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- 01 Sep 2008
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Balanced Equation
economies. What is the last country you visited, and what did you do there? I travel a lot, so this answer will be outdated. I recently gave a talk at the University of Ghana on the need for African countries to develop a unified economic... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
economics major at the University of California at Berkeley, McNamara discovered at HBS “a field of specialization he would make his own and use to change three institutions and, arguably, the United States,” writes journalist Deborah... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
home energy use, residential buildings tend to be more efficient with energy use. So some of those changes might result in longer term reductions and certainly will buy us some time to implement better policies potentially as part of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
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prisons, and garbage collection among them — has been attempted, When All Else Fails argues that government has been and will inevitably continue to be the nation's ultimate risk manager and insurer of last resort. Drawing on history and View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
accommodation to a host of conflicting interests, an arrangement that damaged society’s economic well-being. The agency theorists had a broad impact on corporate policy and, in particular, on a fundamental... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
1979), Minnick is pressing for a simple solution to curb emissions by putting a tax on carbon that would be assessed where the carbon enters the market, at the mine mouth or oil refinery, and then passed on to the consumer. “You want it to be passed forward, so people... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
dollars, euros, pounds, and other stores of wealth to move invisibly—beyond the control of central bankers, law enforcement agents, and international institutions. With an entire financial secrecy system now dominating capitalist operations, riches flow inexorably... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
President, Women's World Banking Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Stanford University, 1971 B.A., Economics LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Power matters. Money matters. People matter. We need to mobilize power,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
(PhDBE 2009) and HBS assistant professor George Serafeim, the trio studied data from a matched sample of 180 companies over 18 years. Organizations that had adopted environmental and social policies by 1993 (described as... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government to create View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases, articles, and papers on Chinese business, as well as his recent book, Can... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
come with moving. Do we need comprehensive reform to address issues related to land values? —Dick Carlson (MBA 1961) OAKES: It’s essential. “Exclusionary” zoning policies result in segregated communities (both View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
world." Asked about Africa's future, Keshavjee says, "The greatest hope for the continent is the opportunity offered by the creation of regional economic groupings that will provide much larger markets than in the past. The East Africa... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
Resources for the Future, a Washington, D.C., think tank dedicated to providing research and policy analysis for environmental decision makers. "And even if returns on environmental investments were always positive, that does not mean... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
to help, has the government unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards — implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. “The extension of implicit... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
carry them out. You need an informant - and that probably means you have to know a terrorist. I've been involved in foreign policy for more than 35 years. There is no field more dependent on good intelligence than counterterrorism, and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
halt. In the summer of 1994 alone, more than 30,000 Cubans fled to the United States via boats and makeshift rafts. Faced with these economic realities, Fidel Castro’s government began some private sector experimentation, including... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
frame in which these radical changes and directions or redirections in economic policy are going to take place. The issue, if there is one, has to do with timing and phasing, rather than with ultimate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
anyone, he shaped the economic policies of Hong Kong for the quarter century after the war and set the stage for a remarkable economic expansion. This book examines the man... View Details