international - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1997
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Donald J. Chiofaro

however, his $600-million, 1.8-million-square-foot International Place - one of the top ten office buildings in the country, according to the Wall Street Journal - is a Boston landmark and a monument to Chiofaro's daring and tenacity.... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

Tokyo, MBK Partners focuses primarily on buyouts of consumer-facing businesses in China, Japan, and Korea. With nearly $30 billion in capital under management, the firm is raising its sixth flagship fund, targeting $8 billion; the firm’s average aggregate View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan

Special Forces units while serving in Afghanistan. Saffron currently sells for $2,500 per kilogram because its harvesting and processing are so labor intensive. During the summer after their first year at HBS, Miller served as a brand marketing View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

worked as a summer intern at Bain, a position he applied for simply because it paid the most; he used the entire sum to help cover his younger brother’s tuition fees that fall semester at Cornell. Despite the stressful circumstances,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

24 Apr 2014
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Honoring a legacy

Having joined her family’s international shipping, trading, and finance business, Foremost Group, in 2001, Angela A. Chao (AB 1995, MBA 2001) began her career focusing on the company’s safety management system and vessel security... View Details

01 Sep 2023
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Research Brief: Making Way for Moonshots

Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Josh Krieger (Courtesy subject) Many innovations in modern medicine have come about due to cutting-edge drugs—advances that required both a scientific leap and a willingness to take risks. And while most pharmaceutical companies would... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

23 Mar 2023
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Winners Crowned in 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition

Alumni-founded startups M7 Health and Hue came out victorious in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition on Thursday, winning the Grand Prize and Runner Up awards respectively in an impressive field of eight global regional winners. During the virtual, live... View Details

25 Apr 2024
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Origin Stories

gas started in 1933, when Hess’s father Leon bought a secondhand truck and began delivering fuel oil to homes in New Jersey. A thought leader for the energy industry, Hess serves on the board of trustees at the Center for Strategic and View Details

01 Jan 2004
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D. Ronald Daniel, MBA 1954

helping the nonprofit sector, he served as Harvard's treasurer from 1989 until last June, advising three presidents and watching over the University's resources. "It was one of the great privileges of my life," he says. In a commencement address last spring at Brandeis... View Details

09 Aug 2021
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OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

01 Oct 1999
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Banking on Success

even a trip to Clinton, Iowa, was exciting to me. There was the lure of exploring a new place, going someplace I'd never been before. After those early years of 100-hour workweeks and countless trips to the Clintons of the world, travel - even View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

of the MS/MBA program, Perelson hopes to pursue an interest in real estate and tech. He got a taste of that during the summer of 2019 while working as an intern at Davidson Kempner Capital Management. “I want to stay in the US for a while... View Details

01 Mar 2005
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Turkish Delight

BYFORD: Changing careers is well worth the effort. Grenville Byford (MBA ’79) was practical when he decided to pursue his interest in international relations. “Unless your name is Kissinger, you have to specialize in a particular area of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jan 2012
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Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993

The company has acquired Buy.com in the United States, Ikeda in Brazil, Play.com in the United Kingdom, and Kobo in Canada, and it recently made international headlines for spearheading a $100 million investment in Pinterest, the social... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome of these international... View Details

01 Oct 1999
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Eight Among Many: Peter G. Harf

only for building an international beauty empire but also for the ginger-lily shower gel he is using these days. As head of the New Yorkbased firm that makes popular scents such as Jovan and Stetson as well as numerous prestige brands,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Apr 2024
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Mission Control

that doesn't belong. And I think that's a little bit was like this mission statement for my life, right? I had spent truly decades chipping away that internal feeling of what it is that I want to do. And so, it became clearer and clearer,... View Details

01 Jan 2002
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Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)

McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he... View Details

01 Jan 2013
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Thai Lee, MBA 1985

President and CEO, SHI International Download Lee profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1958 Born, Bangkok, Thailand 1980 Earns BA, Biology and Economics, Amherst College 1985 Earns MBA 1985 Joins Procter & Gamble... View Details