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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
economic development. Binagwaho explained that rolling back disease by fighting poverty — and vice versa — is at the core of public-health policy in Rwanda; sweeping government legislation specifically supports and enhances that broad... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
are examined not only as economic entities but as businesses affecting almost all areas of our experience. The book explores the history and various aspects of the multinational, concluding with the principal developments of the 20th... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
structure will help them manage their businesses more efficiently and responsibly.” The GRI is emerging even as institutional investors, NGOs, and governments intensify their scrutiny of firms in areas such as environmental impact, human rights, and View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
of poverty, props up tyrants, and undermines political stability and economic progress. As the world's largest repository of this kind of money, the United States erodes its own strategic objectives — and its moral stature — in countries... View Details
- 09 Feb 2017
- News
Turning Disorder into Opportunity
study about Specialisterne, an organization that was introducing people with autism spectrum disorders into the labor force. “I started thinking, why not let HPE and our clients benefit from these talented people as well?” Fieldhouse... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
American economic system.” Castaldo's own path to the industry began in brand management for Clairol; in 1980, he was recruited by Burger King Corporation and left five years later as vice president of advertising. Explaining the leap... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
world in life expectancy, at 77.9 years. Half the U.S. population does not receive standard preventive care such as cancer screening, blood pressure checks, or vaccinations. A 2007 McKinsey study found that compared with the average for the thirty countries of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
conflicts between monitoring and advisory responsibilities, and the frustration of serving in a role under intense scrutiny in a brutal economic environment have made the job unattractive to many capable people and difficult for anyone to... View Details
- 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
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
in New Orleans. And it creates an opportunity for someone like Bolden, who doesn't have the education, who hasn't been given the economic opportunities, to still be innovative and to let talent be the great leveler. And that's music. So... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
Fellow, before being hired to serve as the center’s director of strategic initiatives. “I worked primarily with the president and the CFO of Lincoln Center, and that was an extraordinary opportunity,” Houston says. “I gained experience in everything from View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
these new businesses with education and advocacy for public health and hygiene will have a significant and sustainable social and economic impact on communities. What aspect of your organization makes you most proud? People from around... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
My HBS Eureka Moment
must be prepared to do whatever it takes. Exceed Expectations Bill Bogardus (MBA 1972) DURING THE FIRST OR SECOND WEEK of his first-year managerial economics course, Professor John Pratt gave us a pop quiz. Data were presented and three... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
departure of more than 200,000 Huguenots at the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes was a well-documented economic disaster for the kingdom of France, but the importance of these refugees to the countries where they settled is less known.... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
include the World Economic Forum, IDEO, airlines, and many government and border operations. SEPTEMBER 18 Sara Vicente Barreto (MBA 2009) is a corporate strategist whose blog, “Make Space for Growth,” offers insights on personal and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
multibillion-dollar Capital Cities/ABC media empire of the 1990s. Not long after, laboring in similar obscurity in rural Ohio, Amos B. Hostetter, Jr. (MBA '61), and H. Irving Grousbeck (MBA '60), cofounders of Continental Cablevision,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
and pursue my personal passions of women's economic empowerment and education. I began at Merrill Lynch, but in pursuit of independence, I eventually became an entrepreneur, founding and building a venture capital firm. I still enjoy... View Details