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After his speaking engagement in Chennai, India last Thursday, Harvard Business School Professor Robert S. Kaplan planned to spend the weekend hiking in Switzerland before giving another speech in Frankfurt, Germany...
...zero-rupee note program works because corruption is often a product of social norms. As development efforts go forward, such efforts to change social norms should be emphasized above ineffective structural reforms that paper over persisting problems. India has had legal structures meant to fight corruption since the country’s inception, but in the words of Kennedy School professor Lant Pritchett, “the de jure process no longer has any real claim on the behavior of the agents of the state, who are following a different de facto set of procedures” that have basically...
...small, symbolic act of refusing to bribe in the same manner as thousands of other people has emboldened many individuals in India and thus anti-corruption advocates throughout the developing world. Whether taking the form of a zero-currency note or uniforms without bribe-holding pockets, innovative measures to reduce corruption can remove some of the final shackles that are holding back the growth of developing countries. As the zero-rupee note program shows, a devoted group of individuals with creative ideas does not need a large budget or major political supporters to change the economic culture of a country...
...driving force of her book. Towards the beginning of her journal, it seems that Carson tries to comfort herself through telling the story of her brother’s life: “My brother ran away in 1978, rather than go to jail. He wandered in Europe and India, seeking something, and sent us postcards or a Christmas gift, no return address. He was traveling on a false passport and living under other people’s names. This isn’t hard to arrange. It is irremediable. I don’t know how he made...
...family invested in the Murr Center, in the outdoor track, and in the soccer program, among other sports. Albert F. Gordon ’59 said he gave around $10,000 for the women’s squash team to take a training and service trip to India in January. The Albert H. Gordon Track and Tennis Center and the Albert H. Gordon Professorship of Business Administration bear the name of his late father, the class of 1923 alumnus and former Crimson editor who ran track and led a stock brokerage firm through the Great Depression...