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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
fruitless attempts to access information during a stint with KPMG Peat Marwick in Poland and while working with an economic reform team in Russia. Mueller credits his brother George, his business partner and... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
of each affected the actions of others, culminating in the “mass hysteria” (another chapter title) leading to the crash. Buy, Lie, and Sell High provides specific suggestions for reforms to the regulation process in the United States that... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
David Garvin and research associate Patrick Cullen. The title isn’t just a rhetorical flourish. Deans and executives alike take issue with what and how students are taught, revealing a number of shortcomings that the authors argue point the way to a View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Sound Bites: A Degree of Hope
Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) President and CEO, the Strada Education Foundation Illustration by John S. Dykes I grew up as the son of a single mother in rural Mississippi. And while we were never legally poor, there was that sense of economic insecurity the whole way. And... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Enable Students to Broaden Their Impact
the data analytics team, he brought to the nonprofit his solid background in behavioral economics from Emory University and his financial acumen from his trading days. Agarwal’s goal was to use data and technology to help make the schools... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
to help, has the government unwittingly created the mother of all moral hazards — implicit rescue guarantees as far as the eye can see? No doubt about it, says HBS professor and economic historian David Moss. “The extension of implicit... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
twenty years at the forefront of tax reform advocacy, what achievements would you like to be known for? My single most important achievement was creating the Taxpayer Protection Pledge, a promise never to raise taxes. Since 1986, we have... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
but resistance becomes more deadly. Coalition military morale has collapsed. The outcome will be decided by approaching US elections. High economic and political costs force rethinks. Oil drives all. Production averaged about 2 million... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Minding The Gap
Focused and pragmatic, she is deeply committed to across-the-board success at a school where 93 percent of students are African American, and 65 percent are from economic backgrounds that qualify them for free or reduced school lunches.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Primer on Patents
LERNER: Congress won’t address needed patent reforms until CEOs get involved in lobbying for change. Professor Josh Lerner, who holds a joint appointment in the School’s Finance and Entrepreneurial Management units, is best known as an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Students Help Rebuild New Orleans
students did just that when they traveled to New Orleans with the HBS Hurricane Relief Trek. Some students worked with Mayor Ray Nagin’s Bring New Orleans Back Commission, brainstorming economic development strategies. Others helped... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
out of poverty, and to do it in the context of a very freewheeling and open democracy. It could be a huge example for the world.” The primary catalyst for India’s economic growth can be linked to sweeping View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
state control to free enterprise in Asia, Africa, and Eastern Europe—more than 20 countries in all, including Zambia, Vietnam, and, most recently, Myanmar. “Reforming economic infrastructure and privatizing state corporations are rarely... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
third best reforming economy in the world for 2009 and 32nd in the world in 2010 for the ease of doing business. We are very pro-business, with 10 percent corporate and personal income tax and one-stop company registration in only four... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Going Public: Herman I. Safin
Unlike the culture-shocked Russian who defected to America in the movie Moscow on the Hudson, Lithuanian-born Herman Safin arrived at HBS already familiar with the ways of the West. Beginning with his high-school years in the former Soviet Union -- which coincided with... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
Cofounder, Former Chairman & Chief Executive Officer American Management Systems, Inc. Former Commissioner, Internal Revenue Service Senior Advisor, The Carlyle Group Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page ©2003 www.RockyThies.com EARLIER EDUCATION Georgetown... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
fifty-year history, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were the big guys on the block. We had the money. We were helping to reform a world after World War II and gradually mutated into an institution to assist in... View Details