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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Harvard College, where he majored in biology, Gompers worked for a year as a research biochemist for Bayer Chemical AG before earning a master's degree in economics at Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. He completed his Ph.D. in... View Details
- 09 Oct 2017
- News
Saving an American Publishing Icon
career, I bought the Atlantic, then the Atlantic Monthly. And then, almost as soon as I bought the magazine, the internet arrived as well. “So it was just an economic freefall. You know who rescued us? The internet rescued us. The irony... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, teaches the first-year course Leadership and Organizational Behavior. His research explores issues related to institutional change, innovation, industry and technology evolution,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
about how to manage and grow the company? The turning point was when Deng Xiaoping opened up China, making available the most important natural resource it had, its labor, to the rest of the world. Starting in 1979, China began to industrialize and create the View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
titled "Foundations of a Theory of Organizations," students gain insights into human behavior through reading Daniel Goleman's popular work Emotional Intelligence. They expand their perspective on the use of knowledge in society by... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
New Economy Theme of HBS African-American Alumni Conference
Basden (MBA 1997). Former Georgia Congressman and Atlanta Mayor Andrew J. Young, Jr., also led a forum on influencing political and economic agendas. Telecommunications industry leader Robert E. Knowling and media entrepreneur Keith T.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Up from the Ashes
Schumpeter (pronounced “SHOOMpayter”) to the study of economic behavior was to humanize it. In part because of his own turbulent life, he came to understand that mathematical certitude could not always... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
who speaks fluent Hebrew, Arabic, and English and who has long been involved with peace-related initiatives and nonprofits, that experience convinced him “to work on the business side of peace.” “Peace in the Middle East,” he says, “will not be sustainable if people... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
December. Business was one of several issues touched on by the 61-year-old veteran Communist Party technocrat, an engineer and geologist by training. The second-highest official in China’s hierarchy, Wen is charged with economic oversight... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
situation today is absolutely viable, Brazil’s economic basics are absolutely solid, and we have conditions to grow,” Meirelles told the New York Times (December 13, 2002). Meirelles headed BankBoston’s Brazil operations from 1984 to 1996... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Porter, Kanter Win McKinsey Awards
managing director of FSG, a nonprofit consulting firm, were awarded first place for their January–February 2011 article “Creating Shared Value.” The article lays out the concept of shared value, which focuses on the connections between societal and View Details
Keywords: awards
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an View Details
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
RELATED LINKS Video: Dean Nohria introduces the Project U.S. Competitiveness home page HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness The Path to Economic Revival Made in America — Making Their Way How Boeing Competes — James McNerney Jr.... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- News
Leading on Climate Change
discussed the climate change agenda as an opportunity for economic growth, which attracts new skills and new jobs,” says club Saleh Abdullah Lootah (GMP 10). Almheiri emphasized that leaders in the UAE are accessible and caring, and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Selling Digital Privacy
from mistreatment. The solution is to create institutions that allow consumers to build and claim the value of their marketplace identities and that give producers the incentive to respect them. Privacy and identity then become opposing View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
have been hitting best-seller lists lately, and conferences on spirituality and business have been springing up all over the United States and Canada. Web sites dedicated to such topics now pepper the Internet. Even the World Economic... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Stevenson Named Director of External Relations
"Technological change is enabling and driving globalization," he says. "In order to meet the challenges of rapid growth and change, companies are forming alliances, building a sense of community, and recognizing their role as both View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
state control to free enterprise in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe—more than 20 countries in all, including Zambia, Vietnam, and, most recently, Myanmar. “Reforming economic infrastructure and privatizing state corporations are rarely... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
the panelists considered the current economic downturn to be an obstacle, they didn’t betray any anxiety. The economy came up in the context of the economic stimulus package enacted by Congress in February.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
computing and mobility. That has the potential to change the economics of the Internet business and to redistribute profits yet again.” — HBS professor David Yoffie talking about the potential economic... View Details