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- 16 Dec 2010
- News
The Emergent Arab World
Last month, the fourth annual “Harvard Arab Weekend” conference was held at venues around the University, including HBS. The theme of the conference was “Leadership in the Private, Social, and Public Sectors” in the Middle East and North... View Details
- Portrait Project
Joshua Jarrett
graduates last year was $95,000. That puts each graduate in the top 0.2% of the global income distribution. In other words, this year's graduates will make more than 5.99 billion of the 6 billion people on earth – or 6.65 million for each... View Details
- Portrait Project
Douglas Schillinger
In my mind's eye, I was Ernest Shackelton. I was Jim Lovell. I was the 'Last of the Mohicans'. I was bending down to receive my Olympic Medal. I knew what I wanted for my life: the epic, the extraordinary, and the exceptional. I wanted to be the first of something, the... View Details
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
environmental damage and climate change over the last two centuries. The time has come for mainstream business history to incorporate the environmental impact of business in its agenda." Other research agenda topics identified by... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- Portrait Project
Joseph Ferrer
When he leapt, I leapt. Where he flew, I flew beside him. Big Brother taught me to stay hungry and to stay focused, to endure in the face of adversity, and to love unconditionally. Big Brother was strong, but he was not superhuman. In his View Details
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Rena Xu (MBA 2014, MD 2014)
I’ve come a long way since then, but, still, almost every day there will be a moment when I cannot believe that this is my job, that I get to do the things I do. In surgery, the lives placed in our hands are palpable. That is incredibly... View Details
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro—places where only the entrepreneurial survive—are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the world's... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 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 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
careful consideration, we decided to postpone the 2003 Global Leadership Forum originally planned to take place in Shanghai, China, in June and reschedule the conference to June 15–17, 2004, in the same venue. The worrisome reports and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
HBS professors Michael Porter and Rosabeth Moss Kanter have won the 2011 McKinsey Awards for best articles published in the Harvard Business Review last year. Established in 1959, the award has been given annually by HBR and McKinsey &... View Details
Keywords: awards
- Portrait Project
Elsa Sze
"What are you doing?" I kneel down to explain, "I'm reminding the grown-ups to vote." He then follows me from door to door, until the bleak November sun gives out its last sigh. "Antonio, what do you want to be... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Keys to the Kingdom
domain became Rhea’s literally overnight last May, when he was appointed chairman of the New York City Housing Authority by Mayor Michael Bloomberg (MBA ’66). Critics noted that Rhea, who was previously an executive at JPMorgan Chase and... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
Upon Further Review I found “Fixing America’s Leadership Deficit” in the June Bulletin to be a brief but exciting summary of the three-person panel discussion that took place at the Kennedy School of Government View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
Anheuser-Busch InBev Chairman, Lojas Americanas In the 1980s, early in his career at Banco Garantia, Carlos (“Beto”) Sicupira agreed to take the helm of a new acquisition, Lojas Americanas, a Rio de Janeiro department store. During his 12 years as CEO, followed by the... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
cleaning solvent formula. However, before deciding to deploy these critical assets in a particular country, multinational executives have a key issue to explore: Does the country where I'm transferring technology have intellectual property rights in View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 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
- Portrait Project
Kunal Modi
I learned the meaning of community by leaving home. When I was fifteen, my family moved halfway across the world – from Illinois to Singapore – where I enrolled in an American school. I had been uprooted from everything familiar – the park where I played football, my... View Details
- Portrait Project
Kyle Caven
“Don’t embarrass us.” The last words I heard from my parents before every high school football game and wrestling match seemed to convey a focus on results and triumph. I felt enormous pressure to succeed and make them proud. Eventually,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market.... View Details
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and reciprocity concerns. In the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne