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- 01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade
benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active,... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
Ministry of Trade when his government sent him to study at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Duch enrolled at HBS because he wanted “to have both sides of the river as an experience, understanding the business side from the public... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and holds two patents in integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. “I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
ego-expressive, experiential, social, and recreational goals into the journey, so that each customer acquisition, distribution, and retention channel is contributing in a different way. I think it’s interesting to look at where Amazon is... View Details
- 03 Mar 2020
- News
Can This Man Change the American Diet?
be. Ayr: It’s interesting we get this sometimes from people who sort of start out in the beginning of a description of Clover, it can be hard to understand exactly what we are. And I think partly, yeah,... View Details
Keywords: Agriculture
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
alone and later with several junior colleagues—undertook to understand decision-making both on the entrepreneurship side and on the financing side. He soon started seeing interesting patterns. The... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tulsa Massacre Case Fosters Timely Conversations
McCray, who sees herself as an agent of change, was most interested in policy solutions. When one classmate proposed dispersing reparations in the form of college scholarships, McCray voiced concern about overlooking those who don’t... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
process of change in a developing country. His 1970 book, Engines of Change: United States Interests and Revolution in Latin America, inspired the U.S. Congress to establish the Inter-American Foundation, an independent agency devoted to... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
Do You See What I See?
often blindsided by their classmates’ differing interpretation of characters or situations. In other words, your Antigone may not be my Antigone. “The most important thing that leaders need to know how to do is understand individual... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
sentence structure.” Synthesis borrowed the use of narrative psychology from the IDF, which uses it to understand team dynamics and improve unit cohesion. If a company chooses Synthesis’ premium products, the results are analyzed by a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
persistent market imperfections -- the WTO has yet to make its mark, and industrialized countries have been slow to dismantle their protectionist schemes -- unemployment and current account deficits continue to be problems in many countries. High real View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
with our academic link to Africa, Harvard professor Caroline Elkins. A historian who specializes in African studies, Elkins helps us understand the continent’s people and past. By the end of the trip, we have an idea why HIV/AIDS has... View Details
- 09 Mar 2023
- News
Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year
consulting firm to survey alumni members to better understand how the club can serve them at various stages of their careers and family lives. In addition, the club recently established the Younger Alumni Committee to help increase... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
order to build and grow teams that they understand and can help motivate over time to deliver.” Now back in Dearborn, Michigan, Fields works with what’s become an emerging and increasingly high-profile issue for global managers,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
“There was great excitement among the faculty. Everyone is interested in engaging more deeply with the companies we visited,” says Casadesus- Masanell, who has written four cases on Africa. Datar anticipates seeing the results of the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Spar also turned to history for context. Advancing themes from her book Ruling the Waves, Spar illustrated how recent revolutionary technological developments in fact can be seen as replays of past situations where pioneers of free enterprise tangled with the View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Chaotic Funding Derails Research
time to consider the devastating implications of this chaotic funding environment. And to do that, one needs to understand how a modern research lab operates. A typical lab has twenty to forty people, led by a senior researcher (the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Team MBA
balance of strengths, weaknesses, and interests worked out pretty well. I had some experience in strategy before HBS but not so much in finance, so I benefited from sharing in Amyn’s experiences at Goldman Sachs. This was really useful... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Your Own Medicine
interested in what they were doing and wanted to stay in touch. In subsequent conversations in the spring of 2010, the Secklers told Williams about HT-100. Williams went to work, offering the venture capital group that held the compound a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
through the efforts of a vanguard of institutional entrepreneurs, both academics and managers, who saw the need for creating a managerial class that would run America’s large corporations in a way that served the broader interests of... View Details