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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
Indeed, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and the microcredit Grameen Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent,... View Details
- 15 Nov 2024
- News
Driving Change
happen than Harvard Business School,” he said. “It is inconceivable to me we would not leverage the talents, expertise, and strengths of women in addressing the challenges facing the world today.” Nobel View Details
- 30 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Retirement Planning
place an undue burden on workers who don't have the interest, time, or expertise to manage their finances. A pioneer in translating finance and mathematics into practical, Wall Street-ready models, Merton was awarded the 1997 Nobel... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest achievers (e.g., Nobel Prize winners). Studies regarding the impact of immigrants on natives tend to find limited consequences in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021
Creating Emerging Markets project, Professor Victoria Ivashina, faculty chair of the Middle East and North Africa Region, interviewed Madame Ouided Bouchamaoui (pictured), the co-laureate of the 2015 Nobel Peace View Details
- Profile
Arthur Rock
experience of raising money to help these businesses grow. In a serendipitous encounter in 1957, Rock was approached by a group of seven scientists who were working at Shockley Laboratories in Palo Alto. The group had been working under the View Details
- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
I think one thing we have learned is to be careful when we try to generalize about the importance of institutions. Since the work of Nobel Prize winning economic historian Douglass North, the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
messages across these audiences, that's where our true value is." “Rating systems should take into consideration a company's political contributions, advocacy work, and engagement with nongovernmental organizations” And yet, in the words of Al Gore, the former US... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
business, organizational, financial, and institutional problems,” West recalls. Since Harvard University, with its medical school, teaching hospitals, and Nobel Prize winners, is perhaps the world’s leading... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
immigrant appears to be better trained to work in these fields, but this is conditional on educational attainment of comparable quality to natives. The exception to this is that immigrants have a disproportionate impact among the very highest achievers (e.g., View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
the Routledge Companion to Critical Management Studies. She is currently working on a book on racial global capitalism. She also serves on the Nominating Committee of the Nobel Prize in Economics in Sweden.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
What We’re Reading
between His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu about finding joy in the face of suffering and grief. It’s also a glimpse into the friendship, mutual respect, humility, and values of two spiritual leaders and Nobel Peace... View Details
- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile annual event (the Ig Nobel Prize Ceremony), a web... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
the bailout could very well calm the current crisis but also provoke even greater, and even more dangerous, risk-taking in the future.” Innovation Will Continue University Professor Robert Merton, who received the Nobel View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
Oxenford says, "Picture a schoolboy in Pata-gonia, in a tiny town with no library. With the Internet, he can get information that fifteen years ago, only a Nobel Prize researcher could access." Education is... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
create a bigger problem going forward. Anytime the government manages a risk, it must also manage the moral hazard, and the current crisis is no exception," Moss concluded. Innovation Will Continue University Professor Robert Merton, who received the View Details
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value across multiple markets?" in the midst of radical technological and social change. The second, whose identification won Ronald Coase the Nobel Prize in Economics [2] and which, unless we believe that... View Details