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- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
of the hyper-competitive commodity business, he continually faced new challenges. The company had become a leader in gasoline powered motorcycles and small gas engines, but increasing taxes and restrictions on the use of motorcycles in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
the real world. SEPTEMBER 1967: Orientation LILLIAN LINCOLN LAMBERT grew up in Powhatan County, outside Richmond, Virginia, where she attended segregated schools. “We had great teachers who often told us that you’ve got to work hard... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for View Details
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
alumni, faculty, and environmental industry leaders. “We invited several of our alumni guests to host each event and give a short talk, to paint a picture of the future for energy, so our current students can bring those ideas back to HBS and make the best View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
Dean Light, the only participant who appeared on all three panels, gave an overview of the market events leading up to the crisis and outlined a three-part process for dealing with it. Using the metaphor of an emergency room, Light... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
disparity between rural and urban populations widens. Wanda S. Tseng, deputy director of the IMF's Asia and Pacific Department, offered an overview of Asia's current economic strengths and weaknesses. "There are no quick fixes," she... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
customers and the community, and differentiates us from our competitors," explains Jackson. "It's all part of our business strategy for leading BankBoston into the 21st century and is consistent with the philosophy of managing with values... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
in India, especially in urban areas, is that when the monsoons hit, water fills the streets, leading to a lot of congestion," Sadun explains. "Traffic becomes a nightmare. It's like dealing with the worst snowstorm in Boston." According... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
of the summer, Weenick recalls, one of HLW's program directors gradually began to use some of the "business-y" vocabulary she had introduced concerning issues of quality and efficiency. "It was instructive for me that it was not an... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
Street responded by creating commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), which are similar to, but more complex than, the mortgage-backed securities long used to bundle and sell packages of residential loans. “Commercial mortgage-backed... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
but you also lived in Paris, as a teenager, while you were attending high school. I just wondered what was it like to make that transition from Nigeria to France at that age? Seni Sulyman: I think the one phrase that I would use to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or mangoes or pineapples? Did they... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
urban development at the national level and in three cities in a single Chinese region. The study reveals that the initial liberalization of land was reversed after China's first contemporary real estate bubble in the early 1990s and that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
met to debate how to engage the unprecedented protests against Vladimir Putin's corrupt government, which had erupted in Russia in response to alleged fraud in the recent parliamentary elections. A notable figure in the protests was anti-corruption blogger Alexey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
Oaxaca City, local activist Gustavo Esteva, a founder of the Universidad de la Tierra in Oaxaca, gave us a crash course in Zapotec culture, a way of life for the area’s indigenous people who first settled the Oaxaca valley thousands of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #6: Climate Change, Peacebuilding, and Business: Lise Grande and Dr. Teagan Blaine, USIP.
conflicts.” Her solution could provide answers for the policymakers about to gather in Stockholm. “Our experience in Northern Kenya has taught us that the best means of conflict prevention is building resilience through inclusive and... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
and scale of this unique global corporation. Geoffrey Jones, a leading business historian from the Harvard Business School, takes us inside this corporation, which from its origins in Britain and the Netherlands has become a worldwide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
how, and regulated how," Light concluded. Home Ownership: "back To The Future" Housing was Topic A for panelist Nicolas Retsinas, who before arriving at Harvard served as assistant secretary for housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
nonprofits a year,” either through direct engagement or in pro-bono brainstorming sessions. “It’s a wonderful way to give back,” says Club President Jan Gullet (MBA 1977). “We’ve done the research. Our members tell us what they value most... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley