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- 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
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
As the Future Catches You
wealth disparity between the richest and the poorest nations will soon be 1,000:1. In an age of super-technologies, knowledge will be key and will enable tiny, well-educated nations to prosper while the economies of much larger,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
advocacy organization. “I am no longer a racehorse trapped in a barn,” he writes. “I see a great deal of what is wrong with our economy and our world, and I want to join those who are seeking to renew democracy and to transform our economy into one that is newly View Details
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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
- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
prosperity it lost over the recent past. The difficulties will not disappear—much of the continent still faces massive problems of disease, conflict and resource depletion—but the world is turning its attention back to Africa, and there... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
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
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
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
- 21 Sep 2016
- Blog Post
How HBS Changed My Life
I made the decision to apply to Harvard Business School because I wanted to learn how to use business as a tool to create prosperity for the millions of people striving to eke out a living on my beloved continent of Africa. And so far,... View Details
Angle of Insight
economic development. While there is some value in studying business in prosperous countries today, the real value comes when we study it at a time when the demographics in the 'now rich' region resembled that of today's poor countries. I... View Details
- Profile
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
- 01 Jul 2018
- News
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
- Portrait Project
Jake Cusack
local dress and armed with a notebook instead of combat fatigues and an M4 rifle. I work with local entrepreneurs, who dream of creating a more prosperous and peaceful life. Their optimism can heal wounded spirits and fragile countries.... View Details
- 22 Jun 2021
- News
Looking at Losses in Gender Equity in Post-COVID Canada
Collenette, adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa and founder of The Prosperity Project; Jen Lee Koss (MBA 2008), founding partner of Springbank Collective; and Michelle Banik, a human resources consultant and former chief people... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
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
- 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
- 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
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Chinese Competition and Emerging Technologies - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Other factors hastened Heard & Co.’s decline, including the misappropriation of funds by the house’s agent Everett & Co. The firm also found it difficult to recover from its extravagant ways. “The prosperity of the past had initiated a... View Details
- Profile
Eric Chavez
built his own commercial contracting business. “My parents came here to have a prosperous future they wouldn’t have otherwise in Mexico,” Eric says. Eric’s initial calling was in engineering. Through work at General Motors and an... View Details
- Profile
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