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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Gene Markowski (MBA 1973)
in 2013. I was stationed in a tank unit out in Colorado Springs when the Vietnam War started up. I didn’t think I wanted to be in a tank in Vietnam, so I volunteered to go to flight school. Six months later, I was in combat. I was a... View Details
- 08 Nov 2011
- News
Saluting Our HBS Veterans
TroopSwap Nicholas Pinchuk (MBA 1976), Snap-on Ed Ellison (MBA 1991), St. Johns Country Day School Veterans Day, celebrated on November 11 in the United States, is a reminder that the military, through its personnel and its philosophy,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Comeback Trail
Edited by Dan Morrell; illustrations by David Plunkert According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the United States’ current recession began in February, just as the first impacts of the COVID-19... View Details
William L. Moody, Jr.
Moody built a $400 million diversified enterprise. He founded the American National Insurance Company, which under his guidance grew into the largest enterprise of its kind in the southwest. By 1954, it had nearly $3 billion worth of... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
public service; I spent most of my life in public service. I think it’s rewarding. I don’t think any American can just turn down the President of the United States when he asks you to undertake a job, particularly a job that’s as... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Mead Treadwell
sciences, climate, biology, and human development. While we focus on research goals, our advice is tied to major policy issues as well. For example, the commission advocates ratification of the United View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
technologies on the health-care industry. A highly rated teacher, she is also an acclaimed public speaker, board member, and policy adviser whose expertise on health-care management has influenced private- and public-sector decision-makers in the View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China
Illustration by Patric Sandri Over the last five years, global supply chains have come under unprecedented stress from the pandemic, natural disasters, geopolitical events, and general anti-globalization sentiments. Nowhere is this more evident than in the trade... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
average, transferring wealth from abroad to the United States. — Mihir A. Desai is a professor at HBS and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. Reprinted with permission from The... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Kosovo in 2005-2006. Talk about making a difference in the world! With the United States mired in partisan and dysfunctional political gridlock, negotiation seems a dying art — in Washington at least — and neither this View Details
- 1992
- Chapter
Rethinking America's Security: The Primacy of the Domestic Agenda
By: James K. Sebenius and Peter G. Peterson
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Chris Howard (MBA 2003)
lay on his cot having been in the country for 12 hours as the mortars came in, trying to figure out how he was going to take this unit and find the bad guys ” When I came back from Afghanistan, I told Professor Jim Cash that the Harvard... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
for economic development. Does the United States need one? Shih: One of the issues in developing a national economic strategy has been confusion with the term “industrial policy,” which has been anathema in... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
interconnections among technological innovation, management science, entrepreneurship, and national economic growth. The book is organized around three units of analysis: the View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
manufacturing capabilities. Thompson: You talk about China having a national strategy for economic development. Does the United States need one? Shih: One of the issues in developing a View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
targeting credit bureau Equifax and the UK’s National Health Service, which could possibly have been prevented if organizations had run available software updates sooner. Tracking software vulnerabilities For their study, Greenstein and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
surplus in the United States. The really good news for America, he says, is that our well-developed and venturesome consumerism provides the ideal potting soil for all these mobile ideas to take root. Consumers, not patents, are our View Details
Frank A. Vanderlip
United States bank, National City’s branch in Buenos Aires, and to the creation of the banking conglomerate American International Corporation, which had operations in 17 countries by 1918. Because of... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 03 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It
Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details