Liberalizing An Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2012
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Business leaders are more than profiteers, as they deliver growth in an efficient, fair manner

25 Feb 2020
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Task Force

world following China’s path. “It was an incredibly powerful wave that I wanted to ride—to build a digital business that would help people in emerging markets use their smartphones to connect to markets and improve their quality of life,”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

20 Aug 2020
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The U.S. Needs an SEC for its Health Care System

05 Sep 2016
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3 Reasons Why Trump Needs to Start an Advertising Blitz

16 Jan 2021
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How Trump’s H1-B visa an has impacted businesses in the U.S.

14 Sep 2017
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How to fix US politics? Maybe start by seeing it as an ‘industrial complex.’

09 Dec 2016
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Business leaders are anxious to avoid an angry call from the president-elect

19 Sep 2018
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When an Owner’s New Company Puts the Old One in Trump’s Cross Hairs

07 May 2019
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Canceling student debt has an extraordinary effect on people’s income and credit worthiness

01 Dec 2015
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Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

Sachdev (MBA 2013) found that the companies that thrived shared five common traits. In a recent working paper, Lal and Sachdev lay out these best practices, which include an open and flexible regulatory structure, business models that... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

21 Jan 2021
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The Pandemic Has Been an Economic Disaster for Women. Some Took Advantage of it.

27 Oct 2017
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In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?

01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

delivered directly to your car? Frist and classmate Nick Alexander (MBA 2015) began to explore an answer to that while they were still at HBS, spending one cold afternoon observing hurried customer interactions at a gas station in... View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

working as an economist in the Egyptian Ministry of Finance when the Arab Spring swept through Cairo in 2011. When we met, she was executive director of the Egyptian American Enterprise Fund, a $300 million investment initiative between... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

debt. Enan, then 24 years old, leapt at the chance to work for Youssef Boutros-Ghali, an MIT-educated economist and advocate for trade liberalization who worked to reform Egypt’s social security and pension... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance