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- 01 May 2013
- News
Edward E. Matthews, MBA 1957
By the time Ed Matthews arrived at HBS in 1955, he was a married Korean War veteran eager to advance his real world education. “As an undergraduate, you learn things from a theoretical perspective,” says Matthews, a graduate of Princeton...
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- 11 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas
Kikovic Each year, the small northeast Texas town of Marshall pulls out all of the stops for its annual Wonderland of Lights festival. And for years, South Korean electronics company Samsung also worked hard to make it special. The...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Giving All Stakeholders a Voice
create a blockchain-based disaster relief platform for FEMA. Meanwhile, in the consumer sector, Ava Labs and SK Planet, a subsidiary of the South Korean conglomerate SK, collaborated to build a loyalty platform using Web3 components on...
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April White
- January 2021 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Biobot Analytics
In 2017, Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus were deciding whether to leave their labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put other job opportunities aside, and dive full-time into founding a wastewater analysis start-up, Biobot. Ghaeli, an architect, and Matus,...
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Entrepreneurship;
Information Technology;
City;
Analytics and Data Science;
Personal Development and Career;
Technology Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Health Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
United States;
Kuwait;
Korean Peninsula
Kluender, Raymond, Joshua Krieger, and Mitchell Weiss. "Biobot Analytics." Harvard Business School Case 821-045, January 2021. (Revised June 2023.)
- Web
Charts & Statistics - Leadership
war begins Influence: Medium-High 501950s19 Cold war escalates Korean War forces another mobilization effort Influence: High 601960s19 Cold war continues to build Bay of Pigs invasion; Cuban Missile Crisis Vietnam War escalates Influence:...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
years later with the outbreak of the Korean War. Making the most of an unexpected opportunity to attend Annapolis, he entered the Naval Academy in 1951, graduating four years later with a degree in engineering and a commission as a Marine...
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- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
It probably won't shock you that the most popular YouTube video in the past month was "Gentleman," the latest hit from South Korean rapper PSY, whose "Gangnam Style" is the most-watched video of all time. More surprising: among the other...
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- 21 May 2019
- Blog Post
Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS
empathy, celebration, and refelection. James Lim - JD/MBA ‘22 Tell us about your background: I am a proud American, a person of Korean heritage, and a native of Los Angeles. What difference do you hope to make in the world? The Asian...
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- December 2019
- Supplement
Korea Telecom: Building a GiGAtopia (B)
By: Shane Greenstein, Feng Zhu and Susie L. Ma
Keywords:
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Infrastructure;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Korean Peninsula
Greenstein, Shane, Feng Zhu, and Susie L. Ma. "Korea Telecom: Building a GiGAtopia (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 620-060, December 2019.
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Edwin Yu: Bidding on the Future
The conventional wisdom is that Asian businesspeople tend to avoid confrontation and take only calculated risks. Edwin Yu is clearly breaking that mold. Last April he came out on top in the first boardroom proxy fight in South Korean...
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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
No Nukes
They admitted to the existence of nuclear programs they previously had denied. Kelly has since told the North Koreans that the United States insists upon “complete, verifiable, and irreversible dismantlement” of all nuclear programs,...
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- Portrait Project
Patrick Chun
My grandfather taught me best; a former South Korean general, who even through his eighties, would wake up before sunrise to start his day. A man who would run miles shirtless, exposing scars from deep stab-wounds. Wounds that came from...
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- Portrait Project
Kathy Yuh
immigrating to America at age nine, I felt my biggest flaw was never being wholly one thing. My Korean values of obedience and collectivism have anchored me like roots, and yet my budding American beliefs of equality and...
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- May 2001
- Supplement
Korea Stock Exchange
By: Tarun Khanna
Features a presentation by In-Kie Hong of Korea Stock Exchange discussing the depth of the crisis, its origin, and its possible resolution in the end. In-Kie Hong addresses a class of MBA students at the Harvard Business School.
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Financial Markets;
Stocks;
Financial Services Industry;
Korean Peninsula
Khanna, Tarun. "Korea Stock Exchange." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 701-806, May 2001.
- Portrait Project
Mira Lee
children how to use technology and cross the "digital divide"; it's simply too easy to write a check share my signature Korean kalbi dish with close friends at dinner parties filled with never-ending laughter, wine and good...
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- Profile
Andrew Kletzing
After serving a year-long tour of duty in Iraq, Andrew Kletzing assumed command of a company within the Army's Installation Management Command in Seoul, South Korea. "It was a fantastic experience," Andrew says. "I led 130 American and South View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Star in LA
SOHN: playing it safe in 2005. His star power is such that he’s been called “the Korean version of Alan Greenspan,” and indeed, when Sung Won Sohn (PMD 35, 1978) was named president and CEO of Hanmi Financial Corporation in Los Angeles,...
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Finance
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
Korean soldier immediately asked for a Choco Pie, a beloved South Korean treat that is banned in the north. The soldier’s request is a dramatic example of the popularity of the round, chocolate-covered,...
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- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
leadership." We asked him to discuss his findings and where his work is heading next. Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led to your interest in this area? William Kerr: In the late 1990s, I worked with a large Korean chaebol on a spin-off...
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- 26 Aug 2021
Alumni and Student Perspectives from Korea
Join us for a panel of Korean alumni and students discussing their MBA experience and the incredible HBS network in Korea. A member of the HBS MBA Admissions team will also be present to answer questions.
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