Request For Proposal - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
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Beacon of Liberty

9/11. We see the sad irony of the Anti-Defamation League (a group formed to “secure justice and fair treatment to all”) opposing the Islamic center and mosque proposed near the former World Trade Center site. Anti-Muslim sentiments have... View Details

Keywords: Sharjeel Kashmir; Islam; 9/11

01 Mar 2004
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Harvard’s Future in Allston

f44a2f21f41f1b61595fd016e6eaa7c7 Harvard University’s proposed expansion across the Charles River onto land flanking HBS has entered a new phase, with four task forces hard at work on refining planning assumptions outlined by President... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2006
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Academic Cross-Pollination

then have to think about the prospects for commercialization. They have to communicate back and forth extensively. What were some of the projects? As an example, one of last year’s teams was looking at an application of quantum dots View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2020
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A New Approach to Contact Tracing

IDs, timestamps the occurrence, and logs the length of the encounter. Because it employs Bluetooth rather than GPS, the app doesn’t track users’ location. This helped address some, though not all, privacy concerns. In the event an app user tests positive View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

01 Apr 1998
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Emerging Information

membership in exchange for the company's frank assessment of the service. More recently, Mueller added information about Russian and Chinese aviation in response to a request from a large aerospace... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation

local bakery. On our way home, he’d point out the copper gutters, slate roofs, and other architectural details that identified ‘an Allegue house.’ That’s really what trained my eye and triggered my enthusiasm for the built environment.”... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

15 Apr 2017
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Bringing Markets to Myanmar

government's request for this private sector roadmap and lots of flattering about the need for our outside expertise. But it was clear to me we would not have a clue as to the... View Details

Keywords: National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin

assistance in developing countries. The nonprofit’s inspiration came from Goodwin’s HBS classmate Sam MacHour, whose experiences in Liberia and Burundi convinced him of the need to confront the underlying causes of poverty. While at HBS, MacHour made a passionate plea... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2023
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The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter In the wake of the Snowden leaks in 2015, the New York Times dropped the bombshell news that one company had played a unique role in enabling the National Security Agency’s domestic spy program. The report, “AT&T Helped US Spy... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

celebrate a new peace: After 20 years of negotiations, the four groups had agreed on a historic deal for land use in the Great Bear Rainforest, a 25,000-square-mile stretch of BC’s north and central coastlands—the largest intact coastal... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

01 Sep 2020
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Maintaining a Resilient Democracy

Pensions Committee, which has a reputation for bipartisan cooperation. Harder’s suggestions to revitalize the system, on the other hand, include “revising arcane procedural rules that give obstructionists too much power to shelve View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

01 Sep 2005
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London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS

especially timely, coming as they did on the heels of a failed EU budget summit in Brussels and the French and Dutch “no” votes on the proposed EU constitution. For those in the audience not well-versed in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

and scholar, Shakib Arsalan. In his letter, Basyuni Imran requested that Arsalan explain the reasons for the backwardness of Muslims of the time, compared to other nations. Furthermore, Basyuni asked Arsalan... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1997
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HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues

Wilkins (MBA '70), and Terry L. Jones (MBA '74) and awards for civic and community service to Benaree Pratt Wiley (MBA '72) and Kenneth A. Powell (MBA '74). (Powell was also recently elected president of the HBS African-American Alumni... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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New Ways to Stay Connected

For more information on any of the programs featured here, please contact us at alumni@hbs.edu. Alumni Dinner Series John Power (MBA 1974) and Todd Doersch (MBA 1983) hosted second-year MBA students at Remington’s restaurant in Chicago in... View Details

01 Sep 2012
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The School of Life

Christensen For the past several years, in his last class of the academic calendar, Professor Clay Christensen has made life after HBS the topic of discussion. Why is it, he asks, that despite considerable professional accomplishments, so... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions

income to achieve desired levels of redistribution without harming saving; and a carbon tax to correct for externalities associated with energy consumption. In short, no tax expenditures that litter the code with preferences and that... View Details

Keywords: ask the expert; Finance

06 Jan 2021
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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

Staff Stories. Recorded in our remote studio on December 15, 2020. Hi, my name is Srikant Datar and I have just started as Dean of the Harvard Business School on January the 1st. It was very nicely put by [Executive Dean for... View Details

31 Jan 2025
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New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details