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HBS Working Knowledge Web Site Features Highlights From Recent Asian and African-American Business Conferences
The 28th Annual HBS African-American Student Union Conference was titled "Leading the Restoration: Black Business Achievements into the 21st Century." The event brought together business leaders, HBS faculty, MBA students, and others to develop and share new ideas for cultivating the leadership, entrepreneurship and empowerment that will be critical to greater prosperity in the Afircan-American community in the years ahead. For more information, go to: hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/topics/special_reports_aasu.
The annual Harvard Asia Business Conference was sponsored by the HBS Asian Business Club, the Asia Law Society of Harvard Law School, and others. The theme of the conference was "Asia at the Dawn of the Millennium." Coverage focused on the economy of Asia two years after the financial crisis shook and rattled global markets. Speakers addressed the issue of how the region now finds itslef in the midst of a new gold rush driven by new technology, changing business structures, and an ever-evolving political and economic state of affairs. For more information go to: hbsworkingknowledge.hbs.edu/topics/special_reports_abc.
HBS Working Knowledge presents a rich resource of fresh ideas, new thinking, and useful research. The site brings together timely business information and research from the intellectual capital of Harvard Business School and other well-respected sources. Visitors to the site can browse more than a dozen management topics featuring articles and essays on diverse management topics, interviews with HBS professors and industry leaders, book recommendations, and Web-site reviews.