Global Understanding - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jul 2024
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Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

accelerate progress toward malaria elimination and gaining a better understanding of what it takes to successfully deliver global health solutions. Although the population vulnerable to malaria has doubled... View Details

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Forest L. Reinhardt | About

leaders understand the economic and political environment in which business is conducted, and the strategic opportunities and risks to which globalization and anti-globalization give rise. The second,... View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Can the United States Avoid a Fractured Future?

important thing. All right. Make sure that U.S. kids are globally competitive and you don’t have to import the brains to launch businesses. Second, when people start demonizing half of the country as godless heathens or conservative nuts,... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance; Health, Social Assistance

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

developing leaders effective in collaborative, global organizations. True North Groups is also the title of the new book I have written with coauthor Doug Baker, a pioneer in the small-group movement. Having participated in two True North... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

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Andrew Kinard

mind — the academic rigor is unparalleled," says Andrew. "But I found myself in contracts class last year wanting to know why the parties wanted to come to an agreement in the first place. Remedies and interpretation are important, but I also wanted to View Details

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

Date: December 7-8, 2007 Faculty Chairs: Teresa Amabile, Mukti Khaire Faculty Summary Report: What were the overall goals of the event? To elucidate the antecedents, facilitators, and consequences of creativity in the organizational context. To View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

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Shantanu Rege

responsibility for my financial advice." Among other deals, Shantanu helped place $350 million in an independent power producer. And he gained time to reflect on his career. Gaining clarity on the global picture "To be a good... View Details

12 Apr 2010
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One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

benefits to companies: Greater clarity about the relationship between financial and nonfinancial key performance indicators. This will help managers understand and confront the trade-offs necessary to balance financial and societal... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2000
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Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

for this ... saying that I am selling out our interest. You know, I'm an economist, not a photographer. I understand perfectly well what interest is. Interest is subject to accounting." Nationalists, in stark contrast, never think... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2016
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Advancing the Vision for HBS

Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences] is the next frontier for Harvard, and its expanding campus in Allston promises to become the next center of Harvard innovation.” John A. Paulson (MBA 1980) Creating opportunities to expand View Details

24 Mar 2014
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The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

approaching things," speculates Marquis. "Our assumption is that this will then have an influence on the local company. Having all of those influences somehow breaks down the effect." As companies put more of a focus on CSR, understanding... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Mar 2019
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In Character: A Case Discussion Drama

What motivates you at work? How about Peter, down the hall in accounting? Or Linda, who heads up sales? In “Stoy Foods,” a case taught in the second-year MBA course Managing, Organizing & Motivating for Value, students adopt different roles in a family business drama... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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John Kelleher

I want to help make the term "foreign policy" obsolete. Political and business leaders talk a great deal about globalization but too often fall back on old dichotomies—picturing a world divided between domestic and foreign... View Details

30 Mar 2015
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Leveraging the power of yes

Sasha Dichter (MBA/MPA 2002) is chief innovation officer at Acumen Fund, a nonprofit global venture fund that invests in early-stage companies to solve issues stemming from poverty. “One of the things I’ve learned is how expressive and... View Details

13 Aug 2024
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Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)

Analyst at McKinsey and a year in banking in Australia, Kuyoro arrived on the HBS Campus excited to continue her career exploration in a general management MBA program. At HBS, Kuyoro gained a deeper understanding of Nigeria’s context in... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2004
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Cyberposium: Pros and Cons of Outsourcing

shift, it would create a 24-hour knowledge factory, said MIT professor Amar Gupta. “When you came to work the next morning, the challenge would be to understand what others have done in the past sixteen hours. If you are able to achieve... View Details

Keywords: cyberposium; cost; Corporate Services

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Investment Strategies - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Investment Strategies Course Number 1425 Senior Lecturer William Vrattos Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 Sessions Exam Career Focus Global capital markets are vast and dynamic, with over $100 trillion in listed public... View Details

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Triston Francis

reasons: “HBS has all the resources I can imagine. It has the largest, global alumni network. And the Harvard name is able to attract anyone’s attention – that helps me achieve the goals I have in mind.” As a first-generation college... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Consulting

01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

technology environment while they're at school, because they're going to have to understand and manage technology in their subsequent careers. Our students have to experience a world-class information technology environment while they're... View Details

01 Feb 2002
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Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan

Warburg, Egawa has also worked for Salomon Brothers in New York and Tokyo. "Although Japan has experienced major economic problems since the 1990s, it is still a significant economy, and many Japanese companies are major global players,"... View Details

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

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