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14 Mar 2009
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Chen Directs Asia-Pacific Center

Michael Shih-Ta Chen (MBA ’72) is the new executive director of the School’s Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong. A banker and economist who has spent his career in Asia, Chen most recently directed the risk-management unit of the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2007
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A Helping Hand

security and opportunities to give back to society. It brought to mind the words of his father, a World Bank economist and governor of the Federal Reserve System. Recalled Rice, “He wanted to change the world, and he thought he could do... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2008
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Faculty Research Online

ten years later. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5993.html. How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games When economists watch football games, they see more than flying pigskin and stadiums full of fans. Professor Alvin Roth studied the... View Details

09 Oct 2008
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Shutting up shop

02 Apr 2009
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Harry and Louise ride again

07 Oct 2008
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First, do no harm

01 Jun 2009
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Life-Saving Network

HBS professor Al Roth, along with two economists from Boston College, has created software that facilitates the process of donating kidneys. Through it, transplants can still be arranged even if a willing donor and recipient — a husband... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2009
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The Myth of Laissez-Faire

“myth of laissez-faire” that has been promoted by wrong-headed economists (Milton Friedman), opportunistic politicians (including Bill Clinton), and poor readings of history (even antigovernment presidents, including Jefferson, used... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

07 Jun 2011
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Back to the Future

undergraduate, Alden did read economist Joseph Schumpeter on entrepreneurship and wrote his honors thesis on his father as an entrepreneur of the family company. At HBS, Alden notes that several courses were helpful to anyone starting or... View Details

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