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A Chronicle of the China Trade. The Papers of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877
personal perspectives of the life and trajectory of a nineteenth—century firm—a firm that prospered at the height of the China trade and met its decline with the advent of new technologies and the emergence of the Chinese as mainstream... View Details
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Hayling Price
Kennedy School, the real New Rochelle he lived in differed greatly from the broadcast fantasy. "I grew up in the middle of two 'New Rochelles' and lived between two worlds," says Hayling. One of those was close to the television ideal, a community of View Details
- 19 Feb 2010
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The MBA Oath Debate
fiduciary responsibilities. In many countries, board members and, as a consequence, managers have a fiduciary duty to maximize the wealth of the shareholders. None of them would accept that managers promote ‘social and environmental View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
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How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
School's U.S. Competitiveness Project. Rivkin is the Bruce V. Rauner Professor of Business Administration. “Study after study has shown that a country's long-term prosperity depends on the quality of its human capital” Rivkin and fellow... View Details
- 09 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit
out the costs of leaving the EU, citizens have not heard a forward-looking plan on how the country could leverage EU membership more effectively in the future, if the country would decide to stay. The country needs to get on with taking steps to raise productivity and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Democratizing development: Inequality in Latin America | Institute for Business in Global Society
met in São Paulo, Brazil, to explore actionable measures that Latin American enterprises can take to drive inclusive prosperity and upward mobility. Learning resources At BiGS, we want to make resources and learning materials accessible... View Details
- 01 Jul 2018
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Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
prosperity in our communities and for society. Thank you for joining us on this important journey. Nitin Nohria Dean of the Faculty George F. Baker Professor of Administration Das Narayandas Senior Associate Dean, External Relations and... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
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Lessons in Leadership
stable, prosperous times and also in very uncertain, dangerous times. Third, the Shackleton story is compelling. Case-method learning is partly about choosing stories that we can learn from, that we can make our own, that we don’t forget... View Details
Keywords: Antarctica
- 15 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive
results of surveys of global business leaders and the general public, says the US is “failing the test of competitiveness.” Overall prosperity may be growing slowly—but only for a small slice of the population. Large companies and highly... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
more from shopping malls, they have shown little interest in building affordable apartments. Government policies have favored home ownership, and today's interest rates are low. Finally, the rising prosperity of Israel has exacerbated... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
standard of living. But Amar Bhidé (MBA ’79, DBA ’88) thinks the “gathering storm” theory is not only wrong but alarmist and harmful. Writing in his book The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
around private sector involvement in alleviating poverty. However, he found over his five years with the organization that aligning future generations of business leaders with the goal of creating prosperity that is shared and inclusive... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
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Starting Now — Bruce Wasserstein (MBA 1971)
Wasserstein will neither discuss the down times nor revel in past triumphs. "I don't look back as much as I look forward," he says circumspectly. Meanwhile, Wasserstein Perella has prospered in the mid-1990s, having branched into areas... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
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Fast Forward
South Carolina, Representative Tom Rice—both of whom have included the US Competitiveness tenets in their respective agendas. Shared Prosperity To help address stagnant middle- and working-class household incomes, Senior Fellow Karen... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
with discrete transfers. Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—Competitiveness research aims to enhance our understanding of the drivers of prosperity differences across locations and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
the macro reforms don't actually do well in the end. Their prosperity really doesn't come. You need to do both together. You can't just kind of do the grand sweeping macro reform. You've got to do the hard, gritty work of kind of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
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Damien Hooper-Campbell
business and investment banking," Damien says. "I loved being surrounded by smart people, being immersed in the details of deal-making." Damien joined Morgan Stanley after graduation and prospered there for a couple of... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy
and prosperous than others. And the third, which arose from the second, examines how you can take competitive thinking and apply it to social problems such as the environment, inner cities, and health care. Most of my readers have tended... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter
- 01 Sep 2013
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Leading the Way
is facing a crisis of confidence. We all must work to regain the public trust. HBS is committed to educating and developing leaders—as Nitin has described, people of both competence and character, and people who create prosperity for... View Details
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Note on January 6 Events at U.S. Capitol | About
and democracy have been prevalent for a number of years. Yet the issues have taken on new urgency. Today, we must recommit ourselves to enhancing the role business plays in serving society—by increasing the prosperity of its people and... View Details