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- 01 Jun 2011
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An Economy Undermined
that maximizing profits is wrong, or that self-interest is morally repugnant. But things got out of hand. Consider, for example, the case of Wriston, who was really the father of financialization. As a top executive and later head of Citibank, he had been circumventing...
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- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni Are Integral to HBS
during HBS’s four-day Wintersession, and will be offered again in 2019. Through case discussions and interactions with 15 alumni guest speakers, most of whom traveled from Africa, students explored multinationals, regulation and...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Curing Health Care
start-up approach applicable to the health care sector? For heavily regulated drugs, diagnostics, and devices, a 'launch early and often' strategy simply isn't possible, although entrepreneurs can still run lean tests to gauge the level...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Business at the Summit
clear how you solve that problem,” Ferguson said, noting that it is a topic that commands considerable attention in HBS classrooms. Another problem is that new financial regulations imposed after a crisis occurs may “impede the process of...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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The City Solution
global CO2 emissions. They also remain the hubs and engines for the world’s economic, political, cultural, and social development. Fortunately, because of their legislative power to regulate buildings, density, energy use, and...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind
residents.” (Safe to say Draper’s envisioned government is smaller than what exists today, with fewer regulations in the business realm. “Libertarian” is one word that has been used to describe his politics, although he resists party...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care
that there are currently 111,000 pages of Medicare regulations on the books. A cardiologist at the session described, with frustration, his ongoing multiyear crusade to convince Medicare officials to fund preventive measures against heart...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots
regulated industry containing a number of distinct verticals, from capital markets to asset management and lending. Few cities on earth can boast a talent pool with quite as much relevant domain expertise as New York, which is exactly why...
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- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Phillips Sawyer Cambridge University Press This book explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term “fair trade” from the late 19th century through the New Deal era. This history of American capitalism argues that business associations partnered with...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
word for it: Numerous sources over the past several years have documented the actual costs of the new generation of nuclear plants, including testimony to regulators by many of the utilities proposing to build them. According to these...
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- 10 Aug 2017
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Skydeck Live: The Happiness Equation
execute. Saying hi to your team in the morning, picking up your kids from day care. Just do it. On things that...take a lot of time and aren't very important, you have to regulate those. That's the 147 average emails we get a day. That's...
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- 04 Dec 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders
you want to go to the next level of regulation and oversight. And so if you’re trying to raise a $500 million fund, that means the price tag is $5 million, let’s say, as an investor. So that’s why I see a lot more women involved in angel...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future
Energy Future. Like Reinhardt, Vietor is a member of the steering committee of the Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements. He has written dozens of cases on energy matters and regulation and is the author of Energy Policy in...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Riding It Out
recall of 450,000 tires missing a key safety feature that a U.S. importer had purchased from a Chinese manufacturer and distributed to retail outlets. “I don’t think there is a strong culture of adherence to regulations in China right...
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- 15 Dec 2015
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The Year in Ideas 2015
who are experimenting with augmenting human function will hit the mainstream, even if the science hasn’t quite caught up. “Novel frameworks for thinking about regulation and academic technology transfer will be needed, but ultimately,...
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- 01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake
digital world," elaborates Upton, a Technology and Operations Management professor with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering. The current initiative began with the refitting of the School with an open architecture using Internet-based protocols (ways of View Details
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by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig