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- Sep 2016
- Survey
Problems Unsolved & A Nation Divided
calls for a national economic strategy for America and proposes federal policy priorities that can form the core of such a strategy. Further, the report highlights corporate and personal tax reform as a promising first step in the strategy. Finally, the report View Details
- Profile
Raghu Yarlagadda
Most electronic devices come with cautionary labels warning users against the dangers of opening the box. Fortunately, as a youth growing up in India, fascinated by televisions, Raghu Yarlagadda ignored the View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
“A National System of Income Supplementation”
and economic inequality http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6545/. The so-called Kerner Report, warning that the United States was in danger of becoming two “separate but unequal” societies, recommended federal initiatives to boost education,... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- News
The Real Meaning of Love
people’s awareness of the warning signs of abusive and controlling relationships. “The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love was started in 2010 after Yeardley, who was a University of Virginia fourth year, was beaten to death by... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
You Are What You Eat
Writing in the magazine Pig Progress (September 23, 2010), Austria-based John Hodges (AMP 52, 1967),an expert on genetics and ethics in agriculture, food, and the environment, warned that the current system of agribusiness is untenable.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Christine Cuoco
brother's dream to open a thriving restaurant even if business-school training warns of slim odds of success. Take shoe-making classes and design, market, and sell a line of fun and trendy, but shockingly comfortable, footwear. Find my... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- News
Sustainability Is Good Business
The recent uproar over the Sierra Club’s acceptance of $26 million in undisclosed donations from an energy company prompted some environmentalists to warn against “sleeping with the enemy.” This sort of us-against-them rhetoric is all too... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 15 Nov 2016
- Webinars: Career
Joining the Right Startup
Startups are like infants: brand new, exciting, bursting with hope and potential. Unfortunately, if you're thinking about joining a startup, that excitement doesn't help much. It often confuses the issues about which deals could succeed and which could fail or, more... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Connecting Past and Present
to warn other members of the family,” said Diamond, whose search led him to Poland—and then to the creation of Jewish Records Indexing–Poland. Since founding JRI-Poland, in 1996, the not-for-profit has indexed more than 5 million birth,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
An Ethical Fitness Quiz for Negotiators
Shady dealings at the negotiating table may work in the short term, but in the end, you’ll undermine trust and tarnish your reputation, warns HBS professor Michael A. Wheeler in the March issue of Negotiation, a newsletter from HBS... View Details
- Portrait Project
Charlotte Keeley
At some intersections, the corner sidewalk square is textured, serving as a tactile warning to the visually impaired that the road is just beyond. Growing up, my twin sister and I were puzzled by these pebbled squares in our neighborhood.... View Details
- 3 PM – 4 PM EST, 11 Dec 2017
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Entrepreneurship: Failing Well
Most ventures fail. Most lives are built on journeys that did not get to their desired destination. How can we think about failure as a necessary part of growth and learn to fail well? View Details
- 1:45 PM – 2:45 PM EST, 11 Jan 2017
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided
Five years of research from Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project, as well as the findings from the 2016 surveys on US competitiveness, present a sobering picture of the deep structural challenges facing the United States. The US needs a national... View Details
- Web
Introduction - The Message - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the corporation. As an executive warned at the Association of National Advertisers Convention in 1937, “Every company that fails to do its part in public relations for business contributes [not only] to possible destruction . . . of its... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Watching the Brain Think and the Surprises of Science
watch the brain think? The unpredictability of these big surprises makes us timid in our speculations: It is embarrassing to be publicly wrong, and big surprises make dunces of us all. But avoiding speculation makes science dreary and neglects our responsibility to... View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
words on a piece of paper will not stop unethical behavior, where steep fines and prison have failed to do so.” Writing in BusinessWeek.com’s online debate over the oath, INSEAD finance professor Theo Vermaelen warned that signing it was... View Details
- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
and the European Central Bank as lenders who have already adopted negative rates. Nobuyuki Hirano, president of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group Inc., echoes Oteh’s warning in the article, arguing that the policy will “gradually undermine... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Buffett Preaches Investment Discipline
whistles. And, as was the case during a visit to the School last September, the "Oracle of Omaha" doesn't disappoint. From his opening gambit ("Testing, one million, two million," he intoned into the microphone), to his astute overview of American business, to his... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Imagining Pre-Industrial Credit
points to a conviction that debt leads inexorably to immorality. The aristocrat bedeviled by dunning creditors is another popular theme, suggesting the moneylender's power to upset the established social order. Later prints take a more instrumental approach, View Details
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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
once warned that “convictions [can be] more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.” This year’s conference engages inherent contradictions and complications about who gets to speak, about what, to whom, and with what consequences. The... View Details