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- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
to development assistance, as it works to move Third World countries beyond subsistence toward genuine participation in the global economy. Best of all, the MCC is producing demonstrable results, including in Africa, where Bloom is the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Career Services Steps Up Alumni Support
Last fall, as world economies began to tremble from the collapse of the financial sector, HBS Alumni Career Services enhanced its suite of career offerings for alumni. “We anticipated an increase in the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
each problem, and their corrective actions were reviewed personally by the secretary of defense. Second, to ensure that crucial items arrived when they were needed, we put together a rapid-resupply system called the Red Ball Express—a name inherited from the famed... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
ACCION's helm in 1994. You left Wall Street for ACCION. Why? During 4 a.m. leveraged-buyout marathons at KKR, I'd occasionally wonder if I might be doing something else, however small, that could help make the world a better place. At the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
Issue Focus: The Global Manager Perkowski Issue Focus: The Global Manager Around the World Think Locally, Act Globally Bringing Global Back Home On Wall Street, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) channeled capital to growing companies. In China,... View Details
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
change, the world has to come together and do the hard work necessary to shift away from a carbon economy and to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. “This buys time to allow that transition to happen,” he says. View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Greenhill Family Gift Enhances Global Research
new level,” said Dean Kim B. Clark. HBS professor John A. Quelch, senior associate dean for International Development, noted that the gift “sends a clear message to our faculty — that it is imperative that we continue to study the world... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
Renaissance fair world to be pleasure, not business. Instead, he turned his ambition toward a business degree at Harvard. Among his favorite classes were David Moss's Business, Government, and the International View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
produced twelve books and a host of cases and articles (including two McKinsey Award-winning Harvard Business Review articles); served as a chief architect of the cornerstone Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
will also help the world economy grow.” “Mobile Money Services—Design and Development for Financial Inclusion,” by Rajiv Lal and Ishan Sachdev, HBS Working Paper. View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Fellow at HBS who founded the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard, where he and Iansiti are codirectors. “With the spread of digital technology, the economy has become much more connected in a massive network,” says Iansiti.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
specializes in retail turnarounds and transformation. Here, Bines shares a few words about his new book and two other indispensable texts about the trade. The Metail Economy 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
eye-opening account that challenges our preconceptions of identity as it shines new light on the long shadows of white supremacy and marginalization that continue to hamper progress for Black Americans. The Able Archers By Brian J. Morra (AMP 177) Koehler Books In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and back again by 1994? Contrary to conventional accounts, Associate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Doing Something Real
percent) that President Nixon (that laissez-faire Republican) imposed wage and price controls, to a world where each of our kids has more computing power on his or her desk, and each of us on his or her lap, than all of Harvard had in its... View Details
Keywords: Andrew Tobias (MBA '72)
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
development." "I want to demonstrate that in Africa we're no different from anybody else in any fundamental way," Lawani elaborates. "We're just at a different point in our development. There's no reason that we can't apply to Africa the tools that have gotten the rest... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the corporate ladder is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Bright Future for Green Business
“There’s no better horse in the world you could possibly hitch your cart to.” That’s how Matthew Nordan summed up the state of clean, green energy at the School’s Building Green Businesses conference in early March. During the session... View Details