Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jul 2016
News

From Money to Ministry

accessible to them.” For all he was learning in his fast-paced career, Quainton was increasingly active in his church, where he volunteered to run a Bible study for the many men who were losing their jobs when the Houston economy tanked... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 1998
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Year 2000 Computer Problem and You: Disaster for Some, Lessons for All

countries in our globally linked economy have barely begun to address the problem. Even if substantial progress is made in the United States by century's end, the global fallout from the explosion of the Y2K time bomb may be severe. A... View Details

01 Sep 2006
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Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum

image projected behind him), the former Treasury Secretary spoke about the global economy and America’s malfunctioning political system. At the close of the GLF, on the eve of his retirement after forty years at the School, Faculty Chair... View Details

01 Dec 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

institutions, the authors note how business needs to use data and analytics to their advantage, to deal with such issues as reconciling different data sets and how to leverage economies of scale while remaining agile with data. To address... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Q&A: John Quelch

regional business schools. One aspect of this effort is our annual Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, which brings faculty and business school leaders from universities in emerging economies to HBS to learn about case and course... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 2002
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Banishing Balkan Ghosts

It's past midnight and the Minister of Finance and Economy is home early from work, fumbling around in the kitchen of his spartan apartment, trying to find something to eat. He's two years into the job, but meals and sleep still occur... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 1996
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Starting Up and Starting Over

was tempered by lingering economic fears: one poll indicated that nearly half of all Americans expected that within a decade, another depression would devastate the country. With the health of the peacetime economy now the nation's top... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Making Their Way

could well be a case study about an American manufacturer’s adaptation to the forces of globalization. Back in the 1990s, when the U.S. economy was in a high-tech, dot-com frenzy and China’s experiment with export-driven market economics... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation