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- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
my Vietnamese heritage, and it’s how I live my life. Jashin Lin (MBA 2023) I take great pride in my Asian identity and I aim to embody our culture’s values of dedication, grit, and collectivism. We believe that actions speak louder than words. For me, these values... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
contracts filled three floors. Next, she restarted her English language school for international students, a side of the business that faltered after the 1989 Tiananmen Square crackdown in China and Beijing-mandated withdrawal of all... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
influences. This discourse hence suggested that this art had so far been aesthetically misjudged, therefore implying that it had also been economically undervalued. Saffronart and the other auction houses (Christie's, Sotheby's, Phillips, and Bonhams) were able to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
process. The paper explores how entrepreneurs and firms translated societal values into brands, globalized them, and changed societal perceptions of beauty as a result. It also shows the limitations of the homogenization achieved by firms... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen. Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother's Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison Mane. Keen is also an active member of the Cherokee Nation, his... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2016
- News
Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier
upbringing set the course for his eventually attending HBS. His father, an Italian-born engineering-trained executive with Lockheed Martin who travels one-third of the time, met Amadio’s mother, an American, when he enrolled in an English class in a View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
citizens; in Afghanistan, the average annual income at the time was about $100. (Current estimates are more like $700.) Roshan, which translates from the Dari and Pashto languages to “light,” was a name... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library
Intercollegiate Case Bibliography published. It contained 710 cases from 63 institutions and a supplement of 242 cases in languages other than English. 1960 to 1961 Experimenting with Case Discussion Simulator School experiments with the... View Details
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
first day talking to the global partner and reviewing objectives. The next day, they take cars and translators to interview potential customers. If all goes well, they'll generate insights like those students had about laptops in China.... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details
- 03 Mar 2017
- News
Big Blue’s Big Bet
which is the ability of computer systems to learn from a language as it is spoken, in all its idioms, colloquialisms, and technical-ese, and without having to be explicitly programmed to learn these things. The IBM computers answered... View Details
Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page
- 06 Feb 2025
- News
How to Judge Your Next Job
from Ethan, by the way. I remember we were in Detroit with Bob [Moesta], workshopping a bunch of the research and how it would translate into the book, and Ethan made this big statement of “This is not going to be about your dream job.”... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
entrepreneurship and venture capital, the actions of any one group are likely to have positive spillovers—or, in the language of economics, "externalities"—for their peers. It is in these types of settings that the government... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Publication: Il Sole 24 Ore S.p.A., in press Abstract A collection of papers on ethics, translated into Italian. Social Decision Making: Social Dilemmas, Social Values, and Ethical Judgments Editors: R. M. Kramer, A. E. Tenbrunsel, and M.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
greatly enrich the entire HBS community," he notes. Hurdles in Common International students hail from homelands that may differ vastly from each other, but once they arrive at the School, they tend to face common challenges. This is particularly true when English is... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
achieve actionable transparency by embedding their design in a centralized system with a shared design language and near-real-time updating, where everyone with an interest in improving the design has the right and the means to act on it.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Program Policies - HBS Online
Online from another language to English, please allow the Accommodations team an additional 5 business days to complete the translation process before the Accommodations team can review the accommodations... View Details
- 15 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Celebrating Latinx Heritage Month at HBS
to realize that most people feel like outsiders - feel like they are different. It's a beautiful thing and worth celebrating. During LHM, we are reminded that the Latinx experience is incredibly diverse. We have different mother tongues. Sometimes we speak the same... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
not translate into a greater desire to purchase their preferred item or into an overall benefit for choice satisfaction. Time-of-day controls were used to confirm that the observed effects could not be explained by circadian influences.... View Details