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- 01 Aug 2013
- News
A Cure for Cold Storage
wins, combined with a July 2012 paper that detailed the science behind the technology, attracted attention from the likes of the Economist and National Public Radio. Soon, Schrader no longer had to cold call the pharma companies—they were... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
appointment book—it was largely empty. Like Buffett, Spier’s investing approach is iconoclastic. He moved his family to Zurich to escape the Wall Street Sturm und Drang. His theories on economic behavior are pulled not from economists but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
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
- 28 May 2009
- News
The fragile web of foreign trade
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
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
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
them in their home, meeting their family.” That human connection, she says, is often valued above the financial incentive in Cuba. Gordon gives an example: When hiring a group of economists from the University of Havana for a consulting... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 28 May 2009
- News
Play On
- 14 May 2009
- News
Too big to swallow
- 28 May 2009
- News
Life is expensive
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
view. Born in England and trained as an economist at Cambridge University, he moved to Brussels to work with the European Commission, the governing body of the newly formed European Union. He later became EU director of Transatlantic... View Details
- 21 Jun 2022
- News
Banquet Brings Latino Alumni Back Together; Dallas Club Marks 75 Years with a Look Ahead
of activities celebrating its 75th anniversary, the HBS Club of Dallas recently presented a fireside chat on “The Future of Dallas,” with Cullum Clark, an urban economist and thought leader on the future of cities. Van Sheets (right),... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Jun 2011
- News
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
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
and John Maynard Keynes, who was a British economist and one of the leading economic thinkers of the time. Despite their differences, their assessment was remarkably similar; that is, how odd it was that there was no shortage of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
(formerly known as Project Antares), a collaboration between HBS and HSPH that intends to use business and markets to break the perverse synergy between poverty and poor health. Says HSPH professor and Antares cofounder David Bloom, an View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
been Hamilton's.... An acclaimed and prolific author, Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, died in November. He won the Pulitzer Prize in History in 1985 for Prophets of Regulation. More recently, his 2007 biography of the View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Much of the movement's inspiration can be traced back to education reformers like free-market economist Milton Friedman, who argued as early as 1955 that education aid should follow students to the school of their choice, thereby forcing... View Details
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Exploring China’s Belt & Road Initiative
of a nascent development project that some compare to Shanghai’s thriving Pudong district. Research symposium Students had the opportunity to present their BRI research to alumni and other guests, including the World Bank’s lead economist... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
In March, the School lost two of its most distinguished and loyal professors, Bertrand Fox and Myles Mace. The following profiles recall their contributions to HBS. Professor emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and HBS professor and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole at the Research Center in Entrepreneurial History at HBS. Professor Myles Mace, back from military service in the Pacific where he found GIs eager to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Letters to the Editor
from HBS professor emeritus Tom McCraw’s book Prophet of Innovation about the economist Joseph Schumpeter, one of my academic heroes and one of the greatest economists ever. Many years ago I had numerous... View Details