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- 04 Apr 2016
- News
Honeywell Appoints President, Setting Succession to CEO Cote
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA 2008) when he cofounded Kaizen... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
Diagne even more bullish on the continent’s future. “Today, Africa is home to 1.4 billion people. By 2050, it will be home to 2.5 billion people, mostly youth. So there are some strong tailwinds to enable it to be the next frontier of View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 29 Jan 2019
- News
Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage
growth of the Nigerian business space, members of the Trustee and Executive Board, and this year’s award winners, among others. His Excellency, Professor Yemi Osinbajo SAN, GCON, Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, served... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?
O’Grady is cognizant that expansion will take time. “It’s not as though by the end of the year we’re going to have all of our private equity fund clients [on blockchain], because it’s still the early days of the application of this technology,” he says. Long-term View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 18 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa
and developing MBA and Executive Education courses in the region. “Today, Africa is probably the most exciting continent because of its unlimited opportunities for growth and emerging middle class,” says Newton Omebere-Iyari (MBA 2016), a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Mario A. Corti: Global Reconnaissance
Nestlé's sales of nearly $46 billion represented growth of 3.6 percent in real terms, with profits up 12 percent over 1998. Corti -- who has a doctorate in economics from the University of Lausanne -- speaks five languages, reads widely,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
minimum wages to go up 13.5 percent a year. That’s an 82 percent increase in wages over five years. Higher wages will cause China’s growth engine to transition from low-cost exports to domestic consumption. My prediction is that over the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
An Unconventional Suggestion
© Alexandra Hootnick/zumapress.com The United States needs to find a “rational middle” ground on the topic of hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, says Professor Michael Porter. In a report released this summer, America’s Unconventional Energy Opportunity, Porter and his... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Robert Kraft, MBA 1965
Founder, Chairman and CEO, The Kraft Group Download Kraft profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1941 Born, Brookline, Massachusetts 1965 Joins Rand-Whitney 1972 Founds International Forest Products 1994 Buys New England Patriots 2002... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Turning Point: Getting to Giving
constantly have to ask ourselves is, “What if we’ve reached the point where we have enough, and everything can be given away—everything?” For those of us who are upwardly mobile, that’s where the rubber meets the road—that’s where growth... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Barbara Bry: Business is Blooming
University of California, San Diego. "It was clear," Bry says, "that growth in the old Navy town of San Diego was going to have to come from new technology companies. CONNECT was designed to link entrepreneurs with the resources they... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Fostering financial freedom for low-income individuals
1998, and the “Love Our Local Business” program, which encourages growth for small businesses by giving grants to entrepreneurs. In India, Intuit’s free mobile application, Fasal, has connected 1.5 million farmers with agents to get... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Teele Hall Dedication
Dean. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark recalled Dean Teele's contributions to the growth of the School and noted that Teele Hall is an important fixture as HBS and the University begin to expand their presence on the Boston side of the Charles. Also... View Details
- 20 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business
Leading innovation is the foundation of a company's success—in bad times as well as good. This is the lesson Lynda M. Applegate, Baker Foundation Professor, has drawn from her research. Applegate has identified an approach to managing View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Presidential Adviser
6, 2006, Q&A with the Chicago Sun–Times, Hubbard, assistant to the President for economic policy and director of the National Economic Council, championed Bush’s message on taxes. The way to spur more economic growth is to keep taxes low,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2011
- News
Peter Harf, MBA 1974
Chairman and CEO, Joh. A. Benckiser SE Download Harf profile (pdf) Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1946 Born, Cologne, Germany 1973 Earns PhD, Monetary Economics, University of Cologne 1981 Joins Joh. A. Benckiser Gmbh 1988 Named CEO and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
plantations to local growers, transforming itself into a marketing company. The firm’s shareholders opted for lower risks but also lower profits. Multinationals and Global Capitalism by Geoffrey Jones (Oxford University Press) Professor Jones surveys the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
is an independent foreign aid agency with the mission to reduce poverty through sustainable economic growth in some of the world's poorest countries. "Farmer training was at the heart of the Ghana program," says Jonathan Bloom (MBA 1972),... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Forward Thinking
There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details