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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
average cardholder owned 4.6 credit cards. On some of these cards, interest rates were as high as 30 percent. The use of consumer credit, while by no means new, reached unprecedented levels in the early twenty-first century ....
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- 04 Mar 2008
- News
HBS Blogs
if necessary, of the blog’s subjects and a note about how long it has been going. This list probably represents only a very small fraction of the alumni blogs that are out there, so please send us Web addresses of HBS blogs you know of...
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- 01 Feb 1997
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Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
From 1988 to 1993, Juan Enriquez-Cabot was CEO of SERVIMET, a for-profit urban development entity of the Mexico City government which grew 4,000 percent during his tenure and became the city's largest revenue source after taxes. In 1993,...
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- 01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table
furniture retailers and logistics companies using data OneSource Global Express. Or, learn more about the evolving customer base in Mexico. Delve into ABI/Proquest to read articles about firms like Amazon, View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act
Section B, year of 1979. I would urge people not to think of retirement as a term at all. Now you are at a stage of life where you have freedom to choose how you will engage your time and energy, your purpose. You have the financial independence to choose the purpose...
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- 01 Apr 2000
- News
A Place in the Sun
shores of Turtle Island. But for all the rest of us who long to shed the chains of everyday responsibilities, memorable escapes are also within reach. Much of the credit for that belongs to Club Méditerranée, the original purveyor of...
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Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2023
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March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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- 28 Mar 2016
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Drawing Connections Between Business and Art
art alone typically work part-time in urban areas in relatively low-paying jobs and they have trouble finding large spaces for their art making. On the other hand, the agricultural industry in Japan has been losing young workers. To...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
East. “At Endeavor, we believe that real economic change and growth — not just poverty alleviation — happen through entrepreneurs who are doing innovative things in their industry, country, or even globally,” says Ko. Endeavor uses a...
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- 01 Sep 2011
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Water for Life
— water provision to the urban poor, water education, and environmental protection — that reflect the social issues we can address as a water and wastewater service provider. These programs were carefully planned so that they can help...
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- 01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill
school that would address the many problems afflicting the region—including lack of education, alcohol abuse, and moral decay. Pine Mountain owes its name to the late 19th-century settlement movement to improve the lives of poor, urban...
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- 01 Mar 2007
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The Plight of the Global Poor
its leavings. Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a...
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- 01 Mar 2008
- News
An American Odyssey
social change and very conscious that I was going to use my HBS training in different ways than most of my classmates,” America explains. “In class, I appreciated the pro-labor side in cases that had a union-management component. I was...
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- 09 Oct 2015
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Balancing Progress and Preservation
thrilled to find himself working on the revitalization of some very high-profile pieces of Manhattan’s built environment with Dan Biederman (MBA 1977), a pioneer in creating public-private urban redevelopment projects. “Working with Dan...
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- 21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
alumni, faculty, and environmental industry leaders. “We invited several of our alumni guests to host each event and give a short talk, to paint a picture of the future for energy, so our current students can bring those ideas back to HBS and make the best View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
Manufacturing Gains Professor Richard H.K. Vietor A train carrying oil tank cars near Gladstone, North Dakota. “The gas from this shale revolution has made petrochemicals, cement—almost everything, really—cheaper in the United States than it is anywhere else. If you...
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- 01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead
Photos by Webb Chappell Forty years ago, in September 1966, a young mission analyst named Jay Light left the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in California and headed east to Harvard Business School. At JPL, Light used his undergraduate...
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- 15 Jun 2021
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June 2021 Books and Podcasts
investing and development in “the toughest business in the world” in four acts. Along the way, he offers a compassionate, interdisciplinary perspective on philosophical questions ranging from art and urban planning to love, happiness, and...
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- 01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music
it hopes will be a long and intimate creative collaboration, providing the artist or band feedback on songs and setting them up with just the right producer and recording engineer to create a harmonious chemistry. In the case of labels focused on View Details
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Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Paradox of the American Metropolis by Alan Rabinowitz (MBA 1950) (CreateSpace) This is a citizen’s guide to dealing with citywide problems: transportation, climate change, public safety, etc. The context is the worldwide increase in urban...
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