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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
industry’s growth from a small base in the U.S. North-east in the 1960s to today’s highly visible role in economies all over the world. Brooke lays out his vision for the industry as an essential element of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
managing partner with Accel Partners in Palo Alto, California, and chairman of the National Venture Capital Association, representing some 450 venture-capital and private-equity firms. An improving economy... View Details
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
King Jr. at Selma and spent time at Kolonia Farms, an interracial community in Georgia that was the target of boycotts and violence. “It was a very moving time for me,” DeFehr says now. But when he returned to Canada, he discovered that... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
percent of Hong Kong's exports involve China either as a source or market, and 60 percent of the total investment in China is channeled from the territory. In addition, he said, Hong Kong is an outward-looking View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Asia Business Conference: Is the Miracle Over? The annual Asia Business Conference, organized this year by the HBS Asia Business Club and Harvard Law School's Asia Law Society, has often been an occasion for participants to bask in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to survive in new economy. The Metail Economy provides innovative methods for connecting with the Me-centric consumer and shows how to thrive in this consumer revolution. Joel Bines provides examples of companies that have failed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
increased expectations for hard, measurable results. Which seems only fair, right? The problem: Nonprofits can lose sight of their mission if a major funder's performance measurement priorities don't align with the necessary actions to achieve View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
When ‘Business As Usual’ Is Anything But HBS students conduct field research at an optical store in Istanbul. “The logistical challenges are enormous. Everyone involved in FIELD is deeply invested in anticipating and solving problems... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
"That is a big mistake." Predictability allows everyone to know what the rules are, establishing an atmosphere of trust so that people can work together productively in an organization, Stevenson argues.... View Details
- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
Photos by Bridget Corke “Pleased, but not satisfied.” That’s how Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) describes the drive that helped him to overcome homelessness as a young man in South Africa, get an education, and build a successful career... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
‘We were just doing what needed to be done’
Marshall as the first African American Supreme Court Justice, five African American students arrived at HBS. What they encountered—a predominantly white, male campus—seemed out of step for the times and the liberal Northeast. Their deep... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
transparently of value, so nobody’s going to oppose it. Are China and India capable of creating domestic firms that can compete successfully on an international scale? There already are at least 20 companies in the two countries that I... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Photography by Tori Soper Rodney Quainton (MBA 1970) had always wanted to be a banker. At Yale (Class of 1962), courses on money management and banking attracted him. “At that time,” he recalls, “banking was considered an honorable... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
was tempered by lingering economic fears: one poll indicated that nearly half of all Americans expected that within a decade, another depression would devastate the country. With the health of the peacetime economy now the nation's top... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
the root reasons why communities of color and poor and vulnerable communities are most affected is because of power structures and the way that our economy rewards the people at the top. It's fascinating to me that all of this is... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
Gentera into the largest microfinance firm in the Americas. Rodríguez’s interest in using microloans to invest in developing economies was first sparked at HBS in 1994 when he helped organize the Latin American Conference. Through a... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
decisions on the ground. It’s also testing a diagnostic app that relays data from the site of an emergency to the hospital to save time and, perhaps, lives. Fortunately there’s been only one fire since implementation and one opportunity... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Embracing Activism for Social Change
learning firsthand about their daily challenges. “Imagine listening to callers in crisis over a 16-hour shift. It’s an emotionally taxing job. We created crisis intervention training for the 90 call takers, establishing new protocols and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Investing in Innovation
and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business leaders, we need to remind the public that business is a force for good and is fundamental to societal progress by creating jobs,... View Details