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- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
said. As for the issue of human capital, Rajan noted that the majority of the populous is undereducated. "We need more education," he said. "Harvard is of course unique, but we need more institutions that emulate you."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
best equipped to handle such a complex task. Especially when compared with bank regulators and boards, bodies overseeing insurance companies and pension funds have had limited exposure to the structured products that increasingly populate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
settlement housed European immigrants who worked on the railroads and at the port. Throughout the decades, multiple attempts at forced eviction and resettlement failed, though one late-1970s effort reduced the population to just 1,000. A... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
their skills, and move them up the skill and pay ladders,” says Eckert, with robots replacing only the bottom rungs. “You’re not finding 21-year-olds coming out of school and wanting to go into manufacturing. In China, there is actually a declining View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
reasons for optimism, noting that with economic pragmatism and restructuring, their well-educated populations and strong infrastructures would be assets on the road to recovery. "There will be painful adjustments for many countries," he... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Simi Nwogugu (MBA 2004)
50 percent of our population right now is under the age of 30. If these young people are given the opportunities to channel their energy and creativity properly, I believe Nigeria will become a world leader within the next two decades. View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Head Games
head — incurred from Pop Warner through the NFL — have rocked the sport. (One telling statistic: NFL veterans can expect much shorter lives than the male population at large.) Many other contact sports — boxing, ice hockey, soccer,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States
"ghost" condominiums, coupled with immigration, fuel the demand. The supply of housing is limited, due to the topography of the nation, the need to live near jobs, and the fact that the government owns 90% of the land. Add to the Israeli conundrum the segment... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
HBS Association of Ireland: Connecting at Home and Abroad
population of only 3.8 million, Ireland, Barry acknowledges, can't always provide enough career opportunities to attract HBS graduates — but the country, particularly Dublin (population 985,000), feels more like a supportive community... View Details
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
Summing Up Respondents to the latest "What Do You Think?" column expressed a general lack of concern about adverse effects from Microsoft's settlement with the Federal Government for a variety of reasons. Charley Cullinane reminds us that "There is a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Venture: A Welcome Assist
their families surpasses $13 trillion. About 17 percent of the world’s population is affected by disabilities. There’s also the fact that, beginning in June, any company conducting business in the European Union will need to meet the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
appeared more similar to India’s and a more logical move than expansion into so many disparate African countries. Mittal begs to differ: “Africa’s improving political climate, encouraging social and economic development indicators, and a large, youthful View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- News
Finding Her Place
recruiter from Chapman Partnership called. The homeless-services nonprofit was looking for a CEO. Chapman Partnership has provided shelter and other resources to the unhoused population of Miami-Dade County, Florida, since 1995. The... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
of the population is prospering, but we need a model that benefits Mexico's 95 million people. How does Mexico's stability affect emigration to the United States? Economic instability and unemployment drive Mexicans to the States - to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution
(dot-org) WEBSEs populate e-philanthropy, Austin found that dot-coms dominate. They can more readily attract the venture capital and technical talent vital to Internet companies. “Imagine a start-up dot-org asking a major foundation for... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
typically each government used artificially low energy prices to keep the population subdued and the revenues from Yacimientos Petroliferos Fiscales (YPF) to finance these subsidies or worse to line their pockets. Many of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
cities in the state abutted a municipality with a green procurement policy. To assess each city's intrinsic environmental pulse, they measured the proportion of the city's population that voted in favor of environmental initiatives on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 23 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World
represents over 50% of the trans population and we’re growing rapidly. Plume is available to anybody 18 years or older who desires medical hormone therapy to live more in line with their gender identity. I am beyond thrilled that every... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
inefficiently — amounts that far exceed residential and personal use. And with the global population skyrocketing, the demand for water to sustain, feed, and employ the world’s people is projected to double by 2025. By that date, nearly... View Details