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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
to HBS to complete his first book, Spearheads of Democracy: Labor in the Developing Countries. He didn't have a graduate degree and never expected to become a professor. But in a remarkable HBS career that has spanned four decades and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Second Acts
Meakem now seeks out young, local companies that can benefit from his investment and advice. “I get such a thrill to find a great company with loads of potential,” Meakem told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review (September 18, 2005). Seeking to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2020
- News
All in the Neighborhood
Photo courtesy of Angela Hicks Photo courtesy of Angela Hicks As native Hoosiers, Angie’s List cofounders Angela Hicks (MBA 2000) and Bill Oesterle (MBA 1992) knew they wanted to ground themselves in a community where their business could not only grow, but foster... View Details
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Development Indicators (World Bank) Economist Intelligence Unit OECD iLibrary: Economic surveys Global Consumption Database (World Bank) News Factiva View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Opinions vary as to where things stand with the current economic climate: Are we in recovery mode, stalled, or still bottoming out? The distance of history offers a clearer perspective, as evidenced by an exhibit at the Baker Library |... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
buyers and sellers are currently excluded from global commerce. These individuals, because of their collective size, will likely redefine the concept of banking and financial access in the future.” Working in developing countries is both... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing business leaders across the... View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
Photo courtesy of HBSASNE Clubs News Clubs News The HBS Association of Southeastern New England (HBSASNE) recently held its first-ever reunion of the local nonprofit leaders it has sent to the Strategic Perspectives in Nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
African manner, with the local chief, the two men deep in conversation about rural issues. The tableau seemed confirmation that Wolfensohn himself embodied the grassroots, humane approach he has espoused as essential for the troubled... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
from a local public school, and each adult volunteer was assigned a team of about 7 kids. These groups were tasked with starting and running a company while the adult volunteers would act as consultants to help out when needed, mostly... View Details
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Paul Wang
At Harvard, Paul Wang’s studies in economics gave him an important theoretical understanding of international development issues. But two summers spent in Africa made them personal. Through the university’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
From Bytes to Bites
a booth every Saturday at San Francisco’s Ferry Plaza Farmers Market.) No stranger to weathering economic downturns (she met employee payroll out of her personal checking account in the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks),... View Details
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
unit. "But actually, it's not so good for consumers." Edelman explains the problem in the paper Price Coherence and Excessive Intermediation, co-authored with Julian Wright, an economics professor at the National University of Singapore.... View Details
Charles L. Brown
Brown guided AT&T through one of the largest corporate reorganizations in United States history by settling the government’s antitrust case in 1982. He successfully divested of AT&T’s local phone businesses and in the process,... View Details
Keywords: Communications
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Marco Crespo
Marco Crespo's story is one of continuity. Before attending HBS, he had been active in the Ayrton Senna Foundation, a Brazilian nonprofit founded by a world-famous Formula 1 race car driver, dedicated to improving public education. While pursuing his MBA, Marco View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that differentiation coupled with... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
social issues, from the economic development of U.S. inner cities to environmental concerns. Michael E. Porter (MBA '71), the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, whose prodigious... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
completed phase one of a three-part impact evaluation study and as a result, are making critical decisions around some sacred cows.” Such an impact is just what HBS alumni clubs hope for when they select local nonprofit leaders to receive... View Details
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
PublicationsGlobal, Local, and Contagious Investor Sentiment Authors:Malcolm Baker, Jeffrey Wurgler, and Yu Yuan Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We construct investor sentiment indices for six major... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
to create an electric vehicle industry is a bold experiment in local and system-level innovation. It also provides a window into understanding the promise and peril of economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne