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- 23 Jul 2013
- News
Building Great Schools around Great Teachers
through academies like West Point, while there are no parallel institutions to nurture outstanding teachers? Klemmer founded the Center for Better Schools to seek the answer. "Having had the Harvard Business School experience and knowing...
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- 01 Jun 2002
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Books
of each affected the actions of others, culminating in the “mass hysteria” (another chapter title) leading to the crash. Buy, Lie, and Sell High provides specific suggestions for reforms to the regulation process in the United States that...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
degradation; failure of the rule of law; failures of education and public health; state capitalism; radical movements and terrorism; and pandemics. But the business leaders were also disturbed by an 11th disrupter: the inadequacy of existing government and multilateral...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
fifty-year history, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were the big guys on the block. We had the money. We were helping to reform a world after World War II and gradually mutated into an View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
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Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
services, pawn shops, and payment and loan services in neighborhoods like South Central LA," Tufano notes, "but very few institutions that would help people accumulate savings." A 1999 Harvard Business Review article cowritten by Tufano,...
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- 11 Jul 2012
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A Man, and a Plan, in Africa
MCC’s explicit selection criteria,” notes Bloom. “We’ve also seen African countries who have not yet qualified seeking advice from those who have. Most valuably, countries have made important legal, economic policy, and institutional...
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- 01 Sep 2010
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Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
three major cities. The first six years of my life were in Calcutta. Then we moved to Delhi, where I finished my schooling at St. Columba’s. Afterward I enrolled at IIT Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and earned a chemical...
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Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2010
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Islam’s Great Culture Is Dying
that had previously given it coherence and meaning,” Allawi argues, asserting that under colonial rule, traditional institutions and ways of life were replaced by modern equivalents that spoke little to the people. The deterioration...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
rates on loans if borrowers convince friends and family to back them as well. Baehr and Davis came up with the idea when their first startup was on the brink of failure. They weren’t very concerned about losing institutional money; that’s...
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Nancy Miller
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
learning to ask the right questions and learning to understand yourself. Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy by Karthik Ramanna (Univ. of Chicago Press) Some View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
various diseases the foundation is fighting? Ironically, the hardest area for the foundation to measure is educational reform because “metrics don’t exist” in that field, he said. Taking a swipe at both major political parties, Gates...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Bhusri, general partner, Greylock “After 9/11, do we want or need an ID card? From a technology stand-point, that’s a no-brainer. We need to get our act together first on policy and cultural issues.” — Mark Cleverley, senior consultant, IBM’s View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
private sector; establishing institutional restraints on power; and improving public-sector management. Organizations such as TI, TFFIED, and its member groups are also making a difference. Notes Wells, “Governments don’t like to be rated...
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- 01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference
dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of...
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Alejandro Reyes
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making...
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- 01 Jun 2017
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A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
to meet with BFFS faculty to promote the productive exchange of ideas. “We began by mobilizing Harvard research around the realities of how markets, individuals, and institutions behave ,” says Greenwood. “Ultimately though, we want the...
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- 01 Sep 2020
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Wide Angle
much more radical solutions. I think that’s what this moment calls for, but I fear that we're not going to be out of the woods for many more months. And if we find ourselves still in these dark and dreary woods, we are going to have to be thinking about much more...
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- 21 Dec 2022
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HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
Manager of Publications at the Ukrainian Research Institute; Nataliya Bugayova (Harvard Kennedy School, MPP 2012), Director of Strategic Insights at Vertical Knowledge, Russian Research Fellow at Institute for the Study of War; Daniel...
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- 12 Apr 2023
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Step Change
for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt's social security and pension systems, among other innovations. Six months after Enan joined the ministry, in early 2011, the Arab Spring swept through Cairo. Many of her friends from...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance