Spring Break
Over 200 students participated in the 2nd Annual celebration of Sankofa, a student-run event hosted by the African American Student Union, Africa Business Club, and Caribbean Business Club. The word "Sankofa" comes from the Akan - Twi language spoken in Ghana, West Africa.
"Happy New Year! Kung Hei Fat Choi! Xin Nian Hao! Sae-Hae Bok-Maa-ni Ba-Du-Sae-Yo!" Everyone greeted each other in different Asian languages at the Lunar New Year's Celebration last Tuesday (February 22nd). It was the first time that the Asia Business Club (ABC) and the Asian American Business Association (AABA) joined together to share many of the diverse Asian cultures represented here at HBS to the rest of the HBS community.
The Asia Business Conference was held last weekend from Friday afternoon, February 18th to Saturday, February 19th at HBS. The annual conference attracted close to 700 MBA students, professionals, and executives, who are interested in where Asia is headed.
University Professor Michael E. Porter laid out his long-anticipated evaluation of the ailing American health care system to an audience of students, scholars, and health care professionals at the Spangler auditorium on February 17th. Porter, whose new book Redefining Health Care: Creating Positive-Sum Competition to Deliver Value (coauthored by Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg) will be released by the Harvard Business School Press in June, provided a scathing critique of a system he called "broken" and fraught with "zero sum" tendencies like cost-shifting among insurers, providers, and patients.
