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The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building
The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details
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Can America Invent Its Way Back?
BusinessWeek, by Michael Mandel, 12 Sept. 2008
Today, researchers are focusing on ways to make those... View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
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Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
Some reviewers are always critical and leave worse reviews on average; others might always be positive, fawning over every restaurant's spaghetti or tuna sub. Still others are erratic, showing little predictability in how they review. Yelp's cadre of so-called View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
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Portraits from the Class of 2003
Srivatsa Krishna "I believe my life will have value only if it can add value to the lives of others." Currently: on sabbatical from the Indian Administrative Service, India's elite top management civil service cadre Hometown: New Delhi... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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Navigating the Populism Phenomenon
challenge the way things have traditionally worked. Vincent Pons: In populist discourse you often have this idea that a country has been governed by a political and economic elite hurting the interests of the people. If you systematically... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2013
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Shining Knight
to think responsibly about the distribution of their wealth," he explained of the move. Knighted in 2005, Ogden, who holds a PhD in theoretical physics, is from a working-class background. That has influenced the thrust of his charitable trust, which is to make View Details
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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets
Africa Harvard Iranian Oral History Project The Iranian Oral History Project’s 134 oral histories of individuals active in Iran between the 1920s and the 1970s includes interviews with prominent business figures. In English or Persian. The View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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You Are What You Eat
creative tension of competition and cooperation.... We are now in the grip of another agricultural revolution in which Elite Capital takes control of the food chain. It is false to argue that intensification is needed to feed the world... View Details
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Michael Danzi | Baker Library
Michael Danzi MBA 1987, US Labs Play Video duration: 1:26:06 Michael “Mike” Danzi, HBS 1987. Interview conducted in December 2001 Michael “Mike” Danzi, HBS 1987, started his career in the Navy, as part of an elite reconnaissance submarine... View Details
- 09 Jun 2015
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Lessons in perseverance lead to high-quality schools for Peru
private schools. It has grown to 1,022 students, drawn not only from Lima’s elite but also from 18 other countries. She also owns three other schools, licenses out another one, and has opened a center in a poor community that ensures... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
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Sleight of Hand
moisture-free that objects won’t adhere slightly to the skin. Enter Guy Camirand (MBA ’70), inventor of Elite Magician’s Hand Lotion, which does the trick quite nicely — without making cards or coins all gooey. Camirand, who has been a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Top-Flight Tory
appearance: He’s broken his nose three times, once playing rugby, then accidentally in a swimming pool, and yet again, it is said, in a fight. He’s a former member of Britain’s elite SAS commando outfit and an extreme-sports enthusiast... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
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Alumni, Faculty, and Other Experts Offer Career Advice
Three HBS alumni will present online seminars in this fall’s Career Management Webinar Series, a resource offered by Alumni Career & Professional Development. Mark Chussil (MBA 1979) will discuss creating your ideal life; Jill Miller Perrin (MBA 1985) will analyze how... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
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3-Minute Briefing: Derek Bouchard-Hall (MBA 2004)
When I graduated from Stanford, I had the opportunity to travel with an elite amateur team doing bike races, or I could go join a structural design firm in Pittsburgh. That was my choice. I chose to race bikes. I love the sport. I love... View Details
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Marwan Chaar
hope to spend my life striving to regain the Muslim society's elite intellectual status. Our most precious resource is our time. After two years of preparation, I am ready to return home and make the most of it. I want to have an impact... View Details
- 10 Mar 2016
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Can Doug Lemov Save US Soccer?
approach to classroom teaching, his method for soccer education doesn’t rely on drills that focus on “rote” learning: “The thing that makes elite players is decision making,” Lemov told me. “They need to integrate not just how to do... View Details
Alvaro Rodriguez Arregui
Studies, the Social Progress Index (which he co-founded), and Oxford University Säid School Global Council. He is also a decorated athlete, having won medals in rowing at the Pan-American Games and US Elite Nationals (1991) and placing... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 01 Jun 2015
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Five-Star Research
a star. Elite reviewers—a Yelp-awarded certification—have nearly double the impact of other reviewers. In another study looking at movie reviews, Luca found that consumer reviews could correctly predict expert reviews 85 percent of the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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Taking Care
had this cautionary advice for newly minted MBAs: "Don't let the business school Kool-Aid go to your head. There's this concept that when you graduate, especially from the top schools, you're ready to conquer the world. There's an elitism... View Details
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Introduction - The Audience - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
powerful industrial enterprise to which satisfied workers devoted themselves. Fortune magazine, for example—the quintessence of sophistication in graphic design and photojournalism—catered to the elite managerial class, portraying the... View Details