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- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
three days straight, but it was the best three days of my life—much better than flying to Europe and dealing with labor unions in France." Wolf Creek Farm produces 30 tons of beef a year for the local market, selling directly to consumers... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
laws and shareholder rights — are not well established. There's much less competition, but if you are a sharp Harvard MBA who wants to launch a start-up, many of the details will be more difficult in Latin America." Alec Oxenford of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
A Chapter in US–China Trade Relations
A current exhibit at the Baker Library | Bloomberg Center spotlights a fascinating period in the ongoing story of US–China trade relations. Drawing on wonderfully descriptive letters and diaries as well as hundreds of company documents and journals, “A Chronicle of the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2017
- News
Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success
2011. Of the nation’s 16.2 million management jobs at smaller companies, only 6.7 percent are held by blacks, according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. These realities prompted John Rice (MBA 1992) to found Management Leadership for... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 21 Mar 2019
- News
Helping Veterans Build Careers
Navy veteran Dan Goldenberg (MBA 2003) was a week into life as a HBS student when the 9/11 attacks occurred, compelling him to join the Reserves just months after leaving active duty. It was a defining moment in the balancing of his military/civilian life, and one that... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 14 Oct 2010
- News
Jobs Bill Misses Mark
Sometimes good politics and good policy just don’t mix. Take the Small Business Jobs Act that President Obama recently signed, for example. A bill that purports to create jobs is good politics just before a midterm election. But HBS professor Josh Lerner contends it’s... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
PAULSON: “We were staving off economic Armageddon.” Hank Paulson (MBA ’70) is on a mission. As Treasury Secretary, the former Goldman Sachs CEO found himself in the distasteful position of championing massive taxpayer-funded bailouts for the nation’s leading financial... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
Eric Werker You spent much of 2009 to 2011 in Liberia advising President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf while on leave from HBS. What did you learn from that experience? Good ideas and great strategies are cheap and easy; what's expensive and difficult is implementing change.... View Details
- 13 Oct 2014
- News
How Uber and the Sharing Economy Can Win Over Regulators
Keywords: sharing economy; Uber; Air BNB; government legislation; public policy; regulation; Hospitality
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
Wien In 1945, the United States was clearly the world’s leader militarily, economically, and politically. Its universities were preeminent, and its cultural life was enriched by the migration of Europeans during the previous decade. This position of leadership lasted... View Details
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
opportunity for the citizens of 80 countries. Originally, Offensend thought he’d propel himself into that nonprofit career through law school. But then, he jokes, he realized what lawyers actually do on a day-to-day basis, and so instead... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Myth of Laissez-Faire
Even as government intervention and regulation are looming large in the United States, one is still pulled up short on encountering Jeff Madrick’s new book, The Case for Big Government (Princeton University Press). And when he says big, Madrick (MBA ’71), editor of... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
equal is the law of the land. So those are the constraints in this entrepreneur's life. He's the grandson of a slave, son of a teamster. And we don't know much about his early life, but sometime by the middle 1890s he's managed to find... 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
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
A Summit Higher Than Everest
lowest law court in the land.” Moore was again in Shanghai; in the five months since his arrival in China, he traveled only as far as Peking, 144 feet above sea level. First, the expedition had been waylaid by the outbreak of war when the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
The MBA Oath: Setting a Higher Standard for Business Leaders by Max Anderson (MPA/MBA ’09) and Peter Escher (MBA ’09) (Portfolio) The MBA Oath has become a worldwide movement for a new generation of leaders who care about society as well as the bottom line. This... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks worldwide. Could a crash of that... View Details
- 09 Sep 2010
- News
Taking the Long-Term View
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
curriculum, and staff and the skills to manage these resources.” For Burns and the other alumni in these pages, as well as other involved HBS graduates, public education remains a complex and highly charged issue. Stig Leschly cites labor... View Details