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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
On the Inside
Top billing, of course, goes to her boss, George W. Bush (MBA ’75), but Labor Secretary Elaine L. Chao (MBA ’79) is also making a name for herself in the new administration. Chao, who has previously served in several government posts and... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
since the economic environments of emerging markets such as Indonesia, Chile, India, or Mexico vary so greatly. Because business groups are fundamental to many economies, understanding how these networked organizations function also... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
How DC is Taxing the Country
(photo by Brooks Kraft/Getty) Sunny jobs reports and shrinking unemployment numbers might give the impression that the US economic recovery is complete. Scratch beneath that surface, though, and a much bleaker trend emerges, says a new... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
common thread among them and found one in the search for solutions. In fact, by early this year, the national conversation clearly had shifted from discovery to recovery, with Washington taking a commanding role in charting a hoped-for View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Europe Business Conference Forecasts the Future
a New Yorker. In the business world, Hannezo predicted that synergies will continue to develop between Europe and the United States, thanks to a shared system of values and a wealth of talent on both sides of the Atlantic. "Together, we will succeed in enhancing the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Déjà Vu All Over Again
Opinions vary as to where things stand with the current economic climate: Are we in recovery mode, stalled, or still bottoming out? The distance of history offers a clearer perspective, as evidenced by an exhibit at the Baker Library |... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
motion, bringing Greeks back home to further strengthen the labor market and create new economic opportunities. “After 12 years of training in Greece, these talented individuals immigrate primarily to the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Boom Times Ahead
productivity cycles drive economic booms that are further powered by the explosion of new technologies,” explained the Sacramento Bee (October 5, 2004). People get excited when Dent gets bullish, because he’s been right on the money... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
economic stagnation of the middle class? The labor movement supports the agenda that Barack Obama has skillfully outlined for revitalizing our economy and rebuilding the middle class. First, we have to have... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
Blockchain for Good
After immigrating to the United Kingdom in the late 1960s to escape the Nigeria-Biafra civil war, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) and her family lived in public housing and had very little money. “But we still had more than our friends and relatives back home,” she recalls. “My... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Merton Receives Prestigious Award
University Professor Robert Merton, a member of the HBS faculty since 1988 and cowinner of the 1997 Nobel Prize in Economics, recently received the Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London. He was honored for his distinguished work in the fields of research... View Details
- 21 Aug 2017
- News
The Principles That Divide Us Might Be Greater Than Those That Bind Us Together
“It seems to me that we are now economically and socially divided and burdened in ways that are broadly analogous to 1937. During such times, conflicts (both internal and external) increase, populism emerges, democracies are threatened... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro is taking a leave of absence from the School to serve as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in her native Costa Rica. At 38, Alfaro, who has no prior service in Costa Rican public... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
An American Story
an economic research firm, the couple correspon-ded, getting to know each other through letters. They married on August 1, 1948, six months after their first date. Levitt enrolled in the Ph.D. program in View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
they’re keen to give back. The vast majority of them are seen as statesmen and stateswomen who have contributed to the building blocks of their particular society, both commercial successes and significant not-for-profit entrepreneurs. I did a year in the MBA program... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
New Director of MBA Career Services Focuses on Power of Alumni Network
their choice of industry and function. It's a tough year - you can't dress it up." Industries that have been hit hardest by the economic downturn include consulting and investment banking, two areas that traditionally hire a significant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that we aren’t using the crisis to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Plan B: The Brick Bank
for future needs such as retirement or education,” reflects Adams. “However, there are some environments, including Vietnam, where that fundamental tenet is not the best economic decision.” Pedro Noyola (HBS 2013) noted that while he... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna