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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
guide than certain other disciplines that are sometimes regarded as more rigorous, like economics, for example. Economists with their more mathematical approach to social science conspicuously failed to anticipate this crisis, whereas a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
for projects in areas such as agriculture, public works, and social programs. Loans total some $17 billion annually. Using capital donated by wealthy countries, the International Development Association, founded in 1960, provides some $6... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Surveying Students’ Summer Plans
Summer offers the benefit of long, warm days—and for students, the very real opportunity to consider a potential sector or role for post-HBS plans, sometimes with the support of the HBS Summer Fellows Program. (Last year, 256 students received $1.5 million in funding... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 18 Jul 2014
- News
Team Players
interesting challenge, because you have a limited amount of time to build the brand. Then it disappears. We had to develop a marketing plan that was all-encompassing, but that still got the right information to the people who needed it." From the start, the strategy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
help people save a bundle, look better, feel better, and have enhanced confidence. Boom Country? The New Wave of Indian Enterprise by Alan Rosling (MBA 1988) (Hachette India) A fresh wave of enterprise and... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
limited ability to scale up and have broad-based impact. Vikram Gandhi (MBA 1989) is working to change that by creating investments that can be self-sustaining. “India has 400 million people within the poverty line,” says Gandhi. “While... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
potential to be a vibrant academic and enterprise zone where HBS, Harvard, and the Allston community intersect in ways that will unleash innovation. One especially exciting early development is the plan for the School of Engineering and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Economic and Social Value by Michael Beer and coauthors (Harvard Business Review Press) As global competition stiffens and enterprises face increasing public scrutiny, successful leaders must win on all... View Details
- 28 Feb 2023
- News
The Board Chair-Executive Director Relationship
- 01 Nov 2011
- News
Lessons From a Kenyan Slum
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
would stand on the stage in Burden Hall at HBS and present his business plan at the Social Enterprise Conference “Pitch for Change” competition. Haryopratomo: Actually, that's why I went to business... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program last year. ShelfLife is a B2B marketplace that enables small businesses to take advantage of economies of scale in the food and beverage packaging supply chain. “Specialty food and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
WuDunn Photo Courtesy Sheryl WuDunn Girls matter — we take that for granted here in the developed nations, and we all expect our daughters, sisters, and wives to make a difference in the world. But take a moment to think about another kind of girl, one who might live... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
there are many others. I'm really proud of our Social Enterprise Initiative. I talked with [Assistant Professor] Myra Hart about a new program she and her colleagues have developed - The Entrepreneur's Tool... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
manufacturing in this country might look a lot more attractive.) By subsidizing other industries so generously, we have tilted the scales away from manufacturing. Thus, its decline is not completely a result of “natural” market forces.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The Exchange: Venture Forth
the IBMs or the RCAs of the world to continue to create innovations and job opportunities. Think about the number of firms that wouldn’t be here and the number of technologies that wouldn’t be here without venture capital. The innovation that affects consumers and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
you have a massive production of lithium-ion batteries––that’s the technology of choice today––which brings scale costs way down. So, as EVs grow, that’s going to drive down lithium-ion prices. “You’re going to have a huge demand for... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation in 1992,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2014
- News
Making a Difference
Print this PDF, write your message, snap your high-res photo, and share it on Twitter (@HBSalumni) or Instagram using the hashtag #HBSMakingADifference. Be sure to tell us your name, program, and graduation year. Follow @HBSAlumni on Instagram Follow @HBSAlumni on... View Details
Keywords: The Harvard Campaign
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and emigration, and of what a family will sacrifice for its children to thrive. Direct Selling: A... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley