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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
retired Dean of the Harvard Business School. John Hector McArthur was born in 1934 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and grew up somewhere between the right side of the tracks and the wrong side of the tracks in a suburb called Burnaby,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
old Chinese saying: ‘If the water is too clear, there will be no fish.’ We have to change that mindset,” he explained. Protection of intellectual property also poses a major challenge and is one area where... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
is unbiased but noisy. In other words, what you get is a cacophony, and it assaults the senses. But nobody is willfully or wantonly distorting the truth. If you piece together different opinions, you will get an approximation of what’s really going on. Do differences... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
terms of knowledge, managers need to become more legally literate so they can communicate effectively with counsel. This includes understanding their fiduciary duties and the circumstances under which companies are liable for the actions of their employees, as well as... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Philip L. Yeo, MBA 1976
guarantees that companies that come to Singapore will find a world-class infrastructure and a pro-business environment that features intellectual property rights protection and... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer and editor for the HBS Alumni Bulletin. In 2019, I met Egyptian alumna Amal Enan (MBA 2014) when she was on campus for her 5th reunion. Enan had already held a... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
temptation to fund whatever’s hot. Biotech is one example. Right now, 49 out of 50 states have programs predicated on the argument that their state is uniquely positioned to support biotech ventures, and that obviously can’t be true. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The Business of Babies
said Spar. Pricing inequities (90 percent of couples conceive for free), inconsistent insurance coverage for fertility treatments, and ambiguous legislation around property and privacy rights all create a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Alumni Books
pressing business challenges, such as managing creative employees, navigating the IPO process, and protecting intellectual property. Raising Venture Capital for the Serious Entrepreneur by Dermot Berkery (MBA ’91) (McGraw-Hill) This... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
John McArthur
Emeritus—died on August 20, 2019, outside Boston. His energy and leadership kept HBS at the forefront of business education and laid a foundation of intellectual growth and development on which the School continues to build today. His... View Details
Keywords: Dean
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
for those whose adjustable rates have skyrocketed? These are small steps in the right direction, but they do not address the problems of those whose impaired credit is keeping them from refinancing or exiting from troubled mortgages. To... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
help address the climate change crisis by removing excess carbon dioxide right out of the atmosphere. The promise of this approach has launched a raft of companies that not only capture but also store and even reuse the carbon—creating an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
way to be on the right side of history is to be a good-ish— rather than good—person. Good-ish people are always growing. She helps us find our “ordinary privilege,” the part of our everyday identity that we take for granted, such as race... View Details
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
external. “The complaint was that we were violating people’s expectations of what the Atlantic was supposed to be,” he says. “But David insisted on discipline, a high degree of intellectual honesty, and staying true to the magazine’s... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
intellectual fiefdom of the School’s legendary marketing professor emeritus, Theodore Levitt. The colloquium was pegged to the twentieth anniversary of Levitt’s seminal article, “The Globalization of Markets” (Harvard Business Review,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
intellectual content of the field. That same year, under the leadership of Paula Barker Duffy (MBA '77), then administrative director of External Relations, the School's Division of Research conducted a survey that provided a new... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Illustration by Mercedes McDonald. Orchard Gardens photo by Ed Quinn/Saba In many parts of the country, housing costs and shortages have begun to show signs of adversely affecting corporations, workers, and local economies. Affordable housing - such as Boston's Orchard... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
application to the U.S. National Park Service (NPS). The framework covers many benefits provided by NPS units and programs, including on-site visitation, carbon sequestration, and intellectual property such... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Classroom Legend
about companies in terms of ‘distinctive competencies,’ charting a path that diverged from the thinking of their intellectual forebears — who resisted theoretical thinking — toward a more systematic approach.” By the mid-1960s,... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
respective offices, where overflowing in-boxes, back-to-back meetings, and the impromptu international trip are the order of the day, Busch, Bourneuf, and Broom reflected on their four-day sabbatical in the quiet halls of academe. Busch points to the View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young