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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Porter Helps Jerusalem Mayor with Economic Development
Nir Barkat, a software entrepreneur elected mayor of Jerusalem last November, visited HBS in late March to take part in a roundtable discussion on the economic development of his city, Israel’s poorest. HBS professor Michael Porter, a leading authority on... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
Collin’s father-in-law helps with accounting. Gordon works with her mother-in-law on marketing projects; her own mom is trying to help the company break into the Japanese market; and her grandmother sets up meetings with organizations like the Museum of Fine Arts and... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
CEOs 70 alumni are CEOs of Fortune 500 companies In January 2007, Daniel Birnbaum (MBA 1992) was running Nike's operations in Israel when he got a call from his friend and fellow HBS alum Yuval Cohen (MBA 1991). "Dani, I need your help,"... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
HBS Student Battles ALS
face of this frightening disease. “The diagnosis was shocking,” says Kremer, a former officer in the Israel Defense Forces and project manager at a high-tech Israeli defense-industry firm. “I had so many plans for the future, so many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Analyze This
and China (937). What about the Middle East? Answer: Iran (4), Israel (225), Jordan (11), Lebanon (31), Pakistan (74), Saudi Arabia (103), Syria (1), Turkey (135), and the United Arab Emirates (127). No copies ship to Iraq or Afghanistan.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Eye in the Storm
Other Newsmakers Bob Gannon (OPM 16, 1990) Diana ("Dido") Harding (MBA ’92) David Miller (MBA ’03) Allison O’Kelly (MBA ’99) Mike Stone (MBA ’88) Tom Tiller (MBA ’91) Bill Wyman (MBA ’65) Ammara Yaqub (MBA ’05) As turmoil swept across the Middle East, assessing it... View Details
- 18 Sep 2014
- News
Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground
Israeli companies have pursued novel and successful growth strategies that provide valuable lessons to others. In his research, Elie Ofek, the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration, explains how these firms have achieved their globalization goals:... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
benefit of the China trip. In addition to Brazil, HBS faculty IXPs are planned for Israel and India, with a possible return trip to China next year. Which countries would you add to the list, and why? View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Tapping into more effective water technologies
market opportunities." Shenkar is seeing early leaders in water-quality monitoring, filtration, disinfection, and desalination. Smart grid water systems are spotting leaks and saving water as well as energy, and governments from Singapore to View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
addressing the pandemic in real time, including John Markels, president of global vaccines at Merck, and Dan Barouch, MD, an innovator in the field of infectious disease research at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. Students were... View Details
- 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... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
"People from completely different backgrounds and cultures sit around the ring and laugh at the same time, worry at the same time, and applaud at the same time," he says proudly. "The ambassador of Israel once told me, 'I come to this... View Details
- 18 Mar 2015
- News
9 Alumni Named Young Global Leaders
Colmobil Corp., Israel Pablo Jenkins (MBA 2006), president and founder, Ideas en Accion Sean Klimczak (MBA 2005), senior managing director, Blackstone, United States Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008), founder and CEO, Wildfire, New Zealand... View Details
Keywords: World Economic Forum
- 04 Sep 2014
- News
Our focus was to get drug companies to invest money in ALS
prize to identify a treatment that leads to a 25 percent extension in survival rates. “After eight years, in which we have raised over $10 million,” says Kremer, who lives in his native Israel and communicates via Skype and adaptive... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- News
Teva Makes Takeover Bid for Mylan
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Joe Toplyn (MBA 1979)
other and cracking wise, I learned something about writing comedy. I left college having done something I really enjoyed, but since I didn’t think anyone would ever pay me to write, I took a job in Israel working for a high-fashion... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
communicate often via video- and teleconferencing." Kubicova finds that her MBA skills come in handy every working day. "The case method is the best training for my job," she says. "I have to be able to quickly grasp a new set of issues with each client, and my HBS... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
such as Tmura in Israel and Salesforce 1/1/1 in the US were already finding success with similar models,” says Goldstein, who grew up in Montreal and now lives in Toronto. “With the increasingly vibrant startup scene in Canada, we decided... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
John F. Kennedy School of Government and Northwestern University's Transportation Center. He has also been a member of Harvard's Committee on University Resources, vice chairman of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Leading Questions
lieutenant in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) where she trained intelligence officers, saw space for a midsized solution in the expanding and unregulated sector. There were the inexpensive multiple-choice tests, which slotted employees... View Details
Keywords: April White