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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
Four HBS professors whose international research efforts range from biotechnology in Taiwan to foreign investments in Costa Rica have been named the first Novartis Faculty Fellows. The two-year fellowships, funded by a $2 million gift... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Elaine L. Chao (MBA 1979)
The eldest in a family of six daughters (four of whom attended HBS), Elaine L. Chao came to New York City from Taiwan at the age of eight. She adapted to her new home quickly, learning English and excelling academically. Since attending... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
States from Taiwan as an eight-year-old speaking no English, the New York Times (February 26, 2001) reported. “I was very lucky to grow up in a family that believed in hard work and education,” said Chao, who favors outreach and access... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Action Plan: Casting Call
Bert Berkley (MBA 1950) calls it “the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life.” Having served in the US Army during World War II for three-and-a-half years, he was offered (and accepted) the chance to go home one day early if he signed up for the Army Reserves. Called... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; hobbies; balance; meaning; longevity; aging; Paper Manufacturing; Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
business today. What issues did you face when you returned to Hong Kong in 1972? When I returned, my friends told me, “We don’t know why you’ve come back. Hong Kong’s now too expensive. Our labor is too high, and Taiwan has taken all our... View Details
- 03 Dec 2024
- News
Magic Numbers
Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was far behind... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
In 1961, at the age of eight, Elaine Chao (MBA 1979) traveled to the United States from Taiwan with her mother and two sisters aboard a cargo ship. It was a harrowing 37-day journey to reunite with her father, who had come to the country... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Up by the Roots
39,000-square-foot processing facility. It stretches into branch offices and warehouses serving six major Chinatowns across the United States and Canada, two offices in Taiwan and Hong Kong, and a wholly owned subsidiary in Nanjing... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
Participant-Centered Learning (CPCL) has brought more than 250 faculty from top business schools in emerging economies to HBS to learn about case-method instruction, and the School is now hosting versions of this program for faculty from China and View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
government will lead to heightened tensions with the United States and allies such as Japan and Taiwan by 2020. What about Europe? The European Union poses a less immediate challenge, but a real one nonetheless. There is an element of the... View Details
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion
economy and international relations in Southeast Asia, will give a brief talk. “Professor Fibiger will share his perspectives on the current ‘chip wars’ between the United States, China, and Taiwan,” says Wells. Drawing from a recently completed HBS case, Fibiger will... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 May 2016
- News
2016 Alumni Achievement Awards
world.” “At the time, India had three fat books of import policies, and I knew them backward and forward. In 1982, phones could not be imported, but electronic parts could. I imported the first push-button phone by disassembling phones in View Details
- 16 Jan 2020
- News
Hitting the High Notes
became principal cellist of the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, and a teacher to a new generation of renowned cellists. One of his last students, Brian Thornton of the Cleveland Orchestra, launched the ACF to honor his teacher. Kim’s film tells the story of Hong, a child... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
Broom, came from halfway around the world. The vice president of human resources for the cosmetics giant EstŽe Lauder International, Inc., she had just completed an assignment consulting on staff issues with the company's senior managers in View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 27 Apr 2015
- News
Topping Off the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
a company that still thrives today based on principles instilled more than 20 years ago. Taiwan Aborigine Missionary: R. Don McCall Sr., Family Letters compiled by Roy K. McCall (MBA 1984) China’s Greatest Statesman: Zhou Enlai’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"
business practice in this area." Next year's conference will also be considering a special case of business practice, as seen from ective. From April 5 to 8, in Hong Kong, the 1997 HBS Global Alumni Conference will examine the world's fastest-growing marketplace of... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
portable generators he’d been selling in India. When Mittal traveled to East Asia in search of new ideas, he saw push-button phones in Taiwan (most Indian phones were rotary dial at the time). Government regulations forbade the import of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna