North America - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2005
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South Asian Women at Work

Conference on India and Its Neighbors, a student-organized gathering held on the HBS campus in February and sponsored by the HBS South Asian Business Association. Shahla Aly, now a general manager at Microsoft, came to North View Details

Keywords: sari; dress code; corporate attire; women

01 Oct 1998
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A Career to Smile About

Whether jetting around the world or working from Colgate-Palmolive's midtown Manhattan headquarters, Lois Juliber has helped her company become a consumer-products powerhouse that does business in 212 countries and derives 75 percent of its sales from outside View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

01 Oct 2002
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John Batcha: Sowing the Seeds to Fight Hunger

Smiles all around: Guatemalan schoolchildren enjoy the fruits of their labor. photo courtesy John Batcha Batcha in his Charlotte, North Carolina, garden with his grandchildren, Nicole and David Spencer. photo by Roger Ball When he retired... View Details

18 May 2011
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U.S. Manufacturing Comeback?

recently announced it would invest $2 billion to add up to 4,000 jobs at 17 American plants. The Los Angeles Times reports that chip maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. will open a $4.6 billion semiconductor factory north of Albany, New... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

01 Feb 2002
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Burger Art

Talk about thinking outside the box! Since time immemorial, Americans have slapped and shaken ketchup bottles at their peril, hoping the red stuff would mostly wind up on their burgers and not in their laps. Well, that's all so yesterday, shoppers, thanks largely to... View Details

Keywords: K.C. Keller; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 1998
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Mandela in Triumph at Harvard

imprisoned for 27 years before becoming South Africa's president in 1994, noted that this would likely be his last official visit to America before he leaves the presidency next year. He then delivered a twenty-minute address that focused... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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Book Review: The Old West

nonfiction, North America and India—as well as the similarities: Both are, in some way, chronicles of changing times and lives, suggesting the universality of change and its impact on the human condition,... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Oct 2000
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Raymond A. Baxter: Sweet Smell of Success

operational systems has resulted in a 99.9 percent compliance rate in order fulfillment; it is also the only baking company in North America to be registered ISO 9001, the highest standard for quality... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2012
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Competitiveness at Risk

Rivkin and Porter: HBS alumni are in a position to help put America back on a more competitive footing in the world economy. View the survey results Watch Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin introduce the project Join the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2005
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A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

Concurrently, Lewis and I, plus several others, formed the first U.S.-style venture fund in Asia, in Hong Kong, with Lewis as the working M.D., to do startup/early stage investments — usually the transfer of proven success models from View Details

Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Nov 2020
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

access to some companies, he was nonetheless able to meet with a number of business leaders. Casadesus-Masanell is developing a new course and writing a book and several cases based on the research he and the JRC conducted. Latin America... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Taking Attendance

Constance “CJ” Jones (MBA 2008) had a tough time as a student at her middle school in Durham, North Carolina. Often the only person of color in the academically advanced classes, she felt rejected by both her white and her black peers for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; public education; leadership; charter schools; career paths; work-life balance; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

products of countries where those sports were already widely popular and enjoyed high-caliber infrastructure and player-development systems. The success of these star imports to North America created demand... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Jun 2010
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The Art and Science of Teaching

Doug Lemov (MBA ’04), a charter-schools consultant and managing director of True North Public Schools, a network of schools in upstate New York, is a former teacher, principal, and charter-school founder. After years of trying to analyze... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

21 Jun 2022
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Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead

They include a tour of Toyota North America headquarters, which recently moved to Dallas; special seminars on real estate, since, he says, Dallas is described as the Wall Street of the real estate industry;... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2008
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An American Story

University of North Dakota in Grand Forks, eighty miles north of Fargo. At the time, Joan was pregnant with the first of the couple’s five children. “My mother was sure they wouldn’t have any doctors out... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Apr 2013
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Tapped In

resource his company harvests from pine trees. But he can offer a brief history: resin-harvesting is a millenarian tradition, mentioned in the Bible; it was a foundational industry for colonial America; and resin is even why North... View Details

Keywords: pine resin; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Jun 2016
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Prima Datarina

were the first company in North America to perform the Mahler, because it requires an extraordinary orchestra and corps of dancers.” It also demands something of the viewer, in a way that more narrative... View Details