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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
an economic research firm, the couple correspon-ded, getting to know each other through letters. They married on August 1, 1948, six months after their first date. Levitt enrolled in the Ph.D. program in View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- News
Management Matters In Health Care, Too
figure them out,” he said. “We’re going to have a revolution in coordinating care,” observed David Cutler, a Harvard professor of applied economics and a nationally recognized expert in the economics of... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
T.J. Dermot Dunphy (MBA '56)
efforts to make the inner city a viable and competitive economic entity," says University Professor Michael E. Porter, who is researching economic development in America's inner cities. Dunphy has also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
funds for her local animal shelter—and found it surprisingly difficult. Much later, in the second year of her PhD program, she discovered the field of behavioral economics and folded her non-academic... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
A Bid for the Future
When Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) first read of Amazon’s search for a second headquarters in the Wall Street Journal, he was certain the newspaper had made a typo. The online retailer couldn’t be talking about creating 50,000 jobs. Moret’s years in View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
is unclear and the spirit of the law is open to interpretation. A close reading of the record suggests that much of Enron’s behavior fell into this penumbra. But that same record also suggests that Skilling lost his way in this shadowed... View Details
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo, MBA 1998/JD 1999
Founds Care.com 2009 Named one of Fortune’s Top 10 Women Entrepreneurs 2011 Named Young Global Leader, World Economic Forum 2012 Launches WomenUp as Henry Crown Fellow 2014 Care.com IPO Founder, Chairwoman, and CEO, Care.com As a child in... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Understanding how the brain’s cognitive system relates to social and economic phenomena—including financial markets—was the focus of an April workshop on Belief Formation and Prediction, sponsored by the View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
When the RFP for Amazon’s HQ2 arrived in September 2017, Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) had been on the job as president and chief executive officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) for only eight months. The commonwealth... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Book Review: My Lunch with Warren
appointment book—it was largely empty. Like Buffett, Spier’s investing approach is iconoclastic. He moved his family to Zurich to escape the Wall Street Sturm und Drang. His theories on economic behavior are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2024
- News
OC Alumni Get Clarity on AI; Inequality and Climate Change Explored in DC
Clubs News Clubs News Demystifying AI at Orange County Leadership Breakfast At its first HBS Leadership Breakfast event since before the pandemic, the HBS Association of Orange County (HBSAOC) tackled the potential of AI with a talk titled The Dawning of Artificial... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
within the confines society imposed. Integral Advantage: Revisiting Emerging Markets and Societies by Ronnie Lessem (MBA 1968) (Routledge) The BRIC countries are heralded for their double-digit economic growth rates, and yet, significant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
industry’s growth from a small base in the U.S. North-east in the 1960s to today’s highly visible role in economies all over the world. Brooke lays out his vision for the industry as an essential element of economic growth and... View Details
- 24 Feb 2023
- News
Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Palm Beach
Society (BiGS), which he described as an interdisciplinary research enterprise that will position HBS as an intellectual hub for examining the most critical issues and opportunities of our times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
is still an industry, with economic inputs, business models, competitors, value chains, and a dynamic, challenging marketplace. Gaylin examines each of the major segments (Broadway, regional theater, orchestra, opera, and dance) along... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
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Sunset in the East?
prices leading to an economic collapse? —Bruce Johnstone (MBA 1966) KIRBY: Unlikely. Prices have fallen considerably in secondary and tertiary cities but are firm in the first tier. Property is, of course, a speculative investment in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
our curriculum. Was HBS alone in not offering a consumer finance course? No. I surveyed the top twenty MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
It’s critical to stay connected to the world, to be economically viable, and to be able to do certain types of gig work. We’ve been talking for a long time about an ideal world where learning is not bound by time and space. We never... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to the automakers. They are at the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
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India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
natural and human resources, poverty nonetheless prevails — some 350 million Indians live on less than one dollar a day. “The government of India faces the challenge of leveraging huge natural and human resources to ensure rapid economic... View Details