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- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Holding Steady in the Wild Blue Yonder
The day after Northern Alliance troops rolled into Kabul as the Taliban withdrew without a fight, Secretary of the Air Force James Roche (DBA '72) cautioned CNN's Larry King, "This is going to go on for some time. And we can't be elated one day and depressed the next.... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 29 Oct 2024
- News
A Fearless Fighter Honored
1944 with a very specific directive: Support the Slovak National Uprising to weaken the Axis forces—and, hopefully, bring a speedy close to WWII. While the group was eventually forced into the Slovak mountains by advancing German... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Using IT to Heal U.S. Health Care
costs, and widespread patient frustration. The cure for these ailments lies in better use of health-care technology, says David J. Brailer, national coordinator for Health Information Technology, a newly created position he has held since... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em
Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a fellow veteran about the difficulty of buying and selling... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
neglected in organizational theory, this publication, the culmination of more than a decade of research by the authors, presents important new ideas for how to organize them effectively. Creating Modern Capitalism Thomas K. McCraw, editor (Harvard University Press)... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Maiden Voyage
More than 80 countries have national space programs, spending a collective $64.5 billion in 2014, according to Euroconsult, a global consulting firm specializing in space markets. Approximately a dozen countries—if you count the 22... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
One-on-One with Dr. Margaret Chan
this work as part of the World Health Organization.” You were Hong Kong’s health director during the 2003 SARS outbreak. What did you learn from that experience? The SARS experience showed that decisive national and international action,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
14 for '14
president's second term can be brutal for the incumbent's party. But voters have never been so disgusted with Washington. How are they going to vent that frustration? Will they make one side pay, or everyone?" —Karen Tumulty (MBA 1981), View Details
- 04 Jan 2016
- News
Taking Time Out for a Challenge
hit the small African nation in 2014. “Having watched Sierra Leone and its neighbors make great strides over the last decade to consolidate peace, grow their economies, and invest in public services, I knew they remained among the poorest... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Insights into Business in Islamic World
global context. Hayes and Vogel, coauthors of the 1998 book Islamic Law and Finance: Religion, Risk, and Return, explored issues of doing business in Islamic countries at a presentation in late January. Hayes noted that despite a common faith, styles of practice among... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore
about fifty thousand a day — the island nation of Singapore is the biggest container port and transshipment hub in the world. “We can turn ships around faster than anybody else,” boasts Khoo, a civil engineering graduate of Australia’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Jensen Donates Grant
impact on corporate finance, corporate governance, and law and economics, announced in January that he will donate the $200,000 cash grant to the National Bureau of Economic Research, Harvard Business School, and the Simon Graduate School... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA 1984) Routledge In Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs, author Linda J. Bilmes develops a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
2005) took alumni questions on the energy transition, adoption strategies, and the practical steps to a fossil fuel–free future. Nigeria is the sixth-largest producer of fossil fuel in the world, and its national economy derives 90... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
industry as another catalyst was gathering critical mass: the dynamic pairing of television and sports. Neil R. Austrian (MBA '68), president of the National Football League, explains: "The 1958 Colts-Giants overtime game was the NFL's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Nov 2012
- News
First and Goal
on an undefeated team that earned a #5 national ranking, Swearengin ended his playing career as part of a thrilling 38-31 victory over the Washington Huskies in the 1993 Rose Bowl.) Football, Swearengin says, gave him self-confidence,... View Details
- 11 Mar 2020
- News
Making It Rain
many of us take for granted—not to mention the average person wondering if they need to bring an umbrella to work. As the cofounders studied the industry, they found that while the weather changes from minute to minute, forecasting basically hadn’t changed in decades... View Details
Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov