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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Porter Ranks Competitiveness
moved up four places to No. 27. The index is part of the research contributing to The Global Competitiveness Report 2006–2007, released last September by the World Economic Forum. For more information, visit... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
the U.S. in the last few years. About a year ago, the Wall Street Journal ran a story about how Fed rate cuts had forced many retirees in the U.S. to "pinch pennies" (WSJ, July 7, 2003). Many people who retired in the '80s and... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- Portrait Project
Kunal Modi
I learned the meaning of community by leaving home. When I was fifteen, my family moved halfway across the world – from Illinois to Singapore – where I enrolled in an American school. I had been uprooted from everything familiar – the park where I played football, my... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kyle Caven
“Don’t embarrass us.” The last words I heard from my parents before every high school football game and wrestling match seemed to convey a focus on results and triumph. I felt enormous pressure to succeed and make them proud. Eventually,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
she took last year helped her to identify ethical issues involved in the struggle to control the diamond industry in Sierra Leone, where diamonds have fueled a brutal civil war for the past decade. "The Diamond High Council View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
careful consideration, we decided to postpone the 2003 Global Leadership Forum originally planned to take place in Shanghai, China, in June and reschedule the conference to June 15–17, 2004, in the same venue. The worrisome reports and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
required to accomplish such a planned massive expansion, from yet-to-be hit rural areas to overwhelmed urban health systems. As leaders consider how to tackle the task, they might look at the Harvard Business School case study of nonprofit View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
From A to Z
Temitope Abereoje Hometown: Ilesha, Nigeria Education: B.A., Economics, B.S., Information Systems, University of Maryland, College Park Languages: English, Yoruba Last Job: Associate, Goldman Sachs, New York Age: 25 Why HBS? “I was... View Details
- Portrait Project
Marla Metz
knew was that Harvard Business School was the last thing on my mind, a place that seemed surreal and out of reach. The only reason I even made it to move-in weekend was because of my loving and supportive... View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
One of the country's most renowned venture capital firms, for nearly four decades Greylock has emphasized building businesses rather than stocks, providing hands-on assistance to entrepreneurs, and helping companies contribute new products and jobs to the nation's... View Details
- 27 Oct 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
dehumanizing, ugly, and dark places. If you tried to imagine the worst place possible to put someone, that’s probably what you would come up with.” Reset’s first residential program facility in Berkeley, California, opened View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Africa on the Move
In February, nearly 1,200 participants from twenty countries gathered at HBS for the Africa Business Club’s 11th annual conference, “Africa on the Move: Transforming Quick Wins into Lasting Change.” With some countries experiencing growth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
turnarounds, Gilson uses intensively researched case studies of thirteen corporations that tackled some of the most controversial and innovative restructuring efforts of the last decade. Each case reveals the multitude of decisions that... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
audacious goals among managers in some parts of the world to a lack of wealth, resources, and the risk aversion that accompanies these conditions. Sandeep, on the other hand, citing those who have risen from poverty to achieve... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jan 2018
- News
A Whole New Game
After leading a group of investors to purchase the Sacramento Kings in 2013, Vivek Ranadivé (MBA 1983) partnered with local government in California’s capital to open a new arena and 1-million-square-foot mixed-use development in the heart of the city’s downtown. “Four... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
last year, which enabled her to spend six months in Singapore and six months in Shanghai conducting on-the-ground research and engaging with business leaders throughout the region. “I am interested in how globalization affects domestic... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joseph Ferrer
When he leapt, I leapt. Where he flew, I flew beside him. Big Brother taught me to stay hungry and to stay focused, to endure in the face of adversity, and to love unconditionally. Big Brother was strong, but he was not superhuman. In his View Details
- Portrait Project
Matt Brady
gotten it wrong. The man who would take my place at the last minute felt it was his duty, not mine, to step into harm's way. And through his sacrifice, he'd given me a second chance at life. Now when my boys... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Virtual Plant Tours and Beer Game Dysfunction
exercise, administered in the computer lab. A software program simulates a supply chain from retailer through wholesaler and distributor up to the beer factory. Students take roles as a participant in the chain, seeing only the orders they receive and View Details