Institutional Reform - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Developing Countries by Tarun Khanna Berrett-Koehler Publishers Entrepreneurs in developing countries who assume they will have the same legal, governmental, and institutional protections as their counterparts in the West will fail. To... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

learning to ask the right questions and learning to understand yourself. Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy by Karthik Ramanna (Univ. of Chicago Press) Some View Details

01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money

private sector; establishing institutional restraints on power; and improving public-sector management. Organizations such as TI, TFFIED, and its member groups are also making a difference. Notes Wells, “Governments don’t like to be rated... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2003
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Student Conferences, at a Glance

Bhusri, general partner, Greylock “After 9/11, do we want or need an ID card? From a technology stand-point, that’s a no-brainer. We need to get our act together first on policy and cultural issues.” — Mark Cleverley, senior consultant, IBM’s View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit

various diseases the foundation is fighting? Ironically, the hardest area for the foundation to measure is educational reform because “metrics don’t exist” in that field, he said. Taking a swipe at both major political parties, Gates... View Details

Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

18 Aug 2014
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Closing the Education Gap

Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System

to meet with BFFS faculty to promote the productive exchange of ideas. “We began by mobilizing Harvard research around the realities of how markets, individuals, and institutions behave ,” says Greenwood. “Ultimately though, we want the... View Details

21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

Manager of Publications at the Ukrainian Research Institute; Nataliya Bugayova (Harvard Kennedy School, MPP 2012), Director of Strategic Insights at Vertical Knowledge, Russian Research Fellow at Institute for the Study of War; Daniel... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

for the Asian Development Bank. And now, eight years later, Mawilmada says the country is ready to move on, for the most part. But lingering issues and resentments are the impetus for a current effort to rewrite the country’s constitution to avoid a repeat of the past.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

01 Jan 2006
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William H. Donaldson, MBA 1958

boy, Bill Donaldson went on to cofound the investment banking firm of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. After fourteen years there, he began to take on a series of other leadership challenges in business, government, and academia. Most recently, as chairman of the SEC, he... View Details

01 Feb 2000
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No Place Like Home

in affordable housing as an investor and is reaping handsome returns for its participation. "The primary vehicle for developing new affordable housing is the low-income housing tax credit, part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986," she says.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

tasks, so too should we remedy financial turmoil.” First, stabilize the patient, in this case the markets. That’s what the $700 billion rescue plan (signed into law by President Bush MBA ’75 on October 3) aimed to accomplish: stabilize the View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade

a report on the HBS Latin America Research Center), Latin America is an evolving, untapped market of vast potential, formidable challenges, and many fascinations. MORE A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens In the 1980s, democracy-oriented governments... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

adult life, Mitsotakis entered politics in 2003 and was elected the following year as a New Democracy candidate in parliament, where he served on a host of committees. In 2013, then–prime minister Antonis Samaras (MBA 1976) appointed him minister for administrative... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

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