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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
other needs), worsening inequality, and increasing social and political conflict. And with improving technology and intensifying global competition, they will only grow worse if America’s K-12 education results don’t substantially improve... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
successfully in global markets while also supporting high and rising living standards for Americans. America is not more competitive if businesses succeed by paying lower wages. Actually, the need to cut... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
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Faculty Books
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture by Laura Alfaro (World Scientific) This casebook has three main topics: the determinants and effects of international capital flows;... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor
It is difficult to conceive of any policy that would be more destructive to American business innovation. Given global competition, it is not in anyone’s interest to force a union bureaucracy into businesses that must be innovative and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Inside MBA Admissions
a candidate’s character. The fact that HBS lands at or near the top of the various business-school rankings doesn’t mean that the Admis-sions staff sits back and waits for applications to pile up. In fact, Dewey’s office conducts a far-flung View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
and was a leading figure in teaching a new required module in Decision Making and Ethical Values. Since retiring from the active faculty four years ago, Lodge has continued his research on globalization and the development of emerging... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers under the increasingly undeniable... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin
security) so that it can become a globally accepted medium of exchange? —Joseph DiSorbo (OPM 41, 2011) So far the ecosystem has been working on creating the basic infrastructure for bitcoin to operate: exchanges allowing people to buy and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
Cathedral. Even the design of the HBS campus began as an architecture competition. Contests work well when we don't know what the right approach may be to a problem. Today they're used in a variety of situations, from creating logos to software code. "Spot labor" View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs
Greatest Competitor as Our Greatest Teacher by Ann Lee (MBA 1995) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) Fully aware of China’s shortcomings, particularly in human rights, Lee details the policies and practices—in areas ranging from education and governance to foreign aid—that... View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- News
Can Farming Save the Planet?
Photos by Marc Romanelli Climate change rightfully scares a lot of people. The changes already occurring—from the die-off of coral reefs and shrinking polar ice to increasing global temperatures—are almost too much to take in.... View Details
- 27 May 2021
- News
History’s Future
government hopes that the tourism industry will revitalize the region and account for 10 percent of the country’s GDP in a decade, up from just 3 percent. The work of drawing global attention to this forgotten swath of the country is part... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- News
The First Five Years: Nicolas Manes (MBA 2020)
our network of group buyers.” More generally, how do you use what you learned at HBS in your work as cofounder and chief growth officer of Nilus? “At HBS, I gained full access to the global startup ecosystem. Additionally, the school gave... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
the United States.” —Victor Fung (Ph.D. ’71), Group Chairman, Li & Fung Group “Brands need to learn to market with two ears and one mouth.” —David Kenny (MBA ’86), Managing Partner, VivaKi “In the 1980s, we told our companies, ‘Don’t... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
has revamped more than just the design, says Yong, a former Bain consultant and Acumen Global Fellow who joined the automaker in 2016. “We have also rethought the conventional automotive business model itself,” with specific decisions in... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- 01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
Management Professor Robert H. Hayes and Associate Professor Marco Iansiti Global Financial Systems Professor Robert C. Merton and Associate Professor Peter Tufano Organizations and Markets Professors George... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 26 May 2016
- News
W. James McNerney Jr., MBA 1975
McNerney. “The trick was to create a stronger fifth culture that retained some of the original essence of each.” During his tenure, Boeing recaptured the top position in the global aerospace industry as well as in commercial airplanes. It... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2019
author Bob Leppo an edge in stock market investing, commodity futures, and the wild world of venture capital. Part memoir, part tale of discovery and rebirth, The Speculator’s Mosaic is a no-nonsense guide to navigating the ups and... View Details