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- 04 Nov 2014
- News
Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
fall with a celebration in Mexico City, with University President Drew Faust in attendance—was founded that same year to support Mexican students accepted to the University’s graduate and postgraduate programs. To date, the organization...
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April White
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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative 31 MAR–01 APR 2016 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Aida Hurtado Aída Hurtado, a social...
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- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
According to a report from the University of California Berkeley, “Current carbon sequestration in US cropland soils is only 8.4 million metric tons CO2 Eq. per year, compared to an annual potential of 100 million.” Practices like organic...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
started my first business," he says from his office in Dallas, Texas. Now, with his generous endowment of the chair held by HBS professor John A. Deighton, Brierley's involvement with the School has come full circle. A specialist in...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
described as a vulture capitalist, now gets a serious hearing when he urges Apple to make better use of its billions in cash or Dell to improve the terms of a management buyout. Today, university endowments...
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- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
Stanford University in 1959. Beverly Hawes, a Boise native, earned her degree at Whitman College in Washington. The Haweses came to HBS with four young children (two more followed in 1973 and 1976), and Rod Hawes earned his MBA as a Baker...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
Fritz Foley, University of Michigan professor James R. Hines Jr., and I have shown that distorted environments are precisely where multinational firms have an advantage relative to local firms. In countries with weak capital markets and...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Dream Job: Higher Ed’s New Hire
Penn at age 20. Today, as president and CEO of Columbia Investment Management Company, Lew has come full circle, overseeing a university endowment of approximately $11 billion that helps fund students for...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Lillian Lincoln Lambert, MBA 1969
helpful as I built my own business." COMMUNITY OUTREACH Board of Directors, HBS African-American Alumni Association Board of Visitors, Howard University School of Business Former Director, University of...
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- 03 Mar 2014
- News
A Life Transformed
names of movies I had seen. An older boy knew that one of them was the name of a ringworm ointment, so I was caught in my lie, and they all laughed at me. That revelation of my ignorance was the most humiliating moment of my childhood." Still, Parija says, life in his...
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- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
turnarounds. Thus, Holcomb, Holmes Jr., and Connelly argued that “firms must pay close attention both to their resource endowment and to the ability of their managers to extract value." The tale of three coaches Consider the...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
includes real-life case examples, Connecting the Dots gives managers the tools to make the most of their technology- and projectrelated investments as they optimize expenditures on the new business frontier. — Deborah Blagg Selling China by Yasheng Huang (Cambridge...
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- 13 Jun 2014
- News
The Art of Effecting Change
the last 10 to 15 years educating myself on art history and contemporary artists." Evans's philanthropic work also extends to HBS, where she and Bruce, both financial aid recipients, paid forward the assistance they received in the form of an View Details
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
Finance, forthcoming from Harvard University Press, Abdelal discusses the rise and diminishment of capital controls in the 1900s, the coming influence of China and India on global financial markets, and a conspiracy theory that U.S....
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by Ann Cullen
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience Race, Work & Leadership: Learning about & from Black Experience 08–09 MAR 2018 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Arthur P. Brief Arthur P. Brief is a Professor Emeritus of the View Details
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing...
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- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Treasury. This demand has peaked recently, as inflationary pressures are building in the economy. Not surprisingly, institutional investors with long-term spending needs that grow with inflation (such as university View Details
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by Ann Cullen
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Winslow Homer: American Passage By William R. Cross (MBA 1986) Farrar, Straus and Giroux In 1860, at the age of 24, Winslow Homer (1836–1910) sold Harper’s Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
bucks made renting out its ubiquitous terminals. Or how News Corp.’s film and TV numbers conveniently hide the rounding error that is the Wall Street Journal. One commentator even proposed that the nation’s wealthiest universities set...
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- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
the most daunting challenges of leadership. Publisher Link: http://hbr.org/product/being-the-boss-the-3-imperatives-for-becoming-a-gr/an/12285-HBK-ENG Building World Class Universities in Asia Author:D. Quinn Mills...
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Sean Silverthorne