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- 01 Mar 2006
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Faculty Books
firm. China and Globalization The Social, Economic, and Political Transformation of Chinese Society by Douglas Guthrie (Routledge) This book is about the economic reforms sweeping across China over the last 25 years. Visiting Professor... View Details
- 08 May 2015
- News
An alternative view of the role of the corporation in society
Do corporations do well by doing good? Or do firms that engage in environmental and social initiatives destroy shareholder wealth? George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration, has studied how increasing the concentration of View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
along with classmate Lucas Klein and Jason Green, a 2002 graduate of Penn's Wharton School of Business. The runner-up in the social enterprise track was The Unison Project, a group designed to mobilize the talents of artists and music... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
The Entrepreneurial Venture, a volume of readings selected by HBS faculty members William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, and Amar Bhidé, is designed to serve as a handbook for those considering or engaged in the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
have been researching the root causes and consequences of the crisis in the intervening decade, helping to shape our understanding of the economic and financial forces that brought us to the brink. MORE Former Treasury Secretaries Hank... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- News
Seeding a Better Future for Colombia
Part architectural spectacle, part tourist attraction, and part government-sponsored stage for forums and meetings that seed progress on key economic and diplomatic fronts, World Expos have been taking place since the 1850s. Colombia... View Details
- 17 Apr 2014
- News
Striking a Balance
as well as a mentor to working women, Wilson knew how difficult those challenges could be. “Diane was a great advocate of dealing with the barriers that prevent or discourage women from moving ahead,” says Silk, an authority on the View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Bidding Up
intriguing. That experience planted the seed for a 50-plus-year career at Stanford exploring new auction designs and formats—work recognized in 2020 with the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences. In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Where Are They Now?
heading into the MBA classroom that first day,” he recalls. But there was another challenge to teaching accounting courses: making them lively. Merchant says he started by getting students to understand the economics of a transaction,... View Details
- 30 Jun 2017
- News
Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand
“A lot of people know of the Girl Scouts. They know the uniforms or the cookies. Those are great things, but they’re not a true representation of the Girl Scouts as an organization,” Pitter-Armand says. It’s brand relevance that the G.I.R.L. platform is View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
create a prototype of an off-road vehicle, recruiting local mechanics and welders in the coastal town of Kilifi. That laid the foundation for the company’s latest model, the Mobius II, a sleek SUV designed and made in Kenya, with rugged... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
spent the better part of the last two years planning and preparing for the early April event. Held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and the adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel, the meeting included two days of intense discussion and debate on China, Hong Kong,... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Angst, Awareness, Action by Jay P. Desai (AMP 180, 2011) (Pearson) Accountability, the bedrock of governance, is under siege in India. Widespread unaccountability is preventing the country from unlocking its full economic and social... View Details
- 22 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles
(BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
postcollege when I was working at Lotus Development, creating interactive marketing demos for various products. I really liked the experience of getting my hands dirty working with designers and producers. And I got lucky, because I met a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Better World, One Idea at a Time
essential technologies, such as bicycle-powered machines, affordable solar lanterns, and smokeless cook stoves, designed for the rural poor at the bottom of the economic pyramid. View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students
in business education at institutions of higher learning serving primarily African Americans and Hispanic Americans. "It is an issue of national importance that minority communities achieve economic success," Aguilar says. "So we want to... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
threats to the global economic system. It survived two world wars and the Great Depression. It won the Cold War. Doesn’t capitalism reign supreme in the 21st century? Looking forward, we certainly can see challenges that will have to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
in economically important contexts and designing and testing policies aimed at closing them. Her work focuses on the role of beliefs: How do stereotypes bias the beliefs that individuals hold about... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Teaching Teachers
by Professor Tom Piper, under the auspices of the HBS Global Initiative. The colloquium's schedule — which ran twelve to fourteen hours a day — included discussions led by HBS faculty on course design and development, case-method... View Details