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- 01 Feb 2002
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Telling the Electronic Century's Unfinished Story
countries, and economic forces that shaped the infrastructure for an unprecedented new era of technology. Beginning with the vacuum tube in the 1920s and progressing through the inventions of the transistor, the integrated circuit, and... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
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Stick with Plan A
world. Initially, Maddy pursued an early dream of working for the United Nations Development Program. "Soon, however, I became very disillusioned that economic aid was the path to economic development," she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
strategies, virtual workplaces, results-only work environments, babies at work programs, and on-ramp and off-ramp opportunities. Get the Job You Really Want by James Caan (AMP 164, 2003) (Portfolio) To land the job of your dreams, Caan explains how to stay positive in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Faculty Books
Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky (University of Chicago Press) Although crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Fiscal Year Ends on Upbeat Note
Executive Education — typically contribute more than half of the total budget. But both units are vulnerable to economic downturns, and demand for HBP products and programs offered by Executive Education were projected to suffer from a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
tools and techniques of which their contemporaries were only vaguely aware to serve markets which, in some instances, they had to create." In a recent interview, Tedlow described Giants of Enterprise as a labor of love. "I have been... View Details
- 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
- 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 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 2010
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$how Me the Money
should avoid any semblance of tax evasion or illicit activity, says Baker. He points to the goals of GFI’s Task Force on Financial Integrity & Economic Development (TFFIED), a global coalition of civil society organizations and some 55... View Details
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- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
Development will launch a competition created by Shenkar to bring economic drivers of clean tech to West Africa. "It is a tremendous business challenge," she says, "but, just like in the early days of the Internet, the smartest and most... View Details
- 16 Mar 2017
- News
The CEO Who's Turning the Global Development Movement on Its Head
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
radiates a benign intensity. “There were jobs to be created and families hoping for a solution. The second was that it could be a model for other companies in a similar situation. The economic climate in France was difficult, with... 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 Apr 2001
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Professor Thomas Kennedy Remembered
Professor Thomas Kennedy, an authority on labor relations at Harvard Business School and a highly respected labor arbitrator, died last December in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. He was 88 years old. A member... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
with senior researchers James Weber and Mary Louise Shelman, examines the complex political and economic underpinnings of the ethanol industry and the dilemma facing the farmers of Mid-Missouri Energy (MME). The farmers must make major... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion annually in projects and programs... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details