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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
before the Civil War, came of age in a nation in crisis. Whether using pencil, watercolor, or, most famously, oil, Homer addressed the hopes and fears of his fellow Americans and invited his viewers into stories embedded with universal,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Higher Ground
matter. This performance wasn’t going to be judged on technical proficiency or exacting execution. There was still no gas or drinking water in the Lower Ninth Ward. Tens of thousands of residents were still displaced. There was an ongoing View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
bankruptcy in 1978 that played a key role in transforming the city into a repeat winner of the National League of Cities' All- America City Award. The group was successful, Austin asserts, because it took the time to diagnose the city's... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
210 is Jess Bloomgarden (MBA 2012), with classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In fifteen minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal,... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
Everest. Vescovo had reached that summit on his second try in 2010. The battered ice axe he had relied on during the climb was now secured within the the submersible’s body. It reminded him of the intense physical strain of those days on... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Democratic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 05 Dec 2016
- News
The Dragon’s Tale
five minutes or so.” Fast-forward 37 years, and that same roadway is 10-lanes wide and jammed with traffic from 7:00 in the morning until 9:00 at night. During more than 70 visits to China, McFarlan has watched the leaders of a nation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
father [Robert K. Merton, a National Medal of Science winner whose work in theoretical sociology at Columbia University has spanned fifty years] has been a strong influence in your life and your career. What did he say when you told him?... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
ripe for enormous revolution." In addition to chili peppers, Mustapha's farm grows onions, tomatoes, maize, and sugarcane. To witness the limits of government intervention, Nigerians once needed to look no further than the state-owned View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Leslie Gold
ratings boost and launching a career that has seen a variety of radio gigs, including on Sirius, and many appearances on national television (such as Larry King Live and Nightline) and in print media (including Playboy, Glamour, and the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
election conducted by the National Labor Relations Board. These elections are not conducted, as claimed by Silvers, like those in the Soviet Union where “it was not really possible for people to make a free choice.” If the NLRB believes... View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt's social security and pension systems, among other innovations. Six months after Enan joined the ministry, in early 2011, the Arab Spring swept through Cairo. Many of her friends from... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The City Solution
its mayor is committed to making it a model of environmental urban action on many fronts. Cities, broadly defined, are thought to have originally formed as protective, secure locations that could enable trade and the distinctive human... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
case method is so good. I was forced into the fray. It helped me with my ministry, because it put me out there. I have to be able to engage people of different backgrounds and with differing perspectives.” Upon graduating, Quainton joined the First View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
(MBA ’76) closed out the formal program with a plenary speech on the future of securities regulation. Like Cox, other speakers and panelists included HBS alumni whose careers have encompassed both private- and public-sector service. As it... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into the marketplace, including creation of federal deposit insurance, securities regulation, banking supervision, and the separation of commercial and investment banking under the Glass-Steagall Act. As Moss is quick to point out, there... View Details
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
Zurich and secured European distribution rights for our products, set up a joint venture with a partner in Mexico to build our brand there, and purchased Astro Gaming, a California-based gaming accessories company. Our office in southern... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Four Professors to Retire
member) Neil E. Harlan (MBA '50). During that leave of absence, he served as Harlan's deputy for management systems at a time when the nation was rapidly developing expensive top-performance weapons systems under exigencies created by the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
One-on-One with Thomas Riley
skills, and the host country’s needs. Why is Morocco so important? Morocco straddles the West and the Arab world and is a longtime ally of America — it was the very first nation to recognize our fledgling, newly independent United States.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
downtown Colombo. In the background: One Galle Face, a mixed-use hotel, office, retail, and residential project in development. In early 2009, just before returning to Sri Lanka, Mawilmada had the opportunity to try something a little different, working for the United... View Details