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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Sir Martin S. Sorrell, MBA 1968
United States specializing in sales promotion, design, and direct marketing. But WPP wasn't small for long. In 1987 Sorrell made an astonishing move. Using both debt and equity, he bought one of the most famous names in the business, the J. Walter Thompson Group... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
that up to 2 million people will lose their homes. The good news is that more recent proposals to license mortgage brokers and to require more disclosure by credit rating agencies and investment bankers will... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- News
Mobilizing the Public to Fight Bribery
local universities to teach students and others how to identify and fight corruption, to know their rights and get involved, and to use government hotlines to lodge complaints about bribery. The third program, Grassroots Governance, works with the second-largest... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
incentives, may be enough to nudge conversion projects along despite the physical challenges. That’s what many American cities are banking on. San Francisco, which reported an office vacancy rate of nearly 34 percent last September, has... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
instability surrounding world oil supplies, the uncertainty about the reserve base and the depletion rate of U.S. oil and gas reserves, the immobilization of nuclear energy in the United States, the challenge of building up an expanded... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate like a cartel without competition or transparency, which led to disastrous View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
geographic spread,” she says, “the virus has extended to affect a wider range of animals than we’ve ever seen before. It’s infecting cats, for example, and has even caused the death of tigers. It has a high fatality rate in humans; we... View Details
- 01 Jun 2019
- News
City on a Hill
Harlan County disappeared between 2008 and 2016. Today, Harlan households earn less than half the national median income, and the unemployment rate is nearly 60 percent higher than the national rate. And like many rural communities across... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
government agency bonds.) From America’s point of view, meanwhile, the best way of keeping the good times rolling in recent years has been to import cheap Chinese goods. Moreover, by outsourcing manufacturing to China, U.S. corporations... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Mara Aspinall
higher efficacy rate — 80 percent or more. Is 80 percent efficacy unusual for drugs currently on the market? Across all patients and diseases, drug efficacy averages 50 percent, so half the time they bring no clinical benefit. That’s not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
tax dispute in IRS history, settled in 2006 when GlaxoSmithKline paid the agency some $3.4 billion, a case that the IRS said sent “a strong message of our resolve” in dealing with transfer pricing. Says Wells, “The manipulation of... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
result," says Mariner, "today in every professional league, every team must scramble to increase revenues because the best players command the highest salaries. Without sufficient revenues to pay top players, it's more difficult to assemble a winning team." Free View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
second senior advisor delivered some further bad news. The higher the teaching ratings you get, he told Sahlman, the more likely you won’t be promoted. Come again? Entrepreneurship is amorphous. It’s storytelling. And storytelling is... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
employment system and therefore do not qualify for Infonavit, a government loan and public housing agency that grants more than half of Mexico’s mortgages and is funded in part by a 5 percent payroll tax. Their idea is validated in a talk... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Review Press Women around the world do extremely well when it comes to their education. They graduate at higher rates than men and have higher average GPAs. But then a strange thing happens upon entering the workforce: They immediately... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
students, Khan wants parents to feel “Oh, I can do this. This isn’t impossible.” Today, Khan Academy usage is up about 250 percent, student and teacher registration rates are six times higher than normal, and parent registrations are 20... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance