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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
exemplars and promotes the research of economist Peter Lindert of the University of California, Davis. Madrick advocates big government not because it’s big but because it’s powerful enough to manage change... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Latest Model
was booming: The price of bitcoin had surged to nearly $20,000; governments were beginning to recognize the cryptocurrency as legal tender; and industries from fintech to pharma were launching blockchain-related projects. (Though best... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Gore All Business at HBS
students during a talk titled “A Change in Business Climate” presented in Burden Auditorium in December. Gore explained that the population explosion, coupled with the revolutions in science and technology, have greatly magnified the... View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
your estimation, what political actions can actually change people's minds? Hessan: So here's what I think. I think that the extremes get the attention. So I—first of all, this is really hard to say. But I am convinced that our country is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
The Western Front
Illustration by Brian Stauffer Illustration by Brian Stauffer The government used to be America’s greatest innovator. Among many things, it developed or helped fund the creation of the Internet, GPS, microchips, and even Cheetos. (True... View Details
Keywords: Jason Feifer
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Beyond the Plastisphere
Above: illustration by Brian Stauffer In 2008, Sarah Kauss (MBA 2003) attended a presentation on climate change and the global water crisis at her five-year HBS reunion. Harvard Professor Daniel Schrag, who directs the University’s Center... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Make Plans for Washington GLF
School’s renowned intellectual resources, while providing a global alumni audience plenty of opportunities for access to global leaders, networking, and socializing. Beginning with last year’s very successful event in Shanghai, the name View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Q & A: Herb Kohl
cut spending. As a businessman, I know the money you don't spend often representsyour profit. In a Wisconsin vein, I'm working to change the formula by which dairy prices are paid to farmers. We are a dairy state, and because of a law... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 22 Apr 2010
- News
Using Business to Boost National Security
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Skydeck podcast BRUNELL: Human motivation for supporting or catalyzing change only comes from within. We can’t “make” people’s behavior or “mandate” mindset. Citizens must have reason to care, want, and believe in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
Gita's medical history and her symptoms suggest a heart problem, MeraDoctor ultimately recommends that she get an echocardiogram (for which she has to pay at a private facility because the government one is too crowded). The test reveals... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
Professor emeritus, William A. Sahlman, the conversation covered the range of leadership challenges that Mango and Bingham faced while managing both private sector and government partners on an expedited timeline, while searching for an... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
act even though he had plenty of levers he could have pulled that didn’t have to do with changing interest rates. He could have raised margin requirements, for example. But instead, he came up with the ridiculously lame idea that bubbles... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Letters
but it has a detailed plan for public- and private- sector efforts to end extreme global poverty. Business alone cannot do the job because, as the IGD plan points out, it is necessary to invest in good governments as well as investing in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
sales below pre-COVID levels, a figure that tracks closely with figures represented by small-business owners overall; yet only one in five of Camino’s members has received some form of government relief. “Credit models have been turned... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
numbers of stakeholders potentially influencing decisions, with teams and flatter organizations, and with command, control, hierarchy, and authority systems often unable to elicit crucial cooperation and commitment." In addition, he notes that "the sheer pace of View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
Plus, in many countries, government and businesses collude to change the framework, allowing companies to set their own boundaries. A new social contract needs to be developed, because especially in the last... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
after taking office, Rodríguez Larreta pledged to change that, announcing a plan to integrate Villa 31 and an adjacent area, Villa 31 bis, creating a new, formal neighborhood, Barrio 31. His first step: establishing a mayoral office in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Ink
holders; they’re the media. That fourth branch of government is the one that stays in Washington for life, exerting its influence on the way that town works.” Classic Game Change by John Heilemann and Mark... View Details