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- 21 Dec 2018
- News
Bridging the Gap
experience? Falik: Traditionally, study abroad has been the experience that we’ve encouraged kids to have to expand their horizons and have a global experience. When we look at the data, though, it’s pretty striking: 80% of kids who participate in study abroad are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
says about him and our present-day consumer society, to a story about the rise of the Negro middle class in the South in the 1960s, to a fascinating obituary of Jay Gould, the nineteenth-century speculator,... View Details
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
she is quite petite, just over five feet tall, a figure all the more surprising given the force of her presence. It may help explain why, when crowding into the back of a taxi, Oishi insists on occupying the uncomfortable middle seat,... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
"I don't think Brazil today has the best image abroad. I don't think people look at Brazil and say, 'Wow, this is a country that I would love to visit.'" Those views are based on an antiquated notion of Brazil, Sender says. More than 50 million Brazilians have joined... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
even when the message is a positive and urgently needed one. “Every school is different,” Langford says diplomatically. “We don’t even use the word ‘curriculum.’ We say we have some resources available to them.” Over the past two years, 739 View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Joseph R. Biden Jr., in his “Plan for Education Beyond High School,” encourages investments in community colleges and technical programs as pathways to opportunity that improve student achievement and grow a stronger, more prosperous, and more inclusive View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
prosper. We know that many white banks, for example, the Bank of Italy, they were the beneficiary of the federal government after the Second World War saying that, "We want to create a middle class in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Making the Case for Leadership
important, too: as Houghton once wrote (paraphrasing Justice Learned Hand), “Perhaps the spirit of leadership is the spirit that is not so sure it is right all the time.” —GE Taran Swan Leading from the Middle Swan in 1998 at Nickelodeon... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; National Security and International Affairs; Government; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Nonmetallic Mineral Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 22 Aug 2019
- News
Catalyzing Africa’s Tech Sector
transportation is virtually not usable for anyone in the middle class or above. And so those are very challenging parts of being in Lagos, but I keep saying that we have to straddle between the future we... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
all the more important: “Nayana is best in class in infrastructure and real estate development,” he says simply. “Our country needs people with private-sector experience to take up these public-sector positions and help drive the agenda.”... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
business policy and the role of the middle manager. He also examined the domestic and international economy, particularly the interaction between business and government, as well as the subjects of productivity, corporate profits, and... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
- News
Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 26 Aug 2016
- News
Connecting with the Past
Larry O’Hearn, who took Georges F. Doriot’s popular class on manufacturing. “I didn’t take it, but everyone in the School knew what he preached: it was the idea that wherever you are, whatever you’re doing, whatever new idea you have,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
prices. At HBS, William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, has been teaching courses in real property since the 1970s. The author of many books on the subject, including, most recently, The Real Estate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Nov 2017
- News
How to Build a Winning Culture on a Losing Team
everybody has their own ways to cope, but by time I pull into my driveway I'm happy and ready to go. What we've done differently in this office—because we've had some pretty historic losings. I'm gonna say office. I'm sitting in Camden, New Jersey in our brand new,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
firms with only domestic growth opportunities? Growth in the Chinese middle class and on-the-ground entrepreneurship indicate that the most attractive opportunities will be companies that win by focusing on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
success. So You Want to Be a CEO: The Path from Middle Management to the Top Job by Thomas F. Faught Jr. (MBA 1953) (Fortis Publishing) Based on over 40 years of global management experience, including more than a decade as a CEO, Faugh... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
They sent me to a French school in San Francisco. It was a bilingual school, but all the classes were taught in French. All the professors were French. And then I was in America. So, three languages right from the get go. It was my... View Details