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- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Australian prime minister, Robert Hawke. The government's fiscal position seemed to demand that educational financing be overhauled, but there was no consensus on how best to do this. Could the prime View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
poverty by the country’s growing economy, Palaniappan Chidambaram (MBA ’68), India’s finance minister, predicted in a speech at HBS in October. However, India remains a land of vexing contrasts and contradictions, with enormous inequities... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
2,500 lawyers across 35 countries by 1999, when she became the firm’s first non-American and female chairman. In 2005, she became France’s Minister for Foreign Trade in President Jacques Chirac’s administration and was the EU’s de facto... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Raising the Barrio
the road will run over the nearby railroad tracks. In its place, where some of the area’s most dangerous housing now stands, Rodríguez Larreta envisions a park for a community that has had almost no green space. His plan is also an expensive one—US$320 million, View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
(MBA ’69), a founding partner of Apax Partners and a social-venture entrepreneur, and HBS senior lecturer Thierry Breton, former finance minister of France. With University Professor Michael Porter... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
billion in equity financing in 2017, while their Silicon Alley cousins raised $1.5 billion, or 15 percent more. (CB Insights was in the first FIL graduating class.) The total number of equity financings was... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Banishing Balkan Ghosts
It's past midnight and the Minister of Finance and Economy is home early from work, fumbling around in the kitchen of his spartan apartment, trying to find something to eat. He's two years into the job, but... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Conferences Explore Range of Issues
including the information age in Asia, venture capital in India, and joint ventures in China. Other conference highlights included the participation of Vietnam's Finance Minister Nguyen Sing Hung, Taiwan's... View Details
- Web
MOC Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Research Associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research's International Macroeconomics and Finance Program, Member of the Latin-American Financial Regulatory Committee (CLAAF), Faculty Associate at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
where one applicant out of 10,000 got a job at MITI — to change their world view and do something different Change is starting to occur. Officials are quitting MITI and the Ministry of Finance early. Prime View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 26 Jan 2021
- News
Clubs See Wealth in FemTech; Health Care Alumni Look at COVID Response
FemTech space,” says HBSWANY board member Heather Myers (MBA 1992). “And many of them are in finance and health industries.” Avestria was launched in 2019 to seize the “huge opportunities to focus on women founders,” Greub says, adding... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- Student-Profile
Justine Murray
answered all of my questions. I really get the sense that everyone wants me to succeed here.” “This is a very entrepreneurial program,” Justine says. “Your research moves forward to the extent that you push it forward.” She credits her three years in View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
Jerusalem in 70 CE, as a rallying cry for action on climate change. But on a recent rainy January night in Cambridge, that’s what Matthew Potts, Harvard Divinity School’s Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and the Plummer Professor of... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
sorrows.” Retired since 2013, Quainton now serves as a mentor, helping new ministers find their vocation and calling. “That’s a major satisfaction for me,” he says. “They don’t have any private sector experience and can have trouble... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
assistance. Back in Paris, he telephoned the Ministry of Finance to report he would not be making an offer; the factory was a disaster. No, no, he was told—we’ll help you. “I said well, if the minister of... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
country's history. Greece was three years into a debt crisis, with the Samaras government implementing unpopular tax increases and spending cuts and leading intense negotiations with the IMF, the European Central Bank, and Eurozone View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
when she became the firm's first non-American and female chairman. In 2005, she became France's Minister for Foreign Trade in President Jacques Chirac's administration and was the EU's de facto finance View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
give us some background on the board? A:The Board of Executive Directors answers to the Board of Governors, which is made up of the finance ministers of all the World Bank members. Obviously, having that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
the Maldives, Bhutan, and Thailand. “As I worked in development, I realized I didn’t understand enough about finance and commerce,” he says, explaining why he applied to HBS. “It was also a bit about taking a step back to understand what... View Details
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes In the first of a weekly series of Skydeck episodes honoring recipients of the 2022 Alumni Achievement Award, finance veteran Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA 1982) talks about her... View Details