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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
UN President Speaks at HBS
The keynote speaker for last October’s International Week at HBS, UN General Assembly president Srgjan Kerim, called on the future leaders in his audience to use capital not only to realize profits but also in ways that promote and... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
the product of long, structured deliberation. As for the decision to let AIG pay out its controversial bonuses, regulators simply refused to address the issue until events had moved beyond their control. And going back even further, few... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Holding Steady in the Wild Blue Yonder
The day after Northern Alliance troops rolled into Kabul as the Taliban withdrew without a fight, Secretary of the Air Force James Roche (DBA '72) cautioned CNN's Larry King, "This is going to go on for some time. And we can't be elated one day and depressed the next.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Transforming the way the social sector innovates, learns, and improves
governments, NGOs, foundations, and other international development organizations, to enable more effective decision-making. IDinsight has offices in three countries and works across a diverse set of development sectors. In India,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
whether I’m still up to it. I’m ready to go.” Eight months later, in January 2004, Riley took his post at the U.S. embassy in Rabat, where he oversees a staff of 400 people. A Stanford University graduate, he is a veteran of three decades in View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
signal to people that there will be demand in the future and things are going to get better. The way to send that signal, in his view, was through deficit spending. If the government borrowed heavily and spent the money, that would send a... View Details
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Can’t We All Just Get Along?
coveted Nobel for his work in ending the hostilities between the province of Aceh and the government of Indonesia, a struggle that had claimed 50,000 lives during a 30-year war. Before that, he was a key figure in negotiating Namibia’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Rossotti Courtesy HBS Press When Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64) was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, it was the most feared and loathed of all federal government agencies.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
that could and would welcome dynamic and burgeoning new ventures. Yet EED was the European incubator for the methods and structures of venture capital as it has since evolved and flourished. Tony Pell (PMD 20, 1970) Salt Point, NY More on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
“Where can we find such a person?”
whole technology landscape is going, how related firms are progressing, and how its work fits into that context.” He also cites public policy issues and government involvement; intellectual property questions; longer time horizons; and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back in Business
nonprofit consultant, has worked on some thirty cases since volunteering with ReSTART Central in mid-October. Her clients ("All nationalities," she notes, "like the UN") range from a one-woman clothing design business to a two hundred person View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
In Israel, getting into business is not so much a matter of what university you went to but rather what military unit you served in. And that may be the single thing you need to understand about what makes Israel a leading center of entrepreneurialism and tech... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
The Military and the MBA: Richard Kondo (MBA 1999)
“My most rewarding mission.” —Blending military leadership and private industry best practices Richard Kondo (MBA 1999) served as a US Navy Submarine Officer in Japan and later pursued a medical device career in marketing and business development. He is now in the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
the appropriate market structure for raising capital, but of the role of government and regulatory oversight in managing those structures.” And here is another panelist, HBS professor Joe Bower: “To what... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
petition that calls for greater transparency in the global financial system and stronger enforcement of international money-monitoring laws and regulations. For Baker, this is the latest salvo in a long campaign that began in Nigeria,... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope
the question we wanted to ask students is, How does Apple balance its responsibilities to consumers and consumer privacy and, as a US-chartered corporation, what are its obligations to the government that makes its operations possible?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
The Meaning of Ramadi
Campbell (MBA '07) Courtesy Donovan Campbell One day in April 2007, my phone started ringing during a customer analytics class at HBS. I kept hitting silence, but the phone kept ringing. Thirteen calls and one very annoyed professor later, I got the hard news: The... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
government factories employed a majority of the city’s 300,000 inhabitants (including Mlotok’s parents) until market reforms obliterated the industry, leaving thousands penniless. “The mid-1990s were the worst time,” recalls Mlotok, who... View Details