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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Muhammad Yunus Visits HBS
Yunus Microlending pioneer Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank and winner of the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize, told HBS students in April that “all human beings are entrepreneurs, even the poorest of the poor,” as he discovered after helping beggars in Bangladesh... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Research Online
growth dispelled the idea that something about the “nature of India” made rapid growth difficult. Broad-ranging reforms in the mid-1980s and early 1990s deregulated legal barriers to entry into many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
recently moved into its eight-story home on West 110th Street, the room already had an air of timelessness. The wood-paneled walls were lined with portraits of great American adventurers and the trophies they had brought back from the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
The final stages of one of the most significant events in Asia this century Hong Kong's transformation from British colony to Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China will be witnessed firsthand by attendees of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success by Thomas J. DeLong (Harvard Business Review Press) DeLong, the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Management Practice, lays out the roots of high achievers’ anxiety (fear of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
ultracompetitive business world, the difference between success and failure lies in the ability to get every employee to think and behave like a strategist. This book helps business leaders expand strategic thinking from the purview of “the elite few” View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Case Study: Declawing the Competition
in subscriber growth and customer feedback. However, the lucrative market opportunity ($8 billion, growing at 4 percent year-over-year) and the low costs of entry are attracting new competition. New cat-focused subscription boxes have... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Fostering Innovation in Social Enterprise Across Harvard
Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. On April 16, video screens were glowing as spectators watched the finale of HBS’s annual New Venture Competition (NVC). COVID-19 turned the competition into a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Studies for Your Commute
Case discussions typically start with the facts and blossom from there. But what happened before that? What got the professor excited about writing the case in the first place? What margin notes didn’t make it into the final draft? And... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
costs, transforming the country over the past decade into the world’s workshop. In 2003, China ranked as the world’s major recipient of foreign investment — nearly $53 billion. It is on pace this year to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships
Financial aid provides the foundation for HBS’s need-blind admission policy, ensuring that the cost of attending is not a barrier to entry into the MBA Program. By lessening the burden of debt, this support... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
What happens when a group of Missouri corn farmers gets into the energy business? With consumers paying more than double for gasoline than they did a year ago, turning crops into fuel, not food, seems like a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Developing Insightful Global Leaders
HBS is committed to developing future leaders equipped with the cultural intelligence and skills required to operate in today’s globalized world. Key to this effort is creating opportunities for members of the School’s increasingly multicultural community to develop... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
D.C.-based firm, Barbara Franklin Enterprises, helps American companies navigate trade and investment issues, especially in China and other Asian countries. Franklin assists corporations with everything from strategy and etiquette to... View Details
- 15 Jan 2015
- News
Asia Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
the Grand Hyatt Tokyo for a Japan regional event. The evening featured remarks by Dean Nohria, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi, Regional Chair Hiroshi Mikitani (MBA 1993), Campaign Managing Director Janet Cahill, and Thierry G. Porte (MBA 1982), a member of the Global... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
(Elephants), yet also entrepreneurial (Rabbits). However, we also discovered that joint-venture firms in China were more competitive and less bureaucratic than state-owned enterprises." Despite these differences, the similarities of... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
School's US Competitiveness Project. Because business leaders have a profound economic and moral stake in making that happen, Rivkin adds, "the most progressive of them are moving into hands-on, long-term partnerships with educators.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
bipolar race between two superpowers has evolved into a more complex and unpredictable multipolar situation, with countries such as China and India establishing their own dual-use space programs and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
the next forum, set for June 15–17 in Shanghai. It’s a great opportunity for alumni to hear from global business leaders, U.S. and Chinese officials, and HBS faculty. While visiting Shanghai, forum participants will experience firsthand the extraordinary dynamism that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forum
living in Taichung, Taiwan, opening a purchasing office for a British sports shoe company. Mainland China was not yet open for business. I purchased this bronze casting of a Chinese peasant pulling a heavy load to remind me to keep... View Details