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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
Look beyond the United States and Great Britain and you are likely to find networks of companies — ranging from Latin America’s grupos to India’s business houses to Japan’s keiretsu — that are integral parts of the global economy. For HBS associate professor Tarun... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
devastating effects on children, SOS-KDI, headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria, runs special children's villages in 130 countries around the world. A village consists of a cluster of ten to fifteen homes, each of which houses six to eight... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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re-create an understanding of these tombs and what they were and who was there—based on this whole new way of viewing things.” “I think we, a little bit, do the same thing,” she says. She points to a whiteboard, where she had previously sketched out her view of the AI... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
and award-winning author of three books on the food-service industry, was the conference's primary organizer. "I think everyone left with more energy than they had when they walked in," she said. "When you're dealing with a bunch of extremely busy women, that's a sign... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
"Foundations" Paves the Way for Entering MBAs
have classes with everyone else." To accomplish this, the cluster - a group of sixteen students - became the organizing block for Foundations. "We made a conscious effort to change the student mix constantly in order to provide many... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
The Future of Stem Cells
illnesses, positioning themselves in the mainstream,” predicts Debora Spar. “Venture capitalists will fund research into stem-cell science that runs in accordance with the wishes of society. Firms will cluster where the rules are... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
the foundation of change. The idea behind Millennium Villages is to bring a holistic approach to development, targeting agriculture, education, health, and infrastructure. We’re leveraging the knowledge and expertise of local clusters of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
degree of interest from a cluster of northeastern states as well as broader interest across the country,” she notes. In particular, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick has expressed interest in using social impact bonds to address... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
New Course for General Managers Broadens Managerial Scope and Builds Confidence
and to take action quickly on less data, which is probably a result of studying so many cases and testing some of the principles on the job." Next year, TGM's administrators hope to attract more clusters of general managers from a single... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
plants, you don’t need to employ highly skilled technicians to maintain equipment. Suppliers of production equipment also tend to cluster near manufacturing. (The countries with the highest production of machine tools—Germany, Japan,... View Details
- 10 Oct 2013
- News
How a Prolonged Government Shutdown Will Impact the Business World
- 31 May 2017
- News
Father Agribusiness
In the late 1950s, an HBS lecturer named Ray Goldberg noticed something: traditional farming and the wider world of business were beginning to intersect with greater and greater frequency. Intrigued, he came up with a name for what he would spend the next 60 years... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
A Club for the Cosmos
In May, as Khaled Al-Hashmi (GMP 11, 2011) was introducing the UAE Space Agency at the Global Space and Satellite Forum in Abu Dhabi, another launch was taking place inside the confines of the larger conference. The Harvard Business School Aerospace Alumni Group, the... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
American Dream
Standing in a swirl of tourists that includes a gaggle of teenage girls, clusters of road-weary families, and a nun in full habit, Ted Hustead (OPM 30, 2001) appraises a mechanized Tyrannosaurus rex as it raises its enormous head, roars,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was considered the most logical path for... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
searches and appropriately rewards their efforts." The result of this dynamic has been one of history's great technology success stories. In a second volume of Design Rules, the authors will examine how the interrelated processes of design and industry evolution... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
"Step Change" by Julia Hanna. At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo's former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
Allston will create extraordinary possibilities. It will be exciting to see what unfolds as our Allston neighborhood becomes a vibrant innovation cluster connected to other local innovation nodes like Kendall Square, the Longwood Medical... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
encompasses housing, water, transportation, and environmental priorities. Aside from downtown Colombo, the plan proposes a business park adjacent to the airport as well as a ring of clustered mini cities around the capital, each with a... View Details
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details