Unions - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Aug 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?

a decision was made to invest about $200 million in a strategy to build motorcycles in Thailand for export to Europe. Annual savings of $65 to $75 million were expected from the move. In part, this decision was prompted by the imposition of tariffs by the European... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Auto

16 Dec 2020
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018)

stretched financially. My parents went through the transition in 1989 from the Soviet Union and lost their savings overnight. Fortunately, I had a great education. I was on scholarship in high school and then moved to Canada at age 18 for... View Details

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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Island United Nations World Food Programme United Negro College Fund U.S. Department of Education WGBH Educational Foundation Whitney Museum Of American Art Women's Educational and Industrial Union World Economic Forum World Wildlife Fund... View Details

19 May 2023
Blog Post

Creating and Nurturing a Sense of Belonging at HBS

these groups make up the core of my community at HBS: The African American Student Union (AASU) plays the largest part of my community. AASU really fosters togetherness by centering its programming around the Black experience at HBS –... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

by allowing the government and General Motors to negotiate important deals with GM's unions and a majority of creditors, went a fair distance toward achieving a restructuring that would make it possible for GM to emerge as a viable... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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Events - Private Capital Project

Andrew Stern (President Emeritus, Service Employee International Union (SEIU), and Senior Fellow, Economic Security Project), Greg Jania (Global Co-head of Private Equity, APG Asset Management) and Peter Stavros (Co-Head of US Private... View Details

06 Dec 2017
What Do You Think?

Is It Time To Break Up Amazon, Apple, Facebook, or Google?

markets. Both groups generally consider themselves advocates of capitalism. In recent years the European Union has perhaps been more aggressive in enforcing restrictions on market power than the US., assessing large fines on domestic and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology; Web Services

November 2016 (Revised March 2018)
Case

Brexit

By: Laura Alfaro, Jesse Schreger and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason

After more than 40 years of membership in the European Union, the United Kingdom voted via referendum to separate from the EU on June 23, 2016. Following the surprise verdict (termed Brexit), a political upheaval followed, with many ministers, including Prime Minister... View Details

Keywords: Voting; International Relations; Government and Politics; System Shocks; United Kingdom; European Union

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01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

world. Hoa's route to the head of Galaxy has been a circuitous one. After high school, she lived in the former Soviet Union while attending the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. "In college, I read 54 books by Lenin, 25... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

01 Aug 2001
News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

at Eastman Dillon, Union Securities and Company, where he was drawn to the finer points of finance. "I think I was the only person in the office who enjoyed reading company prospectuses," he laughs. "At that point it became clear that... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

fellowship funding, and more. 1978 The George P. Baker Minority Fellowship is established to honor Dean Baker’s contributions to increasing African Americans’ access and admission to graduate business schools, and specifically to HBS, during the 1960s when the... View Details

11 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Meet the MBA Class of 2020

Union (AASU), Women's Student Association (WSA), Harbus Foundation, Social Enterprise Club Melcolm Ruffin “I DISCOVERED THERE WAS A BUSINESS SIDE TO SPORTS AND A PATH TO A CAREER.” HOME REGION Chicago, IL UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of... View Details

18 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

Earlier this month, the US Treasury Department presented to President Biden what it called a “framework” for overseeing digital financial assets across the government and internationally, while the European Union and European Parliament... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

the HBS African American Student Union and the African American Alumni Association for contributions to the Harvard community and the summer venture in management program (SVMP). Stuart C. Gilson : Winner of the 2012 Distinguished Paper... View Details

Profile

Melcolm Ruffin

attended not one, but three African American Student Union (AASU) conferences at HBS. "It was a very inspirational experience to see incredible Black leaders speak to the community they've built here. They recharged me... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment/Media

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Roosevelt; Averell Harriman, a banker whose interests included the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific Railroads; J. P. Morgan, a banker and financier; and the investment banks Kuhn, Loeb & Company and Schroder, Rockefeller & Company,... View Details

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Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

than 200,000 people in the US. “There are about 7,000 known rare diseases and collectively, about 1 in 10 people (or 30 million people) in the U.S. have a rare disease,” according to the NIH. Other countries may have their own definitions. For example, the European... View Details

March 2018
Case

EKOL Logistics: Thinking Outside the Box

By: Willy C. Shih and Esel Çekin

This case describes Ekol, an intermodal transportation and logistics company, and how it manages capacity planning. Its busiest routes linked motor vehicle assemblers in Germany and Turkey with many of their parts suppliers, but it had also developed key links in... View Details