Political Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2002
News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

Huang, opened with a spirited presentation by Ko Kheng Hwa (AMP:ISMP 152), managing director of the Singapore Economic Development Board. "Asia is not just China, you know!" he said. In addition to highlighting Singapore's contributions to what he called "rising Asia,"... View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2008
News

Team MBA

would think of. PETER STONE, 28 Modesto, California BA, Political Science and Government, Brigham Young University Peter has traveled to 45 countries; next stop is Australia. Recent adventures: the HBS India Trek and a trip to Vietnam and... View Details

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

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus—and her daughter’s exams. Political maneuvering, miscommunications, and administrative meddling nearly jeopardized the project, but perseverance paid off.... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

monk, Stefan Cossack restores the glory of Kievan Rus to modern-day Ukraine. A novel of romance, friendship, military struggle, and political intrigue. Alpini: De roc, de neige et de sang by Gérard Guerrier (AMP 114, 1994) (Glénat Livres)... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

products that make people’s lives easier, safer, and more enjoyable. In many capitalist economies in 2018, and especially in our own, innovation is unending, and its pace may even be accelerating. The creative destruction of capitalism... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

and children. But part of the transition, which continues into our own time, has been political and social. From the Boston Tea Party to the civil rights boycotts, consumers have used their buying power to express dissatisfaction with the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

Kennedy School knowledge," Keen says of the legislation he helped draft around raising the minimum wage and reforming the Cherokee Nation Supreme Court. But he also got a bruising lesson in politics when he spoke out against... View Details

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

Schenk, director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative, asked some of our alumni how they view this moment and how they are looking to capitalize on it. Julia Trotman Brady (MBA 1997) Partner, Valo Ventures This is the most consequential policy for advancing... View Details

17 Jun 2021
News

Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

impacts on the working women of Canada: More women than men left careers as schools shut down to care for families. Twice as many women as men applied for Canada’s child care benefit. The country’s economy lost more than 800,000 jobs.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

of the inner city (lack of health care and substandard housing, for example) are important, they do not get at all the root causes. "To build healthy and sustainable inner-city communities, it is necessary to create healthy economies in... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

made today will have implications for many years to come. Think broadly. We need to think across political and sector boundaries. The better we are able to bridge the private, public, and social sectors, the more successful we can be.... View Details

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

publicly funded. (Bloomberg/Getty Images) Japan’s demographic time bomb is a bittersweet result of its robust recovery after World War II. Within two generations, the country catapulted from a state of ruin to the second-strongest economy... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

29 Mar 2023
News

Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria

College Society of Arab Students (SAS), and an independent effort by Ahmet Akbiyik, a Ph.D. student in political economy and government. “A single dollar goes a long way,” said Syrian native and... View Details

Publications