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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Why We Do—or Don’t—Donate Time and Money
They want the “warm glow”—to feel good from doing it. They want to signal something about themselves—that they are nice, for instance, or that they hold certain political tendencies. Volunteering is—or perhaps increasingly can be—a... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Jimmy Lai Chee-ying: Rags, Riches, and Risk
mainland China is on the verge of its own political awakening. “What is happening in Taiwan will have a great impact on China,” he predicts. Leave it to Jimmy Lai to want to be where change is happening the fastest — and where the risks... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Africa Business Conference Creates Ongoing Forum for Change
senior associate dean for International Development, welcomed the SRO crowd in Aldrich with a smile, noting, “I'm very pleased with our market share.” Despite the challenges posed by a developing infrastructure and bouts of political... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
A Long and Winding Road
It hardly seems possible, but 25 years have passed since our class left Soldiers Field. At the time we were a bit dazed by the political and social upheaval around us, yet confident that our hard-earned MBA credential would stand us in... View Details
Keywords: Wayne R. Vibert (MBA 1973)
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Raising a Glass to Life-Long Entrepreneurship
an American beer revolution in the same way that Sam Adams the patriot started a political revolution. Finally, the question I’m sure you get all the time: So many people dream of opening their own breweries. Does it make sense to? Is... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
Cochairs Herman Bulls (MBA '85) and Ken Bacon (MBA '82) worked closely with Honorary Chair Dennis Hightower (MBA '74) and a program committee led by Jacqueline Adams (MBA '78) and Dayna Wilkinson (MBA '81) to present sessions on domestic and international View Details
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
University. While there, she studied abroad in Ghana in order to learn more about that part of the world. “I had initially imagined a future in international diplomacy but quickly realized the political side of things was not for me. I... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Dear Future Author…
the stagecraft of political campaigns “There are so many things that can keep you from writing. Chief among them is not considering yourself a writer. Once you cross the threshold and start telling people that you are a writer, then you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
second of five children, growing up under apartheid in rural South Africa, she credits her parents with stressing the importance of education and for making her politically aware and proud of her Sotho heritage. With this strong... View Details
- 29 May 2019
- News
HBS Career Coaches Hit the Road to Serve Alumni
May 9 as part of the association’s Civic Engagement Series. In addition to costing trillions, Deffarges says complexity in healthcare, government, finance, and other large systems is causing a broad range of other negative impacts on society, including the opioid... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 26 Sep 2018
- News
Funding the Earth’s Natural Infrastructure
obvious: Environmentalists have long known that the city has water run-off issues, but there had never been any political will to solve the problem. “Hurricane Harvey showed everyone that we just can’t be on the sidelines anymore,” Coady... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 11 Jul 2012
- News
A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
smiling these days. Despite Washington’s contentious political environment, he’s employed at a US government foreign-aid organization, the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), that actually enjoys broad bipartisan support. Everybody,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
deals." When constructing a single pipeline, for example, it is often necessary for a company to negotiate with multiple countries, each with its own laws, cultural differences, and political sensitivities. Those complications, says HBS... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
Iraq from the perspective of an insider — The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. Published last spring, it’s a damning indictment not just of America’s many missteps, but also of the “utter mediocrity, incompetence, and venality of the new Iraqi... View Details
- 02 Jan 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
have been disproportionately affected by the entrenched interests of utilities, Riley observes. The green-energy pitch isn’t always a politically compelling idea in these often more conservative communities, but, he says, “It’s not about... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Raymond M. Jefferson
Dean Joseph S. Nye, Jr., to Honolulu for meetings with Hawaiian political and business leaders. Jefferson hopes to increase Hawaiian enrollment at Harvard and at the U.S. Military Academy. Looking to the future, Jefferson, who has... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
still wary of Mexico in the wake of a series of economic crises. In addition, he notes, "We now must compete against Internet companies for capital as e-commerce firms attract investors seeking high returns. But I think as our country settles in with new View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
crisis provided the political will to create safeguards in the system that, even with deterioration over time, will protect us for a long time to come,” he says. Shining a Light on Shadow Banks David Scharfstein, Edmund Cogswell Converse... View Details