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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Students Blog on Economics
A blog launched last year by four HBS students, the Economic Policy Review (www.econblog.org) seeks to provide nonpartisan, balanced commentary on pressing economic issues facing the U.S. economy. Kyle Sable (HBS ’09), one of the EPR’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Daniel Vasella
years” in a Financial Times poll of 4,000 executives. He recently spoke about the public policy and business challenges ahead. U.S. consumers complain loudly that prescription drugs cost too much. What’s your response? We have a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
venture-backed start-ups. (See sidebar, page 28.) Their concern extends beyond clients to the overall health of the U.S. economy. While the venture-capital community itself is small, numbering several thousand professionals... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Forestalling Terror
forestall the deadliest attack ever on U.S. soil. The case is dedicated to Waleed Iskandar (MBA ’93), a colleague of Rivkin’s at Monitor Company, who died in the 9/11 attacks. The focus of your work is on how to manage integration within... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
solution to the U.S.-China trade deficit lay in an expansion of U.S. exports, rather than restrictions on the Chinese side. He noted that in recent years, U.S. exports to China have increased by a greater... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: “While new systemic threats had emerged along the way, there was little effort to regulate them, undercutting the original New... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution
The Bulletin recently spoke with Regina E. Herzlinger, the School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, about her new book, Market-Driven Health Care: Who Wins, Who Loses in the Transformation of America's Largest View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
HBS Alumni Explore Tanzania
poverty in developing countries. Timothy A. Piper (MBA ’88), Techno-Serve’s deputy country director, later invites us to dinner at his home in Dar es Salaam with a special guest: the acting U.S. ambassador to Tanzania. As the days go by,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
MarketWatch commentary (February 1, 2011). “So by looking back at what worked for investors in the United States between the world wars, I believe I can peer into a time capsule to see what will work for investors today in China.” That means focusing on basic sectors... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness. The Business Roundtable was no less emphatic. “This is an unprecedented preemption of state corporate law that will turn boards of more than 15,000 publicly traded... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
alumni and their guests will experience a “State Dinner,” modeled on those hosted by U.S. presidents for foreign dignitaries. As always, the Alumni Board strives to ensure a great event at an affordable price. To encourage greater... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa
as she puts it — Clarke sees her next step as getting support from U.S. foundations. “We are at an important juncture,” says Clarke, whose enthusiasm for SSP-SA and advocacy for education would make her mother and grandmother proud. “I am... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
financial terms.” Obremskey’s firm, RHIA, on the other hand, is a social impact fund focusing on reproductive health to improve maternal care and combat rising maternal mortality in the U.S. Avestria invested with RHIA to develop a fetal... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Christensen and Vernon Remembered
his MBA at Harvard, he served in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps from 1943 to 1946 before returning to HBS to continue his education and launch his teaching career. In the mid-1950s, he played a major role in developing the concept of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
Americans of the second half of the 20th century. But regardless of how history may judge his record, McNamara’s decades of service in the public and private sectors enable him to speak with singular authority about the strengths and... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
"Harvard 'B' for Peace." It was an extraordinary introduction to student life at the B-School, and as events such as the student killings at Kent State and Jackson State, the U.S. invasion of Cambodia, and the trial of the Chicago Seven... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project
RELATED LINKS Video: Dean Nohria introduces the Project U.S. Competitiveness home page HBS Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness The Path to Economic Revival Made in America — Making Their Way How Boeing Competes — James McNerney Jr.... View Details