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- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to support savers, and finally, to programs that excite people to saving. These programs involve a number of different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
Cash. She elaborated on the community theme, noting, "I've been touched by the dedication with which my former classmates checked on one another's safety and also by the well wishes that have come in from the extended HBS network around... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
is a powerful distinction to be drawn between two potentially profitable cross-border functions that firms can perform: arbitrage, which involves capitalizing on differences or distance between countries, and replication, which involves... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
businesspeople as well as to legislators,” Sawyer says. “They were looking for profit-sharing plans that would enable even less efficient firms to weather the downturn.” In 1933, California approved two additional laws to strengthen fair... View Details
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
basically the same things, which forced the two firms to compete for suppliers. 87 Ford and GM also had disparate styles and software, which made it very difficult for suppliers to streamline their systems. To solve these problems, Ford,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
potential. “Each year we take only about five to twelve entrepreneurs per country,” says Ko. Once chosen, Endeavor provides “anything and everything” that they need to succeed. For example, if they need financing, Endeavor introduces them to its View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
hundreds of billions annually into western coffers.” Recently, due to its opacity and ease of incorporation (of dummy as well as legitimate companies), Britain’s independent Tax Justice Network placed the state of Delaware at the top of... View Details
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
the elements of our Credo focused on creating a community unified in its mission to improve quality of life.” The release goes on to note that Edwards has partnered with firms that have expertise in using capital to benefit underserved... View Details
- 12 May 2022
- News
Onboarding
Americans in her apartment building and moved to Boston, where she became a dance instructor at Tufts University. Thinking she might want to lead an arts organization, Barron applied to HBS. After cutting her teeth with McKinsey on a rural development project in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
(formerly Draper Fisher Jurvetson), the venture capital firm he founded in 1985 as a small business investment company called Draper Associates. Conventionally dressed, his tie nonetheless depicts a map of California divided into six... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2006
venture-capital firm founded by Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69). Grateful for the Red Cross’s assistance to her own family after Hurricane Gilbert ravaged Jamaica in 1988, Brown has volunteered for years in various Red Cross programs. At HBS,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
network offers help on a range of issues, Walker says, from something as simple as how to buy groceries to something as serious as the emotional stresses of displacement and change in family life. "We also meet often with international... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 15 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
bankrupt the company. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53093 2017 The Moral Responsibility of Firms Corporate Moral Agency, Positive Duties, and Purpose By: Hsieh, Nien-hê Abstract—A long-standing question... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
they can practice what they have learned in the classroom,” she explains. “Since we don’t have such facilities at our disposal, we have to build a global network of partners that are willing to become, in essence, teaching hospitals for... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Class Acts
their careers. The organization offers academic support, mentoring, and opportunities for networking. As part of the networking process, Ma met Bromberg, a fellow volunteer who shared her enthusiasm for the WSA. "I had never planned to... View Details
- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
the age of 5 with my family. Since then, I’ve split my childhood between the US and Taiwan -completing elementary school in Seattle, middle and high school in Taipei, and college in Illinois. Prior to HBS, I spent five years at Microsoft working on wireless View Details
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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
decisions will be made by May 10 and communicated to the applicant using their HBS E-Mail address. FAQs Will I get assistance from CPD for my job search in Asia? You are encouraged to use CPD’s resources, which are available to you for life, including job postings,... View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
who was fascinated by her early experience with languages. “I would love to study you, because the way that your neural networks have been formed must be so different—because you were really substantively multilingual before you were... View Details
- Career Coach
Martin November
Marty (HBS '98) is an MD/MBA and practicing OBGYN physician who has broad expertise in the healthcare sector as the former Medical Director for Patient Safety and Risk Management at Atrius Health, Harvard Medical School teaching faculty and hospital division director,... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
white people to put money into Black banks, you also suggest that they support Black businesses. Can you talk a little bit about the network effects of supporting Black businesses, what are the ripples when that happens? SR: So I'm asking... View Details