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- 01 Jun 2012
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Think Locally, Act Globally
In 1992, after reforms by India’s government improved the country’s business climate, he formed a consortium that included SFR-France, Emtel-Mauritius, and MSI-UK and bid successfully for one of four mobile-phone network licenses... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
been addressed, investors return to the markets, and the cycle continues. In light of this poor regulatory track record, we believe government-mandated reforms and more regulation alone cannot solve the current crisis of corporate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
Fenton remains driven by his vision of a system-wide, scalable model for education reform that recognizes the achievement potential of all students, regardless of background or circumstance. Passion for another kind of far-reaching change... View Details
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Frank Lorenzo (MBA 1963) grew up in Rego Park, Queens, the son of Spanish immigrants. As a boy in the 1940s, he would watch the airplanes fly over his backyard and into LaGuardia Airport,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Students Win Energy Competition
In October, a team of five HBS students won the National Energy Finance Challenge at the University of Texas’s McCombs School of Business, the Harbus reported. Marwan Chaar, Puja Jain, Anh Pham-Vu, Ravi Sarin, and Christine Telyan (all HBS ’09) bested teams from... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
BILMES AND STIGLITZ: Among a costly war’s casualties, American prestige and power. PHOTOS: (LEFT, RIGHT) DOMINICK REUTER, DAN DEITCH The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict (W.W. Norton, 2008) is not just about money. The “true costs,” argue... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?
health-care system, the entrepreneurs who could reform it — and make our lives better — will continue to look elsewhere for opportunities. Who can blame them? — Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Willing Hands
a longtime passion of mine." In addition to helping to develop the first SRO (single-room occupancy) residence for homeless men in Charlotte, Spencer has served on the board of the Charlotte Housing Authority Transitional Families Program, which became the national... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue
make decisions in challenging situations. Health care reform was making national headlines—and not in a good way—about the time the conference was held. Did you find that it quelled optimism or that people simply viewed it as another... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
unless it saves a lot of money, just doesn't cut it. Pro bono work I'm on the board of Lesley University, which educates more teachers than any other institution in the United States, and I'm about to join the board of Brown. I really believe that public education... View Details
- 17 Dec 2014
- News
The Sharing-Economy PR Stunt That Turned Into a Real Business
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
Maybe it all begins at a dinner table in Beaverton, Oregon. It’s the late 1980s, at the height of the spotted owl controversy—a pitched battle between loggers and conservationists over whether preserving a bird’s habitat is more critical than saving jobs. A... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
throne. Enemies plot horrific evils against the hero, even as two passionate women seek him for their own, in a tale of intrigue, revenge, power, and the unquenchable, all-consuming passions of love. Last Bell: Breaking the Gridlock in Education View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
Cong. Don Beyer, Anne Kelly (HKS 1996), Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006), Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), Prof. Michael Toffel, and Matt Sonnesyn (HKS 2002). Fifty years ago, the Clean Air Act passed the United States Congress with overwhelming bipartisan support; in the Senate,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The MBA Turns 100
Six months before Harvard Business School officially opened in October 1908, the School had no classrooms, no faculty, and no curriculum. But its proponents had a Big Idea: Create a professional school designed to train managers for a rapidly industrializing economy,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Poverty and Security
At the IMF and World Bank Group annual meetings in October, World Bank president James Wolfensohn (MBA ’59) declared that along with its fight against terror, the global community must also address the longer-term issues of “poverty, frustration, and lack of hope” that... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers deposits from owning, investing... View Details
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
iStock iStock As part of a special project, The New York Times asked several leading thinkers to weigh in on the nation’s most pressing problems. Specifically, the Times posed this query: “If you could do one thing right now to help fix America—no matter how large or... View Details