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- 15 Nov 2020
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Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The culmination of an immersive field course, the trip brought the students’ classroom learning to life and offered insight into one of China’s major political and economic development programs. Combining... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
get in a small country with a robust alumni club.) But Macridis says his optimism is rooted in the rational: “Kyriakos understands what makes the economy tick and what investors need. He has introduced a new View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
fact is that in many parts of the world, firms are not privately owned, and markets are regulated in various ways in all countries. Still, we found that most people we talked to understood the differences between the system we find in most markets today and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Examining the Magnitude of Syria’s Refugee Crisis
Refugee Crisis,” which both he and Fabbe taught in May 2016 during the required first-year Business, Government, and the International Economy course. The case asks students to consider the issue from the point of view of European leaders... View Details
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
a deal fell through, “the damage to the economy had already been done”. After the vote, he observed, the deal amounted to little more than kicking “the can down the road.” Professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter blogged that “for many observers of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again. Democracy and Its Elected Enemies:... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
books, and worked in a clothing boutique during high school. After studying political economy at UC Berkeley and working for McKinsey, she came to Harvard to earn her MBA and MPA. At HBS, where she helped... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
proud of this distinction,” noted Abdelal, a scholar of international political economy and author of National Purpose in the World Economy: Post-Soviet States in Comparative Perspective, which won the 2002... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
smiling these days. Despite Washington’s contentious political environment, he’s employed at a US government foreign-aid organization, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), that actually enjoys broad bipartisan support. Everybody,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
Education classes,” he notes, “we often focus on the actions and strategies of political leaders because they offer compelling examples that are familiar to everyone.” Mills’s new book, Masters of Illusion: American Leadership in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto says Western business leaders have shown "extraordinary complacency in the face of upheavals." The numbers don't look good for the West. The United States, Great Britain, and France have each seen their average GDP growth hover around 2 percent in recent years,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
Harrold returned home, he earned a master’s degree in political science but ultimately realized academia wasn’t for him. “I decided I was better suited for the business world where strategic and decisive thinking are more valued,” he... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
Bridging differences in political and economic systems has always been one of the challenges of international business. Where religious beliefs influence those systems heavily, as is increasingly the case in Islamic countries, the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
companies are emerging is so different. It’s not that the raw stock of entrepreneurship is different in either country. But the ways in which Chinese and Indian entrepreneurs — whether they are businesspeople, social or even political... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
to make the transition from a communist planned economy to a market economy. And we felt incredibly privileged to be part of that process. We became good friends with the then, Prime Minister Philip Dimitrov. We started the International... View Details
- 16 May 2018
- News
ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup
to hear from the business, political and community leaders from Hong Kong and beyond,” says Alison Chan (MBA 2002), the Conference Chair and club president. "This is the event that our alumni look forward to attending every year.” Held at... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences
which panelists discussed the integration of financial markets and collaboration among different players in technology sectors as evidence of the power of globalization. Attendees could then choose one of several panel discussions that addressed issues such as View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Gazprom Goes Global
political and economic influences and domestic and internecine dynamics affect the management of a state-controlled company. “Reinserting itself in the energy sector, the Russian state has installed a world-class, market-oriented... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
focused on the strategies, systems, and culture for taking their companies to the next level. Big can be beautiful, but it requires creative construction by leaders to avoid the creative destruction that is all too often the fate of too many. The Academy of Fisticuffs:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
capacity. In illustrating this point in a book on macroeconomics that I wrote a number of years ago, I quoted three people: President Herbert Hoover, who was the US president when the Great Depression started; President Franklin Roosevelt, who succeeded him and was... View Details