Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2001
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The Third Force: Indispensable to Society, Nonprofits Should Redirect Oversight Efforts

cultural organizations to serve lower-income individuals, and hospitals' reluctance to help the uninsured. Even the foundations that benefited from huge monetary increases in the booming economy have given less to charitable causes in... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1999
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Spangler Center Groundbreaking

Harvard's long-standing relationship with the city of Boston. Menino cited the importance of higher education to the city's economy and praised HBS volunteer programs that benefit the nearby Taft Middle School and the Brighton-Allston... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni

Class Day speaker Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82) Photos by Stuart Cahill Overcast skies, but no stormy washout: That bad news/good news scenario for last June’s Class Day ceremonies seemed to reflect the uncertain economy awaiting the School’s... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Jan 2021
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Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: I’m Dan Morrell and this is the third and final episode of “Out of the Valley,” a Skydeck mini-series that explores the past, present, and future of entrepreneurship. We started in the whaling... View Details

03 Jan 2014
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Training for a New Africa

Keywords: economic development; job training; Africa

01 Mar 2016
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HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

York City discussing the post–Great Recession economy with investors Bill Ackman (MBA 1992), Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), and Stan Druckenmiller. The students were participants in an Immersive Field Course (IFC) led by Arthur Segel, the Poorvu... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market

economies of scale or scope. Dental practices were typically a single office run by the same person who wielded the mirror and probe. Chains usually topped out around a dozen locations, which Singh concluded was the most a medical... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

the company-and never left. The original business model reflects how far the world economy has come in just over two decades. "Mainland China was just opening up," Yang says. "Although joint ventures, not to mention private ownership,... View Details

28 Feb 2022
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Equal Partner

Fund. It focuses on innovative tech startups founded by women of color and inclusive teams. For Aditya, such startups are both a smart financial opportunity and an essential investment in the future. “Creating the opportunity for investors and undercapitalized... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Paulson Sees World of Opportunity

Paulson Class Day Distinguished Speaker Henry (“Hank”) Paulson (MBA ’70), who only a week earlier had been nominated to be U.S. Treasury Secretary, told the 900 members of the MBA Class of 2006 that they were graduating into the best global View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners

Riad Armanious (MBA 2008) regards the pandemic as the greatest professional challenge he has faced as managing director of family-owned Eva Group and CEO of Eva Pharma, a multinational pharmaceutical company headquartered in Egypt. The demands are particularly acute at... View Details

10 Aug 2017
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Into the Light

More than 1.2 billion people worldwide live without access to electricity. Another 2 billion have limited electricity, just a few hours of often unreliable power a day. “It’s really hard for most of us to imagine a life without electricity,” explains Nicole Poindexter... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2025
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Forward Thinking

There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government