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- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
isolated. Ascending to ubiquity from the car-obsessed America of the late 1950s, McDonald’s became a common language and a cultural export—an affordable and dependable escape. For decades, McDonald’s was a place to feel good. How could... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
politics, and a business landscape dominated by yesterday’s champions. Murphy places these troubles in a broad historical context, combining analyses of Japanese culture and society over the centuries with accounts of Japan's numerous... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Leadership Courage: Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice By Kirk Kirlin (MBA 1979) Authors Place Press In a time when timidity and disquiet seem epidemic in both American and American Church culture, author Kirk Kirlin offers nine... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
French so well he graduated first in his lycée class). His parents, Suzanne and Robert, were talented chroniclers of Russian culture and history (Robert's Peter the Great won the 1980 Pulitzer Prize for Biography), and an exciting group... View Details
- 03 Dec 2019
- News
Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring
because the host chooses to share the meal on his or her Sabbath, when all tech devices are banned from the table and a cultural element is introduced where diners see, hear and literally taste different perspectives. “It’s not a required... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
CARE and Oxfam, that have also made poverty a defining issue. We need to do the same thing on the environment, and we need to do that in the next five years. Are you optimistic about the WWF’s chances for success? In the very best companies there is a View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
prevented with some forethought. It includes interviews with high-profile entrepreneurs about their own mistakes. It also covers gender biases, cultural challenges, and when to employ agents to negotiate on your behalf. There Will Be No... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
story and the story of our culture and offer a road map for the future. Practicing Journalism: The Power and Purpose of the Fourth Estate by Paul Steinle (MBA 1976) and Sara Brown (Marion Street Press) The authors study the reasons... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
There are few cultural attractions; Monrovia has only one movie theater, and it’s overrun by cats. But the beach is very nice. Anyway, I’m always working. I don’t have much time for diversion. COMTE: Close to Miami, a piece of France in... View Details
- 24 May 2023
- News
Balancing Acts
Stephen Schwarzman (MBA 1972) is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager with $991 billion in assets under management. He majored in culture and behavior at Yale and has spent a lifetime... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
that focus on the perceived cause of the most recent crash. These efforts have ignored the enduring cultural problems of CEO-board collusive relationships and the lack of shareholder power. The result is the imposition of ineffective,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
Leviathans Multinational Corporations and the New Global History edited by Alfred D. Chandler Jr. and Bruce Mazlish (Cambridge University Press) In this collection of articles gathered by HBS professor emeritus (and Pulitzer Prize-winner) Chandler and coeditor Mazlish,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 30 May 2025
- News
Galas in NYC and Mexico City; NFL Coach Shares Leadership Insights in Charlotte
HBS Club of Mexico Celebrates Connection with Gala Dinner The HBS Club of Mexico joined the Harvard Club of Mexico in celebrating the latter’s 75th anniversary with the Harvard Gala Mexico, held on May 12 at the Club de Industriales in Mexico City. Approximately 275... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 10 May 2022
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2022
in his big leather chair and knew I wanted to be in business someday. Those visits entered my DNA.” Culture shock: “My HBS study group had a good laugh when we went grocery shopping together. I was absolutely overwhelmed by choosing from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
position.” While organizations (and individual workers) don’t win by “brain collecting,” they do benefit from strategies that take cultural and skill matches into consideration. Groysberg notes that he’s heard from companies that keep his... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
we also knew that the biggest challenge-- the biggest need-- was going to be to have hundreds more champions working all over the government and the private sector. The reason we needed exponentially more champions was because the entire governance View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- News
Well Said
cultural heritage and you do not want people to hide their immigrant background. How do you balance those things? AL: Great question. So I truly believe that being an immigrant myself, that immigrants have special power, and that having... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
someone that can buy the company. There's less proven exit markets. Second, in more emerging market contexts, there are more macroeconomic shocks and the volatility that comes with that. Then third is this culture of entrepreneurship that... View Details