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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
straight line, it will reduce the huge valuation swings that we’ve seen in the last three years. Greater transparency does not mean that all issues can or should be disclosed — otherwise a company could forfeit competitive advantage. Is a View Details
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Corporate Services
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
Culture Is Not the Culprit
- 30 Mar 2015
- News
An education reformer and social entrepreneur
Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS), a cultural exchange organization that has served 1.5 million students worldwide. In 1987 he began working with the British government to establish charter-type schools that specialized in technology....
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
resurgence” has metamorphosed into a death march of Islamic civilization, Allawi writes in his recent book, The Crisis of Islamic Civilization (Yale University Press). Although Islam as a religious faith nurturing millions of believers remains strong and growing,...
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- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Transforming the IRS
Rossotti Courtesy HBS Press When Charles O. Rossotti (MBA ’64) was appointed commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service in 1997, it was the most feared and loathed of all federal government agencies. People told him that he was taking on a no-win situation. But...
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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt....
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- 01 Jan 2007
- News
Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987
success alone. In a country where one-third of the population lives beneath the poverty line, he is an advocate of political and economic reform and a champion of investing in the bottom of the business pyramid. "I believe business should...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
centers on a citywide effort to improve public education, led in part by an alliance of 50 business and community leaders. This focus on education is a new one for the partnership, which has historically worked on economic development. Its initial foray centers on a...
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- 11 Jan 2021
- News
Strengthening Democracy
Efforts from the alumni community to get out the vote for the 2020 Presidential election Restoring Our Faith in Business and Government In his address to HBS graduates at this 2019's Class Day, Michael Bloomberg (MBA 1966) spoke about the degeneration of American...
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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
"performance-oriented culture" to the 117-year-old firm. "No one," she says, "wants to take on people who've worked [at the company] for 25 years." Why Nisa could challenge entrenched employees and the historical norms at Godrej underscores the unique situation facing...
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- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
celebrate his graduation, he remembers feeling the acute dichotomy between the go-go culture of HBS and the words of a tribal elder: “He was translating back and forth in Omaha,” Keen recalls, “and he said, ‘From what people have told me,...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
Street’s outsize pay packages “shameful,” especially for companies in need of federal bailouts. Such pay, he said, is “exactly the kind of disregard for the costs and consequences of their actions that brought about this crisis — a View Details
- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
making something from nothing had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today's startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 23 Feb 2011
- News
A Capitalist in China
published his first novel in January, China Fortunes: A Tale of Business in the New World, (www.johndkuhns.com) about a young American lured to China in the 1980s as the country embarked on economic reforms that transformed it into a...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
One Man Crime Wave
their circumstances. In MacDonald’s world, business — with its repetitive soullessness, automation, ceaseless drive for profit, and backstabbing corporate culture — contributes to the angst that drives these men to self-destruction. The...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Keeping an iron grip on Nigeria's financial markets
Oteh's bold decisions have cleaned up the Nigerian capital markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country's stock market...
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- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Field remain strong. From 1994 to 1997, he headed the HBS Canadian Initiative, a program conceived by former HBS Dean John H. McArthur in part to enable a geographically and culturally diverse group of qualified Canadian students to...
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Racial Bias Pervades Health Care
Health-care reform has a different meaning for Augustus White (AMP 94, 1984) than the definition you might get from a policy wonk: His reform would ensure equality of medical treatment, no matter the color...
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- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Friedman devotes his research to the history of the Left and its struggle to end economic and social inequality. He studies how this struggle evolved, its various cultural contexts, and what paths have been tried and rejected. He is an...
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- 01 Sep 2004
- News
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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