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- 01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
Law School and Design School, this year's conference hosted over fifty speakers from business, government, and academia in the United States and Asia. Panels focused on the economic future of countries such as Taiwan, India, Japan, Korea, China, and Vietnam. View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
government, and civil society all focus on the poor as producers. The main emphasis must be, he says, on creating employment opportunities for the poor and increasing their productive capacities by ensuring basic public services. What the...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond Accommodation
of household chores because I couldn’t see.” By his junior year at Purdue, where he studied industrial engineering, his vision loss was complete, and Gibbons finally needed a cane to get around and readers to help with his studies....
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- 01 Jan 2005
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Judith R. Haberkorn, 111th AMP, 1992
for women to think more about their marriage prospects than their business future. Nevertheless, Haberkorn walked into the Baltimore employment office of the AT&T-owned Chesapeake & Potomac Telephone Co. of Maryland and landed a job in...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
But questions remain: How much of this is a Massachusetts miracle, and how much is mirage? The outlines of the plan are simple: According to what’s known as the “individual mandate,” nearly all residents over 18 are required to obtain health-insurance coverage, either...
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- 20 Feb 2019
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Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
the 21st century. “Africapitalism calls on the private sector to make long-term investment in industries that can create economic prosperity and social wealth.” The idea was inspired by Professor Michael Porter and his theories of...
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April White
- 01 Jun 2000
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The Business of Biotech
is not a postdoc lab, this is a business. It's not enough just to do the experiment; somebody's got to take the ball and run with it." Lately, competition in the biotech industry has become more heated than ever, as a steadily increasing...
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Julia Hanna
- 30 Oct 2018
- News
Paths of Victory
company is planning to add 50 employees over the next year and currently is serving more than 500 clients in 50 industries throughout Brazil, as well as clients in Turkey, Argentina, and Portugal. “Hanging a three-foot check for $50,000...
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- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Rewriting the Script: Social Enterprise Start-ups Expand Business Plan Contest's Parameters
Stone (MBA 1997), now president of Montage. “It was an issue that touched us all personally, so we decided to start a com-pany that would promote more positive portrayals of women and minorities and provide more employment opportunities...
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- 01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman
Schwarzman defended his industry and cautioned that the good times can’t go on forever. Private equity’s been all over the headlines for months. Why is it suddenly such a big deal? Over the last ten years it has grown from 5 percent of...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014
care industry to give customers more choices, freedom, power, and information, and at far lower prices. He recommends disruption of the status quo through new business models, new payment models, and new technologies that give patients...
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- 01 Aug 2002
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HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
included Aprendo, a service that verifies education and employment data; Empower, a specialty merchandiser of innovative “lifestyle” products for people with disabilities; and Music Games International, a company developing high-quality...
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- 29 Mar 2023
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Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
project that will employ locals in a traditional handicraft business. The effort is centered in southeast Turkey, a region known for its production of high-quality Adiyaman carpets. By building a sustainable industrial and commercial base...
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- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm itself, did not leave time for family and personal life. The fact...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Leading Strategic Change in an Era of Healthcare Transformation edited by Jim Austin, Judith Bentkover, and Laurence Chait (MBA 1965) (Springer) This book focuses on how to lead transformative and strategic change in the healthcare View Details
- 18 Jan 2022
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HBS Alumni Mentor Students; Shanghai Club Hosts Entrepreneurship Conference
students and mentors has been very positive, and plans are underway to continue and, ultimately, expand the program “for hopefully many years to come.” Charnaux adds that when Morris Brown lost its accreditation, it also lost vital connections to Atlanta-area View Details
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
retirement security. Many of today’s US workers will lack the resources to retire at traditional ages and maintain their standard of living in retirement. Solving the problem is a major challenge in today's environment in which risk and responsibility have shifted from...
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- 01 Mar 2008
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Reimagining China and India
it’s not really clear what you bring to the table, and that’s a much more difficult sell. The benefits to the host country are far more palatable if you set up manufacturing operations from there because that immediately generates something that is scarce — View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
at home. At a January “Insourcing American Jobs” forum at the White House, Ford, with Fields as its representative, was recognized for its “insourcing”—returning jobs to America from overseas, and building new plants at home instead of abroad, thus adding View Details
- 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
which was held on May 18 in the city. Intended to explore the impacts of technology on the nature and availability of work in San Francisco, the all-day conference invited alumni to join a conversation with HBS faculty, city stakeholders, and tech View Details
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Margie Kelley