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- 17 Dec 2017
- News
How Music Forged a Fighter for Free Expression
experience that I had. Otherwise, you're just an aid tourist and, oftentimes, a draw on those organizations resources. The opportunity I found was setting up a job trading center at one of these IDP camps. While I was there, someone had... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
added to business today and, in the process, the jobs of managers are being changed" (1960). And so the magazine regularly ran articles with an international outlook, such as "Advices from Abroad" (1953), which solicited the views of foreign-born and overseas HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
inherent in online trading. "The online consumer can execute a trade for up to 90 percent less than a traditional broker's fee," Light points out. "Consequently, the intermediaries in the financial services industry-the brokers-are really... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Leading the Charge
Reserve, living near the World Trade Center at the time of the 9/11 attacks, he re-upped and went on to serve in Afghanistan, where he earned the Bronze Star, before moving on to Iraq. View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
Trade card from 1833 advertising "Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." (Baker Library Historical Collections) From the time of her marriage in 1743 until her death in 1765, Sarah Chamberlain, wife of Nathaniel Chamberlain, a blacksmith... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
open markets and trade began to emerge across Latin America. In recent years, state-owned companies have been privatized, currencies stabilized, and inflation reduced. These changes have helped attract a fresh influx of foreign direct... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
February, featured a keynote address by Ambassador Charlene Barshefsky, who, during her tenure as U.S. Trade Representative from 1996 to 2001, pursued an aggressive agenda to open foreign markets around the world. Barshefsky, currently... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Amazon books on its site. The affiliate then receives a commission for books Amazon sells through these links. Barter exchanges, also called link exchanges, entail the trading (with no money exchanged) of links between Internet sites.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 02 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Legacy
me is to build new things. I get very bored. And I would say, while I didn’t well in college I did well in learning the import policy of India, which were three fat books, and I knew them backwards. “Slowly, I moved away from my manufacturing business into View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Uncle Sam’s Business Man
at an international trade and investment fair in China, he informed the gathering that between 2005 and 2010, China was the fastest-growing source of foreign direct investment in the USA. Said Johnson, “Companies invest in America because... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Greek Drama
of recent debates, trading unprecedented personal jabs and polarizing Greece’s already high-octane political climate even further.” Samaras supports budgetary and economic reforms to improve Greece’s debt situation, but with the country... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Vivek Ranadivé
Secretary of the Treasury Robert Rubin, then head of Goldman Sachs equities trading department, hired Ranadivé's newly formed Teknekron Software Systems to consolidate this hodgepodge of data traffic to work within a single desktop... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham on September 11
second office at Manhattan’s 30 Rockefeller Plaza. She’d just finished a breakfast meeting with advertising clients and was preparing to return to CNBC’s Fort Lee, New Jersey, headquarters when the first plane struck the World Trade... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
Joel Bines (MBA 1999) spent his high school summers wearing a tricorn hat and waiting for tour buses to disgorge visitors at the Battle Green in his hometown of Lexington, Massachusetts, where the first blood of the American Revolutionary War was spilled. “We’d circle... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- News
Acting Naturally
Karina Birch (OPM 49, 2017) is CEO of Rocky Mountain Soap Company, based in Alberta, Canada. In this interview, she explains how the mission, culture, and products of her company are blended together. “I was 24 years old and right out of university when I started Rocky... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
Scaling Up at Five Below
(photo by Jane M. Von Bergen / Philadelphia Inquirer) (photo by Jane M. Von Bergen / Philadelphia Inquirer) It’s the holiday season and emoji merchandise is flying off the shelves—especially poop emoji (sorry). Chalk it up to the whimsical tastes of the teen and... View Details
- 14 May 2015
- News
Whole Foods' Misguided Play for Millennials
Keywords: millenials; grocery stores; retail; segmentation; demographics; generations; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni
Tracy E. Kwiker (MBA 1995) arrived in Seattle three and a half years ago when she was promoted to manage store operations for a Toys “R” Us region in the Pacific Northwest. Eager to establish contacts in her new community, Kwiker began attending HBS Club of Puget Sound... View Details
- 06 Oct 2014
- News