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- 15 Aug 2016
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Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid
- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
inflation statistics rarely match our own experience? Does the country always benefit from infrastructure investments? Who really pays the taxes and costs imposed on businesses? Why do some things that make GDP rise also make living...
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- 31 May 2023
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2023
not go back to the drachma, to stay with the euro. It was very tough. The GDP of the country went down by more than 25 percent. I think that says it all.” 3 tips: “I was taught since I was a kid to drink a little bit of olive oil in the...
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- 23 Jan 2024
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A Wide Net
Growing up in Mumbai, Navroz Udwadia (MBA 2005) spent most of his time on the tennis court, where he was an internationally ranked athlete. Today, as cofounder and partner of Alpha Wave, a global investment group with a multibillion-dollar stake in India’s startup...
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April White
- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
private equity in Asia, Kim was born 60 years ago into a very different Korea. In 1970, when Kim was seven years old, Korea’s annual GDP per capita was just under $280. Still recovering from war and finding its financial footing, it’s a...
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- 01 Jun 2008
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You Only Thought You Were Republican
if it is not growing, on a sustained basis, faster than the economy as a whole. But when Reagan took office, the debt equaled 30 percent of our GDP versus 60 percent today. This despite Clinton/Gore leaving us with (in Bush’s words)...
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- 07 Apr 2015
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Warrior Spirit
player,” he says, citing Amazon and Alibaba; Apple and Samsung; Twitter and Weibo. “America has just 320 million people. Yes, GDP per capita is higher, but Asia is growing by leaps and bounds. If you localize and execute a proven US...
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- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
filled, even the blare of rush-hour traffic clogging the central square of Athens out front—is the sound of Greece’s GDP on the move. It’s the ring of an economy finally looking up. “This place would have been empty in 2015,” says Dimos...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 05 May 2023
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Fail Better
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Every year, HBS selects a small handful of outstanding alums to receive its most important honor, the Alumni Achievement Award. This year's recipients work in finance, politics, biopharma, and...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
Swiss Re, which predicts that even if some mitigating actions are taken, global GDP will shrink by 14 percent by 2050 by 18 percent if no actions are taken. Okay, the sky may really be falling. However, research that my co-author, Bonita...
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- 01 Jun 2014
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Roads to Recovery
upgrading 38 bridges, and overhauling a century-old electric power system, all for less than $150 million. Problem: Fixing Infrastructure Infrastructure investment amounts to 2.4 percent of GDP in the United States, 5 percent of View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
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The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
start-up will be a phone call away, if you have the right idea,” write Senor and Singer. But the IDF experience is not the only reason for Israel’s business success. For one thing, Israel leads the OECD countries in the percentage of GDP...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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How DC is Taxing the Country
performance has been waning since at least the late 1990s. In Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided, Professors Michael Porter, Jan Rivkin—cochairs of the School’s US Competitiveness Project—and Mihir Desai, with program director Manjari Raman, lay out their case:...
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Francis Storrs
- 01 Jun 2015
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Rebooting Europe
and 410 billion euros into the EU GDP over the next three years.) Moedas sees his role as not only finding funding and research opportunities for budding entrepreneurs, but also creating a vibrant startup culture. “A lot of young...
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- 01 Jun 2012
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They Call Him Mr. China
worked so hard to build? Simple. From Perkowski’s ringside seat inside the Middle Kingdom, the entrepreneurial grass now grew greener elsewhere. While he was busy building ASIMCO, the Chinese economy took off with a galloping GDP and...
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- 11 Mar 2020
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Making It Rain
to a major airline, and we saved them about 240 flight cancellations and 40 diversions. That alone is worth around $20 million.” Indeed, weather has an enormous impact on the economy. According to the National Weather Service, between 3 and 6 percent of variability in...
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Lisa Scanlon Mogolov
- 01 Dec 2020
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Two Truths and a Lie About 5G
and oil and gas, that it says could enable value creation to the tune of $2 trillion to $3 trillion in the next decade—a figure on par with the GDP of France or Italy. To create a vision of what that might look like, Professor Yoffie...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2007
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Daniel Vasella
over 2 percent of our sales. And that exceeds the development aid as a percentage of GDP of many countries, where the agreed target should be .07 percent of GDP. Most countries are way below that. However, we cannot fix poor governance,...
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- 01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives
meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005...
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Julia Hanna