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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
Board (EDB), amazed the audience when he described how his country is building massive industrial townships in China, Indonesia, and Vietnam. "If [building infrastructure] were a gold mine, I would not be here; if it was not a nightmare... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
for example, Kanter worked with the Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce and the Associated Industries of Massachusetts on a forum held at HBS in April 1994, which helped stimulate the formation of the Alliance for the Commonwealth, a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
industries for decades. And even though Mustapha and his sons had earned a reputation as hard workers, there was only so much they could produce within a system that left farmers either chronically undersupplied or dealing with bags of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entrepôt to China. After the Communists came to power in 1949, Hong Kong had to transform itself as a manufacturing center, and our company changed to one of exporting what Hong Kong produced. It built its reputation exporting... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Covering the Issues
Bulletin coverage of technology centered on areas such as aviation, energy, and automation. A 1928 article on radio, for example, noted that "with the exception of aviation, no other industry has so swiftly passed from the stage of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
off to the left. Behind some bushes we see movement and then make out the huge and powerful form of a lion. He slowly stands, yawns, shakes his mane, and lumbers across the road in front of us. Most of us aren’t morning people, but the... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
project that will employ locals in a traditional handicraft business. The effort is centered in southeast Turkey, a region known for its production of high-quality Adiyaman carpets. By building a sustainable industrial and commercial base... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
On Purpose
Black Panther made more than $1.3 billion globally. (A sequel is due out this fall.) With the data points that Cohen collected, her team put words to their purpose: “To inspire a better world through the power of stories.” That forms the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Businesses in the Asia-Pacific region today are caught up in a dizzying swirl of economic, cultural, political, technological, and social change. Enormous opportunities await managers who can harness these powerful currents to drive their... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
he cofounded Giant Otter, a startup that developed anti-bullying software designed to make both a social impact and a profit. The company’s foreign-born coders, however, lacked the cultural competency to develop the conversational artificial intelligence engine that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
several frantic hours trying to locate his mother in New York City on the morning of September 11 (she was safe). "I have to believe that we have some power to make a difference, and with that power comes... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
Deitch says that kind of support is still far from universal. Even with the rising values, there remain powers in the art world who are uninterested in the work of street and graffiti artists. “The support of some of the real art... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
and is going to succeed? It’s a multi-period, high-uncertainty-that-needs-to-be-resolved kind of process.” Sahlman’s revised framework soon proved a useful tool for understanding the seemingly chaotic world of entrepreneurial finance: “It... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
about the up-and-coming general manager of Nickelodeon Latin America. “I was interested in the entertainment industry and globalization,” Hill recalls. “The article was about the business, not how she led.” So how did “Taran Swan at... View Details
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- News
Give It to Me Straight
that I would never make that mistake again and that I would do everything in my power to help the people around me avoid making that mistake. That's really what motivated me to write Radical Candor and come up with a framework and to be... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
working to eliminate systemic racism. “My dad and my brothers and I, we feel so strongly about the potential and power of this fund,” Josh Kraft, one of Robert Kraft’s four sons, told the Boston Globe. “It starts at the top with great... View Details
- 02 Aug 2018
- News
Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?
won't have anything to do with me. I didn't know at all that it was going to be destructive as it was. No one gave me any kind of warning. I wished they had. But the fact you start, there's just no stopping. You'll do anything. It's a real View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
plan can be a model. But he thinks it should be looked at on a state-by-state basis — rather than as a one-size-fits-all, federally funded, mandated national plan — to accommodate the particular circumstances of each state. And he warns that even though Massachusetts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
unedited, unpredictable, and spontaneous. I thought: “People say I’m entertaining. I have big opinions. I’m too ugly for television, but how about radio?” I persuaded the owner of a tiny 1,000-watt station in Westport to let me work for free. At night, the station... View Details