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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Decision Points
Bush: For future observers, a context for his administration. On the occasion of the publication of his memoir, Decision Points, and in his first newspaper interview since leaving the White House, a relaxed, introspective former President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) said,... View Details
- 04 Apr 2022
- News
Strengthening City Hall’s Foundations
In an opinion piece published by the Jerusalem Post on April 4, 2022, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) announced a new management training program to support mayors in Israel. The Bloomberg-Sagol Center for City Leadership, created in partnership with Yossi Sagol (MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
discredited by what happened to LTCM in 1998, went on to be replicated by a 100 or even a 1,000 different hedge funds. And so we actually have a 1,000 LTCMs out there right now at death’s door. It’s a curious case of nothing quite succeeding like failure. Have View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
people will stop investing if the capital gains tax rate is 30 to 40 percent, the same as upper-income tax rates. Check your economic history books, folks. Did anyone stop investing when tax rates reached 70 percent under Eisenhower? I don’t think so. As for View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- News
More Invincible than Invisible
- 04 Mar 2014
- News
Former SBA Chief Karen Mills on How to Jump Start the Economy Now
- 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 Dec 2005
- News
Alumni Fill Diplomatic Posts
HBS alumni currently hold several key diplomatic posts in Europe. U.S. ambassadors to France, Germany, Italy, and Austria are, respectively, Craig Stapleton (MBA ’70), William Timken Jr. (MBA ’62), Ronald Spogli (MBA ’75), and designee Susan Rasinski McCaw (MBA ’88). View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
Informally, Moroccans want us to respect their religion and their culture and to recognize that countries are different and should not be lumped into groups. Is popular support in Morocco for militant Islam increasing? The government has... View Details
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
EtiAmmos The tax policy we choose as a society reveals our collective values. That is why battles over it are so fierce—and justified. When we debate tax policy, we are debating what kind of society we want and what role we want the View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 07 Nov 2019
- News
Scranton Elects First Female Mayor
As an Oregon native running on the Independent ticket, Paige Cognetti (MBA 2014) was not the most likely candidate to claim victory in a special mayoral election that took place Tuesday in Scranton, Pennsylvania. But she won handily, claiming 36 percent of the vote in... View Details
- 03 Aug 2011
- News
No Ducking the Debt Ceiling
here.” Professor Nancy Koehn opines, “What does it mean when the world’s leading power (and geopolitical playground cop) cannot govern itself?” The fall semester begins in a few weeks, with the new academic year always a time of renewal... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Why Do We Tax? With the next President set to take office, it's time to ask how the income tax system could be improved. Assistant Professor Matthew Weinzierl suggests how. US Competitiveness at Risk America's declining global competitiveness—it ranks No. 7 this year... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the... View Details
- Profile
Kanwaljit Bakshi
It is often said that two years at HBS prepares its graduates to lead a wide range of organizations and endeavors and to find solutions to a host of business and social challenges. Still, Kanwaljit Bakshi (MBA/JD 1999), known to friends and colleagues as Kayla Brochu,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
When Singapore’s George Yeo (MBA ’85) was a young man, his intellect and achievement made clear to his country’s leaders that he was destined to become an important national resource. Indeed, he has fashioned an impressive career built on civic engagement and public... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Greek Drama
Samaras: Enough pain. Photo AFP/Getty Images The debt drama unfolding in Greece is made even more gripping by the long relationship between two of the country’s leaders, former Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou and the head of the conservative opposition,... View Details