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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
sales forces, and phone-based payment services using power from car batteries, because often they have no electricity,” says Duch, who once described his job in a Class Notes update as “making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes.’”... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
carry them out. You need an informant - and that probably means you have to know a terrorist. I've been involved in foreign policy for more than 35 years. There is no field more dependent on good intelligence than counterterrorism, and... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
startup evolve into Banco Pactual, which today is a full-service investment bank with a net worth of $700 million. Jakurski has found contrarian skepticism useful for analyzing emerging-market turbulence. "The government will enact a View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
demonstrate the solidity of France’s business ecosystem and the extraordinary opportunity of being an entrepreneur there. A Song of Humanity: A Science-Based Alternative to the World’s Scriptures by Only One Man (i.e., Jim Clawson, DBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
United States had no plan for funding its huge debts. It had no stable currency, no sound credit system, no central bank, no reliable securities markets, and almost no corporations. By 1795, Hamilton's policies had corrected all of these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
pulling the financial system back from the brink. This marked a sharp contrast to the disastrous “liquidationist” policies of the early 1930s, when public officials (particularly at the Federal Reserve) were so afraid of moral hazard that... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
the formation of policy and regulation. Several of my business school friends alerted me to the fact that this was possibly, a somewhat naive perception. And that maybe, people who spent the last 10 years of... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT
and build a Web page that describes the company to potential investors. Of these electives, the new interdisciplinary course Business and the Internet: Strategy, Law, and Policy is a joint offering of HBS,... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America
Consortium between Universidad de San Andrés, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, and CEDES (a public policy think tank), Argentina Faculdade de Economia, Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil The HBS Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE) was... View Details
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
climate and inequality, featuring HBS Professor Debora Spar, Senior Associate Dean for Business in Global Society, and Audrey Choi (MBA 2004), the Former Chief Sustainability Officer at Morgan Stanley. The chat, titled Inequality and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path out of Polarization
Image by John Ritter It’s not just that Americans can’t find a middle ground on tax policy or abortion rights anymore—political polarization has sunk to a depth from which Americans can no longer see eye to eye on what is fact and what is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
at Hewlett-Packard for seven years and holds two patents in integrated-circuit testing, admits it was anything but inevitable that he would end up at HBS. “I was interested in science and technology policy at the Kennedy School, and I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Founder’s Mentality: How to Overcome the Predictable Crises of Growth by James Allen (MBA 1989) and Chris Zook (Harvard Business Review Press) Based on their decade-long study of companies in more than 40 countries, the authors... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Clearing the Air
that there was lack of technology, a lack of corporate focus, and a lack of policy support at the governmental level. And all three of those things have changed. Right now, technologies we once considered far too costly are becoming... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
that have taken hold and synthesizing research across fields such as entrepreneurship and innovation, regional advantage, and economic policy, Kerr gives voice to data and ideas that should drive the next wave of policy and View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the financial system are not understood here, then perhaps the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Hong Kong Club Thrives, Plans Next Global Alumni Conference
AMP), and Andrew Yao (MBA '92) at a recent Distinguished Speakers' Forum. Photo courtesy HBSA-HK Anthony Teo (MBA '69, ITP '68), vice president of the Harvard Business School Association of Hong Kong (HBSA-HK), has long been an active... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Competition and Strategy Unit at HBS Sets Pace In Its Field
Business Policy area, are economists with particular expertise in competitive strategy. Professor Stephen P. Bradley, who heads the unit, is enthusiastic about the group's influence: "We are at the forefront... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 24 Aug 2017
- News
Unlocking Potential
path for criminal justice. A family dinner-table conversation about the concept of recidivism eventually led Anderson to pursue a business education, jobs working on private-sector approaches to the problem, and ultimately to found her... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- News
Like-Minded
continued to connect with one another along the way. Murakami was with OECD Tokyo Center, leading discussions on economic policy issues with government and business leaders in Asia, after 20 years in... View Details