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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
best antidote to poverty. Without growth, India will remain a poor rich nation.” Chidambaram said that India is still affected by the legacy of the “monstrous and rapacious structure” of previous Socialist governments, even though prime... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
currently available brands and use locally sourced materials. The female workers ultimately will become owners of the business through microfinance loans. “Lack of access to pads affects not only the prospects of girls and women, it also... View Details
- 05 Feb 2016
- News
The Wheel of the World
contains close to 20,000 items). “I realized that I was more interested in the ideas expressed in the mechanisms than in owning the physical objects,” he says. “Time is a central element of the human experience, which, understandably, most people seldom think about.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
Sam Hayes and David Mullins were engaging and fun. Jim Ware taught us organizational behavior and given how important this subject is and how it affects what I do today, I should have taken more of those types of classes. Fifteen years... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
colleagues, he has also begun looking at how competitive shocks affect industry structure and business strategy in emerging markets. Adam Brandenburger and Assistant Professor Harborne W. Stuart, Jr., have worked together over a number of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
question to address at this point in history. And they would likely say that our job is to promote democracy and peace. What they should say is that our job is to stay above the fray and try to keep the competing forces in the world from getting into too much conflict,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2007
- News
A. Malachi Mixon, III, MBA 1968
years and turned into the global leader in the home medical product industry. Spotting a shiny red three-wheel motorized scooter, he sits down to demonstrate its mobility. "Our products aren't just about illness," he says. "They're about mainstreaming. Most spinal... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES What about businesses, such as restaurants and airlines, that were disproportionately affected early in the pandemic—and still are? Here is a big... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
close connections between economies and governments around the world. "It isn't sufficient that I try to maximize the company's bottom line," Smith says. "Other constituencies affect our success in the long run." Starbucks employees... View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- News
The Promise of Personalized Medicine
by this terrible disease. Your total physical manifestation is affected by this. You lose the ability to walk. You lose the ability to move your hands, to pick things up, to feed yourself. You know, imagine that. Imagine a little kid... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
just part of my DNA. My father also worked for GE, and I think that gives me an affinity for the frontline managers: When I was growing up, I had no idea who the CEO of GE was, but I knew who my dad’s boss was because it affected his... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
fast-food joints proliferate. Globalization and downsizing affected blue- and white-collar workers alike. “Layoff” used to mean “temporary unemployment”; now it meant “loss of job.” David McNew/Getty Images If we worked only four hours a... View Details
- 19 Jan 2023
- News
Forged in Fire
to give our graduation talk. And that short little 12-minute talk really changed my trajectory as well, because I saw how much it could help people. One of the people in my class was really affected by it. One of them decided to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
and Privatization, by Willis Emmons, explores the impact of deregulation and privatization on company strategy in industries worldwide and shows how these dynamic processes shape the critical evolving relationship, or bargain, between governments and View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
elsewhere and then work with those countries to clean up their act. Most executives probably believe these problems don't affect them or their companies. Are they right? Assisting in the movement of tax-evading money is subtle and can... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
experience that takes full advantage of the richness of this international diversity in the classroom. You made reference to the impact of the events of September 11. How have they affected the School's international outreach? The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Feb 2021
- News
Building Hope
more affordable and accessible. The opportunity for impact is massive, notes Zapolin. Depression affects more than 264 million people worldwide, according to the World Health Organization, which considers depression to be a leading cause... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Morrell
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
percent of the class would have known what he was talking about. “Today, it’s more than 50 percent. Students understand that those are important considerations that are going to affect their organizations and their careers,” observes... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
professor Ernest R. Berndt), HBS professor Alvin J. Silk looks at both internal and external forces affecting the industry, with particular attention to the impact of the Internet. According to Silk and his colleagues, changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Finding a Balance
midnight. “A few students posted newspaper articles or shared experiences of family and friends who were affected by AIDS,” Deshpandé continues. “This was an issue that took the discussion beyond the realm of typical products and services... View Details