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- 01 Mar 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
shouldn't be that way. THERE IS ONLY ONE decision I would change. In 2007, when we knew the economy was starting to go south, we talked about selling our papers in Maine. Every rational thought I had said, "Sell them, or you'll be sorry."... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
we be good? How can we understand financial managers' ethical failings, which destroyed lives and brought nations and the global economy close to collapse? Das seeks answers to these questions in the Mahabharata, the 2,000-year-old... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
economy to personal and planetary well-being. Experts now suggest a new reason for doing so: maximizing flavor, which is too often masked by meat-based stocks or butter and cream. This book provides an A-to-Z listing of hundreds of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
deputy minister and as the country’s chief World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiator. After three decades of communist central planning, “China’s economy was on the brink of bankruptcy,” he told a first-day plenary session. Hardship and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto says Western business leaders have shown "extraordinary complacency in the face of upheavals." The numbers don't look good for the West. The United States, Great Britain, and France have each seen their average GDP growth hover around 2 percent in recent years,... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Summit Sound Bites
“We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment.” —John Doerr (MBA ’76), Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “Our position on immigration right now is more a manifestation of our lack of confidence as a country... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
alternative, quadrupling the size of the average deal wouldn’t require many internal changes (a big deal requires about the same amount of work as a small deal) but Yudkoff isn’t convinced that the economies of scale would work that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
Motor Vehicle Manufacturers—the lack of manufacturing deprives the region of an important source of jobs and economic growth. “It is critical for economies in this region to diversify beyond the usual sectors, such as agriculture,... View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Web Exclusive: Behind the Scenes with Karen Tumulty
than two weeks old.) Just Show Business 10/28/01 A make-believe bill to save the economy Wartime Recession? 9/23/01 War on terror gives no boost Bush in the Crucible 9/16/01 Is crisis making Bush a leader? The New Kennedys 8/5/01 (Cover... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
event, "Asia Towards the 21st Century: Is the Miracle Over?," took place in January against a decidedly more somber backdrop: the financial crisis that has cast a pall over the region's largest economies and muted the roar of several of... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
within an industry, its outcome is competitive convergence and eventually decreased profitability. The authors conclude that for Japan to succeed, "the missing link is strategy. Strategy rests on choosing a unique position by offering a different mix of value than... View Details
- 15 Apr 2017
- News
Bringing Markets to Myanmar
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes For 25 years, David Brunell (MBA 1962) has worked in private sector development all over the world, transforming centralized economies to market-based View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- News
Creating Agents of Change
Susana Eshleman (MBA 1998) is president and CEO of Children International. In this interview she talks about the goals and benefits of running an international nonprofit organization. “Children International is a global nonprofit organization. We invest in children and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2023
- News
Grand Ambitions in the Great Plains
potential new uses for captured carbon. Todd Brix (MBA 1997): And that's what we aspire to—to enable a circular carbon economy using humankind's CO2 emissions or the CO2 that's already in the air. DM: That's next time, on Skydeck. This... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Growing Home
this conversation with the Bulletin, Hori talks about his plan to reinvigorate his hometown—and why it's important to save the cities that the global economy has left behind. Dan Morrell: What were the goals of the Downtown Mito Rebirth... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
for 50 to 100 years and beyond. That’s where our attention lies. When is the economy going to bounce back to business as usual? Oh boy. I’m not going to try to predict that. I will say only that we are looking at a tough two years ahead.... View Details
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
events. "In America and around the world, the public has lost trust in business," says Hess. "Business and society have never been more divided. Even as the economy has recovered, trust has not. As business leaders, we need to remind the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
WATER Ltd.
tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some consumer advocates... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
causing disparate industries to merge, compete, and change in ways that are still unclear. Business models and business practice will also be affected. As with the example of energy-producing bacteria, the entire basis of the industrial View Details
- 05 Mar 2025
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Uncertain Terms
After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details