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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
governance and management and citing examples of executives' tendency to avoid reality when times get tough. Maritime Piracy by Robert Haywood (MBA 1977, DBA 1979) and Roberta Spivak (Routledge) After summarizing the historical View Details
- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989
10.” In Peru, Anglo American recently reached agreement with local communities and government to establish a development fund and water infrastructure as part of the company’s Quellaveco copper mine project. This was achieved through a... View Details
- 28 Jun 2024
- News
Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories
New York Leadership Dinner Honors Leaders Challenging the Status Quo At its 55th Annual Leadership Dinner in May, the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) honored four leaders whose careers and contributions to the world embody this year’s theme, “Challenging the Status Quo.”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer in The Gambia, for example,... View Details
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
cofounder and CEO of Ocochem, a startup developing an electrochemical process to turn carbon dioxide into formic acid. Now, formic acid is not something most people are familiar with, but it's a pretty important chemical compound. It's... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
president of corporate development and strategy at the Madison Square Garden Company, which now hosts esports events in its venues across the country. “But, to use a basketball analogy, esports is still in the beginning of the first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
our capital so that we can get a return on it. Potentially, we can even garner some strategic advantage from the relationships.” When evaluating offshore deals, cost saving isn’t the primary motivating factor, explains Breyer of Accel Partners. “One of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
undervaluing its currency. The Chinese government has pegged the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar since 1996, which undervalues it by 15 to 25 percent, according to Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Stephen Covey's Successful Habits
including their health and relationships. It's then they often become more disposed to change. In recent years, what's been the most positive development in business? The global economy. "Excellence" in local or regional terms is usually... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what his group should be doing... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
diverse: 35 percent are female, 33 percent are international representing 73 countries, and 21 percent are minorities. The median age is 27. Such diversity is essential to prepare MBAs to live and work in a global economy, Dewey explains.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
this type of approach where their senior leaders share personal stories of domestic abuse, alcoholism, things that have gone wrong in their lives or challenges they’ve had,” says Harmeling, who is also founder of the International Case... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
partner with NGOs like CARE International and Fauna & Flora International. We’ve moved from a paternalistic to a participatory approach to community development and social investment. Despite those efforts,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
Farrington worked all over the world in investment banking and a decade into her career, she hit a major speed bump. Deborah Farrington: Probably one of the biggest earliest challenges I faced in my career was being fired from Merrill Lynch after 10 years. I had worked... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Andresen Becomes First European and First Exec. Ed. Graduate to Endow HBS Professorship
Stratton Corporation. "As the leader in your industry," wrote Stratton, "the way in which you have developed your company has been a lesson to many of us, and this has illustrated the point that leadership is the key ingredient to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
classroom—where one out of three students is an international student—is the different views of privacy they bring to that debate. And one of the things that we ask the students to wrestle with is the fact that there is no one government.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
argued that advances in communications technology were increasingly inspiring consumers around the world to want the same things. Therefore, he declared, international companies should cease to act as “multinationals” that customized... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
with the Japanese," says M. James Kondo (MBA 1997), Twitter's managing director, East Asia, explaining the social-media company's popularity in Japan. "Japanese was the first non-English language that Twitter supported—we now support over 30 languages—and Tokyo was... View Details