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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), launched by Prime Minister Tony Blair in 2002, seeks greater disclosure of what companies pay, and what countries receive, for oil, gas, and mining. Will it discourage corruption and help... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
Panitchpakdi, the next director general of the World Trade Organization and the deputy prime minister of Thailand, discussed the need for managing developing countries’ reactions to rapid and widespread trade and economic liberalization.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Net Gains
incredible," he says. He points to China as a prime example of the league's international potential realized. Thanks to a decades-long campaign, the country is now the NBA's largest international market, with more than 100 employees, wide... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
In recent years, government and business leaders throughout the world have made governance issues a prime focus, as capital markets have increased their scrutiny of countries' and companies' corporate-governance structures, policies, and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
history, it’s likely the crisis would have been avoided, Cook argues. Six years after the government takeover of Fannie and Freddie, taxpayers continue to own and heavily subsidize one of the largest companies in the world. Primed to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
fundamental allocation exercise.” Bubble on the horizon? All that cash pouring into commercial real estate since the tech wreck has fueled a dramatic run-up in prices for prime properties. “Prices are at levels I never would have guessed... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
Houdt) Thirty or forty angry Afghan police officers crowded into Karim Khoja’s office. Someone had stolen their pay, and the prime suspect was the CEO of Roshan, the company offering the new mobile payment system that was used to process... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Ready for Takeoff
better public management," Domínguez says, "but you also begin to get more farsighted economic policies that allow business enterprises to invest and ordinary Brazilians to save." Then came what Domínguez calls the "happy accident" of China. Some of Brazil's View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Giving Amazon the Boot
founder and editor-in-chief of the online magazine The Business of Fashion, understands the pull of Amazon’s wildly popular Prime subscription service and the fact that it’s the go-to site for most products. “If someone has a very high... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
CURRENT STUDENTS "Follow your passion. Don't wait until you are 50 to find meaning and purpose in your life. Focus on building your life and the resume will follow. Choose faith, not fear, as your prime motivator. Trust people, trust the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
the group companies. During that time, he also earned a law degree in Bombay (now Mumbai). By the 1990s, Bajaj Auto faced problems worthy of an HBS case study. A combination of the company's ramped-up production and the entry-thanks to some early liberalization... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
government group, which reports to the prime minister, after the tragic scope of the pandemic had become clear. Her job—not that different from the role of a VC—is to build and lead a team to identify promising vaccine candidates and... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
ground-floor space in the Fisher and various operators are considering a boutique hotel in one wing of the building. Cummings and his partners were considering luxury condos in the upper reaches of the building, but they worry that Detroit may not yet be ready for the... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
teaches the popular MBA elective Founders’ Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. What’s a common instance of ill-advised behavior by entrepreneurs? Splitting equity with your cofounders is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
with their coauthors Sarah Wood Kearney, who founded Prime Coalition, and Fiona Murray of MIT’s Sloan School, found that investors—men and women—prefer ventures pitched by men, especially those pitched by attractive men. This finding held... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
percent a year and is poised on the cusp of enormous change. In June, Prime View International (PVI) signed an agreement to acquire E Ink for about $215 million. Based in Taipei, Taiwan, PVI is E Ink’s largest customer and the world’s... View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
meeting was over, I promise you, I had ditched that watch. I have no idea where that watch is anymore. That just shows you you can't perpetrate, right? You gotta keep it real. JH: Antonis Samaras (MBA 1976) served as Prime Minister of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
Bomb: Spy Versus Counterspy by James Glenn (MBA 1965) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) This thriller, set in 1972, involves a Pakistani professor, a CIA spy, an American businessman, and India’s secret development of an atomic bomb. Related events include... View Details
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
The New Space Race
maxed-out credit cards, Orbital Sciences Corporation launched in April 1982, the first corporate entrant at the prime contractor level in nearly three decades. (Today, the company—now Orbital ATK—is a $4.5 billion enterprise.) For NASA,... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016
set in 1972, involves a Pakistani professor, a CIA spy, an American businessman, and India’s secret development of an atomic bomb. Related events include the KGB’s influence on Prime Minister Indira Gandhi’s government and Pakistan’s plan... View Details