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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
we need to help them focus on their ambitions and aspirations rather than on the repayment of heavy debt.” Campaign Regional Events Once again this year, HBS will be hosting events throughout the country to showcase the School’s...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
regions. Especially informative was the issue of bureaucratic risk. Although interviewees in both regions reported having to dedicate significant time to navigating government regulation, interviewees in South Asia frequently reported...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
around the country to vie for the title of Space Invaders national champion. Thousands had played the video game, released that year in the United States by Warner brand Atari, in regional tournaments in the months leading up to the...
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- January 2022
- Background Note
Common Prosperity? China Shifts Left
By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit
Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949, the ruling Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been mistrustful of entrepreneurs and the private sector that operates outside the government’s authority. In its first decades under Mao Zedong, the CCP...
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- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
American and Caribbean region had seen changes such as expansion of the middle class, emergence of a new business class, and integration with foreign trade. Additionally, the region had faced challenges such...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Oct 2014
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Robert Leke...
Africa clearly places one at the forefront of the socio-economic difficulties confronting the region today. However, I continue to be amazed by the profound determination and optimism which I discover in the people I meet: hope for a...
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Consumer Products / Retail
- 22 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability
firms invest in when emissions are costly? With the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme in the EU, California's Assembly Bill 32, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative in the northeastern US, and now Australia's Clean Energy Bill,...
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Rawiah Abdallah
discuss leadership in every course." Rawiah got to experience a different region of her home continent when she participated in the South Africa IXP during January term. In addition to meeting "entrepreneurs, government...
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- 16 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report from China: The New Entrepreneurs
regional governments' roles are the most significant in terms of creating the infrastructure to support entrepreneurship—university programs, tax incentives, incubator programs, educational programs, and the like. Q: Your travel group...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Vision: To Go-Go
are and what our worst offenders are, and we’re constantly innovating with our menus and our brands.” What began as a shoestring operation in a single kitchen in Bogotá (“the kitchen was the office, it was the commissary, it was everything,” Azuero recalls) is now a...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
Selected as a 2018 “new leader to watch” by the Leadership Now Project, cofounded by Daniella Ballou-Aares (MBA 2001, MPA 2002), Harder sees Washington’s hyperpartisanship as a roadblock to legislative progress. In his 10th Congressional District, a politically purple...
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Deb Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
first HBS research center in Asia. Over the next few years, we will create other centers in key regions of the world. Future issues of the Bulletin will report on details of these and other thought-provoking HBS initiatives. It is...
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- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
B,” she recalls. With Goldberg’s help, Ruhr got a summer job working for General Mills in its Stockton, California, regional grain office. Upon graduating, she went to work for the company, first on the trading floor at the Chicago Board...
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Jill Radsken
- 21 Jan 2014
- News
Climbing to New Heights
Kilimanjaro, in 2004, Petzel's climbing party included Lisa Lee, MBA 2000.) The third goal was to use the Everest climb to raise money that would help fund the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility for the porters who assist the climbing expeditions...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jan 2011
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Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969
the launch of a new bank, Finansbank, selling both his homes and moving his wife, son, and daughter into a rental. "Entrepreneurship really means taking risks," says Özyeğin, who during that first year successfully opened four branches, focused on corporate clients. By...
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- 04 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Tech Hubs: How Software Brought Talent and Prosperity to New Cities
in the biggest population centers like Los Angeles, New York City, and Detroit, the regions “lost substantial relative grounds,” the researchers write. Researchers parsed patents across eight time periods, ultimately examining 1,559 of...
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by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
developed a loan guarantee program for Palestinian banks that enables them to increase the size of the loans they make to small and medium-sized businesses. “The views of businesspeople in the region tend to be more moderate,” notes...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Your Taxi Is Waiting
was witnessing the inaugural flight of Blink, a European air-taxi service they had first conceived of while students at the School. The scene didn’t offer much drama — just another small plane taking off from the thousands of regional...
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Global Infrastructure Basel Project Analysis Spring 2014 | Focus: Infrastructure Grading and Early Stage Financing Team: Xiaozhou Ju Description: The objective of the project is to study the impact and economic feasibility of setting up a factory in Bogota View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
private investors, including Viana’s father-in-law, stepped forward with stakes of 100,000 and above. A regional grant available to Normandy businesses was good for 100,000. Finally, one bank did come around, loaning another 300,000. A...
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