Internment - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

including the information age in Asia, venture capital in India, and joint ventures in China. Other conference highlights included the participation of Vietnam's Finance Minister Nguyen Sing Hung, Taiwan's Minister of State Ma Ying-jeou, and Daewoo View Details

01 Dec 2015
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Leading Boston and Beyond

as it happened, Nova’s twin daughters had interned in the Mayor’s office. Segneri worked with then-Boston Police Commissioner Ed Davis to launch Operation Safe Delivery, a comprehensive safety plan for local restaurants and delivery... View Details

Keywords: Jen Myers; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Feb 1998
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New Releases

Modern Capitalism is used in the acclaimed new MBA Foundations course in international business history. "At the most basic level, capitalism is best understood as an expression of human creativity," McCraw writes. "It is propelled by the... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2014
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Book Review: My Lunch with Warren

re-education occurred when Spier won an opportunity to lunch with the Oracle of Omaha, a three-hour steak-a-thon. Buffett encouraged his dining companions to live their lives by an internal scorecard and to filter out distractions and the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2004
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Tracking a Turnaround

perspective. “Paul Levy: Taking Charge of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center” includes written case materials as well as extensive video footage of interviews with Levy; e-mail correspondence; internal memoranda; and newspaper... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

19 Dec 2008
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WHBS, 820 on Your Dial

case discussions by faculty, “Job Market,” “Mystery Melody” (an audience call-in program), and such services as weather forecasts and the morning menus at Kresge. Students had their own disk-jockey programs of pop, folk, and classical music. Jim May (MBA ’64G) played... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

07 Oct 2011
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Tea’s Time

about 50) receives an international travel allowance to encourage personal exploration beyond the dedicated trips taken to Tea destinations. “I know that when I travel, and especially when I take my family traveling, it’s a transformative... View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

05 May 2023
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Fail Better

choose one. There have been so many. I can remember one where Joe Perella was on the phone with the Chairman of International Paper Company. And I'd done the analysis and it started off with me not being available, the first call that Joe... View Details

01 Mar 2013
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A Healthy Profit

Salvador, an Argentine medical doctor pursuing an MPH degree at HSPH, was on the first Antares–Pro Mujer student team in 2008. She was named director of health and human development for Pro Mujer International in 2010. Jun Fukuyoshi (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and temperaments, a variety and diversity seemingly matched only by the real-world challenges they must... View Details

05 Mar 2025
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Uncertain Terms

After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details

29 Sep 2022
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

with enough oil, gas, and food supplies, given supply chain disruptions. Important, too, was being mindful of budget deficits and encouraging investments from international partners. “We had to do it all purposefully, accurately, and... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

29 Jan 2019
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Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

of Africa’s businesses. Along with CTO Joshua Ihejiamaizu and board member Temi Awogboro, Chow ensures GEN’s programs effectively break young Nigerians out of dead-end, low-skilled work, through its international operations and presence... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2017
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Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

an international body that handles a large number of private equity funds. This kind of groundwork will remain necessary until blockchain sees wider adoption, says Professor Karim Lakhani, in part because it’s a departure from about 700... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

26 May 2016
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Thomas J. Tierney, MBA 1980

been to Tijuana for four hours. That was the extent of my international experience,” recalls Tierney, who was ready to explore the world and agreed to join the company as a field engineer in Algeria. Working overseas was a tremendous... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2006
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A Capital Asset

almost simultaneously. Coordinated international strikes against U.S. interests, Cohen knows, can only mean one thing: “Terrorism,” she thinks as she throws on some clothes. She tells her husband what’s happened and hurries downstairs.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Jun 2002
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Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

them — were needed to stem internal bleeding caused by even mild stress on his joints. His blood-filled knees and ankles left Massie unable to walk and brought on “interminable nights when pain banished sleep,” he later wrote. His parents... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

granted in the United States that there are people you can turn to for advice about entrepreneurship,” says Cindy Ko, vice president of international expansion at Endeavor, a nonprofit economic-development organization based in New York.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top

on performance pay before the U.S. Senate and served as a consultant to many international companies. The issue of to what extent the financial crisis was driven by misaligned pay incentives is one of the major concerns that spurred us to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Government

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni... View Details

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

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