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- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
details on the unfolding of the pandemic and the policies implemented to manage the outbreak in 19 European countries and the EU. The center also co-authored a library case study, “COVID-19: Tracing the...
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- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
experiences also sent him on a quest to find academics who were studying sabbaticals so he could better understand how the implementation of sabbatical policies impact employee behavior. Informally called...
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- 17 Nov 2015
- News
Carbon Neutral
implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers...
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Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
data science (e.g., unbiased data and algorithms), better implementation (e.g., understanding the target audience and market conditions), and better policies (e.g., auditing algorithms to ensure they perform...
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- 30 Jan 2017
- News
HBS Deans' Message on White House Travel Ban
concerned that our executive programs — which comprise two-thirds international participants — could see declines in enrollment. Whatever the intention of the order, its implementation has led to disruption and fear, and it undercuts the...
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- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
manage their assets, tenants, and leasing, the software solutions that Lerner and Holder supported offered the promise of a cutting-edge solution. The implementation process once a customer signed on, however, could be a struggle, with...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
have control over that. When employees don’t have control over something that matters to them, this usually points toward potential policy interventions and also naturally occurring interventions that we can study cleanly. By comparison,...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
basic business operations, reduced payroll by 35,000 employees, and updated and consolidated its inefficient IT systems. To refocus and reenergize employees, he also implemented a number of policy changes....
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- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
Competition. “It was my first time living in another African country, and I felt more alive than I had felt in a long time,” she observes. Rewane left the Monitor Group to join the Centre for Public Policy Alternatives (CPPA), a think...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Middle Way
Anglican Church. He had been a Christian for nearly a decade, and had begun to feel the pull more strongly. (He ultimately became a deacon in 2008.) And second, the Nanwakolas Council, impressed by his work at the table, offered him a job helping them View Details
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Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt's Ministry of Finance in 2010, working in the Macro Fiscal Policy Unit with a focus on energy subsidies and state debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
late 1940s is unraveling, and Murphy thinks the American foreign policy and defense establishment is directly culpable for what has happened. MetaWars: The Freedom Frontier by Jeff Norton (MBA 2003) (Orchard Books) The final book of the...
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- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
HBS Duch worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter, who had just published his landmark book, The Competitive Advantage of Nations. “It was a great opportunity,” Duch says. “Porter’s work on the capacity of government to create View Details
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
development on Sino, U.S. relations, Barshefsky was cautiously optimistic. "I think the Chinese will make a strong, good-faith effort to implement the WTO agreement," she told the audience in Burden Auditorium. "We have to work with China...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
has ever seen. In the past, biographers of Lord Liverpool have not sufficiently acknowledged the importance of his foremost skill: economic policy (including fiscal, monetary, and banking system questions). Here, Hutchinson's decades of...
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
the best possible solution to complicated public policy problems,” he says, weighing all the evidence against a gut feeling. Beyond his business acumen, it’s also possible that Mitsotakis inherited a bit of political instinct. The prime...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017
a practical roadmap for readers to implement these tools. Made for Amazing: An Instrumental Journey of Authentic Leadership Transformation by Mark Nation (MBA 2001) (Greenleaf Book Group Press) In this self-help parable, Nation tells the...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Achievement Awards 2021
removing the middlemen and creating jobs at the same time. Sahel Consulting Agriculture & Nutrition partners with governments, funders, and private companies to shape policy and implement new ventures. For...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
doctors, administrators, and finance folks, all trying to work through the nitty-gritty details of how to implement this patient-care innovation. “What does the transition plan look like to get from where we are now to a new model?” asks...
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- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
planning and implementation for a 15-year, $40 billion initiative with the goal of creating sustainable development and economic revitalization for Colombo and its surrounding provinces, population 5.8 million. It’s why he has returned to...
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