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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Social Innovation Goes Mainstream
Two years later at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Microsoft’s Bill Gates announced his own commitment to social change through “creative capitalism.” “With... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
will take for us to maintain leadership in the future. What the USTR list did highlight for me is the extent to which supply chains have globalized and intertwined across almost every industrial sector. That means that economic sanctions... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
RELATED LINKS Video: Dean Nohria introduces the Project U.S. Competitiveness home page HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness The Path to Economic Revival Made in America — Making Their Way How Boeing Competes — James McNerney Jr.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Spaces: Convening Power
Robert Benson Photography Klarman Hall officially opens next month, a new gathering space just east of Spangler Center where the School plans to “bring together key voices from all over the world to discuss and address the critical issues... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
$1 trillion to over $6 trillion annually. The World Economic Forum identified new sustainable buildings as a $24.7 trillion investment opportunity by 2030, in emerging markets... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Mandela in Triumph at Harvard
"The greatest single challenge facing our globalized world is to combat and eradicate its disparities," Mandela said. Asserting that the current worldwide economic crisis calls in to question conventional... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many innovations in management science.... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
organizations such as the International Monetary Fund and World Trade Organization, has increasingly influenced the functioning of nation states to the detriment of labor and society. He argues for a kind of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Feb 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution
focuses on the economics and strategy of digital: how organizations need to adapt and change in this new environment, and the individual skills required to succeed in a digital economy. "You know that a significant change has taken... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Action Plan: Portfolio Strategy
officer—a position his boss told him to think of as “a platform to build upon.” And Gillani did just that. In addition to helping launch and grow Eurowings, the company’s low-cost carrier, he served on boards, advised the World View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
Summing Up Globalization could spur organized labor to rethink its premises, objectives, and strategies. But the prospect for that is not clear, according to respondents to this month's column. As Arun Joshi put it, "Now that the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President’s Report
2003 Global Leadership Forum was scheduled to take place in Shanghai last June. Unfortunately, the SARS outbreak caused us to postpone the conference to June 2004. Thanks to the strong leadership of Bob Shaw (MBA ’84), his Global... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
careful consideration, we decided to postpone the 2003 Global Leadership Forum originally planned to take place in Shanghai, China, in June and reschedule the conference to June 15–17, 2004, in the same venue. The worrisome reports and... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
transferred to gain access to Chinese markets, for example, can be used for long-term global advantage It encourages the concentration of trade in the hands of a relatively few world economic powers. It... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
Founds Care.com 2009 Named one of Fortune’s Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs 2011 Named Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum 2012 Launches WomenUp as Henry Crown Fellow 2014... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Capitalism: Past, Present, Future - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Course Number 1153 Professor Sophus A. Reinert Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 sessions Exam or paper Few forces have shaped the world over the past millennium more than capitalism has, yet... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Working Knowledge is an online forum for innovation in business practice, offering a first look at new thinking from HBS faculty. Read the complete articles summarized below by visiting their Web links. Reducing Risk with Online... View Details
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
very fundamental is happening to business," Chu told the alums. "We are, I think, at a new frontier. Until now business was defined by the goods and services we provided to two billion people—people in the first world and the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
companies operate and how government invests in them. And yet, the business world has been slow to catch up to these changes, says Associate Professor Aldo Musacchio, a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
children under five are undernourished, even as broken supply chains mean that up to a third of produce is wasted. The World Bank estimates that some 22 percent of the nation's 175 million people are unemployed; half of 15- to... View Details