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- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
joined venture capital firm 500 Global as partner in its newly opened offices in a renovated factory near Cairo University. Founded in Silicon Valley in 2010, with $2.8 billion in assets under management, 500 View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental
Tanzania. Now based in Kigali, Rwanda, Ngoyi finds her global experience is a good fit with her current role. In May 2022, she was named CEO of the Fund for Export Development in Africa (FEDA). A $670 million investment fund and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Director Pat Gwin showed the group a photo of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault—a meticulously cataloged collection of more than 1.1 million seed varieties located 150 meters inside a mountain, on an island between Norway and the North Pole.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
reporters in the media room inside BK Arena. Wearing a black dashiki and black-framed glasses, he sat next to the president of the Rwanda Basketball Federation and the country’s Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Sports, who had gathered to sign a memorandum of... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Building a Better Brazil
puts Brazil squarely on the stage as a global player, thanks to André's commitment." In addition to the Esteves gift, fellow Brazilian businessman and philanthropist Jorge Paulo Lemann, a 1961 graduate of Harvard College, made a... View Details
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
three major Executive Education programs in marketing management and sought to expand his global view of business by working with management schools in Europe, Japan, India, Mexico, and Australia. Marshall led several important... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Action Plan: To the Letter
Ninan Chacko (AMP 158, 2000) was on vacation in Turin, Italy, when he stopped to snap a photo of a street sign. In the picture, all you can see is the name: Via Roma. But for Chacko, the CEO of Monotype, the world’s largest type seller, the classic letters told the... View Details
- 20 Jan 2023
- News
Free Spirits
year to the second. The segment now has a dedicated trade association and big expectations to meet: Global Market Insights predicts the sector will reach $30 billion by 2025. Mariah Wood (left) and Vanessa Royle (Courtesy Tilden... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
A World of Support
HBS Fund Supports the School’s Global Interests “No other management school has the global reach of HBS or a similar global brand power.” Gaëtan Hannecart (MBA 1994) View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
500 automobile, chemical, and pharmaceutical companies that actually run businesses here. Those latter companies know the market and have done very well as a result. "If you're going to invest in emerging markets," he continues, "you also need to View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Feb 2017
- News
New Regional Offices Broaden HBS’s Intellectual Reach
Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Professor Geoffrey Jones (photo by Susan Young) Two decades ago, HBS launched the Global Initiative to strengthen the School's engagement with businesses and business leaders around the world and to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
As head of General Motors's international division - which last year invested $2.45 billion worldwide - Louis Hughes brings a rock-steady philosophy to the auto giant's global operations: "Wherever possible, invest where you sell." Hughes... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Aug 2014
- News
A closer look at the industry of beauty
The global beauty business is a $450 billion industry, yet it received little serious scholarly attention until Geoffrey G. Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, published Beauty Imagined: A History of the View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Time to Trek
include Las Vegas, India, New York City, Israel, and Seattle, the treks provide a means for students to meet leaders in their field of interest and travel abroad to experience an increasingly global business world. About half of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
Illustration by Dana Smith Debora Spar In preparation for the official launch of HBS’s new Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS) in October, the School drew upon the findings of the 2022 Edelman Trust Barometer... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 Apr 2014
- News
A corporate leader’s legacy in India
When Ratan Tata (AMP 71, 1975) joined his family’s business in 1962, it was on the Tata Steel shop floor in Jamshedpur, India. From the ground up, Tata learned how to be an effective manager and a corporate leader who understands the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Optimizing search technology
Olivier Dumon (MBA 1998) is managing director of academic and government markets for global publishing giant Elsevier, where he’s working on optimizing online search protocols. He believes that the more the technology is improved, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
changes in China have been more dramatic than people realize. Second, democracy in China is inevitable. Third, these economic reforms have been political, cultural, and, above all, global processes. View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Measuring Impact
full. The results were released in December. “This study has helped to confirm what we’ve long believed—Harvard University alumni are central players in the global ecosystem of entrepreneurship,” Lerner says. “The research also helps us... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty,... View Details