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05 Nov 2019
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Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing business leaders and inspire new ideas and practical, effective solutions. BEI has established a View Details

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Abena Nyantekyi-Owusu

that contribute to development and are crucial for growth.” Abena began with GE’s medical and health care device divisions, serving as a business analyst responsible for “increasing growth and market share” in West & Central Africa.... View Details

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

through strengthened platforms and systems. PEPFAR's five-year strategy, as contribution to the GHI, focused on transitioning the program from an emergency response to a sustainable, country-owned effort.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Arjun Goyal

“marries a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical development team, Arjun was View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Health Care

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

diversity issues, notes, "Even companies that once were mostly interested in hiring women and minorities either out of a sense of moral obligation or merely to comply with the law now see the value that comes from broadening the demographics of their workforce. "With... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Feb 1998
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New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong

written. The new operation is intended to support and enrich this activity, making it possible for HBS faculty to develop research in areas such as equity markets in emerging economies, entrepreneurship in the overseas Chinese... View Details

Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden

01 Dec 2007
News

How Business Schools Lost Their Way

by Roger Thompson A spate of business scandals — from Enron’s spectacular collapse to stock option backdating — have put business schools on the spot to explain what, if any, responsibility they might have for what’s gone wrong in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Abraham Zaleznik; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Dec 2014
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Rethinking the Fashion Beat

fully staffed online magazine, BoF has emerged as one of fashion’s most respected and read sources, delivering reviews of runway collections, profiles of industry insiders, and news and analyses of markets both established and View Details

Keywords: Alyssa Giacobbe; fashion; Retail Trade

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

flattened landscape left behind, giant construction cranes, clustered over the site's several acres, accentuate its emptiness. It is here that Harvard University is putting down a big bet on the future—and on a dramatically new, emerging... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

20 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 20

anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2007
News

In Brief

however, entrepreneur Ramalinga Raju (OPM 19, 1993) has launched a nonprofit emergency response service that has saved thousands of lives and is destined to spread nationwide. Editor’s Note; Letters to the... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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1.4.1 HBS Learning Model | MBA

1.4.1 HBS Learning Model 1.4 Academic Program Specifics The mission of the HBS MBA Program is to educate leaders who make a difference in the world. The education of these leaders occurs in a community environment that values integrity, respect, and View Details

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

expert on corporate responsibility issues, notes that mergers and acquisitions involve a wide array of ethical questions, some of which relate to the degree of "fit" between the value systems of the merging firms. "A mismatch can... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

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Policy - Business & Environment

economy. Business networks confronting climate change Spotlights Rebecca Henderson MBA 1985 Professor, Harvard Business School “Every private sector leader should be advocating for effective climate policy, and yet many do not. I decided... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go

were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, research showed... View Details

29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

iStock The faculty, students, and staff of Harvard Business School are thinking about the people of Turkey and Syria who were impacted by the recent earthquake. We have all been touched by the loss of life, the hopeful stories of survival, and the rapid View Details

18 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women—a History

to entrepreneurship, she said. In 1972 women owned 4 percent of all American businesses; by 1991, that figure had climbed to 38 percent. This is not a trivial accomplishment; these women-owned enterprises were responsible for $4 trillion... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

aerospace industry where she led highly technical teams at The Boeing Company developing disruptive technologies to usher in the future of mobility and responsible innovation. The major focus of her work was on space exploration, product... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

01 Dec 1998
News

Africa's Way

contribution to this emerging tapestry. Globalization is increasingly tying the fortunes of national economies to one another,"observes South African manufacturing executive Ewald J.H. Wessels (MBA '71), one of the key organizers of the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

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Print View - Course Catalog

social responsibility Audience This course is suitable for any student interested in understanding emerging markets, government-business relations, and the impact of China’s remarkable economic and political... View Details

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