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- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
“Development work is more about listening than telling,” says Marie Sheppard (MBA 1990), a veteran of more than two decades with the World Bank Group. As she winds up an assignment as manager of the Bank’s Innovation Labs in Washington,... View Details
- 30 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001)
opportunity. And the climate capital stack and policy frameworks continue to evolve and extend as it responds to these myriad opportunities. 3. We Are (Way) Behind - despite #1 and 2 above, transitioning the planet to a low(er) carbon View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
fifth-generation nuclear capabilities. The threat of nuclear aggression among powerful nations did not disappear with the Cold War; it remains a major challenge for the United States and poses a more serious danger than terrorism. The Chinese have a strong View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
turn-around would require a national economic strategy—and that would require a functional political system. A turn-around would require a national economic strategy—and that would require a functional political system. Amid the grim diagnosis of the US View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- Profile
Tony He
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Prior to business school, I studied biomedical engineering and worked in health economics research. I learned useful technical skills, but I looked to expand my thinking. Business school was a chance for me to study the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 30 Nov 2021
- News
Cold Calculations
change, the world has to come together and do the hard work necessary to shift away from a carbon economy and to cut greenhouse-gas emissions. “This buys time to allow that transition to happen,” he says. View Details
- 29 Apr 2021
- News
Equal Partner
working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize the View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
From the Classroom to Casablanca
To put what they have learned in the classroom to the test in the field, more than 900 HBS first-year students embarked in May on the FIELD Global Immersion (FGI), a cornerstone of the MBA Program since 2012. This experiential learning opportunity dispatches students... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
is that people who should be allies are at cross-purposes with each other." The US Competitiveness Project put forth this definition: "The United States is a competitive nation to the extent that firms operating in the U.S. can compete successfully in the... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
safety net and virtually no hope of moving upward.” “Globalization has helped emerging economies distribute their products and services around the world but there’s been no systematic way to link the extra... View Details
- 17 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
What to Expect from your First Week at HBS
I’m originally from Turkey but I spent large portions of my childhood in New York, Greece, and Italy. I returned to Turkey to complete my undergraduate degree and worked in management consulting back home in Istanbul before completing a 4-month externship in Italy at... View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
News about the Greek economy continues on the front page of every major newspaper, as the country continues its six-year struggle to reenergize its economy. On Friday, Eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release emergency... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
For the past 18 months, European policymakers have been trying to deal with a crisis that represents the biggest challenge to the European integration project since its creation after World War II. The very symbol of it, the euro, is... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- Profile
Doha Tantawy
through cases. "We're exposed to hundreds of cases by the end of our two years," Doha says. "For every case, you answer the question, 'What would you do?' I hear a new thing every single day." In Business, Government & the International View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
democratic regimes and have adopted market-based stabilization programs, opening up their economies to foreign trade. And just as in the United States, another strong and exciting phenomenon has been the impact of the new View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
A year ago, most experts thought the US economy was thundering headlong toward recession, as the Federal Reserve moved at a historic pace to slow inflation by bridling interest rates. Yet, despite recent tremors in the stock market, no... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
bikes; now he is exporting to the United States and Europe. Wu and Yin are just two of more than 345,000 dollar millionaires who now live in China. Not only has China left its imperial past far behind. So far, the fastest-growing economy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
Capital Rules by Rawi Abdelal (Harvard University Press) How and why did the world shift from an orthodoxy of free capital movements in 1914 to capital controls in 1944 and back again by 1994? Contrary to conventional accounts, Associate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
standard of living. But Amar Bhidé (MBA ’79, DBA ’88) thinks the “gathering storm” theory is not only wrong but alarmist and harmful. Writing in his book The Venturesome Economy: How Innovation Sustains Prosperity in a More Connected View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
“consumption-based economy of the early 20th century originated in the face-to-face selling strategies of peddlers and book canvassers of the previous generation.” The book begins in the early 1800s with a look at the hardships of the... View Details