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- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
In an interview on the nationally syndicated morning news show The Takeaway, Lerner explained. “We all love small business, but if we really want to create new jobs, we’re turning over the wrong rock.” Citing a recent research paper by... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
Clean Air Act was one of the first and most influential federal environmental laws—and many in the business community saw benefits from a national strategy to combat pollution. Prof. Michael Toffel Prof. Michael Toffel Now, as the world... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
In the saber-rattling and highly influential 2007 report Rising Above the Gathering Storm, the National Academies warned that America’s technology and scientific leadership was being surpassed by a number of Asian countries, threatening... View Details
- 12 Feb 2022
- News
Industrialist Rahul Bajaj Dies at 83
the time I was about 12," Bajaj told the HBS Alumni Bulletin in 2005, when he was named a recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award, the School’s highest honor. A remembrance in Forbes notes that, under his watch, “the [Bajaj] group grew into a conglomerate of 40... View Details
- 02 Aug 2017
- News
The Atlantic Finds a New Home
Bradley wrote, “Against the odds, the Atlantic is prospering. While I will stay at the helm some years, the most consequential decision of my career now is behind me: Who next will take stewardship of this 160-year-old national treasure?... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus—and her daughter’s exams. Political maneuvering, miscommunications, and administrative meddling nearly jeopardized the project, but perseverance paid off. Catapulted into a View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?
convenience and security offered by mobile banking, Kenya’s M-Pesa, for example, grew to serve 15 million customers in its first five years. But for every M-Pesa, there is a company like India’s Eko Financial Services, which has struggled... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 18 Nov 2020
- News
Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar
labor, calling it “a reputational risk to the company that’s not just, and not fair.” Before coming to HBS, Alexis Jackson was an oil and gas industry engineer. Now, she is co-president of the HBS... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
apocalyptic pronouncements of pundits who declare the Internet an unprecedented development heralding the collapse of national authority. "They assert that in cyberspace, governments wither away, that they no longer have any moral right... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
RIVKIN: “In the private sector, this kind of change would happen over the course of a generation of management. But when it comes to national security, you can’t wait that long.” Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Taking Flight
for that,” he laughs. “I thought there would be five calls, and we got close to five hundred. Who knew it was going to work?” The company now employs a staff of three. Established names such as National... View Details
- 26 Apr 2022
- News
Leading on Climate Change
Almheiri, the Minister of Climate Change and Environment for the United Arab Emirates At the national level, Almheiri is leading the UAE’s recently launched Net Zero by 2050 strategic initiative, a coordinated effort between government... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
issues, and basic survival needs. You need to be able to show people how preserving the environment can help them economically. For example, we created a buffer zone around a national forest by establishing an "extractive reserve." We... View Details
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni-Led Biotech Developing Vaccine to Combat Coronavirus
As reported in the Boston Globe, Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) and his firm Moderna Therapeutics are working with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to develop a vaccine for coronavirus. Vials of its vaccine, the View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Taking the Long View
huge national debt. He prefers shares of companies such as Canada’s EnCana, Wal-Mart de Mexico, and Petróleo Brasileiro. “At least three-quarters of whatever I own is foreign stocks,” Gordon revealed.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Flying High
Jim McNerney (MBA ’75) departed GE in 2000 to become, at 3M, a chief executive for the first time. Named chairman, president, and CEO of The Boeing Company in July, McNerney is the aerospace giant’s third leader since 2003, a period... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- News
750 World Wonders and counting
need an international perspective for their careers, they need languages and they also need cultural understanding. Having an experience of emerging nations is the sort of thing that will help people make it in the best British View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
A Case of Achievement
Makihara (AMP 75, 1977) view full profile Currently a senior corporate advisor at Mitsubishi Corporation, Makihara had been with the company for 36 years, including a stint as head of U.S. operations, when he was named president and CEO... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
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Professor Ramchandran Jaikumar Remembered
published widely in academic and professional journals and contributed to several books. He was a consultant to many companies and served on committees of the National Research Council and as an advisor to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
been held in makeshift storefronts in anonymous locations. In 2007 the authors took sample sales to the Internet with a members-only website for a select national group of 13,000 young, high-end shoppers. They provide straight talk on how... View Details