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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Hiroshi Mikitani, MBA 1993
Chairman and CEO, Rakuten, Inc. Download Mikitani profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1965 Born, Kobe, Japan 1972 Family moves to United States for two years 1988 Earns commerce degree, Hitotsubashi University 1988 Joins Industrial Bank... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
The full cultural and sociological aftershocks of the earthquake in Japan—the worst disaster to hit the country since World War II—are washing like a tsunami across many industries as manufacturers and their customers scramble to replace... View Details
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition
community. Ghonsla Emmanuel Arnaud, HBS Monica Hau Le Zehra Ali Mubarik Imam Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up Straw-based insulation products designed especially for corrugated galvanized iron roofs in the earthquake affected areas of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
Francisco earthquake of 1906 qualifies as the major disruptor leading to the Panic of 1907. Wars, bad harvests, other natural disasters, and, yes, pandemics, would also deliver crisis-triggering shocks. Third, crises tend to break out in... View Details
- 06 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling
born in Chhattisgarh, India, and didn’t think I would end up at places like Yale or Harvard. South Asian stories are diverse. For those in the U.S., some of us have been here since the 1800s — others have come as recently as 2015 after the View Details
- 31 May 2023
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
Photographed by Susan Young; Edited by Julia Hanna MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients. ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS SITE MORE ON THE RECIPIENTS Read more about the 2023 recipients, and learn about past recipients.... View Details
- 14 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Measuring Social Impact
and the tasks so interwoven. "Measuring one organization's contribution to earthquake relief may be possible, but it is less important than collective results," Ebrahim says. On the other hand, nonprofits that are the only actors working... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.
New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 27 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution
changing competitive environment. By the mid-1960s, however, U.S. tire companies began to feel the first tremors of the competitive earthquake that would ultimately reshape the industry. In 1966, Michelin struck a deal with Sears to... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Empowering Japan through e-commerce
The 1995 earthquake that devastated his native Kobe, Japan, was a turning point for Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993). “It made me realize that I wanted to revitalize Japan’s economy,” says Mikitani, who also sponsored relief efforts during the... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
As Japan continues to come to grips with the devastating toll exacted by the earthquake within its borders, the aftershocks are just beginning to be felt within the global economy. Here, several Harvard Business School faculty members... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 24 Mar 2023
- News
Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
that personal dialogue. It felt like a true fireside chat." Approximate areas significantly impacted by the February 6 earthquakes In Wake of Earthquakes, Alumni in Turkey Share Stories and Ask for Help When two devastating View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
Amadeo Peter Giannini
Giannini grew Bank of America into the world’s largest bank. Three years after surviving the San Francisco earthquake of 1906, Giannini’s banking operations expanded by opening its first branch in San Jose. He continued to open banks... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Reach Out to Haiti
Several student relief efforts sprang up in the wake of February’s earthquake in Haiti. Partners In Health, which has been working in the country for over twenty years, was the beneficiary of choice for many of the first-year section... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Japan Crisis
The HBS Alumni Web site facilitated information-sharing regarding alumni and conditions in Japan following that country’s March earthquake and tsunami. In addition, the MBA Classes of 2005–2012 launched an online relief effort to accept... View Details
Keywords: disaster relief
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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2021
Asia Pacific Asia Pacific Marking Ten-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region Pictured: Professor of Management Practice Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual gathering in March to mark the 10th anniversary of the Immersive Field... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Creating a Pipeline of Talent to Address the World’s Challenges
kind of organization Kapila would have benefitted from when she went with the disaster-relief agency CARE to help India emerge from the Gujarat earthquake in 2001. “I was trying to develop a business plan for entrepreneurs. I had a... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
The power to change nuclear waste into cost-efficient energy
less expensive approach than traditional nuclear power, while cutting waste by 95 percent. During a family trip around the world in 2011, Wilcox saw how those who lacked access to electricity had poor quality of life in regions of India and Africa. While visiting... View Details