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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
process was painful, he concedes, but federally insured deposits would make all the pain and suffering worthwhile by clearing a key blockage in the system. While he was building Walden Local and its supply chain of small farms and businesses, Cummings was often in the... View Details
- 14 Oct 2020
- News
Sewn with Love
In the midst of a global pandemic and widespread protests against racial injustice, the fashion industry can seem pretty frivolous. Fashion-industry leader Kikka Hanazawa (MBA 2002), CEO of VPL, a women’s underwear and athleisure company, knows this. “There’s nothing... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
a very positive and spirited tone.” A Fireside Chat with Titans of Broadcasting in South Florida The HBS Club of South Florida and the HBS Latino Alumni Association co-sponsored an exclusive, sold-out Fireside Chat on February 4,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details
- 10 Oct 2018
- News
Building Paths to Success
kid. He was struggling at school, but he loved his football and it gave him the self-esteem and confidence that he missed at school. So I decided to make him captain for the day,” Traill says. “He really stepped up and played well, and it made me feel good that I could... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
are likely to find in coming years that the problems borders create are easily solved by forward positioning goods and services. Free-trade zones and special warehouses that preposition products for anticipatory delivery, helped by data... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Business Case (Or Not) for Sustainability
becoming increasingly aware that the viability of your business depends on dealing with climate change issues. But in the United States it can be politically risky for a CEO of a major company to take a public position on climate change... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
guarantee a reliable base of customers during the workday, he says. In the stand-alone locations, Dozie is in the unusual position of teaching his customers to linger. “In Nigeria, people don’t have a lot of places to go outside of a... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
them to handle those responsibilities. We have found that people in our operations all around the world -- in Europe, Latin America, India, and China -- respond very positively to this idea. What is Cummins looking for these days in its... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
energy R&D spending. Although government R&D has its challenges, it also brings the ability to finance the early stages of technology demonstration and scaling. At the same time, the business community is increasingly positioning itself... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: How to Build a More Diverse Board
positioning yourself? —Caroline Pan (MBA 2001) STEWART: There is no one answer to this question. The advice is not different from what men do, by the way. Unlike almost everything else a successful person does in his or her professional... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
The start of a new century is certainly a momentous time. When I think about the last century and what it has meant to HBS, I am struck by how much the School has grown in stature and scale. Our alumni play a pivotal role in reinforcing the School's View Details
Keywords: Edmund A. Hajim (MBA '64)
- 22 Jul 2015
- News
Supporting a Return to Work for Women Execs
them really became a full-time career.” This was in the 1990s, when Gould had a management position in marketing and strategy at Reuters and before family-friendly HR policies, such as job-sharing, had caught on with many companies. She... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
in the "Basic Law," Hong Kong's post-handover charter, the territory's global position is constitutionally mandated and remains a special administrative region. Professor Ezra Vogel, director of the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Innovation Takes Center Stage
said. Already a global thought leader, the School should strive to enhance that position in the years ahead, he added. 4. Inclusion For a school that prides itself on diversity — more than a third of MBA students are women, a third are... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
believe investing in women-led companies will make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that the presence of more women in top View Details
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
questions on the sensitive topic of race,” says Henderson. “They admitted their ignorance and expressed their desire to make a positive difference in their organizations and their communities." Seeing the value of sharing personal stories... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
have graduated high school and are now in a position to mentor the next generation. Over the last 15 years, Girls Group has worked with 500 young women, many of whom now serve as mentors themselves. Photo courtesy of Susan Schooner While... View Details