News & Highlights

  • MAY 2023
  • EVENT

Professor Ashley V. Whillans on “Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life”

On May 11, the HBS Asia-Pacific Research Center hosted a Happiness Talk Series featuring HBS Professor Ashley V. Whillans’ book Time Smart: How to Reclaim Your Time and Live a Happier Life. Yi Cai, Committee Member, HBS Club of Shanghai and Patient Digital Health Business Lead at Viatris China, discussed the strategies that will help people make the shift to time-smart living and, in the process, build a happier, more fulfilling life with Professor Ashley V. Whillans. Approximately 120 Harvard alumni and friends joined the event.
  • APRIL 2023
  • EVENT

6th Annual HBS Women's Leadership Forum: “Facing the Glass Cliff: Women's Leadership in Crisis”

On April 21, 2023, the Harvard Center Shanghai and Harvard Business Review China successfully organized the 6th Annual HBS Women’s Leadership Forum. With the theme “Facing the Glass Cliff: Women's Leadership in Crisis,” we aimed to explore the advantages and responsibilities of female leaders in the time of crises, as well as the role of women in shaping breakthroughs and innovations for the future. More than 100 people were in attendance.
  • MARCH 2023
  • EVENT

ChatGPT Conversation between Professor Feng Zhu and Kunlun Tech CEO Han Fang

In March, Harvard Center Shanghai, in collaboration with HBS Club of Shanghai, hosted a ChatGPT discussion featuring Professor Feng Zhu and Kunlun Tech CEO, Han Fan. The event shed light on the opportunities and challenges brought by ChatGPT, the new business models, and the future development of AI in China. The event was attended by over 70 Harvard alumni and friends.
  • FEBRUARY 2023
  • EVENT

Alumni Events in Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta, and Manila with Professor Paul Gompers on his New Book

In February, the Asia-Pacific Research Center collaborated with the Harvard Business School Clubs of Korea and Singapore, and the Harvard Clubs of Indonesia and the Philippines to host alumni events in Seoul, Singapore, Jakarta, and Manila. Professor Paul Gompers presented his book, Advanced Introduction to Private Equity, to HBS alumni and supporters. Co-written with the University of Chicago Professor Steven A. Kaplan, the book provides valuable insights on private equity for academics, students, young professionals, and industry veterans. The event was attended by a significant number of Harvard alumni and friends.

New Research on the Region

  • 2023
  • Book

Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World

By: Mattias Fibiger

After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a politicide. Seeking to ensure that communism could never again take root in the archipelago, he constructed a New Order to reverse Indonesia's descent into political instability and economic crisis. Based on unprecedented access to Indonesian archives and a wealth of international sources, Suharto's Cold War masterfully narrates the first decades of the Suharto regime at the national, regional, and global levels. Suharto mobilized international aid and investment to build his counterrevolutionary dictatorship and ignite processes of economic development. He also aimed to project authoritarianism elsewhere in Southeast Asia by assisting right-wing dictators across the region. International capital made available through the global Cold War enabled Suharto to achieve the dictatorial and developmental ambitions that lay at the heart of his domestic and regional Cold Wars. Paying close attention to the interrelationship between the domestic and the international, the political and the economic, Suharto's Cold War makes a pathbreaking contribution to understanding Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the world.

  • June 2023
  • Teaching Material

Agricultural Revolution without a Land Revolution: The Megafarms of CP Group

By: William C. Kirby and Noah B. Truwit

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 316-150. The case introduces students to an innovative new agricultural venture on the outskirts of Beijing. It can be used as a platform to discuss broader issues of agricultural policy reform and regional disparities in social and economic development in China. Following the case discussion, students should understand the role of farmers in the modern Chinese economy, the regulatory interests that govern agricultural policy, and the opportunities for innovation in agriculture. They will also realize that the fundamental challenge underlying all of these opportunities is the lack of property rights in China.

  • June 2023
  • Case

ByteDance: TikTok and the Trials of Going Viral in 2023

By: William C. Kirby, Noah B. Truwit and John P. McHugh

In March 2023, Chew, with an army of well-paid U.S. lobbyists and TikTok creators, descended on Washington. In his testimony, he planned to highlight the 150 million daily active American users on TikTok and how the platform had benefitted small business owners and creative spirits. However, for American lawmakers and national security experts, could Chew detail a credible strategy that would allay their fears and safeguard American user data? Or would the company’s centerstage testimony further stoke opposition to the short-video app and quash its U.S. ambition?

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Nancy Dai
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