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- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019
Turkey, where religious elites were integral to early centralizing reform processes. Second, region-wide structural constraints on the types of linkages that states were able to build with religion have generated long-term repercussions. Fatefully, both state View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
force comprising some fifteen citizens, including at least one Levi Strauss employee, from a cross section of the community. The idea is to help educate local citizens about racism, encourage them to build partnerships to help combat it, advocate positive changes in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
philanthropic dollars. Some of our members who have been active in philanthropy have said, “I realized that I needed to get involved in getting our democracy to work because my philanthropy isn’t having the impact it could when the policy... View Details
- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
everyday workers and families. Christine: "We've been able to contribute to the state in the following ways: "We presented an economic development policy proposal to the state's Speaker of the House and legislature in May 2022 "We... View Details
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Competition. “It was my first time living in another African country, and I felt more alive than I had felt in a long time,” she observes. Rewane left the Monitor Group to join the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives (CPPA), a think... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
people often don’t have the financial wherewithal and broad general skills to leave behind a job where they are intimidated. Working in fear is a terrible way to live, and a secret ballot can ameliorate much of that fear. Michael A. Petronino (MBA ’64) Stratford, CT... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Exploring Big Issues at the Intersection of Business and Society
both sides of the political spectrum worldwide. “Pragmatic policy making has become regarded as status quo,” Abdelal said. He urged students to help save globalization from itself. Students then chose from 16 concurrent sessions designed... View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
- 20 Nov 2019
- News
From the Ground Up
Paul Phillips (MBA 2003) is cofounder of Kai-Viti Water, which bottles and sells artesian water from the Fiji Islands. In this interview he talks about the company’s policy of dedicating profits from the company to support basic education... View Details
- 17 Mar 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in New York
practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change. Addressing society's rapid move to digital platforms, Dean Datar said, "As you look at some of the challenges that confront us as a society, one of those is... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Addressing The Financial Security Gap
can’t solve this problem, she says, adding that some public policy initiatives need to be implemented, along with paid childcare and more flexible workplaces. Ackerley is passionate about closing the gender pension gap and furthering... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 06 Oct 2020
- News
Clearing the Path to Citizenship
of clear guidance as to which immigrants would be affected by the public charge rule, Boundless also used its data to create a tool for applicants to assess their risk. Ever-changing immigration policy is one challenge for Boundless,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Maintaining a Resilient Democracy
as Braun’s or Harder’s are important, but Moss says what matters most “is that our leaders continue to believe deeply enough in our democracy to always work within it—to respect the democratic process without fail, even when doing so doesn’t seem to favor their party... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
(PhDBE 2009) and HBS assistant professor George Serafeim, the trio studied data from a matched sample of 180 companies over 18 years. Organizations that had adopted environmental and social policies by 1993 (described as... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Of Dugouts and Sweatshops
In 1993, as President Clinton's newly sworn-in Secretary of Labor, Robert B. Reich had hoped his first formal public policy decision would be a veritable home run. Instead, he found himself dealing with what appeared to be a no-win... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HBS Launches Alumni Survey
MBA. The magazine asked the schools to provide contact information for the Class of 1992. Five business schools — Wharton, MIT Sloan, Yale, the Marshall School at the University of Southern California, and HBS — declined. “At HBS, we have a long-standing View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
Desai, who is studying the gap between book income — what companies report to shareholders — and tax income — what companies report to the IRS. In a paper titled “The Divergence between Book and Tax Income” published in the forthcoming volume 17 of the National Bureau... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
overlooked question: If Japanese government policies and practices accounted for the nation's extraordinary competitiveness, then why wasn't Japan competitive in many of the industries where those policies... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental activist and ran for lieutenant governor of Massachusetts (he lost). HBS attracted Massie after he realized that business could be a powerful agent for shaping public policy and creating social good, “the most potent force... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
fellow at the New School’s Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis, means big. He wants an American federal government that raises taxes on almost everyone and everything to fund up to $500 billion annually in projects and programs... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Policy at the School during the late 1960s. In 1970, he took a leave of absence to join Matt Simmons’s (MBA 1967) Boston investment bank, then returned to the School the following year to teach courses in real estate. With Bill Poorvu, a... View Details