North and Central America - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

Mitsuharu’s long-term goal of improving the quality of the Japanese sweets, made from azuki bean paste and sugar, and expanding the company’s client base to reach global customers be in line with Toraya’s... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

16 Nov 2010
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The HBS Tunnels

from a central kitchen to the residential halls’ dining areas (now the lounges). Those older tunnels are filled with steam pipes and telephone, data, and electrical conduits... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson

26 Jun 2013
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How a Trivial Pursuit Became a Significant Case

Bob Reiss Photo courtesy of Bob Reiss It was 1983, and Bob Reiss (MBA 1956) was looking for a new game to play. A Brooklyn native and former basketball star at Columbia University who had become a successful... View Details

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries

01 Jan 2013
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Roger W. Sant, MBA 1960

Central America, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, where 7 million visitors tour Sant Ocean Hall annually. The couple, who will soon celebrate their 45th... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Oct 1996
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Mastering the Competition — Michael E. Porter (MBA 1971)

typically hectic month last spring, he taught in three HBS executive education programs, gave several presentations to alumni, and spent a day each in Nicaragua and Costa Rica leading an effort to create an... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

an equally central role in the lives of alumni themselves, shifting both professional and personal priorities in profound ways. Indeed, far beyond a deep understanding of business, industry, View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jan 2013
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André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973

Founding Partner and Managing Director, JGP Asset Management Download Jakurski profile Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1948 Born, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 1971 Earns BS, Mechanical Engineering, Pontifícia Universidade... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 May 2023
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Finding PRIDE

second year, when I was looking for a job as a commercial and investment banker, I would look at their policies for nondiscrimination. Most banks had nothing, but Bank of America, Chase, and Citibank all... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit

welcome newcomers and offer the opportunity to try out a complimentary class in a clean, brightly lit space. Situated in the heart of Singapore’s Central Business District, Evolve’s Far East Square location... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries

27 Oct 2015
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Sweet Success

spent much of his post-HBS career in energy finance, corporate finance, and public and private equity investment. In 2001, he cofounded ArcLight Capital Partners, LLC, a private equity firm focused on the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

corn at Creighton University’s Heider College of Business, where he has been on the faculty for 15 years. He will tell you that corn’s symbiotic relationship with humans stretches back 10,000 years, originating in Mesoamerica and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

20 Jan 2023
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Free Spirits

Zone President North America of Anheuser-Busch. And that’s where the category stayed, largely untouched, until new techniques started to come on line around 2017. That’s the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food Services and Drinking Places; Food Services and Drinking Places

01 Sep 2003
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Dwight Raiford

Raiford Photo courtesy Dwight Raiford Growing up in a North Carolina mill town, W. Dwight Raiford learned from his father, an insurance agent, that a black man can be successful in business and from his... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

addressing this critical issue and is quite simply broken. HBS’s own Professor Rebecca Henderson has emphasized this fact and underscored the conclusion that “business is View Details

15 Jun 2021
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Leading at State

a siloed department structure, and they serve multiple constituencies, including Congress and the president. “These dynamics have implications for how you make decisions and... View Details

Keywords: leadership; international relations; politics; Executive Education

01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey

He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

Dorothy for her amusement. Unbeknownst to him, she sold it to the prestigious Story magazine for $25. When she told him, he began to think he could be a writer after all. By 1945, America was ready to forget war View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2006
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Winston to Lead the Global Initiative

graduate, Winston has held senior marketing and strategy positions at a number of high-tech firms and more recently worked as a research associate for HBS professor Myra Hart, who retired in June. Winston... View Details