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- 19 Jul 2019
- News
The Day India’s Banks Died
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance
1911 HBS establishes the Bureau of Business Research to write cases. 1922 Founding of Harvard Business Review (HBR). 1930s Elton Mayo and Fritz Roethlisberger conduct pioneering studies establishing the importance of field-based industrial research as Mayo’s The Human...
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Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton;
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
Kimberly Jung, pictured in a field of crocuses, returned to Afghanistan to understand how she and her cofounders could import saffron to the United States. Photo courtesy of Kimberly Jung During their first semester at HBS, former United States Army engineer officers...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2023
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3-Minute Briefing: Nathaniel Fick (MBA/MPA 2008)
As a Marine, I led some of the first units in Afghanistan and Iraq. What I loved about that experience was the intersection of a mission with building and leading teams. I came to HBS to develop the tools around that work, but in a very different context. On the...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
agriculture and from agriculture to industry. We know that leadership is very much related to change. As the pace of change accelerates, there is naturally a greater need for effective leadership." "Times of...
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Management
- 01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
family to lead the company, Zobel inherited a legacy of prudent management that preserved Ayala's interests through times of revolution, colonial rule, dictatorships, and war—not to mention earthquakes and volcanoes. Established in 1834 as an View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn
Corn likes people. It benefits from human contact, when it’s thinned out and hand-pollinated, explains Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997). Corn thrives when sung to and spoken to—something Keen does in the language of his mother’s Omaha Tribe, where he is known as Bison...
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- 31 Oct 2023
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Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
shutdowns, unemployment, and vaccine distribution. But because Senegal is a developing country, with an emerging economy, Diagne needed his team to mitigate risk, protect the public’s health, and educate the population. That all needed to...
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- 15 Dec 2023
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Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
well as Ace Foods, which sells African spices. She is also the founder of African Food Changemakers and an expert on African agriculture and nutrition, entrepreneurship, social innovation and youth development; Runa Alam (MBA 1985), a...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
for running the family business. With MBA in hand, however, Goldberg put off his return home in order to attend the University of Minnesota, where he completed a Ph.D. in agricultural economics in just two years. From 1952 to 1955,...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Full Court Press
On May 28, 2022, the Basketball Africa League (BAL) held the championship game of its second season, pitting the club team Petro de Luanda, from Angola, against US Monastir, from Tunisia. Traffic snarls outside the stadium, congestion tightened by temporary road...
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Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
BLAVATNIK Photo courtesy of Blavatnik Family Foundation Universities are ripe with new advances in science and technology, and Harvard is no exception. But developing those findings into breakthrough therapies and cures for disease is a...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
response to it, particularly in the developed economies, fits this description. Environmentalism, as we have known it since the 1960s, has been grounded in the physical sciences, law, economics, and public policy. Advocates for strong...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
conflict." "The rapid infusers are truly indispensable in cases of massive blood loss," Olga Berg, Director of Development with the non-profit organization Ukraine Medical Consortium, said in a press release, noting that these devices are...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Mustapha breaks for lunch near his home. After leaving Notore in 2010 to set up his own investment group, Doreo Partners, Masha spent a short stint as chief of staff for Nigeria's agriculture minister, Akinwumi Adesina, helping View Details
- 31 May 2017
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Father Agribusiness
Agribusiness, he explains, “..[i]s not just agriculture and business, it’s people from the medical school and government and the school for public health all working together.” For Goldberg, observing those connections in the context of...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Feedback
from Nigeria's agriculture minister. No Small Beer Re: Alumni brewers You omitted Peter Doering (MBA 1987), a local HBS alumnus, who started a brewery about 15 months ago. We did an HBS alumni club event at his brewery recently, and it...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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INK: The Lessons of Blitzscaling
developing world, and they must take the special needs of small-scale producers and malnourished consumers into account. They see how to adapt the developed world’s technology to the View Details
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2018
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Preparing Global Leaders
and long-term value creation. In addition to this, he is cofounder and chairman of Voxtra, a social impact investment firm that focuses on improving the livelihoods of those in the agriculture sector in East Africa. He and his wife,...
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- 21 Dec 2017
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A Decent Place to Live
where you work. Your access to things. How safe you feel. So, home is really at the center of development and being able to live a happy, flourishing life. “Being able to work with Habitat, so that we can serve more families around the...
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