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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
The Potential of Business to Improve Lives
When Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and the faculty chair of HBS’s Race, Gender, and Equity Initiative, was studying questions of gender and race in organizations in the 1980s, research into building an inclusive economy was “a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute
the importance of the relationship between a firm and the government of the country in which it is based, particularly in the context of the WTO, where the unflagging support of the government is essential to success. A third issue is for managers to View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
immigration comes into these firms, the firm's native workforce is becoming younger on its own. That suggests that the immigrant's complementarity with younger natives is shifting the relative demands for labor within the firm." View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
that cannot be satisfactorily explained using aggregate techniques, but a great deal can be learned by in-depth studies over time. That's one reason why business history can be so important in understanding the really fundamental issues... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Program Catalyzes New Streams of Research
HBS established the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) to serve as a research-based platform that brings together a community of scholars, students, alumni, and other practitioners to find solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges. A... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
feel good, especially when it comes to our purchasing decisions. To that end, many major corporations have begun to take special interest in how understanding the human brain can help them better understand... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Q&A - Mark Fields
attention to what’s said, not just for the literal translation but to understand the real meaning of what people are communicating. Another thing I’ve realized is that we’re very good in the West at minimizing the process of molding... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Late Start, Dramatic Finish
is in thinking boldly and understanding and attacking complex problems,” reported Baranowski. “I am convinced that our team's ability to do this under extreme pressure was the reason why we won the competition.” View Details
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Abby Falik
post-high school application (on the grounds that she didn’t yet have a college degree), Abby found her inspiration for Global Citizen Year: “How can we provide a global learning experience before college,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
spiritual pursuit so much as it is a $16 billion global brand, with a number of HBS alumni involved in that transformation. Once limited to the devotees of a handful of swamis and gurus who introduced the practice to the West in waves... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
onset of creative anarchy and the activities of "pirates" who commandeer the new technologies for their own profit, "even the pioneers begin to realize the costs of chaos. Once they understand that a lack of rules can diminish their own... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, the course was designed to help students understand the BRI from both an operations and a political-economy perspective. “China’s global... View Details
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
out in his HBS admission essay: “When I graduate,” Sulyman wrote, “I'm going to go back to Africa and lead a technology company that is creating massive impact that will propel Africa into the future.” Today, Sulyman is carrying out that vision as vice president of... View Details
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Lourdes Long
dedicated his life to healing others, he laughed off the unintended insult, understanding that beneath my hubris grew a desire to affect change not on an individual, physical level – but on a global scale.... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
you tell us about the fruits of your collective labors now that you have all returned? A: We're excited about the projects underway under the umbrella of both the Harvard University South Asia Initiative and the Harvard School of Public Health's View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
Jan Rivkin conceived of a data-based, research-driven effort to influence the national dialogue and shed light on the crucial issue of the ability of US companies to compete in a global economy while supporting rising living standards for... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
interest in global health to the realization that an estimated 13 million people die each year for lack of low-cost products that could save their lives. Over the past seven years, she has conducted research projects in Zambia aimed at... View Details
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Ruth Cenat
history that have shaped the world we live in. Through what I’ve learned so far, I understand not only what something is but why. That's further complemented by the who, which takes the form of various experiences my classmates have... View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes With InMobi and now Glance, Naveen Tewari (MBA 2005) is at the forefront of a growing trend of global consumer technology companies created in Asia from the ground up. Growing... View Details