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01 Mar 2025
News

Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope

Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details

03 Jun 2019
Blog Post

9 Lessons from the Class of 2019

Robin Hood Army has been introduced into new countries including Indonesia, Nigeria, and Chile. Locally, he could be seen leading groups of students after section events to Harvard Square to deliver leftover... View Details

2000
Working Paper

The Drivers of National Innovative Capacity: Implications for Spain and Latin America

By: Michael E. Porter, Jeffrey L. Furman and Scott Stern

In the past decade, both academic scholars and policymakers have focused increasing attention on the central role that technological innovation plays in economic growth. There are at least two distinct reasons for this increased interest. First, though economists have... View Details

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15 Aug 2022
Book

University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed

Today the United States is considered the world leader in higher education. Yet the country could risk losing that top spot, particularly with China opening some of the most innovative educational centers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

01 Sep 2016
News

The Big Business of Little Loans

and PwC have to say about peer-to-peer lending, online marketplaces, and the experiences small businesses face when trying to secure funding for growth. Take a step back in time to learn about the origins of... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

08 Jun 2011
News

George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees

Singapore government, for its part, thought that was a good move too, but felt that Yeo could best serve his country by earning a Master of Public Administration (MPA) degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Oct 1998
News

Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War

Today, 25 years later, Hoa is still living in Hanoi and doing her part to help her impoverished country establish a modern, productive economy. As managing director of Galaxy Company, a successful consulting... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)

11 Mar 2009
HBS Case

The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine

neighboring countries had had similar problems with Ukraine, the shutoff was a PR disaster for Gazprom, which had enjoyed a long-standing reputation as a reliable supplier of natural gas, through pipelines... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Energy; Utilities

Web

Terms of Use | HBS Online

with the Agreements and all applicable local, state, national and international laws, rules and regulations, including privacy and copyright laws, any laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from your View Details

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

these few men, proud, arrogant, and blind, drove the country to financial ruin." Like the individuals convicted of insider trading in the 1980s, some of today's business... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

Harvard Business School. “Even in this politicized, polarized environment that our country finds itself in, people value accuracy.” Ultimately, Jordan’s research casts doubt on the idea that reputational motivations, and in particular the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Jun 2003
News

Portraits from the Class of 2003

Chirag Shah “A single, impoverished mother, only 15 years old, gave birth to the first baby I delivered.” In the Middle of Med School at Yale: came to HBS Inspiration for Becoming a Physician: doctors who attended to his brother’s gunshot... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

Blog

Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs

material is presented, it is about the content and how it is delivered. The virtual experience is probably not suited for everyone but it certainly broadens the opportunity to cast a wider net of audience particularly in those View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Selecting a group of fourteen firms of various sizes from three industries (energy, steel, and food/beverages) in four countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico), the two... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

2021
Working Paper

Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention

By: Brad Chattergoon and William R. Kerr

U.S. invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the 1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local benefits. Is invention becoming a winner-takes-all race? We explore the rising spatial... View Details

Keywords: Invention; Innovation; Artificial Intelligence; Clusters; Agglomeration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Applications and Software; Industry Clusters; United States

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12 Feb 2016
News

Creating Common Ground in Communities of Conflict

there,” she says. “What I wanted to do was reconnect with my village, so I started working with Citizens Foundation to build schools.” She was drawn to the idea of bringing people together from other View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

07 Jan 2015
News

The Type of Innovation That Builds Nations

Keywords: innovation; developing nations; government policy; economic growth; prosperity; entrepreneurship; Health, Social Assistance; Finance

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

Asked which institutions must be in place in order for African countries to grow, experts on a panel at the Africa Business Conference had no shortage of suggestions. One panelist, representing the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Feb 2019
News

Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders

Clubs News Clubs News Ten alumni from the HBS Club of Atlanta spent a day in early February mentoring and coaching 70 middle-schoolers as they learned how to launch a small business. Working with Junior Achievement (JA) View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Arts, Entertainment

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

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