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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
surpluses/deficit on a sustained basis if normal adjustments through exchange rate movements work sluggish. This is a possibility that has become very real over the last few years. Export-oriented countries might get trapped in... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
Norwegian investment fund for developing countries which has committed 60 percent of its portfolio to sub-Saharan Africa. Fynn asked the panelists why they’re investing and building businesses in Africa; why they believe companies, investors and entrepreneurs should... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 24 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Harvard’s JD/MBA: Viroopa Volla (JD/MBA 2021) Answers Your Questions
would JD/MBAs describe their relationships with HLS classmates and HBS classmates? JD/MBAs usually find that being part of two different schools strengthens their overall networks. Both schools place students into a section for their... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
it would take, we never would have done it,” says Raiford. “But I’m glad we did.” Seven hundred kids currently play in the league, and several others have received college scholarships. A team of league all-stars took sixth place in the... View Details
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
Mistake Number 3: Passively sitting and waiting for a crisis (which many never come). A major problem with passive strategies is that nature may not cooperate by providing the right amount of lightning in the right place at the right... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter
- 06 Nov 2008
- Op-Ed
Selling Out The American Dream
dreams. But these same politicians are consistently unwilling to raise taxes when required. The massive budget deficits run up during the last eight years of war (now projected at 3.8 percent of GDP in 2009) reflect a Federal government... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
A History of Women at HBS
Training Program (1946–1955), to the Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration (1956–1963) — the last step before complete integration took place with the admission of eight women into the MBA... View Details
- 11 Apr 2024
- News
Mission Control
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
As the number of casualties from COVID-19 ballooned at an alarming rate last year, some feared that government officials were failing to report several coronavirus-related losses and the actual death toll was much higher worldwide. While... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
past two decades. As a result, the proportion of the US population that is foreign-born—to the extent we can count—has nearly tripled over the past 50 years to levels we last saw around 1900. There is one business “community” that has... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Portrait Project
Michi Ferreol
I gave Harold eight Spongebob stickers for winning the Spelling Bee, all outlined in gold. He clutched them tightly in his small, chubby fingers. The rest of the fourth graders had placed their own stickers everywhere — their lunch boxes,... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
presence did, too. Today the PRIDE group is an association of 190 lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) students and partners. It serves as a social and professional network, as well as a place to promote... View Details
- 12 Feb 2021
- News
How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World
cafeteria. My father’s request was breathtaking and anxiety-producing.” Over the next 35 years, Rosenberg would turn Dunkin’ Donuts into a global icon—which last year sold to Inspire Brands for a stunning $11.3 billion. And in this... View Details
Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
- 20 Feb 2020
- Blog Post
Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible
questions and look in the right places for funding and opportunities. Topics include product-market fit, financing, paths to profitability, and digital marketing. Jewel Burks Solomon, the new head of Google startups, kicks off the day... View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints that society View Details
- 20 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism
In a much admired and debated speech given at the World Economic Forum in Davos last January, Bill Gates said that many of the world's biggest problems cannot be fixed by philanthropy, but instead require free-market... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy Koehn
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
the Initiative ended last December with the announcement that HBS graduates from across Canada had raised $20 million (Canadian) to create the Canadian Financial Aid Program. Barford continues to work with the School as chairman of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)
Even while he was growing up, Michael Porter, the School's C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, knew a thing or two about the world. The son of a career Army officer, he lived in many places in this country and... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
changing seasons. Go birding in Mt. Auburn Cemetery. Visit the first rural, or "garden" cemetery in the United States, located on the edge of Cambridge. In addition to famous burials, remarkable monuments, and amazing plantings, this National Historic Landmark is a... View Details
- Profile
Bridgette Slater
from fascinating professors, challenge our intellectual limits, and rediscover our passions or venture into new ones. Finally, at the end of the “summer,” we depart from our time at HBS with a collection of lasting memories full of... View Details