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- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Making Things Right for Those Who’ve Been Done Wrong
helped clients gain market share.’ I wanted to look back on my career and say, ‘I did my part to make the world a better place.’ “I talked to a lot of people about work that they did and what they found... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
CEO Compensation Troubles
Ask any thoughtful corporate board member what they are most concerned about these days, and it is not Sarbanes-Oxley. It is CEO pay. Directors worry because shareholders continue to express outrage, and the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
year. Despite the wealth of people like Wu Yajun and Yin Mingshan, the average Chinese lives on less than $2,000. Why would the latter want, in effect, to lend money to the former, who is twenty-two times... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
their world. “The early results show that trust in most major institutions is declining. People trust the government less, they trust the media less, they trust religion less,” says Debora Spar, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Ruling the Waves
by Debora L. Spar (Harcourt) In her new book, Ruling the Waves: Cycles of Discovery, Chaos, and Wealth from the Compass to the Internet, HBS professor Debora Spar looks back over the centuries View Details
- 07 May 2025
- News
Scaling New Heights
Brianna Brown, chief product officer at City Fresh Foods in Boston. (Photo/video credit: Susan Young) City Fresh Foods has long served nutritious meals to students, seniors, and daycare centers in Greater Boston’s under-resourced communities. But when the company saw... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
A CEO Goes Undercover
had agreed to work at different jobs in my company. But I would not appear as myself, the president and CEO of Herschend Family Entertainment (HFE), one of America’s premier, privately held theme-park operators. Instead, I would be “John... View Details
- 12 Aug 2010
- News
You Can’t Take It with You
Last week, The Giving Pledge announced that forty of the wealthiest families and individuals in the United States have committed to give away at least half their fortunes to charitable organizations. Cofounded by Bill Gates View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- News
Income Inequality as a Sustainability Issue
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money
Baker: Chronicler of dirty money. In his new book, Capitalism’s Achilles Heel: Dirty Money and How to Renew the Free-Market System (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Raymond W. Baker (MBA ’60) chronicles the widespread illegal flow of money... View Details
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
Owusu-Kesse’s pathway out of poverty began with scholarships to study at excellent elementary and secondary schools, which prepared him for admission to Harvard College, where he earned a degree in economics... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Faculty Books
he seeks counsel from a panel of advisers, resulting in a wealth of teaching moments. Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right by Thomas H. Davenport View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never... View Details
- 14 Sep 2015
- News
Helping Investors Have an Impact
make a difference and give back to society. And that in itself was highly rewarding and fulfilling for me. “When I grew up in the Philippines, I experienced a contrast between... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Real Estate: A Local Business Goes Global
trend is not going away. This trend is being driven by two things. The first is the wealth buildup in Asia. The domestic real estate markets in Asia are still small, so Asian real estate investors have turned to Europe View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
making decisions to issue millions of dollars of bonds,” she says. Today, Harris is vice chairman of global wealth management and a senior client adviser at Morgan Stanley in New York, which she joined in... View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
100 students. “Most of these young people grew up in rural poverty and would never have a chance to take an SAT,” Condo notes. “We learn about them from their high schools or community leaders, who know they... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
Vivian Lu (MBA '95) has witnessed more than her share of harsh realities while working in the Third World, among them the gruesome sights of war-torn Somalia and the terrible effects of poverty in Tanzania.... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
HBS alumni and a faculty member were among the respondents. Kwame Owusu-Kesse (MBA/MPP 2012), CEO of Harvard Children’s Zone, writing with the organization’s founder, Geoffrey Canada, suggested that, “[i]f we are going to break the cycle... View Details