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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Letters to the Editor
people will stop investing if the capital gains tax rate is 30 to 40 percent, the same as upper-income tax rates. Check your economic history books, folks. Did anyone stop investing when tax rates reached 70 percent under Eisenhower? I... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
more than 10 percent, and India's more than 6. It won't be long, says Daniel Pinto (MBA 1993), cofounder and chief executive of Stanhope Capital, one of the largest independent investment firms in Europe, before the West falls to the East in the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Corporate Governance Conference Addresses Global Challenges
discussing their findings, Shleifer and Johnson combined business and economic statistics from these nations to illustrate the levels of investor protection achieved by the disparate models. Establishing appropriate legal support for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas
found compatriots with Wall Street backgrounds who wanted to change careers or make social enterprise an integral part of their career. A few years after graduation, Silbert founded the Center for Women & Enterprise, which empowers women to become View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- News
Laying the foundation for a better understanding of Japan
Program. In the wake of economic uncertainties over the past quarter-century in Japan, and the disasters of 2011, Sato is helping HBS faculty to recognize the country’s burgeoning entrepreneurial spirit as well as the many ways in which... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Devtosh Khare
markets and economic trends in the region and to make some contacts with India's business leaders," he explains. "Then I'll be ready to go out on my own." He believes that India's service sector offers the... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
Leeuwenhof, the majestic estate of Western Cape Premier Gerald Morkel. With the splendor of Table Mountain above and the beauty of Table Bay below, Morkel welcomed his guests to Cape Town, which he described as "a region of great View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 15 Mar 2022
- News
History’s Future
Courtesy Amr AlMadani Millennia ago, the AlUla region in northwestern Saudi Arabia was a thriving commercial and cultural center, a stop on the trade routes that connected the spices, silks, and other luxuries of Arabia and the East to... View Details
- 09 Apr 2024
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky (University of Chicago Press) Although crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world,... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- News
Voting for Optimism in Baltimore
people wouldn’t think can be done” and also know how to do that in an economically scalable way so that it can benefit the entire community. What is the single most important issue for the new mayor to address in Baltimore? The most... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
I have just returned from the Global Alumni Conference in Hong Kong, where over 800 HBS alumni and guests from 45 countries gathered on the eve of that region's historic political, social, and economic transformation. It was a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to the automakers. They are at the... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
financial turmoil, there is no denying how far the Asia-Pacific region has come - and how promising its future remains. Camille Tang Yeh (MBA '80) is acutely aware of the region's potential. As executive director of the Hong Kongbased HBS... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage
at HBS, 1988–2000), wades hip deep into business history (he cites HBS historians Richard Tedlow, Thomas McCraw, and Walter Friedman in a span of a few pages) and economic theory to argue that, in fact, the erosion of technological and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong
faculty will be in residence for periods of up to one year, developing affiliations with other faculty in the region and working on collaborative projects. The Hong Kong office will be a place where workshops and View Details
Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges
continued M&A activity among companies seeking economies of scale and scope and attempting to take full advantage of political liberalization, globalization, and emerging markets. This positive business climate, Corzine noted, will be... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Sheila Lirio Marcelo
grueling to most people, for Lirio Marcelo it has been more or less the happy norm since she matriculated atHLS in 1995. "The busier I am, the more motivated I get," explains the active dynamo, whose interest in business prompted her to... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership
demands a high level of leadership expertise," says W. Earl Sasser, Jr., HBS senior associate dean for Executive Education. "The need for strong management has never been more crucial if this region is to fulfill its View Details