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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
becomes more and more problematic. We see the symptoms of decline, which are driven by things like labor arbitrage and industries moving assembly overseas, followed by more and more sophisticated work. The thesis that we advance is that... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- News
Dedicated to a public service mission
Wrendon Hunt (MBA 2012) was raised to be an upstander. “My father always talked about serving causes greater than ourselves,” says Hunt, who is a 2014–2015 White House Fellow. He describes his yearlong appointment at the Department of View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
issue was widespread, Lerner and Holder founded OnRamp to help SaaS companies guide their customers through the implementation journey. Lerner refined the concept at HBS (and was a runner-up in the New Venture Competition) and has been... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
which we launched last January. This substantive example of intra-University collaboration also dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
places over the past several years. The fact that so many factory workers had to leave their families for extended periods was untenable in the long run. There were the terrible Foxconn suicides. The one-child-per-family policy was beginning to create a population... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
industry, men earn 24 percent more, on average, than women, according to data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.) These stories aren’t encouraging, though the widespread response to them is. And these numbers, and others looking at... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Terence P. Stewart
of Stewart and Stewart, a Washington-based law firm that represents both domestic and foreign clients on issues of trade and international law, Stewart understands that such disagreements are the predictable outgrowth of a global... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 28 Mar 2014
- News
Wanted: Public Entrepreneurs
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
do their job for free. No tycoon, no matter how loaded, civic-minded, and/or self-medicated, will bankroll meaningful newsgathering — and all its bureaus, labor relations, and, yes, office supplies — just for giggles. And without... View Details
- 16 Feb 2022
- News
Holding Business to Account
Photo courtesy Geeta Aiyer In the early 1990s, company leaders for Albertsons, a rapidly expanding supermarket chain, flew to Boston to meet with Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985),a young analyst and portfolio manager at the United States Trust Company of Boston, to discuss an... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
address these challenges. We presented those discussions and the results to our colleagues at the colloquium and asked for their views. Do CEOs see these threats as imminent? In a sense, some of these issues are now factoring into daily... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- News
We Don't Have to Ditch Capitalism to Fight Climate Change
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
released in theaters nationally September 16. “Many of the patterns and issues that existed before the bailout are still present today,” says Burke, who was born outside Detroit in Pontiac. “We think it’s important for people to be better... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
approach to taking a more in-depth look at a single topic through the experiences of alumni and the insights of faculty experts. HBS alumni interviewed for this issue lead companies ranging in size from a global powerhouse to just twenty... View Details
- 10 Apr 2008
- News
The Sum of Our Own Greatness
Group: Tom Ryder, David Habeeb, and Ruth Page. Inspiration for the title came from a Theodore Roosevelt quote: “We cannot do great deeds as a nation unless we are willing to do the small things that make up the sum of greatness.” For Ryder, who confesses that the film... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
regulated. In the end, it is not a story of economics but of people. — Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71), the editor of Challenge magazine, is a frequent contributor and commentator on business and economic issues in a variety of print and broadcast... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
abruptly when oil prices soared in the 1980s, and the Japanese gained a toehold exporting attractive, low-cost, fuel-efficient vehicles to America. Responding to that change and the subsequent surge in domestically produced Japanese nameplates “was not just a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
Above: photo by Kevin Frayer/Getty Images On a late summer day in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in a large carpeted room with a colorful cloth tacked over a dropped fiberboard ceiling, Bob Vaccaro (MBA 1970), short white hair, eyes crinkled with smile lines, sits easily,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 15 Apr 2020
- News
Money Matters
of financial security, because you can't necessarily rely on credit cards or retirement savings for emergencies," she says. "You should have three to six months of living expenses saved up." Returns on that emergency fund are less important than the fact that it must... View Details