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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Faculty Books
approaches to poverty alleviation. Leading academics and corporate, nonprofit, and public-sector managers discuss how businesses, NGOs, and government organizations can use business solutions to improve the lot of the world’s poorest 3... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
Zero. "We helped with matters related to reopening, such as tracking down pro bono legal assistance on critical insurance and real-estate issues," she says. "We also brought in top experts from the restaurant industry to give advice."... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- News
George Yeo: A Matter of Degrees
young army clerk who gave him a book on the Harvard MBA — Yeo did enroll at HBS and earned his MBA with High Distinction. The MBA has had “great applicability to what I do,” Yeo explained, recalling an example from his days as Trade and View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
by the industry we regulate. So this was a historic moment to come into this job. In addition, the SEC itself recently had been through some tough times, so it seemed like the agency was in need of new leadership. Not long after you... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: On the Fly
always been intriguing to me,” says Carty, which explains his five decades in the field—starting at Air Canada, moving on to American Airlines (where he served as chairman and CEO), and including board stints with Porter Airlines, Virgin America, and Hawaiian Airlines.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 03 Apr 2012
- News
Just Compensation
a business strategist at Booz & Company (then, Booz, Allen & Hamilton). “I got into executive compensation and performance because incentives are a way to help drive corporate strategy,” she explains. “A lot of governance infrastructure... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
the medium term, to this government manipulation other than investor psychology? —Jim Daley (MBA 1986) KIRBY: Investor psychology probably is the biggest risk, but another is an overreliance on hard infrastructure investments (roads,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Research Brief: Capitol Gains
representatives from the 101st to 110th Congresses. After assessing the main purpose of each bill and classifying each according to 49 industry categories, they watched how legislators voted when their home state's GDP was significantly... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Faculty Books
government subsidies for banks, and support for entrepreneurial culture, affect this industry and the impact that entrepreneurs have on growth in emerging economies. The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built,... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
The news last October of Chevron's proposed acquisition of Texaco for $36 billion in stock was hardly surprising to industry analysts. The planned merger — which would streamline projects and save some $1.2 billion annually — was... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Strategists analyze market forces—great strategists also look beyond the market
Traditionally, corporate strategists define industry structure, competitive positions, resources, and knowledge flows as the key sources of competitive advantage. Within these sources, they look for areas of opportunity in the market that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
India is more Transparent
First, as a result of a legal system derived from the common-law tradition, annual reports provide the basic rudiments of information that Western observers expect, and familiar rules govern corporate disclosure. Real-time stock market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
In the wake of the September 11 attacks, business in general and the insurance industry in particular are examining ways to manage the high cost of insurance against acts of terrorism. Appearing before the Senate Committee on Commerce,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Have All the Leaders Gone?
denominator. My own industry is no small part of the problem. We, too, are seeking niches. The fragmentation of the news media means Americans no longer have to listen to the serious discussion of ideas with which they might disagree. If... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
with the oil crises of the 1970s, but unlike the United States, where the government invested hundreds of millions in technology development, the Nordic country saw more organic and long-term growth. Its smaller private firms focused on... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
New Horizons for Iraq
most recently as a Middle East expert at Oxford University and as chairman of Falcon Intercapital in Geneva, Switzerland. “Most of the Iraqi Governing Council and Cabinet believe in free market principles and the principles of an open... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
“This has to be a shared mission,” Obama told attendees at the White House Summit on Cybersecurity and Consumer Protection at Stanford University, where he signed the order onstage. “So much of our computer networks and critical infrastructure are in the private... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details