Asian American Institute - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Mar 2022
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Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

pleased, and everyone really enjoyed it.” Asian American Alumni Gather for Lunar New Year Luncheon The HBS Asian American Alumni Association... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2024
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Ink: Framing the Full Picture

game changer. It’s probably the hardest work I’ve ever done, but it’s also very gratifying. I remember being at San Diego Comic-Con back in 2015 or 2016, when my career was just starting. I was on an Asian View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

21 Sep 2015
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Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future

senior fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade, and Industry; and a visiting fellow at the Brookings Institution. She has written and lectured on Japan’s Asia policy and Asian economic... View Details

01 Oct 1998
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Putting on the Wheels

mainstay of the American economy. So questions about the current Asian economic crisis elicit from him the wry, seen-it-all-before observation that "when you expand, it's always at the wrong time." After... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

01 Dec 2002
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Think Globally, Teach Locally

founding of schools around the globe, including the Instituto Centroamericano de Administración de Empresas (INCAE) in Costa Rica; the Philippines' Asian Institute of Management (AIM); the Indian View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jan 2009
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William K. Bowes Jr., MBA 1952

Francisco’s Exploratorium, Grace Cathedral, the Environmental Defense Fund, Stanford’s Bio-X, the Asian Art Museum, QB3, the United Religions Initiative, the Institute for Systems Biology, SFJazz, the Xoma... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

challenges have you encountered in setting up HBS's first international research office? It's a tremendous challenge to establish a platform to facilitate research across more than fourteen Asian countries with multiple languages,... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

21 Sep 2018
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Joyner to Receive Harvard’s DuBois Medal

Pamela J. Joyner (MBA 1984) (photo by Nathanael Turner) Pamela J. Joyner (MBA 1984) (photo by Nathanael Turner) Philanthropist and founder of Avid Partners Pamela J. Joyner (MBA 1984)is among several notable African Americans who will... View Details

01 Nov 2012
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First and Goal

American Youth Football National Championships in 2009 in Orlando, Florida. The tournament also presented leadership challenges as some of the team’s paperwork was mishandled by administrators. As a result, the team arrived in Orlando... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global

increasing geopolitical risks. This was a year of uncertainty: There was a new American president inaugurated; big election cycles in France, Germany, and Italy; and the question of Brexit. You would expect all those things to slow the... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

01 Dec 2012
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Chao Family Donates $40 Million to HBS

university community," Dr. Chao, an industrialist, said of his late wife, a scholar in Asian history and literature. "I would like to dedicate this contribution to memorialize and honor my beloved wife and soul mate." The Honorable Elaine... View Details

01 Apr 1999
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An Eye to the East

Jacinto C. Gavino of the Asian Institute of Management in Manila suggested that, given such constraints, there should be an evaluation mechanism developed to help focus research on the most important issues.... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

noteworthy. In a plenary session titled "The Economic Crisis in Asia," Sugisaki urged Asian authorities to lower barriers to trade and investment and to close insolvent financial institutions and restructure... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

mainstream American beauty market, for example, increasingly reflected the country’s rapidly growing ethnic diversity. The nearly 80 million Hispanics, African Americans, and Asians recorded by the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Apr 1998
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Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

Noting that private capital has an important role to play in Asia's resurgence, Corzine concluded, "For American financial institutions with long-term perspectives, there are tremendous opportunities in the... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

focused on matters of race in America, with an additional 50 in development. Faculty members also have completed more than 90 cases (plus 20 still in process) featuring protagonists who are Latinx/Hispanic, Asian or View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

25 Apr 2018
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Corporate Success

a 2016 report on corporate diversity, black men and women account for only 4.7 percent of executive team members in the Fortune 100, although African Americans make up 13.2 percent of the US population. And only 1 percent—that’s five... View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

spent the better part of the last two years planning and preparing for the early April event. Held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and the adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel, the meeting included two days of intense discussion and debate on China, Hong Kong,... View Details