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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
“Over the last decade, the library has fielded an increasing number of inquiries from scholars interested in topics beyond traditional economic or business history,” notes Laura Linard, Baker’s director of Historical Collections. “We’ve... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
presides over the epicenter of Athens—looking out over Hellenic Parliament on one corner and Syntagma Square on the other—has been witnessing the capital’s highs and lows since 1842. Protesters took hammers to the hotel’s white marble steps in 2015 and hurled hunks of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Trade Off
What patterns emerge from history that can help us better understand where we are today? Sophus Reinert: To many people, globalization is teleological, something that necessarily becomes stronger over time and leads to an ever-more View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary
Internet company, which he set up in 1993. Tian says he relishes his HBS connections. “I want to be involved so we can train a lot of people to help finish our economic revolution.” View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- News
Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship
SCHULTZ Jack Schultz (MBA 1976), the oldest of eight children, grew up in the farming hamlet of Teutopolis, Illinois, population 1,100. It's fitting that his father was in the seed business (raising soybean and grass seed) because Schultz, like a latter-day Johnny... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Harvard College in 1950 and working as a reporter for the Boston Herald, he signed on at the U.S. Department of Labor (he has been a card-carrying member of three different unions) for several years before making an unsuccessful run... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
seven-year collaboration with University of North Carolina economics professor Steven Rosefielde. Their impressively researched volume challenges global leaders in government and business alike to push beyond culturally entrenched... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Leading Change
earned approximately $1.5 billion in revenue in 2015 from serving top brands, including Hugo Boss, Nautica, and Ralph Lauren. Yang is a catalyst for change in a traditional industry. As wages rise in China, many textile companies are leaving for less expensive View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Alumni Books
key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. For example, China has prospered because it emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is the the best strategy for fighting... View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
boosting the quality of life in close to 50 communities. In Nepal, Heifer’s guidance is bringing several villages out of economic distress. “We are 20 months into a new operation of goat farming there,” says Ferrari. “They’ve made $2.5... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
expertise in building businesses transferred? Southeast Asian management learning, pre- and post-Asian crisis: Have there been changes in management practice in Southeast Asia in the wake of the Asian economic crisis? Broadband... View Details
- 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
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
Library (NYPL) and the education initiative accelerator America Achieves, and he currently serves as president and CEO of Education Development Center (EDC), a nonprofit based in Waltham, Mass., that for more than 60 years has developed programs to improve education,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Instilling Production with Principles
local shops an enticing web presence alongside their e-commerce peers. Yang took a leadership role at Esquel Group, which her father founded, in 1995. The company has grown steadily despite the economic downturn, and today Esquel Group... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
CEO successions from 1978 to 1996 at 850 of the largest U.S. companies. He expected to identify typical economic principles at work in the CEO labor market, but as anomalies in his statistics multiplied, he... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Antitrust in Historical Perspective
turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details
Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
politics. "It had extremely high inflation rates and extremely low economic growth rates." But then two things happened, says Domínguez: First, the government began enacting serious reforms—the kind of fiscal and public policy changes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Star in LA
Angeles Times reported (January 4, 2005). Sohn had previously worked for thirty years at Wells Fargo, rising to the position of chief economist at the bank, America’s fifth largest. Sohn is known as one of the nation’s most accurate View Details
Keywords: Finance