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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
plastics. “We’re trying to get our customers to covet this product that will help change their lives in a positive way—and make the world a better place too,” says Kauss. The world is literally drowning in... View Details
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
and software to enable bi-directional EV charging and then aggregates this capacity to trade energy in the electricity wholesale markets. Oply Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025) Gabe Chrismon Oply is an AI-powered home management assistant that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Len Schlesinger Returns
faculty research in this area and trying to frame the issues that bubble up from there. What is it about the business world that energizes you? For me, it's very simple. When you combine a collection of really messy problems and... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
Reserve, living near the World Trade Center at the time of the 9/11 attacks, he re-upped and went on to serve in Afghanistan, where he earned the Bronze Star, before moving on to Iraq. View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Ptaath’s Hammer by Wim Baren, i.e., Barry Wemple (MBA 1973) Westminster & York Ltd. A 17,000-year-old city is discovered, predating all other known civilizations. A nightmarish blight threatens to spread over the world and... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Expanding the reach of business from Silicon Valley to the global arena
William H. Draper III (MBA 1954), one of America’s first venture capitalists, financed hundreds of high-technology companies. He also was chosen by President Reagan to be president and chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States, where he helped to sustain... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were... View Details
- Fast Answer
Foreign direct investment: statistics
available online in World Bank DataBank. World Investment Report From the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. For FDI in OECD countries broken down by industry, you can use the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
proud of this distinction,” noted Abdelal, a scholar of international political economy and author of National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective, which won the 2002 Marshall Shulman Book Prize... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
negotiate Japan into the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and secured nondiscriminatory treatment for Japanese exports. Vernon's role in Japan's postwar recovery and development was recognized by the Japanese government when he was... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Legacy
me is to build new things. I get very bored. And I would say, while I didn’t well in college I did well in learning the import policy of India, which were three fat books, and I knew them backwards. “Slowly, I moved away from my manufacturing business into View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
as a meteorologist for the Amy Air Forces during World War II before attending HBS. There he joined the class of 1949—which also included “James E. Burke, who later headed Johnson & Johnson; C. Peter McColough of Xerox Corp.; Thomas S.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Hot Tip
If you think that Africa might have some overlooked investment opportunities, but don’t know how to follow up on your hunch, that’s where Cyrille Nkontchou (MBA 1997) can help. His London-based company, LiquidAfrica Holdings, is a one-stop center for securities View Details
- 18 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?
property access, which then lead to the creation of private property rights because that's the only way of solving the problem," he said. Solving the problem by treating water like any other commodity sparked lively discussion. “If the View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation in 1992, Japan's largest View Details
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South Asia - Global Activities 2020
perspective—about the BRI. The connectivity project, which comprises the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road, involves a vast collection of development and investment projects stretching from East Asia to Europe. Students also learned about... View Details
- 23 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia
Before arriving to Harvard Business School, I had built my career around bringing crazy ideas to life at Google in a variety of operations, strategy, and design roles. I was surrounded by incredible people, learned from world class... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Engine Charlie
WILSON: Decades in the auto business. Charles Wilson (MBA 1936) came into this world back when Henry Ford was cranking out Model Ts. Unlike those now retired roadsters, Wilson, at 100 years old, is still active in the car business,... View Details