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- 05 Dec 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is Growth Good?
growth targeted. In fact, many kinds of growth offer great returns while requiring little or none of the world’s resources, therefore having seemingly few limits. Fran Henry makes the case for economic growth when she says, "According to the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Portrait Project
Annie Fulton
“man’s work,” I will stand tall as a woman. In an economy obsessed with data and dividends, I will create tangible things. And in a world that desperately needs more bridges built—rather than burned—I will... View Details
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
emerging. The impacts of the climate crisis are already being felt as the world experiences more frequent extreme weather events, with substantial coastal, urban, and agricultural assets at risk. Climate change is a crucial driver of... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’Entrepreneurship and Multinationals’
book excerpt Firms As Actors From Chapter 1 Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By Geoffrey Jones Entrepreneurs and firms have been important actors in the making of our modern global... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones
- 01 Apr 2020
- News
What My Time in Vietnam Taught Me About Dealing with Shortages
each problem, and their corrective actions were reviewed personally by the secretary of defense. Second, to ensure that crucial items arrived when they were needed, we put together a rapid-resupply system called the Red Ball Express—a name inherited from the famed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
The Corporate Lattice: Achieving High Performance in the Changing World of Work by Cathleen Benko (MBA ’89) and Molly Anderson (Harvard Business Review Press) The authors argue that a lattice model rather than the corporate ladder is... View Details
- Web
Commencement 2020 Address | About
about to take on new leadership roles and attack big problems at a time when society desperately needs leaders. Seventy-three years ago, at Harvard’s Commencement ceremony, General George Marshall announced a plan to rebuild the European View Details
- 02 Mar 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Trump’s Tariffs Could Harm Allies as Much as Opponents
the US withdrew this ill-fated measure in 2003 after the World Trade Organization authorized the largest penalty sanctions ever against a member state, and after the European Union threatened retaliation. Back then, there was ample... View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
development." "I want to demonstrate that in Africa we're no different from anybody else in any fundamental way," Lawani elaborates. "We're just at a different point in our development. There's no reason that we can't apply to Africa the tools that have gotten the rest... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
the last 200 years: how they pursued resources and markets across borders in the 19th century, coped with the global economy’s collapse between the two world wars, and are driving the world View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
to development assistance, as it works to move Third World countries beyond subsistence toward genuine participation in the global economy. Best of all, the MCC is producing demonstrable results, including in Africa, where Bloom is the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
ACCION's helm in 1994. You left Wall Street for ACCION. Why? During 4 a.m. leveraged-buyout marathons at KKR, I'd occasionally wonder if I might be doing something else, however small, that could help make the world a better place. At the... View Details
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
uncoordinated information and education (Mark Beaty, Carlos V., Scott Beaumont, among others); and finally citizens, patients, and their loved ones who do or don't take part in managing their own wellness and care (Mary Parker). All of this is transpiring in an View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Faculty Books
Teaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy by Amy C. Edmondson (Jossey-Bass) The Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management, Edmondson says that organizations thrive, or fail to thrive, based on... View Details
- Fast Answer
Entrepreneurship by country
related to entrepreneurship collected for dozens of countries. Navigate directly to the Data section to run custom reports for variables across countries over time. World Bank Entrepreneurship Database: data relating to business... View Details
- 10 Feb 2014
- News
King of His Castle
Renaissance fair world to be pleasure, not business. Instead, he turned his ambition toward a business degree at Harvard. Among his favorite classes were David Moss's Business, Government, and the International View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
produced twelve books and a host of cases and articles (including two McKinsey Award-winning Harvard Business Review articles); served as a chief architect of the cornerstone Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE)... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
electronics industries were developing momentum. We took our leadership for granted, ignored this shift, and became complacent. Our problems became more serious when communism failed in Russia, Chairman Mao died, and reforms that were started in China and India began... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
economy in the last hundred-plus years. There was no specific event that brought the Dow over the 20,000 mark last week. Markets exhibit a fairly large degree of short-term volatility, so once you get close to 20,000, normal daily market... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat