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30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

research is striking in what it shows about the historical reach of technology adoption. According to his findings, the rate at which countries adopted new tools hundreds of years ago strongly affects whether they are rich or poor today.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Jan 2019
News

A Global Mission

millions of people had been driven from their homes. To assist with the country’s efforts at rebuilding, DeFehr developed a crop-diversification strategy. He spent two years establishing the project, which is still in operation today.... View Details

Keywords: April White; human rights

01 Jun 2008
News

Let’s Celebrate! HBS is 100 Years Young

said of the day and its import, “I can’t think of a better group to celebrate with.” Still to come is the Centennial’s centerpiece for alumni, this fall’s Global Business Summit, to be held at the School October 12–14. View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

preferable to manic-depressive swings in attitudes about the outlook, if only for purely pragmatic reasons. Q: What research projects will you be working on next? A: I have about a dozen papers and cases related to globalization under way... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Fast Facts - Global

academic year 2022–23 MBA Program 39% Class of 2025 international students (66 countries). GLOBAL COLLOQUIUM ON PARTICIPANT-CENTERED LEARNING (GLOCOLL) 2,961 Participating faculty from over 400 universities... View Details

22 Apr 2019
HBS Seminar

Francesca Rossi, AI Ethics Global Leader, IBM

01 Oct 2001
News

Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

We begin a new academic year at Harvard Business School in the midst of a fascinating and compelling time in the history of business. In keeping with the mission of the School — to educate leaders who will make a difference in the world —... View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

June 2015 (Revised January 2017)
Case

Epistar and the Global LED Market

By: Willy C. Shih, Chen-Fu Chien and Hung-Kai Wang

It took BJ Lee many years to learn how to navigate the patent minefield that was the global LED industry. When his company was first spun off from the Industrial Technology Research Institute in Taiwan, he thought the essence of a good IP strategy was to develop a... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property Management; Patenting; Patent Litigation; Intellectual Property; Patents; Electronics Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; United States; Japan; Taiwan

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

a cornerstone of the School’s Global portfolio, offers a 7-week experience with modules on-campus and in China. The second cohort, launched in December 2019 with 80 participants, faced an unexpected interruption due to the COVID-19... View Details

May 2025 (Revised June 2025)
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Daiichi Sankyo: Steering a Global Organization

By: Tiona Zuzul, Amy C. Edmondson and Cat Huang

In the spring of 2023, Sunao Manabe, CEO of Daiichi Sankyo, reflected on a pivotal decision. A large Western pharmaceutical company had made a bid to partner with Daiichi Sankyo to develop the next three products in its oncology pipeline. Daiichi Sankyo, a 125-year old... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Culture Change; Decision-making; Leadership; Culture; Innovation; Psychological Safety

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16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

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

April 2009
Case

The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim

The global economy was expected to suffer from negative growth for the full year in 2009, a phenomenon not seen since World War II. While the U.S. subprime mortgage disaster was blamed as the original instigator, it was noted that the "global imbalances" of the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; International Relations; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution

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28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

second year, it brought us emotionally closer and created a deeper sense of community. I stumbled during my first Zoom class in August last year – I was still on mute as I made a comment in a Finance class. However, we began to help each... View Details

29 Apr 2021
Blog Post

PRIDE at HBS: Forty Years of Progress

PRIDE community at HBS. It’s so exciting to think about what this next year will bring for PRIDE, for HBS, and for the whole world as we recover from the global pandemic. With the PRIDE community, it’s going... View Details

02 Jul 2019
News

The high price of breaking up global supply chains

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

this market at the bottom of the economic pyramid (BOP) must look beyond just selling products—they must find ways to create social and economic value, according to the editors of a new volume, Business Solutions for the Global Poor. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2023
News

Hands-on Learning About Global Markets

peace of mind that their parents were being monitored, and for the seniors, it made them feel independent and secure. “In FIELD Global Immersion, students are the protagonists. They apply frameworks from their RC View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

Date: May 5-7, 2008 Faculty Chair: Arthur Segel Faculty Summary Report: Colloquium: Global Change in the Built Environment What were the overall goals of the colloquium? The goals of the colloquium were to celebrate Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

2018
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Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World

By: Sven Beckert and Dominic Sachsenmaier

In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to transnationalize and globalize their perspectives on the past. Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained... View Details

Keywords: History; Research; Global Range

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