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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
William K.L. Fung
earned a Ph.D. in economics at Harvard in 1971, Fung has built Li & Fung into a multinational trading and retailing company with 36 offices in 20 countries and an annual turnover of more than $1.6 billion. In Hong Kong, where Li & Fung... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
A New Path for Alumnae
offering, A New Path. Hart’s survey of HBS alumnae indicates that 60 percent of respondents between the ages of 35 and 45 dialed down the volume on their professional careers to care for their young families. Although 40 percent continued on a part-time basis and 10... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
of the most powerful political and economic jobs in the world, this book charts Al-Naimi’s extraordinary rise to power. Dual Transformation: How to Reposition Today’s Business and Create the Future by Scott D. Anthony (MBA 2001), Clark... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
also contributed to the theory of capital budgeting and to the development of a more realistic application of the cost of capital to investment decisions. In the midst of this work, Hunt coined the term EBIT (earnings before interest and... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
myself in a difficult situation,” says Powers. Such internships enable MBA students to gain valuable work experience, explore career options, and apply their classroom learnings. As the economic consequences of the pandemic took hold,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The HBS Fund
Business Become More Sustainable The notion of “doing well by doing good” is gaining momentum as business leaders and investors realize that social responsibility can improve the bottom line. That’s why HBS Online introduced a course on Sustainable Business Strategy,... View Details
- 19 Nov 2014
- News
The Power of Yes
money to good use: Dichter would simply open his wallet. At the time, Dichter was director of business development at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
From 1988 to 1993, Juan Enriquez-Cabot was CEO of SERVIMET, a for-profit urban development entity of the Mexico City government which grew 4,000 percent during his tenure and became the city's largest revenue source after taxes. In 1993,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Turning Point: Make Your Life Count
Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Rosita Najmi (MBA 2009) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) We were refugees. Mom scraped together all we had (three suitcases and $3,000) and bundled my three siblings and me onto a plane bound for Idaho. My father... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
alumni, the pledge asks business leaders to promise that they will pursue anti-racist initiatives in the areas of policing reform; safe ballot access and civic participation; and economic inclusion. Among the alumni authors of the pledge... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Associate Professor Joshua Lerner spoke about opportunities and challenges in the venture capital and community development fields; Professor James L. Heskett discussed strategy and community revitalization; and Professor Michael E.... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Case Study: Up in the Air
of prequalified engineers on demand, “in the same way that you would hail an Uber ride,” Berendt says. Software houses across Europe will be able to grow their sales pipeline, access new markets, and create economic opportunities locally.... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
communities of color who include the voices of community members in their decision-making.” Unknown to Big Funders The NCF focuses on four pillars of underfunded structural challenges: policing and criminal justice reform; economic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Drawing on her left- and right-brain strengths, Grace Ng (MBA 2019) double-majored in economics and film at Rice University. “That might seem unusual to some, but I found having these two interests... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
globalization; they wanted help and advice,” says Fuller. Seeing an opportunity, Monitor opened offices abroad and hired local staffs. As Monitor grew, it developed its own unique culture. The firm is divided into a dozen units, each... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
These micro-entrepreneurs desire to have the economic and social benefits of managing their own business but do not want the startup costs or demands associated with traditional business planning. As such, becoming a direct-selling... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
who speaks fluent Hebrew, Arabic, and English and who has long been involved with peace-related initiatives and nonprofits, that experience convinced him “to work on the business side of peace.” “Peace in the Middle East,” he says, “will not be sustainable if people... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
to see the recent proliferation of invention and witness new approaches and experimentation around carbon capture, which is exactly what we need. Because, as we sit here today, it’s not clear that we have a viable technology solution that’s going to allow us to capture... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
INCAE Making Global Impact
to its core MBA programs, an important part of INCAE is its Latin American Center for Competitiveness and Sustainable Development (CLACDS), a pathbreaking, action-oriented research center devoted to issues of View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It by Josh Lerner (Princeton University Press) As governments worldwide seek to spur economic growth in ever more aggressive ways, Professor Lerner offers an... View Details