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- 03 Oct 2019
- News
Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Bezos’s Blue Origin was still three years away from launching its first test vehicle. Today, Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space economy is worth $350 billion—and projects that it will grow to $1 trillion by 2040. Garriott de Cayeux says that the change from... View Details
- 11 Mar 2008
- News
Soak the Rich?
Venture capital, private equity, and hedge fund partners — a group heavily laden with HBS alumni — may have dodged a tax bullet late last year, but they can expect Congressional advocates of higher taxes for investment managers to reload and try again. To recap, just... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
The Congressional Oversight Panel identified eight specific areas most urgently in need of reform and addressed each with recommendations: Identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risk. Limit excessive leverage in American financial institutions.... View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
that the prices are right, because they usually are," says Harvard Business School finance professor Lauren H. Cohen, who serves as an editor of Management Science. "From there, you can look for the small corners where they are... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
Steve Rattner, who chaired the government task force, found the initial assessments of their needs woefully understated and badly documented, reflecting decades of lost market share and destroyed shareholder value. The deal that was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
government and corruption and trying to get rules that people abide by," adds Ray Goldberg, the George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School, who conducts research in West Africa. "Because... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government; Government
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Kenneth Feinberg, Special Master
In an April appearance at HBS, Kenneth Feinberg, the special master for TARP executive compensation, denied that he was an autonomous “pay czar,” explaining that within parameters decreed by congressional legislation, he viewed himself mainly as a negotiator. Thus, his... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Restoring Order
Last December, calling him “one of the most respected business leaders in our nation,” President George W. Bush (MBA 1975) nominated Wall Street veteran William Donaldson (MBA 1958) to be Securities and Exchange Commission chairman. Charging Donaldson with enforcing... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
3 Lessons I Learned as a Social Enterprise Summer Fellow
working with nonprofit entrepreneurs, engineers, small business owners, government leaders, or graduate students from different schools at Harvard, there are many ways to work with non-MBAs while at HBS. 3. Think about the values,... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Bolivia, to an energy project in India. Classroom discussion is supplemented with workshops (including a four-day finance workshop), study groups, and out-of-class projects. The week-long Poverty Module, established by the Bank, puts EDP... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 16 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
media space; it’s competitive and interesting – especially when you really believe in the content they make.” Mizuho spent her internship summer deep in reflection, “struggling to move out of finance and find what I want to do long term.”... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
10 on whether "Public finances are being efficiently managed." Indicatively, although the Greek government increased taxes across the board both collected indirect tax revenues and collected social... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
owned homes or could borrow under such conditions. As a response, the modern housing finance system undergirded by the federal government arose during the New Deal to make credit and liquidity available to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
What Industrial Policy?
include: Agriculture, which receives massive government subsidies. Universities, which enjoy tax-exempt status and direct subsidies through government research grants. Health care, which receives a huge tax... View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
along partisan lines, from overhauling the US corporate tax to punishing companies who choose to move elsewhere. On July 22, 2014, Mihir A. Desai, Miuzho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School, testified before... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Driving economic growth and job creation
lead that state's Council on Competitiveness before joining the Obama administration. She is a frequent commentator on economic issues, and is currently a senior fellow at HBS and at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government... View Details
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in part by British View Details