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- 20 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 20, 2007
Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
discover how immigration law affects the number of such patents, and explain how, under certain conditions, patenting traditional medicine can mutually benefit both corporate firms and indigenous communities. Where's The Proof? The...
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- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
twentieth century and its effect on American life. How did we become a nation of "organization men" in the 1950s, to take a term from William H. Whyte? How did that change pathways to success and ideas about citizenship? How did other...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jan 2021
- News
Better Than Cash
Alliance, a public-private partnership funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, BMZ, Flourish, Mastercard, Norad/Vipps, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency, the US Agency for International Development, and Visa, and hosted by the United...
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- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
in the life during her summer internship at the National P... Parks Management is People Management Olivia Staffon 23 Aug 2018 I began my MBA with the goal of utilizing business practices for land management issues. Scouring... Mobility...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
will inspire more companies to take advantage of the benefits of investing in urban areas. "The future of our nation really depends on it," she emphasizes. Students and Corporate DNA We try to build up a...
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
inform her engagement in social change.Yuille’s diverse professional formation — federal law clerk, Latin Americanist socio-economic development lawyer, Wall Street corporate transactional attorney, public school teacher, pro bono...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
Against Discrimination, led a town meeting on lessons learned from last year's revelations of racist attitudes among certain corporate executives at Texaco. Hugh B. Price, president and CEO of the National...
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- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
corporate synergies should be defined at the top and realized in the business units. Just as the CFO coordinates the budgeting process, a senior executive should coordinate the alignment process—a responsibility for the Office of Strategy...
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- 06 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?
action. Q: You recently wrote about the writings of Mandarin Yung Wing, a senior bureaucrat during the time of the Manchu regime and the first Chinese national to graduate from Yale. What did he accomplish, and does his story hold...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS
Asia: Building Sustainable Partnerships," held September 4 and 5, brought together over seventy participants from business, government, non-governmental organizations, and activist groups to share experiences and offer a strong View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
Business School Case 217-062 The U-Turns of National Truck Stops Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (NTS) as a senior member of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, my name is Julia Hanna. I'm a writer for the HBS Alumni Bulletin, and in July I flew from Boston to Omaha to spend a day with Taylor Keen (MPA 1996/ MBA 1997), a professor of entrepreneurship at...
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- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system...
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- 05 Apr 2018
- News
50 Years After King
In a recent interview in National Geographic, Ann Fudge (MBA 1977)—former chairman and CEO of Young & Rubicam and a longtime corporate leader—spoke about the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., the...
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- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
“The world’s needs and desires have been irrevocably homogenized. This makes the multinational corporation obsolete and the global corporation absolute.” —Theodore Levitt (1983) They were bold, even...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Democratic...
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Garry Emmons
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020....
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
School of Public Health as a way to understand the policies and skills required to address the systemic challenges that many developing countries face. She then moved to Johannesburg to assist with efforts by South Africa’s First National...
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