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...It’s a messy phase of any project when you’re trying to gather information from lots of different constituents and stake-holders,” said Nelson about the increasing number of committees. “But that’s really what we’re trying to do. We want this canvassed very widely...
When the global financial storm began to gather a year ago, China appeared to be a nation that was well supplied with raincoats. The economy was growing at double-digit rates, Chinese banks had little overseas exposure to the credit crisis, and the country's $1.9 trillion in hard-currency reserves stood as a vast emergency fund that could be drawn upon in the event of trouble. Just two months ago, while giant Wall Street and European banks were crumbling, China was relishing its role as host of the Olympic Games as the world paid tribute to its years...
...China, and other Asian societies, too, has had profound implications. At the most basic level, it has encouraged a wide-eyed admiration. In 2004, the World Bank held a global conference on poverty reduction in Shanghai, and I remember press reports describing the scene each evening. African delegates would gather on the Bund and look over the brown waters of the Whampoa to Pudong, gazing in wonder on an unearthly tableau of neon and skyscrapers built on marshes and paddyfields in not much more than 10 years...
Harvard Business School faculty members and affiliates, as well as top nonprofit leaders, will gather in Philadelphia on November 13th for the fifth annual Social Enterprise Conference to discuss implementation of nonprofit strategy...
...conference will help mark the conclusion of the Business School’s centennial celebration, which saw business leaders from around the world, including Bill Gates and former Ebay CEO Meg Whitman, gather on the HBS campus last weekend...