Graduate Economics - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2011
News

Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

building enterprises. "Employees and managers want to work in companies that grow," he says simply. "They want to grow with the company." In 1990, he launched a foundation to support Turkey's social, cultural, and economic development.... View Details

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Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Homepage Exhibition Introduction The Founding of U.S. Steel and the Power of Public Opinion The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography Documenting the Wartime Effort Labor Practices Post-war PR Campaigns Reaching Wide Audiences... View Details

29 Mar 2019
Blog Post

My Concerns About Learning Accounting at HBS

first day at HBS. My name is Melanie Sperling and I am a first-year student here at HBS. Before attending school, I worked for four years at the One Love Foundation – America’s leader in health relationship education - and graduated with... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Make the Most of HBS Alumni Resources

by Ann Kelly, Alumni Board President Kelly Whether you graduated last June or just celebrated a reunion with a number you don’t enjoy saying aloud, you may be among those alumni who see HBS’s contribution to your development as having... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

leaders on the cutting edge of research. The driving force behind this gathering since its inception has been Ray Goldberg, the veritable father of agribusiness. Along with his then HBS colleague John H. Davis, Goldberg coined the word in 1957, and that year they... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

this all in perspective. His recent book, Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures—and Yours, published by Harvard Business Press, looks at the growing global influence of China and India as they emerge into View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2019
Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

graduating from Duke and worked on public and social sector projects. Jerren later joined the Mayor’s Office in Chicago, focusing on economic policy development, and ultimately left to attend HBS and HKS to... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Engaging with Students to Share Insights About Africa

first and second-year MBA students. During the four-day course, he worked with Elkins to provide an overview of Africa’s economic landscape, range of business opportunities, and the speed of growth and change occurring there, and also... View Details

29 Nov 2017
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Inbox: From Das’s Desk

An old adage about volunteers cites the value they bring to organizations as including “wealth, work, and wisdom.” These “three Ws” define the dedicated alumni body here at HBS. Although being a donor is certainly critical to sustaining the View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Dec 2002
News

Faculty Updates

real estate in particular, Poorvu began teaching Real Property Asset Management and Field Studies in Real Property and writing cases at HBS in 1965. A former faculty member at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Poorvu is the author or... View Details

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

Economic Model The resilience of the School's economic model was tested during fiscal 2021 and proved sound. The HBS model is unique among Harvard University's 12 graduate and... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Mi Zhou

dinners with my sectionmates; intimate, small-group gatherings.” For her summer internship, Mi will invest her time in Hong Kong, where she will conduct equity research. “I eventually want to work in China again,” Mi says. “There are lots of things happening, but I’m... View Details

19 Apr 2017
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Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action

position as “capital of the heartland” (making it a magnet for graduates of the Midwest’s top universities), its relatively low cost of living (number 10 in the nation), and its position as a central aviation hub as just a few of the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

seen an economic downturn. That concerns me. We grew up with a pretty severe recession in 1970, another in 1975, and another in 1990. For today's grads, the next recession will be their first. I say, brace for impact. Take cover. Owades:... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

explanation was offered most provocatively by Tony Wanless, who commented that "B-schools are university cash cows, and the only way to justify their fees is to go where the mass market wants it to go. So they concentrate on what will earn their View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

say—in the way it emphasized the momentum behind global standardization. Its more enduring contribution seems to be that it correctly flagged demand-side preferences and supply-side economies of simplicity and standardization as the two key View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

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Black History Month | Baker Library

black men and women who are 'making it' in the world of business and who are making it happen in black communities across this country" Previous Next The "Making It" series highlights specific instances of Black entrepreneurs overcoming racial and View Details

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

continued and expanded, with further empirical exploration of a distributed model of innovation that includes communities and platforms in a variety of contexts and with the development of theory to explain the economic underpinnings of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

spent the better part of the last two years planning and preparing for the early April event. Held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and the adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel, the meeting included two days of intense discussion and debate on China, Hong Kong,... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

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