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- 01 Sep 2018
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Ink: Q&A with Kathy Wang (MBA 2011)
story of a Chinese American family whose unpredictable father, Stanley, learns he has pancreatic cancer. As his health declines, the family contends with the messy questions of inheritance, cultural expectations, and career ambition. You...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 10 Mar 2021
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Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
The daughter of teenage parents, Kim Lew (MBA 1992) grew up in public housing in Harlem and the Bronx. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, worked in the mailroom of AT&T, where the CEO was a graduate of Penn’s Wharton School of Business. Lew...
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- 01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)
we could send machinery to the Chinese factories we managed. In return, we received shipments of apparel that we then sold to discount retailers in the United States." With an initial focus on high quantity and low prices, Esquel was just...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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What's the Word?
price appreciation,” she concludes. If these seeds are carefully tended to by pioneering companies, Thakor says, a virtuous cycle will kick in as other companies strive to emulate industry leaders. Back to top Ly·ing flat (verb) It started with a post earlier this...
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- 08 Dec 2009
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Don’t Scare the Bankers
Twenty five years ago, Ji Heng (MBA ’39), a Chinese national, made a special visit to Soldiers Field. A senior official at the Bank of China (BOC), Mr. Ji had returned to the School to renew old ties, as China was opening up and reaching...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Alumni Books
equity, and real estate. KFC in China: Secret Recipe for Success by Warren Liu (MBA ’81) (Wiley) Liu examines the major factors that catapulted KFC to the top of the Chinese restaurant- service industry in less than two decades. He...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
see some of the traditional historic sites and provided a unique perspective on business issues. Our alumni had the opportunity, while in China, to participate in three case studies and to visit joint ventures between Western companies and their View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
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Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
remains far-reaching, with an especially intense interest in China. "What I find extraordinarily interesting about the Chinese is their history of technical and social innovation over the centuries," observes Gerstner, who has visited the...
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- 01 Mar 2017
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Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
uneducated, and ill-equipped population; and exhausted resources. The military leaders considered the daunting prospects of simmering border and ethnic instability, continued castigation, an imprisoned and widely revered charismatic leader open to reconciliation, and...
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- 16 Nov 2015
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Connecting with Indigenous Traditions
providers along the Atlantic seaboard. He eventually made his home in Virginia with Eagan, who had begun studying plant spirit medicine (similar to traditional Chinese acupuncture, except that it relies on plant relationships for...
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- 01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
with ideas on how to fix the problem. Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism: The Politics of Property Rights under Reform by Meg Rithmire (Cambridge University Press) Assistant Professor Rithmire explores the political logic of View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
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A Summit Higher Than Everest
Chinese armies along the banks of the Suzhou Creek but were not part of the fighting. Ten days later, the danger to the International Settlement passed, and Moore was once again a civilian, ready to continue with the planned expedition....
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
University of Michigan's Ross School of Business, and Patrick J. Barry look at three of the largest debacles so far in the 21st century—the BP affair, the mortgage meltdown and resulting crisis, and the use of lead paint in children's toys by a View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
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Leng Lim: The Spiritual Face of Business
Commencement this year. Before his arrival at HBS, Lim served the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles in a variety of functions, from chaplain at UCLA and UC Irvine, to assistant rector in an inner-city parish, to working in a grassroots effort to educate the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Group who has been working recently with a number of faculty members to develop Asian-based cases for the School’s curriculum. “There’s one Chinese company, for example, that has established an e-mail/postal service that expedites...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Coming Full Circle
rigorous research in areas with a clear connection to practice. For example, to study the conditions under which workplace transparency improves performance, Bernstein embedded Harvard undergrads on production lines at a Chinese mobile...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming loans than do View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
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The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success
found that in Asia, the prevalent organizational culture varies among countries. "While we had previously seen that Japanese firms, for instance, typified the clan-like culture symbolized in the Monkey," remarks Deshpandé, "we found that View Details
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Peter K. Jacobs
- 01 Oct 1999
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Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
find a strategy that honors the company's values and also works in the particular environment. In another series of cases detailing the pressures of competing values systems, Paine writes about the Haier Group, a Chinese refrigerator and...
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Judith A. Ross
- 30 Aug 2018
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Sharing a Passion for Art
working elevator the height of a human ankle by Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan, to a 4.5-by-9-meter-long kaleidoscopic passageway by Chinese artist Song Dong. A regular on the ARTnews list of the top 200 collectors in the world,...
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