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- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
model that has found success elsewhere in the world to the MENA market. Circumventing obstacles presents opportunities for MENA entrepreneurs. Despite being one of the most connected regions in the world, with 88 percent of people online... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
quite rough sometimes, Whitehead always as smooth as silk. In 2006, Goldman paid more than 50 of its employees $20 million or more. Wasn’t that a tip-off to the firm that the economy was totally unmoored from business fundamentals? John... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
Here, alumni and faculty experts weigh in on some of the assumptions about a hyper-connected world. The upgrade to 5G will be revolutionary for consumers. The arrival of 3G, which delivered the iPhone to the world and made it mainstream,... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners
Market Research: Forty-two MBA students traveled to Accra, Ghana, where this team spent time at a local market. The world became HBS students’ classroom in January as the entire first-year class spent a week learning hands-on what it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
just India—to HBS and the best of HBS to the region.” Anjali Raina (AMP 174, 2008), Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
Kuhns: Wrote the book on Chinese business realities. When it comes to investing in China, financier and industrialist John Kuhns (MBA ’77) looks backward to see the way forward. “I have always invested in China based on my belief that it is an View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
which he started in 2010, is now the largest energy investor in Nigeria, producing more than 18 percent of the country’s power through Transcorp Power, its investee company. “It is helping hospitals; it’s helping homes; it’s helping enterprise,” says Elumelu. “There’s... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 23 May 2019
- News
Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995
CFO: Unefon, Grupo Salinas, and Grupo Elektra 2002 Named CEO, Farmacias Benavides 2003 Named CFO, Vitro 2005 Named Young Global Leader by World Economic Forum 2007 Cofounds IGNIA 2007 Named Chairman of the Board, Accion International 2009... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
"Service-Profit Chain" Links Members of Service Management Unit
increased competition or Booz, Allen & Hamilton's emergence into the world market, HBS professor Leonard A. Schlesinger, who is chair of the unit, notes that "the course material is immediately useful to our students. It involves people... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
industry’s growth from a small base in the U.S. North-east in the 1960s to today’s highly visible role in economies all over the world. Brooke lays out his vision for the industry as an essential element of economic growth and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
after stints at the World Bank and at his family's industrial distribution business. "Then you have to consider the outputs: Did they use this new technology and training? Did it produce more bananas or mangoes or pineapples? Did they... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
incentives for the people involved. What’s amazing is that anybody actually bought them. That’s because they’re created with a one-dimensional idea of what the economy and the world are going to do. If you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
game. It just means that the world economy gets to fire on more cylinders, not just U.S. and European cylinders. What I worry about, and what was a motivation to write this book, is that without a clear... View Details
- 22 Feb 2019
- News
Empowering a New Generation of Business Leaders
World Congress Center in Atlanta for a program called JA BizTown, where students learn business concepts and skills through a simulated economy in which they create and run a company. “We had a very... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
world where business content and financial products and services will be integrated seamlessly into the member experience—all driven by unique user data and machine learning models.”It’s a development that ties in with Camino’s mission to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
million in 2017 and jumping to about $10 million in 2018. (The company expects that number to more than triple for 2019.) Kehinde takes deep satisfaction in this growth. “If we back businesses, they will create jobs. They will impact their local communities. They will... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 31 Jan 2019
- News
A Global Mission
understanding of how the world of refugees and poverty worked and how I could help.” (His brother helped to run the family business in DeFehr’s absence.) After Bangladesh, DeFehr was next on the border of Cambodia and Thailand as one of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
order to offset the negative impact of a sagging economy and sharply rising employee benefit costs. Over the course of the past three years, U.S. manufacturing has shed some 2.7 million jobs, with companies marshaling technology and... View Details