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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
now. Only Iraqis can secure their country. Give a date for Coalition withdrawal. Any date, even distant, would calm sensitivities. Hold immediate free and fair elections - open to all comers, including former government and Islamists.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
calculation follows. What are the hidden economic costs, such as future medical and psychological services for veterans? The number that Stiglitz, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Bilmes, a government finance expert at... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
of networking and communicating with key stakeholders prior to any important decision being made is fundamentally the same,” he explains. “I have been pleasantly surprised at the maturity of the local-government governance processes and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
institutions—and that this failure has put capitalism itself at risk. In this conversation, Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, discusses the need for an honest, capable, and transparent government, and the role... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
Management Innovation Take Us? Management could change a lot in the coming years, says HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett. A few reasons: continued development of the Internet and the transparency and communities it has spawned, and new... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
away some of the new mass-transit passes and implied that students could expect more of the same if they should be the ones to oversee the SA budget. Diversity, creativity, and transparency were the watchwords of Sunil Nagaroj and Serge... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
that states with the largest pension deficits and those with heavy unionization were most likely to want to keep the status quo—even when the public and financial experts pushed for the opposite. It makes sense: “The most likely scenario of increased View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Impact: Business in an Age of Sustainability
What is the role of business in addressing climate change? How should asset managers weigh the social impact of their investments? What steps should a company take to ensure transparency in management and compensation? Climate change and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
MBA elective Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems. Joining Henderson and Serafeim for the HBX course are several faculty members from across Harvard who are experts in law, government, and fi nance. Among the topics explored are alternative View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm that oversees more than $170 billion in pension and mutual funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System (Wiley). How does the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
East to West
“The case was very appealing because the CEO’s goal was to create a governance structure that would be transparent to investors and stakeholders anywhere in the world. The more we talked, the more it seemed... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
its commitment to transparency at a time when the School is involved in a $500 million capital campaign. It also highlights the School’s unusual business model. Unlike most schools, HBS does not accept View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
ambassador to Austria. Unlike cap-and-trade, which depends on the open market to determine costs for carbon emissions, a carbon fee would be transparent and predictable, allowing companies to figure in the cost to their bottom line while... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
development. “We catalyzed demand for change, crowd-sourced solutions, and implemented them in transparent ways,” she notes. Her perspective was broadened when her HBS classmate and husband, Scott Rockafellow (MBA 1990), launched a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
happens in the coming years will be driven by private-sector foreign investment. “To the extent that government can create enough transparency in these transactions, I think we should be able to manage this... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Alliance, a public-private partnership based at the United Nations. Today, 100 million unbanked adults worldwide receive government transfers, wages, or pensions in cash, a payment method that is highly vulnerable to fraud and theft.... View Details
- 19 Feb 2020
- News
Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change
sticker shock would carbon prices trigger?). Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006), engagement officer for climate and impact investing at the International Finance Corporation, also responded that government policies needed to require more View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy