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- 01 Jan 2012
- News
Franklin P. “Pitch” Johnson Jr., MBA 1952
headquarters is named after him, for instance—attest to his many contributions to the world of business, as do his outside activities, including presenting papers on entrepreneurship, venture capital, and democracy throughout the world... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
had two critical consequences. First, it has endangered democracy by giving the wealthy few enormous influence over who is elected to positions of power and what they decide. Second, it has further endangered View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
lives for market capitalism (the capitalism that, in the name of profitability and globalization, soon destroyed many of their jobs). Many of those who demonstrated then had in mind socialism with a humane face. Winston Churchill is reported to have remarked that... View Details
- Web
Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
gas-powered automobile built in the U.S. 1894 Boycott of Pullman sleeping cars leads to general strike on railroads Pullman Porters 1900 U.S. Industrial Commission declares trade unions good for democracy 1902 Willis H. Carrier designs... View Details
- 23 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni Consider Election Reform; Clubs Explore Parenting by Case Method
Otten says REN is not so much an organization as an “interested network” of business alumni wanting to make our democracy work fairly and for everyone. “The two-party system is currently not working for the people. The parties are not... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
crisis? Did the International Monetary Fund (IMF) help or hinder recovery? Did democracy help or hinder recovery? Seen as an economic miracle, Korea succumbed to the wave of currency crises sweeping Asia in late 1997. Did the same... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
characteristics correlate with power in international institutions. The most overrepresented countries are small, rich democracies like the Nordic countries. Statistically, democracy, investment in diplomacy, and economic/military power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
fallout, particularly inequality and migration as its consequence. They see their cities, as in France, becoming battlegrounds. The very people they need for the workforce don't feel integrated or part of the social contract, and they know this can breed violence and... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
provide to municipalities free of charge, as a condition of franchise approval. "Narrowcasting" would supplement broadcasting with an array of arts and educational programming. Jeffersonian democracy would bloom as cable... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years, which won the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Book on International Relations in 1998. Inspired by South Africa's unfolding democracy and dismayed by America's “sclerotic and... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
and their HR professionals are complicit in what we have come to call the "great training robbery." Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50953 The Perils of Building Democracy in Africa By:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation
118,000 datasets for public use. "I cowrote the case in part to provide a field guide to suggest how to encourage data openness within organizations and even countries. Some countries, I think, would be better at it: Canada, Scandinavian countries, for instance,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
contract, and they know this can breed violence and terrorism. Their democracies seem unable to adopt appropriate remedies. In Asia, they are mostly sanguine about economic growth. But there is concern about the environment, particularly... View Details
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
any other scholar to handle alone. But his attempt to do it changed his thinking in a profound way. He adopted a much more empirical and historical approach to economics, which informed both Business Cycles and his subsequent work. The change is quite clear in... View Details
Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
a free press, real-life horror stories with bearing on policy issues may serve to blunt the power of special interests by informing and catalyzing public opinion. An Exploration of Marketing's Impact on Society: A Perspective Linked to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
Understanding Globalization, 2000 Edition (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000) Robert Kuttner, Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism? (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2018) Jeff Madrick, Staying the Invisible Hand, The New... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2016
- What Do You Think?
Is Apple’s Real Privacy Challenge Technology Innovation Itself?
terrorist is moot.” Several addressed the more specific issue of Apple’s dispute with the FBI. The question of what a government can demand in a democracy roughly split respondents down the middle. Taking Apple’s side, ZBV said: “The... View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
assets, something that has gone on for centuries? Is it better to have the available money, regardless of origin, invested in assets located in free market democracies than somewhere else? Will this help insure the world's long-run... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
thought experiments designed in his executive MBA classes, he challenges readers to explore their cognitive blind spots, identify any salient details they are programmed to miss, and then take steps to ensure it won’t happen again. View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
bailed out at the expense of taxpayers. As George Soros argued in his book The Crisis of Global Capitalism: “Capitalism and democracy obey different rules.... The interests that are supposed to be served are different: in capitalism it is... View Details