Policy Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

economist for Merrill Lynch South Africa, noted that "there is only so much a macroeconomic policy can do. The central task is to create a stable environment." The final keynote speaker was Dean Kim B. Clark, who presented an update on... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

that a member of the school board had resigned his seat, with two years left on a four-year term? “I looked at the position and realized this was probably the opportunity to start contributing,” she says. Without a solvent, high-performing school system, Scranton’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Mar 2012
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Get Creative

generating new product ideas. Sometimes a community of users will form independently of the company. That can be tricky, because they will not want to be controlled, and they will want to criticize your product. The best policy is... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2010
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MBAs on a Mission

Science Museum: “We’re changing the cultural landscape of an entire city.” The Hub in the Heart of Texas The success of any large-scale project usually comes down to the effective management of hundreds and hundreds of small, pressing... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Feb 2002
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Redefining Success: Women & Work.

sugarcoated: balancing the challenges of a demanding career with motherhood. "You've got three choices," Hunt tells her students at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where she runs the Women and Public Policy Program. "You can go... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016

Non-fiction The Most Important Things I Know: 55 Handwritten Ideas from People Who Changed the World by Lorne Adrain (MBA 1983) Lorne Adrain A best-of collection drawn from Adrain’s previous books, this edition contains notes from Buzz... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

fintech startups. (FinTech Collective led the Series A financing for Quovo.) This opening resulted in what Gibbins describes as a gradual externalization of R&D at the major firms. Gotsch, who is not one to miss an opportunity—“never let a good crisis go to waste,” she... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Harvard Gazette How invasion may hit U.S., global economies [Thomas D. Cabot Professor of Public Policy and Professor of Economics at Harvard] Kenneth Rogoff sees possible fallout in stock, energy markets, worsening of inflation, increase... View Details

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