Growing Green
Kaushik Kappagantula ’17 wants to ease poverty in rural India and thinks his company, Kheyti, can do just that.
Articles
This Alumnus Found a Career Sweet Spot
Adam Michaels ’06 is responsible for tracking consumer behavior for some of the world’s most beloved snack brands.
The Minimum Wage and Its Effect on Elections
Once a poster child for lifting millions of people from poverty, Brazil is now battling rising earnings inequality — which is factoring into a presidential election.
Trump’s Economic Score Card
Dean Glenn Hubbard and Professor Charles Calomiris on the economic fallout from President Trump’s first two years — and prescriptions for the next two.
Who Controls the Votes?
Fox News has the greatest potential sway over US voters, but about a dozen media organizations have the power to swing a close election, says Andrea Prat, the Richard Paul Richman Professor of Business.
Putting a Price on Principles
A strong set of personal values yields dividends for everyone in an organization, says Paul Ingram, the Kravis Professor of Business.
Monetary Unions: What Is Optimal?
Chazen Senior Scholar Patrick Bolton reveals why the cost of abandoning currency sovereignty may outweigh the trade benefits of a single currency.
Home-Grown Sustainability
Nathan Littlewood ’17 and his company, Urban Leaf, are working to improve the way we eat.
Fixing Education, One Algorithm at a Time
Associate Professor Yash Kanoria helped design an algorithm to fill seats in India’s top tech schools, with implications for the US school system.
MBAs Who Code
New electives in web programming and data analytics have become some of the Business School’s most popular courses. "It gave me a leg up," says one alumnus.
The New Languages of Business: Python, SQL, R
MBAs increasingly need to be equipped with programming knowledge, says adjunct assistant professor and Y Combinator-backed entrepreneur Mattan Griffel.
The 2008 Crisis, 10 Years Later
In September 2008, Lehman Brothers collapsed, almost bringing down the world’s financial system and resulting in the foreclosure of millions of homes in the United States. What have we learned since then?
Have We Learned the Lessons of the Great Recession?
Professor Laura Veldkamp sees evidence that the market won't soon forget the 2008 financial crisis.
Why Google and Facebook Can’t Be Broken Up Like a Utility
Nobel Prize-winning economist Jean Tirole describes the difficulties of breaking up today’s tech companies at the 2018 Eccles Prize and Speaker Forum. He won the prize for his book, Economics for the Common Good.
Tune Out to Tune In
Advice from professors Malia Mason and William Duggan on making the most of mind-wandering during summer vacation.