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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
New Orleans Resonance
annual improvements of between 11 and 39 percent, earning the school widespread acclaim. London’s Sunday Telegraph (September 12, 2010) declared NOCP “part of the boldest experiment in education reform seen in the United States, and one... View Details
Keywords: charter schools
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
fifty-year history, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were the big guys on the block. We had the money. We were helping to reform a world after World War II and gradually mutated into an institution to assist in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
make decisions in challenging situations. Health care reform was making national headlines—and not in a good way—about the time the conference was held. Did you find that it quelled optimism or that people simply viewed it as another... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
unless it saves a lot of money, just doesn't cut it. Pro bono work I'm on the board of Lesley University, which educates more teachers than any other institution in the United States, and I'm about to join the board of Brown. I really believe that public education... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Maybe it all begins at a dinner table in Beaverton, Oregon. It’s the late 1980s, at the height of the spotted owl controversy—a pitched battle between loggers and conservationists over whether preserving a bird’s habitat is more critical than saving jobs. A... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
confer regularly with local groups in an effort to involve the community to an unprecedented degree," he notes. As for the International Olympic Committee, Romney believes that it now understands it must reform itself, too. Romney remains... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
technological innovations taking place in the life sciences, in clean tech, and in computer science that could profoundly reshape the business landscape. A third factor is regulation. Whether or not you like the regulatory reform that’s... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
Dr. Margaret Chan (PMD 61, 1991) is worried. She believes that a serious human influenza pandemic will almost certainly occur at some time in the near future. Chan is particularly concerned by the avian influenza virus H5N1 that is currently moving across continents... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
out of poverty, and to do it in the context of a very freewheeling and open democracy. It could be a huge example for the world.” The primary catalyst for India’s economic growth can be linked to sweeping reforms instituted in 1991 under... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Reinvigorating Democracy: A Vote for Change
they coauthored in the report, A Recovery Squandered. The survey found that more than half of all Americans believe the country is not electing the right people and that over 70 percent of HBS alumni believe our political problems are structural and require View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
investment (FDI) in China has been viewed both as evidence of a Western desire to gain a toehold in the country and as confirmation that China’s economy presents increasingly sound investment opportunities. But in his new book, Selling China: Foreign Direct Investment... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
electronics industries were developing momentum. We took our leadership for granted, ignored this shift, and became complacent. Our problems became more serious when communism failed in Russia, Chairman Mao died, and reforms that were... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty, frustration, and lack of hope” that... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Mary Quin: A Life-Changing Story
Through this project, Quin became aware of the plight of women in Afghanistan and then worked with Afghan women to help craft the Declaration of the Essential Rights of Afghan Women, a document that she hopes will be formally incorporated into the constitution of a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Showtime
CNBC’s morning business show, Squawk Box, set up on Baker Lawn September 16 for a live broadcast that tapped faculty and alumni views on the U.S. economy. Host Carl Quintanilla and University Professor Michael Porter, who served as cohost, talked with Dean Nitin Nohria... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Alumni News | Book Briefs
exchange program for more than 1.5 million young people and teachers. He tells of the lessons he has learned about reforming support for children in foster care, young offenders, gifted and talented children, and schools in general. View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
of the tax system (including the corporate side) is patently unfair and riddled with special benefits for those with access to decision makers. Unfortunately, it is this latter point that makes reform of the system so difficult and makes... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Agenda: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963)
In the early 1970s, Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) was CEO of Texas International Airlines, a struggling regional operation. There were whispers of change coming for the airline industry as Washington considered the pros and cons of ending regulation. “If there was a list of... View Details
Keywords: April White