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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Baby Business
families. By viewing this widespread activity through the lens and logic of markets — and daring to define it in terms of supply, demand, and property rights — Spar aims to bring realism and thoughtful public-policy debate to a subject... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
mastered English and advanced to the top of his class. His outstanding academic performance earned him a scholarship to Oxford University, where he became president of the Oxford Union, the world’s most famous debating society. Upon... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
about is a discussion about strategic capabilities that need to reside within the country. Pisano: Unlike other nations, we don’t have a national economic strategy. There’s this big debate about whether we should have one. My answer is... View Details
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Technology for Learning's Sake
profiles of three innovative courses that may provide the kinds of pedagogical frameworks McFarlan and others are looking for as the School's IT initiative moves forward. Changing the Nature of Case Debate A few years ago, Associate... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig
- 01 Jun 2005
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Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
was an engineer with John Deere and her mother a busy volunteer and housewife. In high school, in addition to music, dance, and swimming, she explored international issues in debate club and participated in Model UN, an interest she... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
of inspiration for environmental leaders worldwide. The fiftieth anniversary of Silent Spring in 2012 saw another outpouring of interest in Carson’s work, including debate about the widespread prohibition of DDT use around the world. That... View Details
- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
to simplify my life. What does that model do? Well, if you regulate automate, and effectuate your low time, low importance decisions, you actually create brain space to debate the high time, high importance decisions that we don't think... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
debate and vote on every issue before Congress. The votes are then proxied through a congressperson who has pledged to vote according to what the district majority says on the platform. Another venture, OpenGov, is a cloud-based... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
spent the better part of the last two years planning and preparing for the early April event. Held in the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center and the adjacent Grand Hyatt Hotel, the meeting included two days of intense discussion and View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
I’m part of a team studying some of these topics, so I’m constantly thinking about possible solutions. In my paper, we’re looking at what happens when you allow people to watch a debate with access to Twitter and without access to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
respectfully debate the most challenging issues here, and identify potential solutions here. With HBS faculty and students driving the conversations, we are optimistic that HBS and Harvard can be at the forefront of new conversations,... View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
BioDevastation 2000. Obviously, advances in biotechnology are not viewed with confidence by all. Although much of the debate focuses on the possible health hazards posed by genetically engineered crops, as well as their potential for... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
ability and willingness to speak up in class. Walker points out that many international students come from cultures in which it is taboo to debate with a professor or a fellow classmate. Other societal norms dictate that greater respect... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
sentence. It makes rereads enjoyable; there’s always more to explore and contemplate. The book that helped me read something like Simulacra and Simulation is How to Read a Book. It made me realize that reading is an intensely informative View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
entrepreneurs actually go about producing transformative change. There are four key stages: understanding the world; envisioning a better future; building a model for change; and scaling the solution. The Debate over Jewish Achievement:... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
staff, and faculty who packed Burden Auditorium on Tuesday, September 23, as Congress hotly debated the then newly proposed $700 billion financial rescue legislation. The second panel convened two days later by Harvard President Drew... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
Chu and Rodríguez know that the only thing that will end the internal debate and push impact investing into the mainstream is results. So they need something big to hit that will make everyone sit up and take notice. They need Barared to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
SOS-KDI in the Andean countries. "Nevertheless, it will be worthwhile to observe it for several years before making a judgment. We can only learn by experimenting." This debate and other challenges facing SOS-KDI, such as how to determine... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Twain, Henry James, and Ernest Hemingway, to name just a few, and was well known for fostering a productive national debate around the pressing issues of the time—the modest goal being nothing less than advancing the sum of human... View Details