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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni... View Details
- 06 Sep 2013
- News
More Seats at the Table
boards of Carmax, Inc., and Avatar Holdings, was first named a director when she was 36. In the 20 years since then, she estimates she has participated as a member in more than 200 corporate board meetings. She was almost always the only... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
organized by C.B. Sung (MBA ’50), a Chinese native who, upon graduation, found himself unable to go home after his country’s fall to Communist forces in 1949. With the gradual opening of China, Sung, a career executive at Motorola, made... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Roads to Recovery
sector, government, labor associations, and civic advocacy groups. The impact of this national summit on its participants was perhaps best described by Representative Earl Blumenauer (D-OR), who declared... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
expect we haven’t seen the last of it. When it comes to corruption here, the bad guys don’t even have to be clever. But, to her credit, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is Africa’s first elected female head of state and a graduate of Harvard’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
School’s centennial celebration a few years ago, we convened groups of business leaders in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the United States to consider the future of the global market system. In keeping with the School’s learning model, we provided View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
History of the Christian Church: Two Thousand Years of Female Leadership by Elizabeth Muir (HRPBA 1958) University of Toronto Press Muir uncovers the rich and often tumultuous relationship between women and Christianity, as she traces... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
of yoga is alive and well at our festivals.” Corporate sponsors also want in, to get their brands in front of the primarily female attendees with the disposable income for travel, food, and lodging, on top of $100 to $500 entrance fees.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
performance, and innovation. Peterson and three colleagues from Emory were among the program’s 68 participants from the United States and fifteen foreign countries. “We’ve always felt there was an opportunity to apply the leadership and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Understanding Southeast Asia’s New Business Frontier From cosmopolitan Bangkok and Singapore to the Sumatran rainforest, participants in the June 2017 HBS faculty immersion explored the diverse industries of Southeast Asia. “This region... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
development occurred after I had left the School. I had the good fortune of participating in a luncheon in New York City to honor the Dean after his retirement. He told a moving story about service, friendship, and HBS involving a friend... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
appropriate to try to understand what major problems might lie ahead for market capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
many MBAs more concerned with personal wealth than social value, notes Kenny. The Economist, too, has its flaws. Critics note that 80 percent of its rankings are based on unaudited data submitted by the participating schools. That leaves... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
contrary forces of dreamer and doer in Mawilmada that would propel him through the various stages of his career. At that point, he was still the dreamer who had worked on designing a fantastical, entirely artificial baobab tree in... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
participants attended a variety of talks, panel discussions, and seminars, including sessions led by Professor James L. Heskett and Associate Professor Kathleen L. Valley. A highlight of the conference was the presentation of professional... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
have done so much for others.” A young female hip-hop duo, La Reyna y La Real, after an impromptu concert in their living room, offer a heartfelt acknowledgment to CET for helping secure an appearance at a Kennedy Center Cuban arts... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the FDIC’s Bank Insurance Fund. Long Term Capital Management, a largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
Stock's mind, it's inevitable that eventually, parents will select favorable genes for their children or even clone a deceased child, so regulation is beside the point. "This is a force that is above and beyond us as individuals," he... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
her community. New Priorities, New Skills Forced layoffs often cause women to reevaluate their priorities, and severance pay can ease the financial burden, allowing them time to figure out what they want to do. But even without such... View Details