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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Brief: Bargaining for Better
eighth-grade girls in 41 schools throughout Lusaka, Zambia, who were trained in negotiation skills by local women. “Before this, there was almost no research telling us that negotiation training is effective anywhere—not even for MBAs,”... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Faculty Books
in entrepreneurship, the historical origins of "born global" companies; the importance of networks in new international market development; the role of public policy in shaping cross-border entrepreneurial activity; and the effect of international entrepreneurship on... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
which is why the decision to pivot Lotus to a support network for women entrepreneurs was easy to make. In partnership with local sponsors, Lotus hosts monthly breakfasts for investors and female founders—a time of day more compatible... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 19 May 2021
- News
Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online
local communities. “Our collective reach is much greater than our individual club reach,” says David Harris (MBA 1984), President-elect of the HBS Association of Boston, and co-lead in organizing the conference. He also served as a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
workweek is filled with staff meetings, conferences, public events, negotiations with government officials about programs and their implementation, and donor-relations work with local embassies. She finds that all these various activities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
Boston’s Sasaki Associates, however, Mawilmada was restless. It’s probably his grandfather’s fault. A member of the municipal council in Kandy, Loku Banda Mawilmada was responsible for a number of local improvements, including a school, a... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
II shaped the Renaissance Center. Max Fisher transformed the waterfront. Now developers like Gilbert and the Ilitches have an outsized impact on the way their particular neighborhoods develop, as do local philanthropic foundations, which... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Start-Ups Make Their Pitch
help consumers locate a business or person to handle local service needs, get price quotes, and book appointments. Southern California: Kiwilimón (Deborah Dana Beyda, MBA ’08, cofounder) is a food and recipe Internet portal for... View Details
- 26 Feb 2021
- News
Latinx on Boards; High-Tech Reforestation
of planting manually, and drones can be operated day and night, can replant forests immediately following fires, and can access difficult terrain that would be dangerous for people. Dodi says the company takes a holistic approach to each planting project to include a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
resides with his wife, Jane, and their two sons in Mazda’s home city of Hiroshima, four hours south of Tokyo by bullet train. Says Fields:“Mazda has deep roots in Hiroshima. Generations of local people have given our company a truly... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
The miracle, she says, is when the child starts making wise or mindful decisions on their own. After giving some talks about the book to local parent groups in Atlanta where she lives, Jones has started presenting webinars to HBS and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
but qualitative, cultural yet financial, personal but pandemic. In short, it's complicated. Do you think business leaders can help tackle any of these problems, especially the financial ones you point out? @cjcashjr: It's imperative that biz participate in ed reform... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
of this bid attracted me to the cause. Under the leadership of Atlanta real-estate attorney Billy Payne, who is now ACOG's president and CEO, a small group of local people was determined to bring the Olympics here because they felt it... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
involvement as a member of his local board of education; since then, he’s served as chairman of the JPMorgan Chase Foundation and sat on the boards of the Big Apple Circus and many other organizations. In 1999 he founded NPower, a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners
Market Research: Forty-two MBA students traveled to Accra, Ghana, where this team spent time at a local market. The world became HBS students’ classroom in January as the entire first-year class spent a week learning hands-on what it... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- News
A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale
scaling local knowledge. Back in the United States, that realization led Hunt to explore other aspects of the health care industry’s value chain, from billing to insurance to product development. “I loved the sense that I was working in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
self-confidence, sophisticated analytical skills, and the ability to make decisions quickly. And unlike the top-down hierarchy found in the U.S. military, the IDF is a ground-up organization where local commanders are responsible for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Exotic Travel
Nichols Photo courtesy Bill Nichols Want to show your kids a real rainforest instead of the Rainforest Cafe? Marketing consultant Bill Nichols (MBA ’78) and his wife, Jennifer, did just that, taking their two children to locales such as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Community Investment
transforming the delivery of health care," he notes. "And my work with our local government and church has helped me feel much more rooted in the community. In all these activities, I have enjoyed using my skills where they can make a... View Details