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- 01 Mar 2004
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David Horgan: Iraqi Briefing, 21st November, 2003
now. Only Iraqis can secure their country. Give a date for Coalition withdrawal. Any date, even distant, would calm sensitivities. Hold immediate free and fair elections - open to all comers, including former government and Islamists....
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
calculation follows. What are the hidden economic costs, such as future medical and psychological services for veterans? The number that Stiglitz, a winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, and Bilmes, a government finance expert at...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Research Online
Management Innovation Take Us? Management could change a lot in the coming years, says HBS professor emeritus Jim Heskett. A few reasons: continued development of the Internet and the transparency and communities it has spawned, and new...
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- 01 Mar 2004
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Reforming Company Boards
Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that...
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Corporate Services
- 01 Dec 2003
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HBS Releases 2003 Financial Report
its commitment to transparency at a time when the School is involved in a $500 million capital campaign. It also highlights the School’s unusual business model. Unlike most schools, HBS does not accept View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- News
Getting Life Back in Balance
of networking and communicating with key stakeholders prior to any important decision being made is fundamentally the same,” he explains. “I have been pleasantly surprised at the maturity of the local-government governance processes and...
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Jennifer Myers
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
happens in the coming years will be driven by private-sector foreign investment. “To the extent that government can create enough transparency in these transactions, I think we should be able to manage this...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar...
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- 01 Oct 2015
- News
Banking on Trust
development. “We catalyzed demand for change, crowd-sourced solutions, and implemented them in transparent ways,” she notes. Her perspective was broadened when her HBS classmate and husband, Scott Rockafellow (MBA 1990), launched a...
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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Tackling the World’s Most Difficult Challenges
Weiss, the Richard L. Menschel Professor of Management Practice. That’s the premise of his new book, We the Possibility, which encourages governments to think like startups. For Weiss, who served as chief of staff to Boston’s mayor and...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Building a Strong and Prosperous Society
institutions—and that this failure has put capitalism itself at risk. In this conversation, Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor, discusses the need for an honest, capable, and transparent government, and the role...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
ethanol plant in an increasingly competitive, complex environment. “For the first time in history, the food and energy markets are converging,” says Reinhardt. “It’s hard to imagine two areas of greater importance, or with greater View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
building a more sustainable economy. She focuses particularly on how firms can safeguard economic growth and long-term profitability by addressing challenges like climate change and inequality, actively contributing to the health of our institutions, and becoming a...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2015
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Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?
that states with the largest pension deficits and those with heavy unionization were most likely to want to keep the status quo—even when the public and financial experts pushed for the opposite. It makes sense: “The most likely scenario of increased View Details
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Erin Peterson
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Impact: Business in an Age of Sustainability
What is the role of business in addressing climate change? How should asset managers weigh the social impact of their investments? What steps should a company take to ensure transparency in management and compensation? Climate change and...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
recognized the opportunity—and necessity—to use their research to help leaders, companies, organizations, and governments navigate the challenges posed by the pandemic. This meant not only extending and reframing their research, but also...
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- 18 Mar 2008
- News
Election ’08, HBS Style
away some of the new mass-transit passes and implied that students could expect more of the same if they should be the ones to oversee the SA budget. Diversity, creativity, and transparency were the watchwords of Sunil Nagaroj and Serge...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Sustaining Business And Society For The Long Term
MBA elective Reimagining Capitalism: Business and Big Problems. Joining Henderson and Serafeim for the HBX course are several faculty members from across Harvard who are experts in law, government, and fi nance. Among the topics explored are alternative View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
The first would create six “megacounties” for the entire state, each with its own school district, water district, and other services; the second, known as the California Legislature Transparency Act, would mandate increased levels of...
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Julia Hanna
- 11 Jan 2021
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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...
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