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01 Mar 2009
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The Case for Studying Financial History

liquidity shock because of the extent of leverage, of debt that had emerged in the system. So the lack of knowledge about financial history, in your view, contributed to the current global financial crisis? I really believe that. It’s very View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

05 Dec 2016
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The Dragon’s Tale

places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2016
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Vive la Madeleine!

however, and protest strikes in response to a law proposed by Labor Minister Myriam El Khomri, under President François Hollande, that would make it easier for companies to fire workers and extend the number... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

01 Jun 2005
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Do You Speak Business?

seems to rise above national influences and toward a commonality shared by other top firms in the international arena. In their study of the software industry in India, HBS professors Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu detect signs that globalization in the product and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

HBS Alumni Angels team hopes to replicate. “Of course we want to present another conference,” says Kovacs. “This one was really amazing. Can lightning strike twice?” The organizers worked steadily with HBS, Stanford and the conference... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down

past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels... View Details

Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities

01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four

employees or our customers. It just took that amount of time to do it right. The downturn in the economy has been helpful for entrepreneurship. It’s caused a lot of individuals to think about controlling their own destiny. More people will think about View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

double, adding $10 billion to the economy. And foreign investment—particularly from China—is evident everywhere, the most striking and immediate example being a swarm of earthmoving equipment filling in land off the coast of downtown... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Dec 2022
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December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Pittsburgh’s business titans, labor strikes and assassination attempts. While reporting on the unions of the era, he is exposed to a very different world, symbolized by his infatuation with a mysterious... View Details

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership by Linda A. Hill, Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration Harvard Business Review Press New managers must learn how to lead others rather than do the work themselves, to win trust and... View Details

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