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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
exploding. "Over the next 20 years, we have to generate 80 million jobs," Masha says. "That's the population of Germany, the world's fourth-largest economy." But endemic corruption has scared off many foreign companies. "Nigeria is a nightmare country. Things just... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Meditations on the Bottom Line
guests a year in a wide array of yoga, meditation, and other health and wellness programs. "It's a safe and sacred place where people can come - regardless of their religious background - to unwind from the stresses of the world and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector
academics, and business leaders, including former Goldman Sachs cochairman and Deputy Secretary of State John C. Whitehead (MBA 11/'47), the driving force behind the Initiative on Social Enterprise at HBS. Also taking part were more than a dozen CEOs and senior... View Details
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Announcing the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative
University President Drew Faust explained, “Issues that people care deeply about—their safety, their job prospects, their health, their schools, and their pocketbooks—are often shaped largely by local policies. As more and more people around the world live in... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
different ethnic groups in the country’s north, along with Indian, Chinese, European, and American expats. “My early exposure to people from diverse backgrounds is probably the reason I enjoy such environments,” says Oteh, who served for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
Our experience shows, however, that if that sector is provided breathing room for a period of time and is well managed, it can recover and become strong." Stewart cites his firm's representation of companies or workers in four industries... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
War II, tracing the decentralizing effects of the draft, rationing, and Ferdinand Eberstadt's Controlled Materials Plan. Also included are overview chapters on the impact of women and African Americans on business, as View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Guitar Hero
(MBA '79) is a genuine guitar hero. Because of his managerial chops, a legendary American guitar company, once almost silenced by insolvency, has lived to play on. Founded in 1894, the Gibson Guitar Corp. had lately been singing nothing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Len Blavatnik Len Blavatnik (MBA 1989) The Blavatnik Family Foundation is catalyzing Harvard's efforts to translate basic scientific discoveries into new therapies and cures. The Foundation, led by American... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
research team) examine 24 cases of collaboration between businesses and nonprofit organizations in Mexico (a food bank and an American supermarket), Colombia, Chile (a pharmacy chain and an elder-care home), Argentina (a newspaper and a... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
Competition had on their business. Parker Treacy (MBA 2012) Founder of Cobli, 2016 Alumni Track Grand Prize Winner Cobli, based in Brazil, is a vehicle fleet logistics business tapping into the South American market of 50 million... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
brittle page from the R.G. Dun & Co. Collection provide a slow-motion close-up of a 50-plus-year span when American business expanded from small, local exchanges within a day’s horseback ride to transactions spanning multiple states and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
his story of turning an early-stage medical device company into a market leader with about $400 million in revenues. His plan included adding and integrating significant and complex acquisitions as well as empowering his employees to keep... View Details
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion
entrepreneurial skills and the Lebanese business community is competent and well known around the world,” says Ingea. “Despite the current hardships, she remains hopeful and optimistic about the future of Lebanon.” Ingea says a lively Q&A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
and the school year, advising clients as well as evaluating mid-cap companies for Monitor Clipper Partners, the company's LBO investment arm. "I learned how to juggle and prioritize lots of activities from an early age," says Lirio... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Peter W. Olson: By the Book
the book business fascinated me," says Olson, who joined the German media corporation Bertelsmann in 1988 and worked his way up to chairman of its North American book group. When Bertelsmann acquired Random House in 1998, Olson was... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
Wilson Illustration by Jeffrey Smith After 121 days at sea, Rich Wilson (MBA 1982) sailed his 60-foot, single-hull sloop Great American III across the finish line in France last March, completing the 2008–09 Vendée Globe around-the-world... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New News
FiveThirtyEight have partnered with us on South Asian American issues. When Kamala Harris was selected as the Democratic candidate for vice president, we saw so much nonsense analysis. This is the first year when I was fundraising in... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
led him to start creating public art—often combining Arabic calligraphy and graffiti—on the drab post-civil-war walls of his hometown of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2009. His success with guerilla art eventually led to commissions and exhibitions in Africa, Asia, Europe, and... View Details
Keywords: Inclusion
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
advertising. Joining the faculty in 1949, Marshall developed multiple courses, produced more than 200 cases, and taught in virtually every program at HBS, as well as in management programs in universities worldwide, until retiring in... View Details