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Join Your Classmates at the HBS Global Business Summit Registration is filling quickly for the HBS Global Business Summit, October 12-14, 2008. Be part of this historic conversation among world leaders, HBS faculty, and alumni. Register today at the Business Summit Web site.
Celebrate the Centennial with Your Local HBS Club HBS alumni clubs throughout the world are hosting Centennial events and celebrations that feature HBS faculty sharing their latest research. Upcoming events include Professor Nicolas Retsinas, director of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies, speaking at the HBS Club of Connecticut.
The following clubs are hosting events in the near future:
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Connecticut: February 28
Colorado: February 29
New Zealand: February 29
Virginia: March 4
London: March 4
Minnesota: March 11
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Palm Beach: March 18
San Antonio: March 24
France: April 3
Boston: April 5
Arizona: April 9
Charlotte: April 17
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Visit the Global Outreach site to find out what's happening at a club near you.
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A "Daring Experiment": Harvard and Business Education for Women
Trace the history of business education for women at Harvard through photos, first person narratives, and historic documents in this exhibit organized by Baker Library Historical Collections. A "Daring Experiment" runs through May 16, 2008 in the North Lobby of Baker Library | Bloomberg Center on the HBS campus. A gallery talk will take place at 4 pm on Thursday, March 6. Visit the exhibition online.
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The Conversation: What Is the Future of Capitalism?
Do growing inequality and environmental degradation threaten the future of capitalism? Are markets the solution—or the problem? Join the conversation on The Future of Market Capitalism with professors Joe Bower and Dutch Leonard.
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New for Alumni: eBaker Offers Free Access to Current Business Information Alumni now have free access to a broad suite of vetted research resources from Knowledge and Library Services. Starting or growing a business? Looking to do business abroad? Doing career planning? eBaker is designed to meet professional development needs of alumni and includes proprietary databases such as CareerSearch, Vault, and Factiva, a deeply discounted rate for OneSource, and links to business Web sites recommended by HBS librarians. The eBaker site includes step-by-step instructions to help you get the most from your research.
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Alumni Travel
The Changing Faces of Jordan and Oman: March 30–April 11 Join HBS and your fellow alumni for an insider's glance into the two fascinating and hospitable countries of Jordan and Oman. Throughout the trip, briefings and meetings will offer in-depth insights into the challenges confronting these countries. See a detailed itinerary and learn more.
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Genghis Khan's Mongolia: June 12–24 Don't miss this unique opportunity to explore the ancient land of the Khans with fellow HBS alumni and friends. Kayak through pristine Lake Hovsgol in the north, considered the cleanest freshwater lake left on the planet. Camel trek through the mysterious and untamed Gobi Desert in the south. In between, travel on horseback over the central grass steppe, blanketed by endless blue sky. Get more information and register online.
Check the complete schedule of upcoming programs at the Alumni Travel Web site.
From Social Enterprise: Register Today for Annual Conferences!
What Business Leaders Need to Know About Climate Change: March 1 Join Nobel Prize winner James McCarthy and Harvard Business Review Senior Editor Gardiner Morse at the 2008 Alumni Convening on climate change and its implications. This program—intended for a nonscientific audience of business leaders—will be held on the HBS campus.
Education, Entrepreneurship, Investment, and Global Trends: March 2 Alumni are also welcome to attend the ninth annual student-led Social Enterprise Conference, featuring keynote sessions with Norwegian Institute of International Affairs Director Jan Egeland and One Laptop Per Child Founder and Chairman Nicholas Negroponte.
SPACE IS LIMITED. Register now and be part of these important gatherings.
From Executive Education
Getting Global Strategy Right: March 25–28 Rethink your company's country and industry strategies within an international context in this course designed for executives responsible for global operations, multiple product lines, or global product divisions. Learn to develop strategies that will help your company outperform global competitors and seize new opportunities. Learn more or register.
Return to HBS for Fall AMP/ISMP Reunions! HBS is pleased to welcome Executive Education AMP/ISMP alumni back to campus for their reunion September 25-28. Come and connect with old friends, engage with the faculty on their latest research, and network with other alumni. Visit the Reunions Web site for more information and reunion dates for other Executive Education programs.
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HBS Working Knowledge: Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager? Can the same marketing techniques that create a bond between consumer and brand be used to develop the social glue that holds democracies together? Read Working Knowledge and find out why Professor John Quelch and Research Associate Katherine Jocz say that the core benefits of marketing—exchange, consumption, choice, information, engagement, and inclusion—align closely with the requirements of democracy.
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Faculty in the News
"When in Rome, do as the Romans do" goes the old saying. In the global economy, however, executives who have one set of ethics at home and another overseas risk permanent damage to their firm's reputation. Professor Bill George says in BusinessWeek that the only way to build a great global company is with a single standard of business practices, vigorously communicated and enforced.
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