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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Origin Story: Mary Chen (MBA 2026)
opportunity to really pressure-test some hypotheses of what I want to do and build confidence around it.” More than skin deep: Chen placed first in 2015’s Miss Chinese Beauty Pageant in New York and was first runner-up at the View Details
- 02 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges
business of water.” She serves as an advisor to Climate Story #18 Tom Ferguson’s Burnt Island Ventures and the water accelerator, ImagineH20. She agreed with Tom’s list of water industry investment opportunities: "sanitation, water pipe... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- News
Basket Chase
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Recognizing Volunteers and Donors
International Reach Class of 1992, Section G For its 20th Reunion, the Class of 1992 reached 74 percent participation, surpassing the previous record by 4 percentage points and raising more than $7 million. Among the fundraising... View Details
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Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners - Recruiting
Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging markets and developing economies (EMDEs). The firm operates... View Details
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
consistent with a view that cross-border social networks play an important role in helping entrepreneurs to circumvent the barriers arising from imperfect domestic institutions in developing countries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
Asia, and Israel, it has an international presence and a record of big hits that began in the 1980s with companies such as AOL and Apple and continues to this day with investments in industries as diverse as... View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
exclusive than the approximately 7,000 companies worldwide that received a venture investment in 2010. Birchbox was among the just 823 companies—11.8 percent—that had at least one woman founder. The number with a woman of color on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
believe investing in women-led companies will make more money.” The data back up that philosophy. A 2016 survey of publicly traded companies from the Peterson Institute for International Economics found that... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
American government that the interests of the people come before those of any company, however powerful. Although this might seem to be an unnecessary precaution in an era of vigorous international competition, not every industry is... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
Capital: The Story of Long-Term Investment Excellence by Charles D. Ellis (MBA 1963) (Wiley) Ellis’s latest book takes an inside look at The Capital Group Companies, revealing the people, practices, and values that have brought this firm... View Details
- 11 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time
classmates at Harvard Business School, and became fast friends over their passion for the gig economy and the future of work. They both spent their summer before HBS working with fintech-focused venture capital funds in India and the US, exploring View Details
- April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
- Case
Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and David Lane
In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian Science Park. JAFCO was the only Japanese private equity firm operating in China. As such, Managing Director Vincent... View Details
Keywords: History; International Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Expansion; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Effectiveness; Foreign Direct Investment; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China; Beijing; Japan
Abdelal, Rawi E., and David Lane. "Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China." Harvard Business School Case 706-012, April 2006. (Revised October 2006.)
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
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alumni.hbs.edu/facultyresearch to watch: Professor Jan Rivkin talk about his passion for case writing and the origin of his case on LEGO’s return from bankruptcy. Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun discuss how she uses data to explore the impact of information... View Details
- Fast Answer
Confronting Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
Investing Network - Read the GIIN's latest Op-eds and publications, along with Investor Spotlights, Investment Profiles, and third-party research from other leading impact View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
The Drive for Excellence: An Interview with Jim Henderson
that requires sizable investments in projects that take several years to pay off, I believe the ideal is some combination of both. We could cut back on investment in future products or View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
years. As an endorsement of this international focus, Jafar has established a fund to support the MENA Research Center in Istanbul, its Dubai Research Office, and other HBS activities throughout the region. The expansion of HBS’s global... View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation
Dick Simon (MBA 1980) is CEO of RSI, Inc., a Boston-based real estate development and investment management company, and founder and chair of the kNOwTHEM Initiative. In this video, he discusses the need for leaders to understand their... View Details
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Vincent Dessain
Vincent (HBS MBA’87) draws on more than 25 years of experience as a higher education senior executive at HBS and INSEAD and in the corporate world both in the US and in Europe to counsel students and alumni as they evaluate, prepare for and pursue their career options.... View Details
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