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- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
a per capita basis—and there's no indication that has stopped. What's attracted them? "It is a very easy city in which to adopt new approaches," says Wilkins. "It's a very open city in which to take a risk. That's not often the case. It's often very hard to get any... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
its mayor is committed to making it a model of environmental urban action on many fronts. Cities, broadly defined, are thought to have originally formed as protective, secure locations that could enable trade and the distinctive human need for social and View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
level, “is when you actually tilt the playing field by influencing the policymaking or contracting process; this is illegal and unfair.” Abdelal says that for many executives, the challenge is managing a business culture in which it is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
high consideration. Spiritual and ethical factors are often viewed as separate “silos,” but these core values pervasively shape, bind, and energize the economic culture. Long-term policy and growth must emanate from—and reflect—the aspirations, character, spirit, and... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
Building a whole new culture must come from the ground up. “The whole point,” Moedas says, “is to create an environment where people are not afraid of failure.” View Details
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
the depth and breadth of the challenges they face. “We’re one of very few nonprofits actually founded during COVID,” said Collenette, a longtime champion of women and childcare reform in Canada, who has served in both government and the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Leadership Courage: Leadership in a Culture of Cowardice By Kirk Kirlin (MBA 1979) Authors Place Press In a time when timidity and disquiet seem epidemic in both American and American Church culture, author Kirk Kirlin offers nine... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
the nation that nurtured her ambitions. "We are fortunate to live in a risk-based culture that is reinforced by a democratic system of government," says Franklin. "As Americans, one of our competitive edges is our ability to create and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
government factories employed a majority of the city’s 300,000 inhabitants (including Mlotok’s parents) until market reforms obliterated the industry, leaving thousands penniless. “The mid-1990s were the worst time,” recalls Mlotok, who... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
a report on the HBS Latin America Research Center), Latin America is an evolving, untapped market of vast potential, formidable challenges, and many fascinations. MORE A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens In the 1980s, democracy-oriented governments... 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
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015
Dreyfoos’s collection, encompass the years from 1950 to 2013 and reflect 60 countries. Those in the early decades have a historical aura, and many others may soon join that group as cultures evolve and the environment eliminates or... View Details
- 16 Nov 2017
- News
The Business of Social Justice
through grants and advocacy. The organization seeks to end the school-to-prison pipeline through disciplinary reform and ensure that schools with high needs receive the necessary resources and funding to achieve their goals. “There is... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
preferred to recruit straight from a school’s admission list. In an increasingly globalized world, deans and recruiters generally believe that business schools have not gotten globalization right. They want students with heightened View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Friedman devotes his research to the history of the Left and its struggle to end economic and social inequality. He studies how this struggle evolved, its various cultural contexts, and what paths have been tried and rejected. He is an... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases, articles, and papers on Chinese business, as well as his recent book, Can... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 20 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
the dot-com boom. At a tribal ceremony to celebrate his graduation, he remembers feeling the acute dichotomy between the go-go culture of HBS and the words of a tribal elder: "He was translating back and forth in Omaha," Keen recalls,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
stronger. VIEW FROM THE PIT: "The students who voted me best teacher...had no idea what it meant in my case." Photo courtesy of Baker Library Historical Collections US consumer-driven health-care reform has been a focus of your teaching,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance