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- 23 Jan 2014
- News
Market Reaction
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Panitchpakdi, the next director general of the World Trade Organization and the deputy prime minister of Thailand, discussed the need for managing developing countries’... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
Image by Chuan Khoo / Getty Images Learning to Speak the Language of Business In March 2010, CEO Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993) stood in front of his employees at online retail giant Rakuten’s Tokyo... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Incentives and Operational Excellence
Operational problems can be the cause of an organization’s demise. Often they can be traced to poor controls in interorganizational settings, according to HBS associate professor V.G. Narayanan, a specialist in measurement systems and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a subsidiary View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Nearly 600 years after the closure of the storied Silk Road trade route between East and West, 44... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Geisha Secrets
TSAI: A luxury skin-care line based on ancient Japanese rituals. Years of work-related testing of beauty products had left Victoria Tsai (MBA 2006) with acute dermatitis. After trying various medications to... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
to port.” Because of world events, the country is also seeing great opportunity. Alvarez explains that Argentina and Brazil have become beneficiaries of the trade war between... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence
his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center “was a learning experience I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
Illustration by Istvan Banyai Since 2006, Gazelle has offered consumers an answer to the question of what to do with their old electronic devices when they upgrade: Sell them to us. Customers can go to Gazelle's website; get a price for... View Details
Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
control in structuring their second year. There are all kinds of MBA programs available today, including one-year, executive, online, and part-time. The question arises, what’s the value-added of HBS’s... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Negotiators Share Lessons from High-Stakes Global Diplomacy
co-directors, the course intentionally enrolls equal numbers of HBS, HKS, and HLS students, and explores how modern diplomacy and negotiation can effectively overcome barriers to agreement in civil and interstate conflicts, as well as in... View Details
Keywords: University Collaborations
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
William Fung: E-Commerce and Efficiency
Ask fund managers covering the Hong Kong market about smart technology plays in these days of crashing dot-coms and you’re likely to hear one company name repeated often. Li & Fung has become the firm to watch for post-frenzy investors.... View Details
- 25 Apr 2016
- News
Trail Blazer
Photography by Alexander Rubin Chuck McMinn (MBA 1978) has worked at enough in startups to know that the only guarantee in technology is that today’s hot product will eventually be replaced by more innovative technology. That’s why McMinn, founder and chair View Details
- 16 Aug 2016
- News
Volvo Veteran-Led China Electric-Car Maker WM Raises $1 Billion
- 01 Apr 2001
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Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
“In the media business, it’s important to make sure your content is fresh,” says Jimmy Lai Chee-ying, chairman of Next Media, Ltd. The Hong Kong entrepreneur is doing just that, as he keeps taking risks and reinventing himself. Spirited... View Details