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- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
culture, technology, and economy to coevolve in unison under the rubric of an integral polity. Family Inc.: Using Business Principles to Maximize Your Family’s Wealth by Douglas P. McCormick (MBA 1997)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
with the briefest of utterances. But it wasn’t always that way. Al-Naimi was born into abject poverty as a nomadic Bedouin in the 1930s, just as US companies were discovering vast quantities of oil under the Arabian desert. From his first... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
Michael Chu (MBA '76) is president and CEO of ACCION International, a private nonprofit corporation founded in 1961 and based in Somerville, Massachusetts. ACCION's affiliates in thirteen Latin American... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Help the Black Community. And in this episode of Skydeck, Rogers and I talk about the makings of America's racial wealth gap, why he thinks it is a root cause of the nation's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015
the challenges of daily existence in an unfamiliar culture to the joys of helping people in poverty grow their own businesses. The Open Organization: Igniting Passion and Performance by Jim Whitehurst (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
government before discussing the country’s founding economic and political principles, as espoused by Adam Smith’s The Wealth of Nations and enshrined in the Declaration of... View Details
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Capitalism and the State (CATS) - Course Catalog
critiques of our market system, the course dives deep into some of the foundational theories of capitalism (John Locke’s Second Treatise; Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations, and Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto)... View Details
- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
descent into violence. For Nepal, these factors for study included poverty, social and language diversity, and even geographical conditions. What Iyer and Do found: View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
The HBS Social Enterprise Initiative aims to educate, support, and inspire leaders to tackle society’s toughest challenges and make a difference in the world. We are committed to the fight for racial justice... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
directors to excel. Fatal Impressions: Coleman and Dinah Greene Mystery No. 2 by Reba White Williams (MBA 1970) (The Story Plant) Job U: How to Find Wealth and Success by... View Details
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The Canton Trade and The Hong Merchants System - A Chronicle of the China Trade
of privilege. He eventually amassed his own fortune as well, and his wealth hovered at $26 million, making him not only one of the richest hong merchants, but also among the richest men in the world. Other... View Details
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Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog
tail risk hedging, futures and swaps, etc.). Students also explore investing from the asset owner perspective, learning modern practices in portfolio construction for personal and institutional investors... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
Bloomberg: Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government
In his address to HBS graduates at this year’s Class Day, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) spoke about the degeneration of American political culture and the challenge it poses. “Now, the good news is: There is a solution,” he told the crowd,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
exceptionally favorable factors in France such as its wealth of assets, human capital, and the French brand. And the disadvantages of the system (the burdens of administration,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
with increasing rivalry and change and one that will be characterized by continued downward pressure on advertising rates. As Nobel Laureate Herbert A. Simon once said, "A View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
- Case
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater... View Details
Keywords: Business Organization; Business And Community; Well-being; Wealth and Poverty; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Organizational Culture; Technology Adoption; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Expansion; Partners and Partnerships; Restructuring; Welfare or Wellbeing; Business and Community Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Banking Industry; Latin America
Edmondson, Amy C., Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias, and Natalie Bartlett. "Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank." Harvard Business School Case 616-004, July 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
on a problem." The burst of entrepreneurial activity that occurred throughout the 1990s has also stimulated innovation in the social sector, she notes, and unprecedented wealth creation has forced people to... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
Clubs News Clubs News Building Bridges, One Meal at a Time Like most HBS alumni clubs, the HBS Club of Toronto is always on the lookout for new ways to engage its members to connect with each other. So when the club realized about a year ago that typical networking... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- September 2010
- Teaching Note
Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Alnoor Ebrahim
Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
the bigger the vision, the greater number of things that can go wrong. Drawing on fascinating stories of ventures that failed to fulfill their early promise, Eisenmann offers frameworks for detecting when a venture is vulnerable to these patterns, along with a View Details