Far East Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

Google ended its service to China, China would respond by creating its own version of Google." Jack Carpenter advised, "If an organization is serious about doing business in China, it must 'ride out' all government restrictions.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit. Beshears is an expert in behavioral economics, which uses insights from psychology and economics to explain individual decision making and help people... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

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Joan Colligan Oral History - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School

(HRPBA 1957) Joan Colligan (HRPBA 1963, MBA 1964) "The program, as far as I was concerned, was a wonderful, wonderful opportunity for young women to learn about a world that they would not necessarily have been exposed to either then, or... View Details

06 Mar 2018
News

A Voice for Diversity and Impact at Scale

With a father in the US Air Force, Vivian Hunt (MBA 1995) moved often as a young girl, living in places as far flung as Montana, Alabama, and Japan. That experience was difficult at times, but it developed her ability to engage across... View Details

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

rediscovering their relationship with corn stuck with him. He talked to local organic farmers to learn more about the nuts and bolts of planting, watering, and harvesting. Hundreds of miles to the northwest, at the Museum of the Fur Trade... View Details

20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

insights that would drive our next phase, ideation. In this 2-week period, we assembled experts from within the organization as well as beyond to brainstorm how we might address the problems that we had identified in our primary research,... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Latin America - Global Activities 2021

at Good Foods Group, is the type of leader who believes in constant learning—from colleagues and mentors to her professors and classmates in the HBS Executive Education program in which she participated, Program for Leadership Development (PLD). “I know that I am View Details

03 Dec 2024
News

Magic Numbers

Courtesy Shalinee Sharma Courtesy Shalinee Sharma As a sixth grader in Buffalo, New York, Shalinee Sharma (MBA 2005) believed math just wasn’t her thing. There were only a few girls in the honors class at her new school, and Sharma soon realized that she was View Details

Keywords: Amy Crawford

02 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Paul’s Sabbatical Story: Hypothesis-testing by sabbaticals

realities of working in the tourism industry far from friends and family. Paul credits this sabbatical—and his five others—as instrumental in career wayfinding. He’s learned not to expect epiphanies from these blocks of time. Instead,... View Details

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

history, is a framed copy of the front page of the August 8, 1992, San Francisco Examiner. On that particular day, the editors co-opted the signature home-run call — “Bye-Bye Baby!” — of the Giants’ Hall of Fame broadcaster Russ Hodges to announce a View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

February 2023
Supplement

Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

Venture Competition Complete Table of Contents December 2021 Rescue & Recovery In the wake of an abuse scandal and a clean sweep of leadership at Mercy Corps, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna gets the humanitarian aid organization back to the... View Details

15 Aug 2017
Blog Post

Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development

organizations and non-profits since I was child, and working in public service in New York City after college, my pivot to HBS was to dive into the hard skills and action-based work that I was missing to make my community development... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

Portrait Project

Kristie Gan

that I live with to this day. I never knew what would trigger my next attack. The world was vast, yet suddenly dangerous. With the shadow of fear cast over me, I lost that childlike curiosity to discover the pirates hiding in my garden; to chase after my dog, Sasha;... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

asserted at the third annual HBS Workshop on Emerging Markets, held on campus last December. The two-day workshop, which attracted an impressive group of scholars from as far away as Sweden and as nearby as MIT, provided a forum to... View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab companies and help the region... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

The disruption is far beyond what most imagine. Companies will have to re-engineer every core process to account for changes in workforce demographics in the post-COVID world. The supply-demand balance will become a permanent feature in... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

01 Dec 2005
News

A Matter of Opinion

dabbled in military journalism (as much a misnomer, Navasky says, as military music), after which he enrolled at Yale Law School. At Yale, he cofounded and spent much of his time working on Monocle, a magazine of political satire that achieved something approaching... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

KineticsEkhi Muniategui, MBA 2009With virtually unlimited power in a singular design, the DKS radioisotopic battery solution offers an unprecedented, technological offering — an ultra-light power solution that lasts for decades and goes View Details

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