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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Fair Trade
moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
cancer still progressing, he and his wife decided it was time to stop treatment. At the age of 74, Sato-san settled in for his final stages in the heart of his home—the altar to his ancestors to his left, oxygen machine to his right—secure in the View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 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 View Details
- 17 Dec 2014
- News
Facilitating an understanding of business and society in Turkey and the surrounding region
As executive director of HBS’s Istanbul Research Center, Esel Çekin (AMP 184, 2013) serves as a bridge between the business world in Turkey and, more frequently, the broader Middle East with HBS faculty, alumni, and students. The Istanbul native’s deep View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
and sold her company. Sarah, a few posters down, used the knowledge gained from CWE workshops to build a $6 million computer-networking company. “We realized early on that we had tapped a real need,” notes Silbert as she takes in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
Everything depends on oil: Without a boost in output, there will be insufficient electricity, little money, and few well-paying jobs. Production is still below 1990 levels. But sanctions and secrecy are gone. Iraq’s urgent need is to View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
research and development centers fostered more patents than those who had not crossed borders. Since then, the geography of work and innovation has been the focus of his research. These days, Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
distance learning while supporting the development of Baker Library's Working Knowledge Web site (www.hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu). HBS Clubs Recognizing that clubs must "reinvent" themselves in order to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
EiR: A Baker’s Dozen
invaluable knowledge and insights to students who are eager to develop innovative products and services and create value for both the economy and society.” EiRs serve in a part-time capacity, advising MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard
Collaboration Leads to New Programs for Business and Education Two new programs developed and led by HBS faculty in collaboration with colleagues from across Harvard University—one in business analytics and another in school... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
in your business career that you have the courage to build a bridge between knowledge and action. Tire industry executives knew at least in 1972, probably before, that they had to change their business radically or leave it. But, in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Short Takes
intuition - developed through years of experience in their areas of expertise, although none of them could likely explain where their information has come from. "By its very nature, the tacit dimensions of View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Losing Our Competitive Edge
critical components of solar panels, among others. How did this happen? A big part of the reason is the outsourcing of development and manufacturing work to companies abroad. The result: a damaging deterioration in the collective... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Generation Next
November, the School offered a new Executive Education program, Families in Business: From Generation to Generation. The five-day program, designed for teams of two to eight members of a family business, examines pivotal issues and provides state-of-the-art View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
involving the development of a “Center and Museum of Tolerance,” to be housed at the University of Mississippi; and, most important and personal, Hope for a Cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Berman provides a blueprint for realizing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Consortium between Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and CEDES (a public policy think tank), Argentina Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil The HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE) was founded in 1993 with the goal of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovations
develop listening, communication, and feedback skills, Moon explained. While the Required Curriculum reflects an institutional philosophy that all first-year students need a common knowledge base, the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
are derived from a study of 238 knowledge workers in seven companies across three industries. For an average of about four months, participants were asked to complete a confidential daily diary form asking them to assess their... View Details