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- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
part that will shift the balance between states, firms, and society," Spar predicted. Professor Spar's research is the subject of a forthcoming book, Pirates, Prophets, and Pioneers: Business and Politics along the Technological Edge, to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
monk, Stefan Cossack restores the glory of Kievan Rus to modern-day Ukraine. A novel of romance, friendship, military struggle, and political intrigue. Alpini: De roc, de neige et de sang by Gérard Guerrier (AMP 114, 1994) (Glénat Livres)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
that boom to strengthen dysfunctional political systems," says HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. "It's a real tribute to the Brazilians that they used that decade for a lot of important things—and out of Brazil has emerged some real... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
March, about a Kabul student whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years. Growing up in Maryland, Lemmon was exposed to news and politics by her mother, who was active in local politics.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
“bestseller” of 1979 makes too strong a case that his policy recommendations should have been heeded. The basic shortcoming: We first need to agree on the priority of the problems and what viable solutions exist. Viability includes technical and financial feasibility... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- News
An Unfinished Story
Why did you leave blank pages at the end of the book? Those pages are for the readers to write their own stories. We want to spark a national discussion about the role of immigrants in our country, but this book isn’t a political... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 May 2017
- News
Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
politely agrees to the selfie, but she’s clearly not in her element, leaving one to wonder how a shy, 22-year-old established an eponymous company and then built it into a household name. The answer lies in the grit and determination that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building
options; as a result, about 20 percent of his work force became millionaires when the company went public. "We shared the profits with everyone and gave those staying on an excellent opportunity," Hawes proudly noted. Hawes, who grew up in Marsing, Idaho, earned his BA... View Details
- 27 Jan 2023
- News
Turning Up the Volume
When the executive director of Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) stepped down in June 2020, Ilana Goldman (MBA/MPA 2002) stepped up. As chair of the board and a political and nonprofit consultant, she saw it as her duty... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
The Entrepreneurial Venture
characterized by a high degree of mobility of capital and labor. Opportunity-seeking entrepreneurs are plentiful: They can gain access to human and financial capital; they can overcome barriers to entry; and they can succeed in economic, social, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
United States and South Africa in the Apartheid Years, which won the prestigious Lionel Gelber Prize for Best Book on International Relations in 1998. Inspired by South Africa's unfolding democracy and dismayed by America's “sclerotic and cynical” View Details
- 05 Mar 2020
- News
Green Light
bruised, she decided to step away from business, attending culinary school and becoming a private chef in London for two years. (Lo donated all her earnings to charity and coauthored a book during that time, Dining with Dictators, which was part View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
HBS faculty members and doctoral students with a combined expertise in energy issues, political science, and technology. “Our goal was to produce a plain English book that would provide a framework for thinking about the energy future,”... View Details
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Challenges Across the Supply Chain
opportunities. “The legacy of the Cold War, governance issues, and the need to maintain stable political regimes and economies represent challenges in the region,” he explains. “Countries like Peru have done a good job over the past 20... View Details
- 13 May 2014
- News
Inside Africa
Google made her “a very attractive offer” for the domain name and she had to decide whether to take the money and move on. Instead, she put together a website herself over the course of a weekend and watched as the traffic grew and grew. Today the site offers a rich... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
as in Costa Rica, we were able to build a strong connection with the constituents who stood to benefit the most. When the people in Mattapan saw what we wanted to do and believed that we could do it, their support helped break political... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
reminded me of how effective film can be at sharing a complex topic with large audiences. “But a particular and obvious question puzzled me: Why haven’t films like Chasing Ice, The Island President, and An Inconvenient Truth, to name a few, succeeded in creating the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
of poverty, props up tyrants, and undermines political stability and economic progress. As the world's largest repository of this kind of money, the United States erodes its own strategic objectives — and its moral stature — in countries... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
medicine required for recovery.” “Those experiences were invaluable for what I'm doing now,” Djelic continues. “I learned that you can't wait for better conditions because they'll never materialize. There's always political risk involved.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Ann S. Moore, MBA 1978
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer, Time Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EUDUCATION Vanderbilt University, 1971 B.A., Political Science LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "Trust is a powerful tool in helping you lead. You... View Details