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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Leadership on a Global Stage
course correction that took Jefferson to HBS, consulting, state and federal leadership positions, public speaking, and helping organizations around the world develop their leaders. It has been 20 years since Jefferson was leading a Green... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 5:30 PM – 8:30 PM EDT, 09 Apr 2019
- Career Events
What's Next in My Life?
Do you see change ahead on your horizon, and you're not sure how to quite put it all together? Join this hands-on, two-hour workshop where you will learn frameworks for life and career planning, consider work and life dimensions to help create your next chapter and... View Details
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
Backlash Against Investment Arbitration, edited by Michael Waibel, Asha Kaushal, Kyo-Hwa Chung, and Claire Balchin. London: Wolters Kluwer Law & Business, forthcoming Abstract There are at least three reasons for the current backlash... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
new geographic markets and for new types of undertakings, combined with an increasing need to finance development in countries with limited resources, suggest that project finance should continue to loom... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
it. "We have the medical knowledge to do it. And it's not being done. Just under one-half of identified diabetics in this country don't have their blood sugar under control," she said. Diabetes manifests as Type I or Type II... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
least in the short run. But with that increase of fossil fuel burning comes an ever-escalating cloud of CO2 emissions destined to linger in our atmosphere and oceans for hundreds, even thousands of years. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Regan Turner (MBA 2013)
the country in 2018, and of furthering engagement in our cities by having more veterans take on volunteer leadership roles. I’m also working with our national team to bring our third-annual Mass Deployment program to Los Angeles in 2018.... View Details
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
exclusive than the approximately 7,000 companies worldwide that received a venture investment in 2010. Birchbox was among the just 823 companies—11.8 percent—that had at least one woman founder. The number with a woman of color on the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
was 57 years ago! After earning my MBA in 1954 and doctorate in 1957, both from HBS, I became a professor at the University of Washington. As a visiting professor at Stanford in 1966, I taught a course in entrepreneurship from which at View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
George C. Lodge
to HBS to complete his first book, Spearheads of Democracy: Labor in the Developing Countries. He didn't have a graduate degree and never expected to become a professor. But in a remarkable HBS career that has spanned four decades and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how View Details
- 17 Sep 2014
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpen Your Negotiation Skills
No business skill may be as important to success as negotiation. We negotiate everything: agreements with partners and vendors, in-scope/out-of-scope parameters around important projects, and our own compensation and job responsibilities, to name just a few. If we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- July 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Gerdau (A)
By: Joseph L. Bower, Luiz Felipe Monteiro and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Gerdau Group is a family-controlled Brazilian manufacturer and distributor of long steel products. Describes the evolution of the company's strategy, organization, and smart management, making it the No. 2 steel producer in Brazil. The company must decide whether to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Family Business; Decision Choices and Conditions; Developing Countries and Economies; Globalization; Competitive Strategy; Steel Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Brazil; United States
Bower, Joseph L., Luiz Felipe Monteiro, and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Gerdau (A)." Harvard Business School Case 302-016, July 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- 10 Jan 2017
- News
A Voice for Women Leaders
understand that, just like men, women are entitled to be leaders, and that this was a way to create a collective voice. “There are a number of reasons why we see more women leaders in other countries than we see in the United States.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
FIELD 2 in Accra
career in the energy sector. "We can help these countries develop more efficient and equitable ways of doing business." Even as an HBS student, Leach notes that the trip to Ghana began to make him feel part... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Beyond Case Writing
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That’s been the experience of HBS associate professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
A Case For Fellowships
have worked outside their home country for three months or longer. In addition to ensuring that our doors are open to qualified candidates from all backgrounds, the fellowship program allows our graduates to pursue careers driven by... View Details
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Ghana
lifestyles and the name of your GEO country (or Mobile and the name of the country) to locate. EMIS Useful for: emerging... View Details
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Turkey
Click on Browse by Location and navigate to the country of interest. Use the tools on the right side of the results screen to refine your search. Statista Country information and data World View Details
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
As interest in the flat tax grows, the world seems transfixed on an unlikely country, Slovakia, whose 3-year-old tax reform program is paying early dividends. Essentially applying a uniform tax rate on citizens (and sometimes companies) regardless of income, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace