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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Anthony L. Chirchirillo Leveraging China to Achieve Global Advantage for a U.S. Factory Chirchirillo: From Wisconsin base to global competitor. Related Links The Path to Economic Revival James McNerney Jr.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
years to the School’s first Global Leadership Forum held in a mainland Chinese city. McFarlan, faculty cochair of the 2004 event, couldn’t help but feel that this was the culmination of a long journey for... View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
contribute a lot.” Since then, he’s proved that thesis correct—several times over—in positions at the New York Public Library, at America Achieves, and currently as president and CEO of Education Development Center (EDC), a global... View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
The book had its origins at Harvard Business School some years ago through a fortuitous combination of circumstances. A prominent Chilean shipping entrepreneur and alum, Sven von Appen, heard me speak about my ambition to encourage View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Students Serve as Consultants
Twelve HBS students spent their January Term as volunteer consultants to USAID projects in Bangladesh, Jordan, Morocco and Uganda. Only in its second year, the student-led Global Impact Experience program, the brainchild of Rich Chung... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
When I left Soldiers Field thirty years ago as a young MBA, I never dreamed that I’d be back one day as president of the Alumni Association. But here I am at the beginning of a two-year term as head of a very dynamic alumni group — nearly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Levitt Brand
A consultant and professor with a Ph.D. in economics from Ohio State University, Ted Levitt had already published two articles in the Harvard Business Review when he joined the HBS faculty in 1959. One year later, observed HBS marketing... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the Rubble
Pundits and investors spoke giddily of the end of national borders, of markets that spanned the globe and replaced the hefty weight of machines and plants with ephemeral bits of information. This may be true. We do have global markets and... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
HBS's Educational Technology Group. “The idea that you might offshore the reading of radiology films would have been unthinkable 25 years ago.” Each team assessed the potential offshorability of 20 occupations. (The positions of financial... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges in Leading Professional Services
in upheaval. Associates are harder to recruit and keep; competition for clients is increasing from boutiques below and global firms above; the clients themselves are more demanding; and management time is focused on short-term issues... View Details
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
was interested in the oil and gas industry, and was drawn to engineering because of the challenge. “I always want to push myself,” she said, “and I saw engineering as an opportunity to stretch myself and take me out of my comfort zone.”Several View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
explore interactions between private business and public health, and demonstrate how consumers can create better and less expensive care for themselves. Book Excerpt: Consumer Power in Shaping Public Health Healthcare and education are two issues in which View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Cambridge to Nairobi
“activist mapping”—a combination of citizen journalism and geospatial information—to allow citizens to submit reports using their mobile phones or the internet to create a map-based account of events. Among... View Details
- Career Coach
Kristin Brennan
currently serves as the Executive Director for Career Exploration and Development at Bowdoin College in Maine, after 20 years of working in social impact in the Boston area. Kristin has a particularly developed vantage point on what... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
movies—represents an estimated loss to music and movie companies of up to $180 million a year in India. Plagiarism-—making films based on the ideas, plots, characters, and other "inspirations" from famous films—results in an... View Details
- 08 May 2014
- News
The Sky's the Limit
promoted to an executive for Global Business, Commercial Systems and Services at Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation, overseeing non-military sales, customer completions and support worldwide. Eaton's message, which she has spread everywhere... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
surrounds them, hence they tend to congregate in a few places. They are much sought after—but also associated by some with the inequality that exists in our society, fomenting discontent and even rage. With these conclusions, Kerr introduces The Gift of View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Giving Back
It was in grade school that Jim Gibbons (MBA ’94) began to lose his sight due to macular degeneration, a retinal condition; by his junior year at Purdue, his vision loss was complete. Today, Gibbons is president and CEO of Goodwill... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Promoting a Deeper Understanding
Cynthiana, Kentucky, with sales offices in Europe and Asia. Supporting the School’s efforts to continue to deepen the global knowledge of HBS’s faculty and students has been a priority for Bullard and his wife, Sherri. They initially... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
prominent citizens of Japan, Europe, and North America who served on the Trilateral Commission. Sitting in Cambridge last June before receiving a Harvard Medal in recognition of his efforts in behalf of the University in Asia, Makihara... View Details