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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
force behind a joint HBS-Tsinghua University executive education program that premiered in January (see sidebar). “With a 24-hour plane trip and thirteen time zones between Boston and China, the language barrier, and cultural differences... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Trust Me
trust. “The aspect of a contract that hurts the building of trust is its binding nature. When I know that you are forced to cooperate, it takes away all of the risk. If I leave some element of risk in, by using a contract that isn’t... View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
women to share what they notice, to the benefit of the bottom line. C-Scape: Conquer the Forces Changing Business Today by Larry Kramer (MBA ’74) (HarperBusiness) The business landscape used to be easier to chart. The routes connecting... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Make or Break
BLOOM: Build it and good things will come. Ron Bloom (MBA ’85) has been an investment banker, a special assistant to the president of the United Steelworkers, and cochairman of President Obama’s task force over-seeing the Chrysler and GM... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
competitiveness and economic development,” states Porter, “yet many universities lack the size and resources to develop teaching materials and mount courses in this area.” While participants concur that this hightech, long-distance... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Students and Business Leaders Look to Africa's Future
"Africa in the New Millennium: Invest in the Future" was the theme of the 2000 HBS Africa Business Club conference, held on campus the first weekend in April. More than six hundred students and representatives from over two hundred organizations around the world View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Manufacturing: The Supply Chain Goes High Tech
must now be more cost competitive, in both domestic and foreign markets. Meanwhile, the explosion of digital technology has forced manufacturing to look at its competitive advantage not just in terms of cost competitiveness, but also in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
Rivkin, the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. Over the coming months, Porter, Rivkin, and a number of HBS faculty involved with the project will participate in a series of alumni events across the country designed to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Meal Plan
restaurants? And Keith, what has the situation been with Act III’s smaller, fast-casual portfolio of restaurants? Christian Charnaux: We established our first task force in late February; at that point, the virus wasn’t hitting our... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
evaluation began when he was a graduate student in applied mathematics at the California Institute of Technology and intensified in the late 1960s, when he went to MIT to study economics under Nobel Laureate Paul Samuelson. At MIT, he later joined View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
reason why the government found itself forced by the fears (some fantastic but others quite justified) of the electorate to act. Firms such as Carnegie Steel, Standard Oil, and American Tobacco seemed to be monsters, archetypes of some... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
staggered boards at all companies (boards traditionally elect one-third of their members each year); requires that all directors receive a majority of votes cast to be elected; mandates the creation of a board risk committee; and forces... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
identify you by your purchase patterns and assemble a profile. Wanamaker was simply living in the wrong century. But it's also a time when the NSA's eavesdropping has many worrying that, on some levels, Big Data is really Big Brother. Those calling for greater... View Details
- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
2006, addressed graduating HBS students at this year’s Class Day. Born in Cairo, Cohen was 11 when he and his family, along with other Jewish residents, were forced to leave Egypt by the country’s government after the Suez Canal crisis in... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Running a Decathlon
conjunction with the Olympics. Peterson had created a small academic competition in Orange County called Academic Decathlon, in which teams of high school students with a range of academic skills would participate in 10 events—including... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
gifted young people with good ideas and lots of drive who would like to partner with part-timers who have gray hair and lots of experience. We’ve each got a Rolodex that links us to people with senior positions in all kinds of organizations.” To View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
intrinsic economics of the situation led to a major collapse,” explains Sandwen. Almost immediately after the crash, a chastened industry began to emerge. Congress rewrote the tax code and put tax-loss syndicators out of business. The S&L industry tanked, View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government. Christine Keung: "The trek exposed us to the challenges of rural Appalachia: declining life expectancy, a shrinking population, an economy that has stagnated and contracted, the lowest workforce View Details