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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June
pressing issues for the European Community today. The conference will also feature several plenary sessions, including one on "The Evolving World Financial System," led by World Bank president James D. Wolfensohn (MBA '59). "Europe today is in the midst of a... View Details
- 03 Oct 2017
- News
Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?
electronics devices to Amazon’s online storefront. HBS would continue to play a role in Amazon’s development, with the article noting that two of Amazon’s earliest acquisitions included local companies founded by Warren Adams (MBA 1998)... View Details
Keywords: Retail Trade
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
India, Brazil, and other developing nations shook off decades of economic stagnation to achieve remarkable growth. Concurrently, world trade advanced to the point that capital and products now flow freely around the globe. All these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
capacity and reducing transit times. Notes Ward, “The Gateway will enhance America’s competitiveness in global markets. We’re proud of our role in the Gateway for that reason, in addition to the fact that so much of our own business at... View Details
- 19 Oct 2011
- News
A Good Look
samples of Kemin Personal Care’s products has been very strong, notes Levy, but much patience is required as companies submit the ingredients used in their products to rigorous testing that can last as long as 18 months. “There is a lot... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Robots to the Rescue
On the distant horizon is a plan to bring Kiva’s approach to the manufacturing sector. Notes Mountz, “We’ve got a lot of smart people who are constantly thinking about fun and friendly ways to solve problems.” —DB View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; e-commerce; order fulfillment; robotics; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
- 17 Mar 2011
- News
Make or Break for the USA?
was appointed chairman of the President’s Export Council, charged with advising President Obama on trade and export expansion. (McNerney is interviewed in the current Bulletin.) In 2010, Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) was tapped by the White House... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
known as the Deep Web (unsearchable) and Dark Web (requiring special software to access)—to exchange tips and hacking tools. “Why are the bad guys so successful?” Bonaparte asked in an essay for the cybersecurity website Infosec Island... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 26 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni Explore a Changing Hong Kong; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Singapore
topics, exchange ideas, and challenge perspectives, all in a ‘safe environment’ where we respect one another. That feels like a lost art today, where the world seems so divided.” Chow moderated the first panel discussion, AI in Action:... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Faculty Retirements
Trade Commission, and the Securities and Exchange Commission. For twelve years, he was chairman of the Finance Advisory Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He now serves on the boards of Swarthmore... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Q&A: Orin Smith
until the early 1990s, when we realized that the entire environment was important, particularly the personal connection between our partners and the customer. Regular customers are known by name, and the partners remember how they like their beverage; there's an View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Baker’s back
lounge and food-service area. “Business problems don’t arise just within functions,” notes HBS professor Steven Wheelwright, the senior associate dean charged with overseeing the renovation project. “Having a place where people can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
being too dogmatic about how you define your sweet spot as an investor; and (2) seek companies that seem extraordinary on some dimension, even if it is unusual or seems deficient in others. Rob Go (MBA 2007) NextView Ventures For the Birds Here’s what I wrote in my... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
Bank in September 2015, previously serving a five-year term as director-general of Nigeria’s Security and Exchange Commission from 2011 to 2015. An alumni profile of her during that stint details her transformative efforts at the... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
health-care system will only improve if professionals in the field "embrace change." The next morning, Dean Kim Clark sounded a similar theme, noting that new technologies, dramatic shifts in markets and customers, and intense global... View Details
- 21 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Japan Build a Strong Economic Future
As a trade negotiator, economic official, and scholar, Naoko Munakata (MBA 1990) has been immersed in Japan’s economic revitalization effort for the last 25 years. In 2013, as director-general for trade... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
sell it." He uses as examples the fact that few people pay to have their name not listed in the phone book and the popularity of "free" computers -- where consumers get a computer in exchange for giving out personal information, agreeing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Steel Tax
When President George W. Bush (MBA '75) imposed a tariff of up to 30 percent on most types of steel imported into the United States, the Boston Globe (March 10, 2002) turned to HBS professor Debora Spar to explain the implications. Noting... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
associates Chisato Toyama (MBA ’99) and Kim Eric Bettcher. As head of the first-year required course Leadership and Corporate Accountability, Paine notes that she often looks for opportunities to bring a global perspective to the... View Details