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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Retrofitting our commercial building stock, not to mention our residential building stock, will require millions of workers at a decent skill level. These are elements of a strategy. Will it work? I don’t know, but the idea that we can have broad-based national View Details
- 17 Nov 2022
- News
Blockchain for Good
principally in investment banking, but today notes that fundamental inequities in the world of finance—which the prosperous can navigate with ease are nearly impossible for those who are not wealthy—always nagged at her. Disillusioned,... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
down; savings are up. Yet a simplistic credit-as-bogey outlook masks a more nuanced picture. From a different vantage, credit was an economic white knight. Easy credit fueled the prosperity of the past decade. American statesman Daniel... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
supply chain, for business strategy, and for the ways in which firms work with stakeholders. In fact, economic prosperity and growth depend to a large degree on the health of our ecosystem, and our goal is to make this as self-evident as... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
visitors. “We are focusing on initiatives targeted to improve the economic prosperity of the people.” The message resonated with the HBS group, who visited 20 companies in Nairobi and Mombasa, Kenya; and Lagos, Nigeria, ranging from a... View Details
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
political ideology that is xenophobic and isolationist; and the splitting of Americans into antagonistic ideological camps instead of finding common ground upon which to build. What's needed, she continues, is an agenda built on core American principles that Widens... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HOME RESEARCH LINKS POLAROID FILMS SITE CREDITS “I have long aspired to make our Company a noble prototype of industry: penetrating in science, reliable in engineering, creative in aesthetics and... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
James D. Wolfensohn, MBA 1959
strengthened his belief that those who prosper in business are obligated to serve the greater good. His decadelong presidency of the World Bank provided the ultimate opportunity to pursue that mission on a global scale. Wolfensohn’s... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
owned. This book explores the political logic of reforms to land ownership and control, accounting for how land development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity in China. Drawing on extensive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
trying rush to market, but it is not how great policies get formulated. Like many, many Americans, I am the grandchild of immigrants. Our country’s growth and prosperity have depended on immigrants. I recently published a book (Strategy... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015)
effects.“At CrossBoundary we are helping African companies to grow, mature, and access capital, as well as helping American and other companies navigate African investment opportunities,” Nneka explained. “We're at the forefront of thinking about how we are going to... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55235 Gifts of the Immigrants, Woes of the Natives: Lessons from the Age of Mass Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—In this paper, I show that political opposition to immigration can arise even when immigrants bring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
that's really where the problem lies. Q: We've seen this phenomenon recently where wages are stagnating or declining What are the retail implications of a shrinking or bifurcating middle class? Alvarez: Traditionally the US economy has View Details
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
policies that encourage the provision of venture capital? Or is the world really flat? Do the "techno-nationalists" have it right? What do you think? To read more: Amar Bhidé, The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Fine Print: Alumni Recommend Their Best Reads
(ranked choice voting, open primaries, legislative process reform). Very relevant this season. —Nathan Nemon (MBA 2020) The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies, by Erik Brynjolfsson and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
diverse professions in which they operate. Whether you examine law firms, advertising agencies, investment banks, or management consulting firms, the business model and the challenges they must successfully meet to prosper over the long... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
Capitalism.” Not a word was mentioned about the credit disaster facing our nation today. The article stresses the remarkable recent prosperity of capitalism, and points out some concerns. It does not speak to the abuses of the mortgage... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
says Shenkar. Her awareness of how precious and limited water can be began while growing up in Israel. The Middle East has prospered for millennia by making the most out of what relatively little water there is in the region. Since the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Guerrilla marketing involves being resourceful, doing more with less, thinking like an entrepreneur, and developing street smarts. Levinson and Neitlich show how to use these techniques to advance your career and prosper without being... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
technology that fuels the shared economy is hype? What happened to the "innovation, disruption, technology" dividend? What do you think? To Read More: Erik Brynholfsson and Andrew McAfee, The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and View Details