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- 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
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
Forty percent of all Fortune 500 companies were started by either an immigrant or the child of an immigrant. Those 200 companies together would make up the fourth largest economy in the world. We need to continue to grow our country and... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home
Explains Fields, “Especially since the recession, to be more competitive, we’ve looked beyond things like labor costs when deciding where to locate new business.” He believes that the United States can often claim competitive advantage in several areas: View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
forced business closings due to contentious negotiations between the unions and the state and other employers. A real black swan. This has worsened an economy already weakened by the global financial crisis. Such conditions test the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
terrorism. Bremer, who has also worked as a special or executive assistant to six secretaries of state, entered the private sector in 1989, becoming managing director of Kissinger Associates, a strategic consulting firm. In 2000, he moved to Marsh & McLennan to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene
cultural and political specificities and the economic realities of this diverse region,” explains Ivashina. “That gives them the upper hand.” Although many startups have identified and seized upon opportunities, there are also several key... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
Alumni Books The Saudi Kingdom by Ali Al Shihabi (MBA 1985) (Markus Wiener Publishers) Al Shihabi presents an analysis of Saudi Arabia’s political stability in light of mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
industrial economy. That economy was Germany’s. Then, as today, there was a fine line between symbiosis and rivalry. Could anything trigger another breakdown of globalization like the one that happened in 1914? The obvious answer is a... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
finding solutions for high unemployment in outmoded manufacturing industries, which was a situation that contributed to political and social unrest in the region. “It was one of the first applications of the ideas in The Competitive... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
image projected behind him), the former Treasury Secretary spoke about the global economy and America’s malfunctioning political system. At the close of the GLF, on the eve of his retirement after forty... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Capitalism Constrained: Public Policy and the Manager, examines the role of the state in five economic sectors: energy, communications, transportation, health, and the environment. "Deregulation, with roots in the U.S. political View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
built-in frustrations of politics and, all too often, inefficiency and bureaucracy. It’s a fact Mawilmada will reference obliquely but not dwell on, as doing so does no good. “You need to give Nayana full marks for coping with this,” says... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy (Harvard University Press). To the rescue, McCraw recounts, came two unheralded immigrants, Alexander Hamilton and Albert Gallatin, later regarded by most experts as the two greatest US... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Julie Bishop (AMP 151, 1996)
Richard Vietor’s course Business, Government, and the International Economy put many things in context.” Number of state visits since taking office: 57 trips to 49 countries, including Iraq, Iran, Indonesia, Ukraine, Afghanistan, and 12... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photography by X99/Zuma
- 30 Apr 2025
- News
A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado
9th Congressional District, who serves on the Appropriations Committee which controls the federal budget. “Given the current market conditions and political dynamics, we wanted to understand the path forward for social enterprise... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
conceptions of development in another. Lessons from the collapse of democracy in Indonesia were later applied in Chile, just as the challenge of political Islam in Indonesia informed the policies of the left in Iran. Efforts to build... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Time Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Vanderbilt University, 1971 B.A., Political Science LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Trust is a powerful tool in helping you lead. You... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
been met would substantially curtail illicit financial flows,” says Baker. “I believe in the power of the signature.” For its part, the World Bank cites five elements as key to reducing corruption: increasing political accountability;... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
Selectric typewriter. But soon desktop computers were introduced, and they revolutionized the way business was done, helping the economy evolve from a manufacturing base to one driven by services and information. The Information Age had... View Details