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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
more product and move to the next level? There are very few places to turn.’ ” The data backed up Kehinde’s experiences: Last year, the International Finance Corporation estimated the credit gap for small... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- Portrait Project
Emily Anadu
When I was eleven, my mother, two sisters and I left my father and a very comfortable life in Nigeria to live with my grandmother in Texas. My sisters and I joke that the silver spoons that were placed in our mouths at birth were replaced... 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
- 18 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 18, 2008
charity" only on days that they visit their place of worship; on other days of the week, religiosity has no effect. Notably, the result persists after controlling for a host of factors that may influence bidding, but disappears when... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
students and graduates that has grown sharply over the decades. Last year, more than 15 percent of all elective credits in the MBA Program were earned in the School's courses on entrepreneurship. Moreover, in recent surveys, over half of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Iraq from the perspective of an insider — The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. Published last spring, it’s a damning indictment not just of America’s many missteps, but also of the “utter mediocrity, incompetence,... View Details
- 10 Nov 2017
- News
Girl’s Pendant Found at Nazi Camp Site Reunites a Family
Chaim Motzen (MBA 2006) More than 70 years ago, the record of a Nazi death camp in Sobibor, Poland, was nearly lost to history. But archaeologists from the Israel Antiquities Authority have been excavating the site, uncovering mass graves, gas chambers, and, View Details
- Profile
Bryan Guerra
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school at HBS, the majority of my educational experience had taken place largely within a lecture-based setting. While this approach had provided a solid foundation of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
HBSi Combines HBS Content with State-of-the-Art Technology
Building on its commitment to delivering innovative custom education programs to corporations around the world, last November the School launched HBS Interactive (HBSi). The wholly owned nonprofit organization will pursue an expanded... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Thumbs Up Down Under
It was with mixed emotions that Rich Wilson (MBA '82) and his coskipper Bill Biewenga set sail from New York Harbor last September aboard their 53-foot trimaran Great American II, heading south on a long-planned voyage to Melbourne,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Turning Point: Life Cycle
and how we each contribute to making it better. Last September, at the age of 64, the stars finally aligned. I shipped a bike from my home in Providence, Rhode Island, to Seattle, Washington, and began the 3,000-some-odd-mile journey... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
A Random Sampling of HBS Graduates in the News
Lawrence S. Kramer (MBA '74), who spent twenty years as a newspaper reporter and editor for publications such as the Washington Post and the San Francisco Examiner, was himself in the news last January. Kramer's financial information... View Details
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
Beware of competitors lying in the grass, says Harvard Business School professor Alvin E. Roth. His study of bidding practices on eBay suggest that those who wait until the last minute to bid—a practice called sniping—is an effective way... 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
- 15 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
Coming to HBS with a Non-Finance Background
were quickly allayed when she visited HBS for a class visit – and she discovered that the student admissions rep who picked her up was a former TFA teacher. She soon came to find that HBS is a place that brings together people from all... View Details
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South Asia - Global Activities 2021
the course of a year—the first is one week and takes place on the HBS campus; the second and third are each two-week modules and are taught in the classroom at the Taj Lands End in Mumbai; and the last... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
Minister but resigned to serve on the Peace Commission negotiating a settlement to the 1994 Zapatista peasant rebellion in the southern state of Chiapas. Enriquez-Cabot is currently a Visiting Fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs. In Mexico in the 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
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Streamlining the Supermarket
whom he’d known since high school. They were equally intrigued. “We thought, why don’t we use that technology to disrupt the grocery industry by bringing the same type of efficiencies to the supermarket?” Aguerrevere says. Last November,... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs