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- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
aftermath of the student protests in Tiananmen Square, the United States had imposed sanctions, including a ban on ministerial contacts. Thus, the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade, cochaired by the U.S. Secretary of...
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
Genesis of the Federal Securities Act, 1933 . Special Collections, Harvard Law School This small collection contains materials collected by James M. Landis when chair of the Securities Exchange Commission...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Live Long and Prosper: Lillian Too Reveals Ancient Chinese Secrets
successful ever since the commissioning of their new building in 1983. What Feng shui problems are commonly found in Western buildings? Long corridors, angular structures, protruding columns and corners, exposed pillars and structural...
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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity
Alexander Graham Bell patents telephone with the help of Thomas A. Watson 1877 Thomas Edison and a team of engineers create the phonograph 1879 Edison perfects the incandescent lightbulb 1882 Federation of Organized Trades and Labor...
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- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty to fill the role until a...
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Maureen Harmon
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
Emmons, the "deregulatory" Telecommunications Act of 1996 enhances the powers and responsibilities of the Federal Communications Commission in a number of key areas, while...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Alumni Books
The People Factor: Strengthening America by Investing in Public Service by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84) and W. Scott Gould (Brookings Institution Press) The authors argue that the federal government can achieve the same gains as the best...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
HBS, HMS, and Harvard’s School of Public Health. Two case protagonists were in attendance: Dr. Paul Farmer, an HMS professor and the subject of the best-seller Mountains Beyond Mountains, and Dr. Agnes Binagwaho, executive secretary of the Rwandan National AIDS Control...
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- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
again. April: When we think about these type of big structural social changes, we're often thinking about federal government action. Do you think there's also a place for the business community to lead this...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Heroines and Helping Hands
idea when she was born or how old she is. She never had the chance to go to school. Then seven years ago, in 2002, she was gang-raped by the order of a tribal council. Somebody had accused her brother of an offense, and the community...
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- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
self-employed person declined 19 percent in real terms between 2007 and 2010, according to the Federal Reserve's Survey of Consumer Finances. And a survey by the National Federation of Independent Businesses...
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- 22 Oct 2014
- News
Closing the opportunity divide for low-income young adults
country, from State Street, Goldman Sachs to the federal government. And the reason we have grown to a $70 million dollar organization with 400 staff in 12 different cities is not because I’m that special or we’re that special. The reason...
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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
tangible results: The Walmart Foundation cited the research as part of its announcement of a new five-year, $100 million effort to address the skills gap. The initial competitiveness research also inspired the HBS Club of New York to launch a project that connects...
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- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
permitted by the Telecommunications Act of 1996 is realigning media ownership. Among other changes, the Federal Communications Commission recently relaxed restrictions on...
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- 03 Aug 2021
- News
Leading Maryland’s Only Black-Owned and -Managed Commercial Bank to Be a Pandemic Resource
The Baltimore Sun recently highlighted the work of John Lewis (MBA 2004), President and Chief Operating Officer of Harbor Bank of Maryland, which the newspaper notes became a vital pandemic-era resource for businesses looking to obtain View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
director of the Brady Commission, a task force created to examine ways to avoid another stock market crash like Black Monday on October 24. “It was hard not to say yes,” he recalls. After the commission completed its report, Glauber...
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- 22 Sep 2017
- News
Turning a Disorder into an Opportunity
Michael Fieldhouse (AMP 177, 2009), director for Emerging Businesses and Federal Government at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Australia (HPE), launched the Dandelion program in Australia in 2015, introducing people with autism spectrum...
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- 01 Aug 2002
- News
Service Leadership Fellows
Omosa, Initiative for a Competitive Inner City; Juan Carlos Pereira, Presidential Commission for Investment Promotion (in Nicaragua); and (front row) Nicole Hanrahan, Women's Educational and Industrial Union; Alexis Palmer, Lincoln Center...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
radical transformations, including a power shift from its headquarters in London to an international secretariat in Johannesburg; a new federated governance structure that increases the influence of units in Africa and Asia; and...
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Julia Hanna;
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Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development;
Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
- 27 Jul 2019
- Op-Ed
Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?
When the FTC announced in July a $5 billion penalty and other actions against the company over privacy disgressions, the Federal Trade Commission said it well: “ through at least June 2018, Facebook...
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by George Riedel