM About Innovation
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Immersion Program Digs Deep
or kitchen and bathroom finishings. The global nature of the student group created additional opportunities for learning through different perspectives, Abrami notes. Rytis Vitkauskas (MBA ’08), a native of Lithuania, says he signed up... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?
it happen in practice. That’s on the private market side. On the public side, the question is how you can influence the behavior of a company to reflect your values, or protect the long-term value of your investment—or both—while only... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the Board, Accion International 2009... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Action Plan: Just Breathe
In the late aughts, Joe Burton (PMD 75, 2000) looked like a success story. In 2006, after a successful career in consulting and the C-suite of numerous public companies, he was named COO of McCann Worldgroup, overseeing $1.5 billion in View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Estonia, Incorporated
and can gain access to the European Union market along the way. “On the level of administrative and operational simplicity alone, this is a winner,” says Kumar, an American who had never been to Estonia before this project but is now an... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
launched Tokyo-based Rakuten, a 10,000-person company that began as an online shopping mall and now includes banking, travel, e-book, and credit card divisions. With a market capitalization of approximately $14 billion in fiscal year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
rights? When will the division of policy authority across different government agents (e.g., federal and subnational governments, or politicians and bureaucrats) enable better policy decisions? And what are the consequences of View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
capitalism present important opportunities. In this updated and expanded edition of Capitalism at Risk, Bower, Leonard, and Paine set forth a renewed and more urgent call to action. With three additional chapters and a new preface, the authors explain how the 11... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
simultaneously," commented HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a recent interview with writer Peter K. Jacobs. Bartlett, faculty chair of the School's Executive Education Program for Global Leadership, identified the View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Helping management teams build companies
As founder and CEO of Providence Equity Partners, Jonathan Nelson (MBA 1983) looks for good people to partner with. He attributes his firm’s remarkable results to the leaders they’ve identified and backed. (Published December 2014) View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
to development assistance, as it works to move Third World countries beyond subsistence toward genuine participation in the global economy. Best of all, the MCC is producing demonstrable results, including in Africa, where Bloom is the... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- News
HBS Club of Japan Event Highlights HBS Fellowship
included the opening of the Japanese Research Center in 2002 and the annual Independent Field Course that launched in 2011. Amano, a marketing professor, gave a lecture entitled “Gaming or Gambling? An Empirical Investigation of the Role... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Illustration by Ken Orvidas/theispot.com In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the... View Details
- 19 Jan 2017
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Finding Purpose in Profit
redefine the meaning of success in business. B Lab’s mission is to assemble a global community of Certified B Corporations, which are companies that meet certain prescribed standards of social and environmental performance, public... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
portfolio of product lines, setting Novartis apart from its global competitors. Although initially regarded by critics as too inexperienced to lead a multinational pharmaceutical company, Vasella has triumphed. Three years ago he was... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
logistics can be outsourced to a global company like DHL. Mexico has a cost advantage, so it can naturally be a production center. —Ali al Shihabi (MBA 1985) Consider researching how Indian furniture startups and food companies are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
online food delivery business based in Denmark. This was our conclusion: “Just Eat seems to only work in Denmark, where business is profitable. Its other half-dozen markets are burning cash. It already has 10 percent of the Denmark... View Details