Developing Countries And Economies - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

party in Boston that raised more than $2,000 for the Irish Hospice Foundation, a nonprofit based in Dublin that supports the development of hospice care. It’s part of an active off-campus life, which is dominated by her love of sports. In... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

development during World War II, spearheaded the construction of an HBS-like business school in France (INSEAD), and, perhaps most notably, launched the modern venture capital industry. His remarkable life is the subject of a new... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Jun 1997
News

Bruce Rauner (MBA '81) Endows New Professorship

Why make them wait to implement their vision? Helping Harvard - to which I feel a deep sense of gratitude in terms of my career and personal development - is especially satisfying View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Dec 2022
News

A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light

better as Dean.” Light viewed globalization as a significant opportunity for the School and opened a research center in India and the Harvard Center Shanghai. New courses brought MBA students to View Details

Keywords: leadership; HBS Dean; obituary; academia

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Product Management - Course Catalog

executive, this course aims to provide an introduction to product management and expose students to key product development and growth strategies so they can build, optimize... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

accountability and governance, and development and marketing. Professor Kash Rangan, who cochairs the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative,... View Details

01 Dec 2007
News

The Wise Men

taught for nearly forty years in the HBS classroom and in business programs in some 23 countries abroad. Over the years, he has seen 27 former students join the HBS faculty. The author or coauthor of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna

01 Dec 2011
News

Making the Case for Leadership

technologically innovative company away from specialty glass, television tubes, and fiberglass production into newer, faster-growing profit-making areas. At the time, the economy is plagued by recession,... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

Charting the Year Ahead

percentage takes advantage of them. Insightful demographic and psychographic profiles have been developed from alumni survey data that will enable the committee, chaired by Jim Rice (MBA 1986), to recommend... View Details

Keywords: Peter Cooper; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

‘Get down! Everybody get down! It's coming down!' " If any rationale underlay the nihilism and bloodlust of the WTC attacks, perhaps it was a belief that massive death and destruction in the heart of... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

01 Jan 2009
News

Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Sicupira, and Marcel Telles have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than 30 years. The three friends and business... View Details

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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

required). Neal, Larry. “Trust Companies and Financial Innovation, 1897–1914,” Business History Review 45, no. 1 (1971). Full text available as networked resource. (Harvard users only: Harvard ID and... View Details

01 Apr 1997
News

Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

MIS faculty, as well as faculty from other units whose research is related to MIS, are currently engaged in research to track the evolution of information technology and to determine how IT infrastructure can create value in the... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

in the subsequent periods. Pricing in installments is one way they can do this. In the case of the country club, I might advise that dues be billed in the middle of the winter when the ability and desire to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

Student-Profile

Alexandra C. Feldberg

work, I developed a deep interest in gender and knowledge transfer in organizations. Although I enjoyed the analytical aspects of consulting work, I missed being in an academic environment. I realized that... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

The End of the Noncompete Clause

the country to embrace labor organizing as a tool to end the widespread use of noncompete clauses. “Many tech employees are union-averse, so it’s going to be hard for them to consider joining an established union,” says Johnson. But... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos

20 Jul 2020
News

Responding to Racism Amid a Pandemic; LGBT Alumni Take Pride Celebration Online

Clubs News Clubs News Webinars Connect Black Alumni Taking Leadership in Turbulent Times Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, a shaky economy, and racial unrest across the country, the HBS African-American Alumni Association... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

the energy lobby and the power missing from the water lobby. The energy sector, Thompson said, “....is dominated by private companies that are developing new technologies and... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

Home of the Oreck XL 8 lb. Upright Vacuum Profiles from the Class of 2006 Diversity & Ambition India Arrives Economic reforms and a young, entrepreneurial workforce have lifted India into the global economy... View Details

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