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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support
we estimate a $115 million loss in GDP a year in Rwanda alone.” SHE picked Rwanda as its first business site because it is one of the fastest-growing economies in Africa. The organization already has global reach. Scharpf recently hopped... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
competitiveness and economic development,” states Porter, “yet many universities lack the size and resources to develop teaching materials and mount courses in this area.” While participants concur that this hightech, long-distance View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
A New Platform for Alumni Engagement
Kenneth Salas (MBA 2015), pictured In January, 50 HBS MBA students and 200 alumni and other business leaders gathered to discuss the business of artificial intelligence (AI). Over the course of four days, the hybrid global cohort analyzed... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 02 Jan 2019
- News
Not Waiting for Progress
opportunity “to add to the texture of a village of creative artists who have the power to influence a huge global audience.” A year later, with Blackhouse cofounders Ryan Tarpley and Carol Ann Shine, Diamond began developing and hosting... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 16 Jan 2018
- News
Celebrating the Impact of Nonprofits
SPNM networking opportunity, similar to one established by the HBS Club of Michigan, which has sent four nonprofit leaders to SPNM every year since 2006. The Michigan club’s Not-for-Profit Leadership Collaborative meets five times a year... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 13 Jul 2017
- News
Making Friends with Mother Nature
Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says Clifford (MBA 1956), a former... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children
with vulnerable children. Recently, Brochu assumed a new position as the head of human trafficking programs for Geneva Global, a leading social enterprise that implements philanthropists' humanitarian goals at the grassroots level around the world. In this role, she... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
collaborate with interested faculty and related programs in different parts of Harvard and beyond. The ISC (www.isc.hbs.edu) will focus its activities on three principal areas: the study of competition and its implications for company... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Joining Together for HBS
collaboration between Dean Nitin Nohria and the HBS faculty has resulted in innovative programs, increased student engagement, and cross-disciplinary projects with Harvard University faculty. The campus has also been energized by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
groups don’t learn naturally—because of interpersonal fear, irrational beliefs about failure, groupthink, problematic power dynamics, and information hoarding—Edmondson shows how to overcome these barriers. She explains how collaborative... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- News
Survey Reveals Depths of US Competitiveness Problem
its competitive edge in the global economy, according to survey results revealed today at a press conference in the nation’s capital. Over the next three years, 71 percent of nearly 10,000 respondents expect the country’s competitive... View Details
- 27 Mar 2014
- News
From Marx to Marketing
play in helping the former Soviet states become integrated into the global economy. Vlachoutsicos would become a key player in that process. Beginning as far back as 1956, as a partner at his family business Ch. Vlachoutsicos Enterprises,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
notion of a single fintech capital—whether it be New York or London, Beijing or the Bay Area—may be misplaced. Instead, the future of fintech may resemble what Gibbins describes as a global network of distributed ecosystems, each with its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
young alumni whose stories follow: the chance to make good on making a difference. Andrew Murphy: At the World Wildlife Fund, building consensus at the intersection of conservation issues and global markets: “In places with sensitive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Mr. Coffee
2018, Keller left his position as global president of the Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company to become CEO of Peet’s Coffee; in January, he was named CEO of JDE Peet’s, a merger that added a portfolio of coffee and tea brands represented in more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 04 Aug 2015
- News
Brazil Alumni Connect Around a ‘Vision’ for the New HBS
Professor C. Fritz Foley, the Andre R. Jakurski Professor of Business Administration; Ana Maria Diniz (OPM 36, 2007); and Andre R. Jakurski (MBA 1973), honorary chair of the HBS Campaign and a founding member of the Global Leaders Circle.... View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
- News
Carbon's Second Act
supporting these innovations to get across that Grand Canyon of death. DM: Which is good, Matheson notes, because the climate goals defined by the International Panel on Climate Change require the whole world to be net zero on carbon emissions by 2050 in order to keep... View Details
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
participants were greeted on Friday afternoon by Jim Hildebrandt, the director of Bain & Company Asia, who was followed by Ronald Chwang, president of Acer Technology Venture, the first of several keynote speakers. Next up was a plenary session titled "Asia: An... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
other needs), worsening inequality, and increasing social and political conflict. And with improving technology and intensifying global competition, they will only grow worse if America’s K-12 education results don’t substantially improve... View Details