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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Capitalism’s False Mantra
Martin lays out a litany of misery: two economic collapses in 10 years (following 70 years of relative stability), the public’s growing distrust of business, an unending line of execs paraded on perp walks, and decreasing rather than... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
Could Kurt Summers Jr. Be Chicago’s Next Mayor?
of the city’s most pressing issues, Crain’s writes. “Ask him about Chicago's pernicious problem with gun violence, and he will tell you the city doesn't have a crime problem. ‘We have an economic problem.’” Summers’s mantra is “How do you... View Details
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
economic model and the HR model and getting it all working. But he said leaders need to also be poets. Now, what is a poet? A poet is somebody who creates a vision, a beautiful view of what the world could be, and tries to get everyone... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
After its war of liberation from England, America was bankrupt, disjointed, and devoid of experience in governance. "The new country could have broken apart because of its financial problems," HBS professor emeritus Thomas McCraw writes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
“Expect the unexpected” could have been the tagline for FIELD 2, the global component of the new required course Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development (FIELD). In January, first-year student Christina Adams (HBS 2013)... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
eco-friendly consensus algorithm. She says they have also tested the first public stablecoin backed entirely by cash. “Our mission is for everyone in the world to experience the benefits of a truly digital financial ecosystem,” she... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
since the economic environments of emerging markets such as Indonesia, Chile, India, or Mexico vary so greatly. Because business groups are fundamental to many economies, understanding how these networked organizations function also... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Building Blocks
Ric Lewis (PMD 69, 1995) was studying economics at Dartmouth in the 1980s when he interviewed for a summer internship at Meredith & Grew, an old-line Boston brokerage and real estate development firm. “If you wanted to say, ‘one of these... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Great Priority Reset
future, airlines will have to make some major operational moves, from reconfiguring cabins to examining the economics of certain routes. Those traveling for pleasure, meanwhile, aren’t waiting—and they are driving change at the airport.... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- News
Brightening the Future
in the Philippines, Jaime “Jim” Ayala (MBA ’88) decided to put his considerable business experience to work improving the lives of some of his native country’s poorest citizens. Explaining his 2009 decision to leave Ayala Land, which had... View Details
- 27 Mar 2019
- News
Fulfilling Their Promise
was meaningful.” What Schooner saw in these young women was promise and a world that wasn’t affording them the same opportunities she had enjoyed growing up. So that same year, she took her own money and launched Girls Group, an organization designed to View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
hope is to stimulate professors and students from around the world to become positive forces for change,” he says. “This venture is central to the Institute's strategy of redefining the way countries think about and practice economic... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
HBSAAAA Convenes in San Francisco
opportunities for both education and networking. "We wanted the experience to be informative and empowering," he says. "As HBS graduates, we can act individually and collectively as a resource for our community and have a tremendous View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
History Matters
History shows us that when economic times are tough, customer relations are more important than ever, according to HBS professor Nancy Koehn. In “Chasing Dreams during Troubled Times: Lessons from the Past” (Boston Globe, January 22,... View Details
- 06 May 2008
- News
Small World? Read Nil about It
dismiss as irrelevant by general readers. So can globalization truly be said to exist or prevail where people have little interest in, knowledge of, or exposure to world affairs? From my experience of living in Latin America for a number... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Jesse Markham Dies at 93
federal antitrust laws. The author of 12 books and more than 150 articles, Markham arrived at HBS from Princeton University. “I came here because the theories on which public policy was being built in economics didn’t square with the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
drug trade in North America for a new TV documentary series. Local Color by Gwen Keane (PMD 50) (High Tide Publications) Based on her experiences growing up in a farm community in the 1950s, Keane describes an undeveloped area where... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell What can historical economic recoveries teach us about our current crisis? One of the things that makes the pandemic so tricky is that there is no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
firsthand as CFO of Liberia’s Forestry Development Authority (FDA). An American citizen, I came here in 2006 to work in a USAID-sponsored project aimed at combating corruption in state-owned enterprises. Here’s one case I encountered: A “company” with no telephone,... View Details