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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
for solutions to make the next generation of microfinance tools even more transformative. One of the great surprises of microfinance has been the astonishingly high rates of loan repayment, at around 96 or 98 percent. How do you interpret... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
entrepreneurship, research, and academia. They also share a trait we can probably all relate to—more than a few had no idea they would end up where they did. Extreme Talent “The Atlantic was founded in 1857, and it had a fantastic 19th... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
ago. We’re also seeing more Chinese students applying to our high schools. These young scholars are often China’s best and brightest, and they are bringing back ideas and outlooks that present challenges to the current government, which... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
idea for this book rose to the fore. The Times was eager to have a prominent individual as the editor, so when Nancy Koehn agreed to do it, that was a big selling point for everyone.” As the September Bulletin was going to press with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entire supply chain, from purchasing thread to delivering finished goods complete with price tags to individual stores. William Fung (MBA 1972) and his older brother, Victor (PhD 1971), who taught at HBS for four years, are the third View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
titled "Groupthink," "Debate and criticism do not inhibit ideas but, rather, stimulate them." These ladies will help you generate ideas to navigate both the best and the worst... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
the onion” on financial statements. He would use his chalk on the blackboards, walls, doors, and floors, taking us on a fascinating trip to the last numbers of the case. We had no idea how we got there. But the rides in Professor Shank’s... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
covers all aspects of the energy business. "One idea that I believe will be discredited is the mega-merger theory — that Texaco was too small to be relevant." "Fortunately, there are still strategies that allow a smaller operator to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
quite new. He returned to India and ended up having a very successful career in business — first as the general manager and then as CEO of a small company, and later as the head of progressively larger companies. So my entire relationship... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
formally retired in 1990, he continued to write, teach, and offer seminars on case-method teaching until the last months of his life. Thousands of his students, including HBS professor Michael E. Porter, have never forgotten the impact he had on their lives. "His... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
people often don’t have the financial wherewithal and broad general skills to leave behind a job where they are intimidated. Working in fear is a terrible way to live, and a secret ballot can ameliorate much of that fear. Michael A.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Leonard Dick (MBA 1990)
out. The irony is that the husband ends up living and she ends up dying.” Routine: Wake at 5:30 a.m., go for a run, bike ride, or work out. One iced nonfat latte a day, occasionally an extra one in the afternoon. A lunch that generally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
Historic in many ways, the campaign is enabling work that is essential to the School’s core purposes: transformative teaching in both MBA and Executive Education classrooms; deep research to impact business practice; and the dissemination of View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
reducing poverty have generally been the same. More aid. More debt relief. More foreign direct investment. And, of late, more free trade. I agree with all of these. However, the greatest contribution Western countries and corporations can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
an unsatisfactory outpatient experience at a government-run facility, she also received ineffective treatments from an untrained local practitioner. She is feeling increasing physical discomfort, general weakness, and growing alarm about... View Details
- 28 Mar 2019
- News
California Alumni Explore Role of Capitalism in Addressing Climate Change
opened the retreat with his vision of “A World Without Roads.” Then branding expert and author of The Kim Kardashian Principle, Jeetendr Sehdev (MBA 2001) talked about “Reaching Generation Alpha” with his “six steps to make your View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Laurel without Hardy? A Lesson for Business
candidates for this focus on complements. A new system of creating and sharing information is evolving, and it has many complementary parts. It is not enough to invent one part of the new system; you have to pay attention to all the parts at once. Intel understands... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Lighten Up
without selling the company. More on that later. Going light on the environment in the manufacturing process was a big deal to Kim and Coup, too. Their ultra-light philosophy and eco-friendly mindset drive every GoLite idea and product:... View Details
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?
no career matches available because we hadn't built that side of the platform. So we learned interesting things about the general cognitive and emotional traits that we all have as human beings but not the career matching. And,... View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- News
Leading Schools That Change Lives
impact in Roxbury and subsequently got involved in launching two new Nativity schools, the first of which was in New Bedford, Massachusetts, where he became the founding principal, and then again in Wilmington, Delaware. “As much as I liked teaching,” he says, “the... View Details