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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Faculty cochair V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan, a newly tenured professor when he became the SEI's first head, recalls, "We decided on a broad scope of inquiry. For us, understanding managerial challenges within the non-profit sector was a...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
scale and scope of HBS. To round out our global package, we profile three alumni who have had considerable success applying their MBA skills to cross-border business opportunities. Pictured on our cover, Mark Fields (MBA 1989) has worked...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
A Renter’s Market
Mid-Atlantic cities. Redbrick has determined that homes in up-and-coming urban areas offer a better “rental yield” (a more lucrative rent-to-purchase price ratio) than do expensive houses in wealthier areas. After crunching macroeconomic data to View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
but also from kindergarten, so that young people are thinking and dreaming differently about their futures.” The scope is daunting but, for Wooldridge, success will entail changing the conversation. “We can change hearts and minds,” she...
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April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
HBS Fund Advances Global Strategy
Publishing. Gifts of all sizes to the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation help fuel the School’s ambitious international strategy to expand the scope of faculty research, develop students’ global intelligence, engage alumni, and...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Job One: Alumni Engagement
provide ideas on the design and scope of the School’s yearlong centennial celebration planned for 2008 and to recommend a global conference strategy beyond 2008. Next year’s committees will pick up on several of these challenges. As we...
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Peter Cooper
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
Conference Coverage on the Working Knowledge website. MBA Program’s Entrepreneurship Activities Cited as National Model The scope and excellence of Harvard Business School’s MBA activities in entrepreneurship make HBS worthy of emulation...
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Impact: The Changing Nature of Work
Advanced technologies, shifting demographics, and new business models are transforming the nature and scope of work globally. As a result, the skills leaders need—today and tomorrow—also must evolve. Since its inception, HBS has aspired...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
How I Got to Google
essentially the same—but the scope of my products has increased in size. My first role at Google was working on features on a product for Google Checkout. Now I get to work in health search, which accounts for one in 20 queries on...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases," says Schrader, who led Vaxess to another win at HBS's 2013 New Venture Competition this spring. Compare that number to the 1.8 million annual global deaths from HIV and the 1.3 million deaths from...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
continued M&A activity among companies seeking economies of scale and scope and attempting to take full advantage of political liberalization, globalization, and emerging markets. This positive business climate, Corzine noted, will be...
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James E. Aisner
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Porter Appointed to University Professorship
is particularly important to me since the scope of my work has broadened considerably over the years." Porter's first area of interest examines how firms compete in industries and gain competitive advantage. The next focuses on locations...
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- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
Forty-two million people around the globe live with HIV/AIDS; an additional 80 million may be infected by 2010, with new cases concentrated in Russia, India, China, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The scope of the epidemic is so staggering that...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Class of 1949 Gift Supports HBS Faculty Development
programs, which are expected to increase in both scope and number," Crane observed. "At HBS, Executive Education provides a training ground for new faculty, opens research possibilities for existing faculty, and brings the entire faculty...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2001
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Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
States, but they sometimes deliver superior value in certain emerging markets, where their scope allows them to leverage their own resources to compensate for deficiencies in the economic support system. Second, Khanna’s work suggests...
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- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
when he and partners Jorge Paulo Lemann and Carlos Sicupira gained control of one of Brazil’s largest breweries, Telles agreed to run the company. Using strategies that had proven successful as an investment banker, he dramatically expanded the View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
How Green Is the Valley: HBS Students Explore Booming California Industries
fundraising presentation and offering memorandum" - a process she likens to "a two-hour class in how to start a VC fund." While students on the HBS West Club's trip could choose to visit firms in three industries, the CMC Ventures Club limited its trip's View Details
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Daniel Penrice
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Support for the Global Century
graduates) has added significant funds to the endowment as the scope of the Global Initiative has expanded. Noting the international focus of a growing percentage of HBS cases and courses—as well as the recent opening of global centers in...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
the scope of the economic emergency. For a related research paper he was coauthoring with Ben Iverson of Brigham Young University and David Thesmar of MIT, Greenwood marshaled a unique array of data—including airline ticket sales and...
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April White
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
How Many Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
In an exercise overseen by seventeen HBS faculty members, nearly 900 members of the MBA Class of 2009 looked at more than 800 occupations in the United States. They found that it’s not just low-skill jobs that can be readily performed for less overseas. With continuing...
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