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- 01 Mar 2023
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Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people...
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- 25 Aug 2022
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Up on the Corner
It’s a drab gray morning in April, and real estate developer Nadine Ngouabe Dlodlo (MBA 2008) is standing at the corner of West Baltimore and South Calhoun Streets in Baltimore’s historic Union Square district. Behind her, a chain-link fence decorated with a small...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Generation Next
ethos of concentrated ownership—the business group over the individual stock owner. After the "Licence Raj," the period of tight government control of the private sector that ended in 1991, corporate families could finally stretch...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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New Urban Order
what assets to protect and which people to move? We all hope Al Gore and Greta Thunberg fix everything, but if they don’t, then homeowners, businesses, universities, and governments will have to do something.” If the pandemic laid bare...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
civil disobedience. This really matters—as Erica Chenworth’s research has shown, no government can withstand a challenge of 3.5 percent of its population without either accommodating the movement or (in extreme cases) disintegrating. How...
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- 01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Diagnosing DC’s Dysfunction
structure is a textbook duopoly, they add, surrounded by a “political industrial complex” of special interests, donors, and lobbyists, resulting in competition that fails to deliver what citizens should expect: practical and effective...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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Letters to the Editor
differential in rates. In 1986, the US government equalized the rates, and we saw no difference in the activity of people investing. Also, for the life of me, I don’t understand the rationale behind the 15 percent carried interest rate,...
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- 01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
falsified invoices, and sham transactions by overseas nationals who place that money into outside secure accounts, mostly in U.S. institutions. Whether the individual behind these ill-gotten gains is a murderous "godfather," a corrupt View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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$how Me the Money
now GFI, Baker has become a leading expert on the world’s shadow financial structure and illicit money supply. He also understands corruption’s human toll. Burned into his memory is the Nigerian lady who helped care for his children,...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
for corporate boards. The yes answer reflects the fact that many productive aspects of corporate governance and control that have proven effective in the private-equity industry were noticeably absent at Enron. If Enron’s board (which was...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Setting the Legislative Agenda
shadow financial system. Create a new system for federal and state regulation of mortgages and other consumer credit products. Create executive pay structures that discourage excessive risk taking. Reform the credit rating system. Make...
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- 03 Oct 2019
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Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns
Bezos’s Blue Origin was still three years away from launching its first test vehicle. Today, Morgan Stanley estimates that the global space economy is worth $350 billion—and projects that it will grow to $1 trillion by 2040. Garriott de Cayeux says that the change from...
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- 01 Apr 2002
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Breakthrough International Negotiation
Dick Cheney built an international coalition to support the Gulf War. In Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, HBS associate professor and negotiation expert Michael Watkins and Kennedy...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Over the Top
rethink our corporate governance structure in fundamental ways for the 21st century. There are three things we have to think about during the conference. First, when did executive pay become unmoored from...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
with the oil crises of the 1970s, but unlike the United States, where the government invested hundreds of millions in technology development, the Nordic country saw more organic and long-term growth. Its smaller private firms focused on...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Research Brief: Capitol Gains
FOR MORE INFORMATION Legislating Stock Prices Psst looking for a hot stock tip? Forget the Wall Street Journal. Try the Congressional Record. HBS professors Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy, with Dartmouth's Karl Diether, analyzed the complete legislative record of...
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- 01 Jun 2005
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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...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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Ask the Expert: On the Fly
couple of years will see more experimentation with baggage pricing. The success of Emirates is due in part to the fact that airline, airport, and air traffic control work together under one “boss” shareholder—ultimately owned by the View Details
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Private capital, public good
private capital to fund preventative social programs that address various challenges, such as recidivism, health disparities, and homelessness. If pre-specified program outcomes are achieved, government repays investors and provides an...
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