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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
mainstay of the American economy. So questions about the current Asian economic crisis elicit from him the wry, seen-it-all-before observation that "when you expand, it's always at the wrong time." After all, Hughes points out, with... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
sad story of our slippage in mathematics and science. In fourth grade, American children are ahead of almost everyone in the world. By the eighth grade they are even, and by twelfth grade they are seriously behind. If you walk through the labs of our great scientific... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Road Tested
to leave the state for college, Gregg majored in economics and East Asian studies at Washington and Lee University and worked as a consultant at Charles River Associates before coming to HBS. “I got to do such crazy stuff,” she says of... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
alumni, twelve HBS professors, and a distinguished group of Asian business and government officials focused on the June 30 transfer of Hong Kong to the People's Republic of China and the expected impact on business in the region. Optional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Harvard Asia Law Society, East Asian Caucus at the John F. Kennedy School of Government Keynote speakers: Dr. Soon-Hoon Bae, former Minister of Information & Communication, South Korea, former chairman & CEO, Daewoo Electronics Co., Ltd.;... View Details
- 30 Apr 2021
- News
Revealing the Rules
affect some people? We can look at the numbers: A study by the Ascend Foundation found that in Silicon Valley, Asians are the racial group most likely to be hired but the least likely to be promoted from individual contributor to manager.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Karmic Kickstart
Bhutan, a tiny South Asian country located high in the Himalayas with a population of under a million people, which has undergone incredible advances in infrastructure and education since the 1960s, when the king abolished serfdom and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Action Plan: Yes, Chef!
Wolfgang Puck (OPM 53, 2019)—aka the father of California cuisine, OG celebrity chef, and culinary empire-builder—began his career as a disgraced cook’s apprentice at a hotel restaurant. At 14, he’d been eager to take the post just outside his Austrian hometown: Not... View Details
Keywords: Christine Speer Lejeune
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
companies have announced plans for additional billion-dollar investments in Mozambique.” After a brief slowdown in 1997 and 1998 because of the Asian and Russian financial crises, the project finance market has come roaring back in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
are on these issues, but we're going to change that." Asked about the Asian economic crisis, Corzine confessed that its onset surprised Goldman. "We knew there were problems," he said, "but we didn't understand their extent, particularly... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
subcontracted production to an Asian firm.) More pointedly, the cases address the reasons for Clocky’s startling, unsolicited publicity, along with an issue that faces any entrepreneur looking to build a business around an unconventional... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
How Sports Should Use Its Timeout
this debate of privacy. Because it's definitely happening in some Asian markets and some Asian venues. Dan: But I want to touch on that example of frictionless payment and the larger idea that this era of no... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Class Notes Extra
monk.” Thai Farmers Bank has changed since his father passed away a decade ago, with most of the bank now held by the public at large and institutional investors. “My father never saw the Asian financial crisis and the struggle and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
offices in Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Singapore. Our successes have included bringing to Asia in a joint venture: McDonald's (Hong Kong, Singapore, South China), IKEA, Stanford Dialysis clinics in eight Asian countries, etc. Failures we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Evolution of Modern Pricing Models
led to a pervasive problem: Virtually all e-commerce companies are losing money. So when we started working on a case with Zalora—a Southeast Asian fashion e-commerce company led by Paulo Campos (MBA 2010)—we thought about deliberately... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
contract, and they know this can breed violence and terrorism. Their democracies seem unable to adopt appropriate remedies. In Asia, they are mostly sanguine about economic growth. But there is concern about the environment, particularly the polluted cities. The View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
more concrete (sometimes literally) world of doing that affected a great many more people in far more fundamental ways. For the next seven years, he served as an urban development specialist for the Asian Development Bank, working on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Closing the 'Network Gap'
she could contribute to the cause. Hu, who is Asian American, had recently become aware of the “Network Gap”—the phenomenon highlighted in a LinkedIn article that said “who you know” matters as much as “what you know” when launching a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
debuted its Alumni on Air series of monthly webinars, cohosted with the HBS Club of India, in April. Through these virtual convenings, South Asian alumni are sharing their perspectives about the current crisis, business frameworks, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
firms, including Asian Paints, Burberry, Caesars Entertainment, Codelco, Lloyds Banking Group, Nike, and Pernod Ricard. Faculty Books The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders See by Max Bazerman Simon & Schuster This is a guide to... View Details