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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
an economic research firm, the couple correspon-ded, getting to know each other through letters. They married on August 1, 1948, six months after their first date. Levitt enrolled in the Ph.D. program in View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
health, morality, and fairness, it is high time, she says, to consider how to bring order to this chaotic arena. Is this really a “market,” and if so, how big is it? We don’t like to think of children as economic objects, and yet over the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
company share prices. However, scholarly studies suggest these are not reliable indicators of companies' true economic value. In a similar vein, the late Paul Samuelson said financial markets are "micro-efficient and macro-inefficient."... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Grace Ng (MBA 2019) Drawing on her left- and right-brain strengths, Grace Ng (MBA 2019) double-majored in economics and film at Rice University. “That might seem unusual to some, but I found having these two interests... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
you want to dig deeper, visit the School’s new Web site that compiles news articles and videos featuring comments by HBS faculty on the global economic crisis: www.hbs.edu/economic-crisis/. View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
result in a special issue of the Journal of Accounting and Economics.” “It is critical for us to understand the relationships between our economic systems and the natural environment, and to figure out the leadership and governance... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
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Management Matters In Health Care, Too
figure them out,” he said. “We’re going to have a revolution in coordinating care,” observed David Cutler, a Harvard professor of applied economics and a nationally recognized expert in the economics of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Reimagining the MBA
leadership electives. Required Curriculum (First Year) Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise. Leadership and Corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
What if it were possible to accurately predict and maybe even prevent the next global financial crisis? Harvard’s Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability (BFFS) Project, conceived at HBS and launched in July 2016, aims to do just that.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
disruptions and revenue losses will require even more transformational thinking.” Mills believes three important lessons from the pandemic can help point the way. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES FINANCE AND THE View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
a nurse, often discussed economic theory, especially as it applied to health care. An economics degree from Princeton was the springboard to a business career that began on Wall Street at Kidder, Peabody. "I... View Details
- 26 Oct 2020
- News
A Social Impact Roadmap; Arts Leadership in a Pandemic; Amplifying Hispanic Contributions
by producing regional and local events, conducting research, and creating media content that raises the visibility of Hispanic Americans across industries. Edelman, who previously led successful marketing efforts for humanitarian organizations including the Global... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
was packed for the keynote address at 8:30 a.m. — well before the usual Sunday start time for most students. I was lured to the event in part by the buildup it had gotten in the press. Weeks beforehand, Forbes named it one of the top business gatherings for 2009,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
the state’s Department of Business, Economic Development, and Tourism. He also started a Harvard-Hawaii initiative that involved creating paid internships with nonprofits in Hawaii for HBS and Kennedy School students, as well as sharing... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf: A Manager's Responsibility in the 21st Century
individual action, against which individual biases can be lessened and competing interests balanced. At BP, the overriding concern was economic efficiency. What was not considered, argue the authors, were external costs: the potentially... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
is unclear and the spirit of the law is open to interpretation. A close reading of the record suggests that much of Enron’s behavior fell into this penumbra. But that same record also suggests that Skilling lost his way in this shadowed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
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Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Revitalizing America
in many cases, an equally modest education award that can help make college more affordable. Service is not just altruistic; it has an economic stimulus component. In an innovation economy, in which job growth comes from spotting new... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
efforts to make the inner city a viable and competitive economic entity," says University Professor Michael E. Porter, who is researching economic development in America's inner cities. Dunphy has also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
from his Burden Hall audience. Asked about outsourcing and whether the U.S. government should offer tax inducements to counter it, Buffett replied that he saw outsourcing as “a small part of a much, much bigger problem.” He explained that the country's principal View Details