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- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
why? Under a U.S. government-funded project focused on increasing entrepreneurship in Uganda’s agriculture sector, I supported the creation of economic opportunities for over 350,000 youth and leveraged $13 million in private sector...
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- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. This work essentially...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met before classes started RC year at a big social event in...
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- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
at the School, John H. Davis, coined the term "agribusiness." The two men wanted a word to describe the complex value-added chain that begins with a farmer's purchase of livestock or seed and ends with a product ready for the consumer's...
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- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
poor by removing the high cost of everything they need. Chu discussed the benefits and complexities of microfinance with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, in a session titled "Microfinance: Harnessing the Market for Social...
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by Martha Lagace
- August 1983 (Revised March 1995)
- Case
Railroad Problem and the Solution
A vehicle for a discussion of the causes and consequences of the Interstate Commerce Act.
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Transportation;
Rail Transportation;
Fluctuation;
Outcome or Result;
Public Sector;
Government and Politics;
Business History;
Complexity;
Problems and Challenges;
Rail Industry
Tedlow, Richard S. "Railroad Problem and the Solution." Harvard Business School Case 384-032, August 1983. (Revised March 1995.)
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Katie Rae Mulvey Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Meet HBS Leadership Fellows: Katie Rae Mulvey, Detroit Economic Growth Corporation...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
A Student Plan Goes to Washington
no longer be a liability. The college also solves a second problem. Many directors work full-time as CEOs or academics, and many serve on multiple boards, leaving little time for them to master the complexities of the businesses they...
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- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
less burdensome for all citizens. "While the idea of a height tax follows directly from the standard economic framework for tax analysis, most people find the idea crazy," allows HBS professor Matthew C. Weinzierl, an economist...
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by Martha Lagace
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Related Topics - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
developed the core frameworks for competitive strategy in business, Michael Porter has continually refined, enhanced and expanded his ideas. Strategic thinking based on concepts like value and competitive advantage has transformed organizations of all kinds, spurred...
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- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
world of irrationality. Much of traditional economics becomes outmoded when complex relationships based on often counter-intuitive behaviors are taken into account. Instead of a management philosophy...
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by Jim Heskett
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Introduction - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections
Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Introduction Nobel Prize Award Ceremony, 1997. Robert Cox Merton Papers, HBS Archives, Baker Library Historical Collections In October 1997, the Royal Swedish Academy of...
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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
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 guarantees to all systemically...
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- Portrait Project
Lourdes Long
International development, economic progress, global security, environmental integrity – the very baseline of human prosperity. Nothing is more challenging than the complex and evolving realities of the...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event that the Big Three contributed to by giving overly optimistic ratings to highly View Details
- Student-Profile
Ryann Noe
A blended course of study is nothing new for Ryann (she/her) - she earned her undergraduate degree in Economics and English at Williams College, and wrote her honors thesis on children’s literature. “That may not appear to be a common...
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- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
Lalocracio In thinking about the current contested state of global capitalism, and what to do about it, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Seeking the Unconventional in Forging Histories of Capitalism, which...
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- 12 May 2016
- News
What Ernest Shackleton has in common with Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk
claiming valuable new natural resources. It’s a modern set of economic motives that aren’t much different from those that set whalers sailing south more than a century ago. While Nohria sees promise in the commercialization of space, he...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Profiles from the Class of 2002
Pictured from left to right: Ken Baumgartner, Ipsita Dasgupta, Martin Gonzalez, Lori Schock, Tony Sanchez, and Demola Gbadegesin (photography by Robert Schoen) Members of the Class of 2002 graduate this June into a world transformed by recent events. The giddy View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
that choke the real economy and reinforce a spiral of lower or negative growth. For all the difficulties and risks, there may yet be a positive resolution to this crisis for one simple reason: the stakes are too high in this game of View Details
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by Dante Roscini