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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
common in the last century. What did the leaders tell you? All were impressed by the remarkable prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way...
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- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Rahul Bajaj, MBA 1964
Chairman & Managing Director, Bajaj Auto Ltd. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION St. Stephen's College (Delhi), 1958 B.A., Economics The Government Law College (Bombay), 1960 LL.B. LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Negative Ad Power
Political candidates are often said to be marketed just like consumer products. But there’s a big difference. Consumer marketers such as Coke and Pepsi or Toyota and Ford focus on building up their brand, not on tearing down their opponent. Negative advertising and...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
global community, one that represents and respects the best of our collective backgrounds and traditions and that is a living example of how people from all over the world can come together around a set of common values, and though not...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
uncertainty. Even in the smartest venture firms, failures are more common than successes. This is a difficult concept for governments to accept. France, for example, has a tendency to set up entrepreneurship initiatives and pull out after...
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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
class; structuring asset classes and adding value-oriented or other opportunistic “tilts”; measuring and managing risks, avoiding common mistakes, and more. The Soul of a Patient: Lessons in Healing for Harvard Medical Students edited by...
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- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
our own sense of right and wrong, true to the shared values that this process and these answers spoke to, and still represent one of the parties in an honorable way. So there were some common values that went beyond each individual party...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
common thread among them and found one in the search for solutions. In fact, by early this year, the national conversation clearly had shifted from discovery to recovery, with Washington taking a commanding role in charting a hoped-for...
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- 02 Dec 2018
- News
An Investor’s Guide to Climate Change: Risks and Opportunities
On the 50th floor of a global law firm, overlooking a cold and rainy Manhattan skyline in November, more than 70 Harvard Business School alumni gathered to learn from each other and confront the business implications of climate change...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
that yes, we disagree, but we have bought into the common enterprise of trying to build a free and prosperous society. Has business been supportive of government and the democratic system in the United States? How has the pandemic changed...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Leadership: Getting Down to Fundamentals
basis. We want that to change. That sounds like a big undertaking. Where did you begin? There was not even commonality in the definition of what a leader is and what leadership behaviors are, so we started by developing a conversation...
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Julia Hanna
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
times do you have the opportunity to really step back from work in an amount of time where you feel rejuvenated. I mean, I think you often hear people say, “I was just really starting to unplug, and then I had to go back to work,” on a vacation. That's a pretty View Details
- 13 Dec 2017
- News
Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?
many of us have that background. And I always thought that was kind of an advantage in my life. I thought it made me a better marketer because I understood the common man, because I came from being in the View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
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50 Years & Counting
"Understanding gender triggers can make it easier for women to neutralize inequities." "Understanding gender triggers can make it easier for women to neutralize inequities." - KATHLEEN McGINN That study drew her to consider other common...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
thinking, translating his insights into practice and correcting the most common misconceptions about them. Guide to Managing Growth: Turning Success into Even Bigger Success by Rupert Merson (PMD 71, 1996) (Wiley) Successful growth...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq
of folks who had a common goal, and we did our best to meet that goal. (JH, ed.) Fabry Courtesy Kristen Fabry As principal assistant for logistics, Lieutenant Commander Kristen B. Fabry (MBA ’02) ensured that the 5,500 crew members aboard...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
After researching the issue, including spending the better part of two days riding in taxis as an observer, Mukhtar came up with an idea. With drivers compelled by law to take their cars to special inspection centers every six months, his...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters
was so bored with the antiquated course offerings that he spent much of his time at Stagedoor, India’s largest professional theater company. There he acted in eleven plays and frequently served as production manager. Following in his father’s professional footsteps, he...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
but living roofs aren’t a new idea. They’ve been used in Europe for hundreds of years and were common in 19th-century sod homes across the American prairie. The recent surge of interest in green roofs stems from a modern-day concern for...
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