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- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. The company's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist concept of fairness and also stresses product quality, the value of the individual, and concern for social... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
Production Board. From 1958 to 1962, Fox was director of research for the U.S. Commission on Money and Credit, which conducted a major study of the nation's monetary system. He was also a cofounder of the Cambridge Research Institute.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
is located in Dudley Square, Roxbury’s commercial hub and the intersection of several major streets — there’s a quiet hum of activity in the open, airy room where twelve BCC staffers are beginning their day. Since its founding in 1985,... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
$7.5 billion—but Moderna was still several years away from producing any of its products at commercial scale. For many of the companies now in the hunt for a vaccine, the choice to scrap 2020 business plans... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
twenty years of experience at J.P. Morgan & Company, where he headed global investment banking and global equities. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation and product innovation on Wall Street, Rose... View Details
- 30 Jun 2019
- News
Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo
of manufacturing, against the background of the evolving U.S.-China trade challenges. The talk was followed by a Q & A session and reception. Shih shared his expertise in manufacturing and product development across multiple industries to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
energy sources and state-of-the-art systems, machinery, and products — often come to mind, the most dramatic inroads may be made in much more prosaic ways, especially in the urban setting. “Nontechnical solutions — such as making cities... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
can bring important impartiality to the process. Codify reusable learning. McGrath teaches that any time a company innovates, two good things can happen. Successfully commercializing an idea is clearly a good outcome. So too, however, is... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
utilizes the one asset that exists in abundance in even the poorest and most fragile social sectors - people's self-initiative. It increases the productivity of the person engaged in economic activity, thereby creating new wealth, rather... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
HBS Curricula Explore the Complexities of Innovation
commercialization paths. “One of the biggest takeaways was that these technologies require new types of business models and monetization schemes. We explored how you build a business around these innovations and what the competitive... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
laboratories for student and faculty work in areas such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric energy; sustainable production of rice, sugarcane, hay, mangoes, and beef; waste management; and carbon neutrality. An additional View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
"War Stories: Success Criteria for Business in Greater China." On the panel were several veterans of the Chinese commercial battlefield. "I believe the future is in China," said a solemn Thomas Kirkwood, director and CEO of China General,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
illegally obtained. Outside the financial institutions, recent cases involving a range of products — such as appliances, helicopters, and gems — demonstrate that a variety of companies aren't vigilant enough when dirty money is used to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Lego Stays on Script
Illustrations by Chris Gash Illustrations by Chris Gash It sounded like a cynical money grab, a 90-minute commercial that no adult would willingly watch. But The LEGO Movie, released in 2014, surprised audiences worldwide with its clever,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
coordinates elective field studies in information technology and has developed case modules on electronic commerce and emerging Internet-based business opportunities. Applegate has worked with a number of HBS alumni who are launching their own Internet companies,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
government, and civil society all focus on the poor as producers. The main emphasis must be, he says, on creating employment opportunities for the poor and increasing their productive capacities by ensuring basic public services. What the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
relationships with the community. These investments can be modest. Just providing safe drinking water can lead to greater productivity and more profit, one of many instances where philanthropy makes good business sense. I get excited by... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs themselves. That’s the angel group’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
partnerships, however, science with commercial applications began thriving outside corporate R&D silos. And the availability of venture capital for technology start–ups made it harder to keep scientists with hot new ideas in–house. The... View Details