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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
governance in Asia, and measuring performance in nonprofit organizations. As always, there was ample opportunity for networking and socializing with participants and speakers from across the Harvard View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
Photography by Susan Young Even though government spending and philanthropic capital are powerful tools for helping people improve their lives and rise out of poverty, there are still problems with them. Regular infusions of outside... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
distinguished thirty-year career at HBS. An Arkansas native who began his education in a two-room schoolhouse, Stobaugh entered Louisiana State University at 15 and earned his bachelor's degree in 1947. He then spent eighteen years... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
from some of India’s most respected names in business, public governance, diplomacy, and the intelligentsia. It explains the frequent and vital intersections between government and business, culture and modernity, and demographics and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
Illustration by Chris Gash The School’s US Competitiveness Project launched four years ago with a simple but ambitious goal: figure out how companies in the United States can better compete in the global economy while raising living standards for the average American.... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
arm that would later be published in the local paper. (A journalism major at the University of Georgia, Langford won two years’ free tuition for an editorial he penned on the value of free markets.) While his work—first as an... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Dean Clark on the New Academic Year
professional and personal lives, we see a tremendous breadth of engagement: in multinationals and start-ups; in nonprofit, philanthropic, and government organizations; and in museums, hospitals, and religious institutions. To meet your... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
President & Chief Executive Officer Starbucks Coffee Company Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page Earlier Education University of Washington, 1965 B.A., Finance, Economics, Accounting, and Statistics Other Jobs Touche Ross & Co.,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
owned slaves and accepted Black people as full citizens. Thanks to the efforts of Creek leaders like Cow Tom, a Black Creek citizen who rose to become chief, the United States government recognized Creek citizenship in 1866 for its Black... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our Word For most of the 20th century,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
Says Gould, "The provision of adequate housing for people at all income levels is a problem that's never going to be solved by free-market economics. Only the federal government has the resources necessary to address the magnitude of the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Predictable Surprises
or later — and many experts say sooner — lead to the demise of their livelihood. There are a number of cognitive issues here, but one of the most universal is the tendency people have to dramatically discount the future. For the most... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a master’s in the field at the View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Built for Speed
dropping as fuel costs were rising, pulling down SUV sales. Korean automakers were taking more and more market share, buoyed by government investment. Structural costs—US labor high among them—remained a drag on domestic production. “It’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
and Daisy Azer (Columbia University Press) Through ten stories of struggles and successes in fields such as health care, education, agriculture, transportation, social services, and security, the authors show how collaborative creativity... View Details
- 12 Dec 2018
- News
Lesson Plan
favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
firms large enough to finance their own laboratories could create a “virtuous cycle” where staying on the leading edge of science got them first to market with new products, in turn delivering higher profits to fund still more research. As View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
cultural and political perspective.” Next she was admitted to the prestigious University of the Witwatersrand where, in 1996, she became the first black woman to graduate from the school of chemical engineering; she now sits on the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
into the hectic new year, news broke of an unusual cluster of pneumonia cases in Wuhan, China. On January 11, 2020, the Chinese government posted the genetic sequence of what it had identified as a novel coronavirus. Moderna had its test,... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
children, especially from low-income communities; also a founder of Ashoka University The pandemic has been a disaster for education overall and has exacerbated inequity as well. Unlike in the United States and Europe, all public and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie