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- 01 Jun 2022
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June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
even need to reduce incoming solar radiation in order to lower unacceptably high temperatures. Such unproven and potentially risky climate interventions raise mind-blowing questions of governance and ethics. Pandora’s Toolbox offers...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
citizens; in Afghanistan, the average annual income at the time was about $100. (Current estimates are more like $700.) Roshan, which translates from the Dari and Pashto languages to “light,” was a name chosen by the Afghan people through...
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2001
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Reaching Out
resources is hard to do," Childress continues. "There isn't a single, focused goal, such as net income or earnings per share. However, those very challenges — working on the multifaceted issues that face nonprofits, in a less well-defined...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
becomes so successful that it provides jobs and desperately needed income to hundreds of women and families in her community. Inspired by Kamila and women like her, Lemmon wants to change the way the world views them. Her book is part of...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
reasonable view of home ownership will return, Retsinas predicts, but if the pendulum swings too far, he is concerned that worthy borrowers with modest incomes could be shut out of the market. Could you place the U.S. mortgage crisis in...
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- 16 Nov 2017
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The Business of Social Justice
a tax of 4 percent to annual income above $1 million in order to raise approximately $1.9 billion in new revenue for public education funding. The foundation’s efforts do not stop with providing grant funding to support organizations and...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
get into the generics business? PROFITABLE YEAR: Speaking at a January 18, 2007, press conference in Basel, Switzerland, Vasella announced that Novartis's 2006 net income rose 17 percent to $7.2 billion. We have been active in generics...
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- 09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity
prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers for HPE compared the lives of two people with autism living on their own—one in Dandelion, one not. The person not in the program collects $16,838 a year in government welfare benefits, while the one in Dandelion earns $55,000...
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Jennifer Myers
- 17 Feb 2015
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The First Five Years: Justin Pasquariello (MBA 2010)
housing trust fund in Arkansas and the development of legislation that protects families during recessions in Connecticut. Currently, we are providing our research findings to legislators who are preparing legislation to significantly enhance the Earned View Details
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
firm, he put in place a system of franchised brokerage offices that greatly reduced overhead costs and eased the impact of dramatic market downturns. Specializing in the stocks of small and medium-sized companies, the firm increased its net View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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John McArthur
for Growth & Innovation I was an incoming MBA student at HBS in 1984 from the Philippines. It was my first time living abroad, and for the first few months after my arrival in Cambridge, I felt quite lonely for home. One day, I received a...
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- 15 Jun 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
International Development Harvard Business Review Press The spread of capitalism worldwide has made people wealthier than ever before. But capitalism’s future is far from assured. Pandemics, income inequality, resource depletion, mass...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good
the years immediately after World War I, the School’s other ventures into publishing had been generally less successful. McArthur believed that publishing was critical to HBS for two reasons: the dissemination of the School’s intellectual capital, and the capturing of...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
Three important events happened at the end of the 1970s. First, there were changes in ERISA (Employee Retirement Income Security Act) legislation that allowed pension funds to invest in private equity; second, the growth of the...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
than most observers expected," he notes. "However, much work remains in the struggle to transform the country's economy and its social structure. Its leaders' principal challenge now is to try to boost job opportunities and personal View Details
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact
the number of temporary housing units an organization has created in post-earthquake Haiti. But how does one measure the effectiveness of a training program in boosting farmer incomes in Ghana? This was the question facing the Millennium...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates
third best reforming economy in the world for 2009 and 32nd in the world in 2010 for the ease of doing business. We are very pro-business, with 10 percent corporate and personal income tax and one-stop company registration in only four...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity
of our Managing Diversity Speaker Series. For students, we are providing more content in the MBA Program around diversity, equity, and inclusion. We’re creating pre-matriculation materials for incoming MBA students and will introduce a...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils
reforms that began in 1978 have stoked annual growth in excess of 9 percent, three times that of the United States. Per capita income among the nation’s 1.3 billion inhabitants has more than quadrupled, surpassing $1,000 last year....
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- 01 Dec 2017
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Yoga Inc.
of yoga is alive and well at our festivals.” Corporate sponsors also want in, to get their brands in front of the primarily female attendees with the disposable income for travel, food, and lodging, on top of $100 to $500 entrance fees....
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Deborah Halber