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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
generated more than $190 million in revenue, launching hundreds of new companies that employ thousands of people. "There's a lot of pessimism out there about the economy and where society's going," says Nigam, "so I love being surrounded... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
explicitly rejected." While acknowledging that the state or various societal groups also clamor for order, Spar declares that, in general, "rules get created because private firms want them." And she observes that what's true for many of the world's poorest View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
people and businesses are finding that the two things we love most in the world—cars and cash in our pockets—are totally optional. By 2017 people will be disrupting the disrupters, because the world is changing so fast. “Number three:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
sitting next to him: Allen Carpé. Carpé was a World War I veteran and an accomplished research engineer with Bell Telephone Laboratories whose exploits included the stormy first ascent of Mount Logan, Canada’s highest peak. The two men... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
A Janus-Faced Reflection
accompanied by some thoughts on how the world has changed in a quarter-century, and with it our alma mater, and the meaning of a Harvard MBA. The pieces have typically been warm, gently tough-minded, only slightly nostalgic, witty, and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
retired U.S. Army brigadier general) Georges F. Doriot, who had founded American Research & Development Corp. (AR&D) in 1946, the first public venture capital firm in the United States. As the American economy began to soar after View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
paper to the ground as quickly as we have. Designing and building modular shelters accommodating over 200 homeless people in Delhi and influencing the World Bank project to take into consideration housing design and safety when financing... View Details
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
got is one of the best that's available in the white man's world. You're my own blood. But be wary of that outside world because they worship money. And Wakonda, the creator, doesn't want us to do that.' "Then he said, ‘When you've walked... View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Ventures—for three months to create the landmark conference. The full recording of the program is available at hbsangels.com/annual-conference. Toronto Panel Grapples with Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada When the World... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
are hardwired for survival and programmed to fear the unknown, yet the work world demands constant innovation. The enemy of better leadership is uncertainty deeply buried in the minds of your workforce. In Certainty, Mears offers the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
American factories and, with other foreign automakers, adding billions of dollars to the U.S. economy while creating hundreds of thousands of jobs. Despite these new plants and jobs, globalization all but assures that the auto industry in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
Publishing Platform) An autobiographical story of a boy whose life was radically changed in the prison camps on Java during World War II. After the Japanese surrender in 1945, a violent Indonesia revolution forced the evacuation of all... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Heartland
Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Kash Rangan
flourished as did the nation’s social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
how individuals can capitalize on the new, equal-opportunity economy and all of its exciting possibilities. Davis and Meyer describe a world in the not-so-distant future in which we will trade everything of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
Unsurprisingly, then, Jakarta underwhelms in comparison to other world centers. Last year, in its annual liveability index, the Economist Intelligence Unit ranked Jakarta 116—below Almaty, Kazakhstan, and New Delhi—out of 140 cities.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
for hospitals in Pune and elsewhere. Dr. Natarajan’s Lighthouse Communities Foundation also “set up citizen help lines, organized food supplies for the needy, and collected money from all over the world to equip a new government COVID... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
some immigrants could add billions to government coffers rather than be a drain on the economy. Nor have fears of immigrants as national security threats been borne out. See Also Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014 Revised immigration policies would boost the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
experience," states Stobaugh, "because I realized how much I had missed the academic world of discussion and ideas." Encouraged by his professors, Stobaugh entered the Harvard DBA Program in 1965 at the age of 37. He earned his doctorate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
choices we face. Regards, Dean Nitin Nohria I suspect there’s a great deal that most of us can agree on about capitalism. The free enterprise system, of which HBS is an essential part, has lifted billions of people around the world out of... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)