First Nations - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

Domingo, managing director of O&V Associates, said established Latin American companies face a situation in which their markets are no longer protected by national interests and suddenly face competition on all sides. Andres Obregon... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

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Adam Kanner

laptops. Savvy entrepreneurs often find opportunity where others find flaws. For Adam Kanner, a former vice president for marketing and business development for the National Basketball Association, the empty seats triggered a startup... View Details

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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

the students to get to know the issues and opportunities firsthand. The island nation of Sri Lanka, located just off the southeastern tip of India, was a highlight of the trip given the significant international attention it has attracted... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Beyond Accommodation

It was in grade school that James D. Gibbons (MBA 1994) first began to lose his sight, a process he retraces in terms of his ability to cope at school. “I started moving up to the front of the class but not because I was smart,” laughs... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

expression in the arts” with an emphasis on industrial and commercial arts. 24 The Center hosted several shows including “Foreign Advertising Photography” in 1931, which introduced viewers to international trends. In 1932 the Center mounted its “First View Details

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Expansion of the Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

returning military service members, the School’s first executive education program. In explaining the history of the program, HBS noted, “What was developed during a period of national crisis has become, in... View Details

23 May 2018
News

John A. Paulson, MBA 1980

fascinating place. There is always something new to learn.” Paulson, the son of a child psychologist and a businessman, initially majored in philosophy. After his first year of college, however, he moved to Ecuador and started several... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 Jun 2014
News

The Art of Effecting Change

Evans. "We have a chance to really impact the way people think about supporting the arts." In the year since she launched VIA (which stands for Visionary Initiatives in Art), with cofounder Lisa Schiff, an art consultant, Evans has built a View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Arts, Entertainment

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

Above: illustration by Matthew Roharik/Getty Images In November 2019, a team from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, visited Moderna, Inc.’s... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

Maj says. “It’s a symbol of my life.” Maj was in his final year of high school in the spring of 1975 when he was first summoned to the local offices of the SB. He wanted the necessary permission from the office to travel abroad; he... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

09 Jul 2019
News

The Road to Impact

if—you could have a huge positive impact by just providing common-sense business techniques. Not Six Sigma, not One Sigma, just common sense,” Offensend observes. When he landed his first nonprofit position as chief operating officer at... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

25 May 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

earning her MBA at Harvard Business School. In fact, she spent the first decade of her life living down the road from Harvard in Cambridge, Massachusetts, yet the halls of Harvard Business School could not have been further from her sense... View Details

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

property might fetch 20 percent more now, he adds. Like many other sectors in Greece, commercial real estate is on the rebound. It’s a direct response to the July 2019 national election in which Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995) of the... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

It’s hard to say who’s right, however. Outside of a few high-profile examples like Brin, there have been virtually no data to gauge the level at which immigrants create companies and jobs. Kerr has sought to remedy that problem with a new View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 May 2015
Blog Post

2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

I first learned about the 2+2 Program after an older friend from Vanderbilt, my undergraduate college, applied and was accepted into the inaugural class in 2008. My undergraduate background was in political science and human and... View Details

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

case method is so good. I was forced into the fray. It helped me with my ministry, because it put me out there. I have to be able to engage people of different backgrounds and with differing perspectives.” Upon graduating, Quainton joined the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2011
News

Local Hero

center field foghorn to celebrate Giants’ home runs, and hiring the Grateful Dead to sing the national anthem on Opening Day were among the innovations that caught fans’ attention the first year. With... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

19 May 2021
News

Alumni Convene to Support Nonprofit Boards; Seven Clubs Mix It Up Online

Clubs News Clubs News Nonprofit Board Summit Digs Deep, Expands Reach Virtually In their first-ever national conference collaboration, the Community Partners programs of the HBS Association of Boston, the HBS Club of New York, and the HBS... View Details