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- 01 Mar 2008
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India's Chidambaram Says Nation Is "Poor Rich"
overcome them, as Chidambaram outlined in his talk, “Poor Rich Countries: The Challenges of Development.” Having gained its independence from Great Britain in 1947, India is a “young nation but an old civilization,” Chidambaram said, with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Toy Story
educational products. A key aspect of LEGO’s approach to the educational toy market centers on educating parents about the importance of play. “Play is undervalued,” explains Moynihan. “Children’s lives are so structured that they often... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The House that Howard Built
Achievement, the Model UN, the state math contest — if there was a competition, I would enter it.” Thus the youthful Howard became an early adventurer, an exchange student in the American Field Service’s first-ever overseas program. Speaking no French, he shipped out... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Books
to make a living selling buttons, combs, and other sundry items to suspicious and penny-pinching rural homesteaders. From these humble origins, Friedman traces a series of transitions that imposed ever-greater organization and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
information. We owe it to those who passed away in the disaster to upgrade our systems to help save lives in any future calamity." —GE AGRICULTURE John Whiteside Grass Farmer, Wolf Creek Farm For years, the résumé of John Whiteside (MBA... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Steve Huffman and Alexis Ohanian in 2005, Reddit had seen its share of CEO turnover as it grappled with questions about how to moderate content and build a sustainable advertising model without crushing the site’s notoriously independent... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
being denied on-campus housing because of his race. Fitzhugh hoped to go into sales and marketing, but companies at the time had little interest in hiring an African American. While working as an independent print salesman in Washington,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
HBS Addresses Racial Equity
different races, genders, ethnicities, religions, and political views to make the most of these differences. This learning is evident in our classrooms, where a student shares something about his or her lived experience and others sit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
business endeavors through the lives of ten titans of commerce. Beginning with the Tudor merchants who transformed England’s economy via trade with the New World, the author traces an entrepreneurial golden line through men such as Thomas... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
depend on the ability of its independent regulators to provide for a level playing field between the government and private sector in areas such as insurance, civil aviation, telecom, and energy. Privatizations, tariff reform, an end to... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
commissioned independent investigations to understand exactly how things had gone so wrong. They interviewed employees, partners, donors, and competitors to tease apart what was working, what wasn’t, and what the NGO’s future should look... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Fall of Europe. Since 2012 Europe has been confronting new, game-changing challenges such as the refugee crisis, the surprise of Brexit, and the explosion of “alternative” politics. Europeans have realized that the open societies they have been comfortably View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
Section B, year of 1979. I would urge people not to think of retirement as a term at all. Now you are at a stage of life where you have freedom to choose how you will engage your time and energy, your purpose. You have the financial View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
marketing, and strategy. Getting those various individuals, each with their own expertise, to speak to each other comfortably is a necessity. “The inherent training and the day-to-day lives of people inside of each of those verticals are... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
send e-mail to the author: Garry Emmons photos by AP/Wide World September 11, 2001, was a day that New Yorkers will never forget, particularly those who live and work in Lower Manhattan, the city’s business and financial center. With the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth
and social justice in the conduct of capitalism. When Massie was an infant, his youthful parents received a stunning diagnosis: Their lively firstborn was a hemophiliac. The family's life in New York's Westchester County became dominated... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing Education Inequities Exacerbated by the Pandemic
around our inability to ensure that all children attain foundational literacy and numeracy skills. In simple words, if a child at age 10 can’t read and do basic math, they get left behind and can’t independently access the texts. The... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Feb 1997
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OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking. Drawing on his extensive research on a subject he calls his "passion" - customer loyalty - Sasser led a lively discussion on the topic of customer retention that included a videotaped segment on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty and Alumni Books for March 2014
a short, traditional text with a living website and cover such fundamental topics as accounting and tax, mortgages, capital markets, REITs and more. It also addresses the 2008 financial crisis and its impact on the real-estate profession.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
History’s Lessons
the lives of two men on a past polar expedition by traveling thirty miles without stopping to eat or sleep.... Here is a key insight for modern leaders: hire for attitude, train for skill. Shackleton understood that the more volatile and... View Details