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- 01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
fourteen years later, Rwanda is looked to as a model for the rest of Africa, not the least for its successes with public health and health-care delivery. The goal of the Global Health Delivery Project is to make the first-ever systematic... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
expand the concept to other parts of the developing world," says company CEO Monique Maddy (MBA '93). Maddy, who will be a panelist at the Cape Town conference, plans to bring voicemail to 25 developing... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 1997
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The World's Banker
that the Bank has an indispensable development role: to help finance and assist the desperately poor countries that seldom see private capital. But he also believes the institution must justify its continued... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
worked for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Is the MCC development model an effective one? The MCC, a US agency established in 2004, is viewed by many as a success, in part because it aims to depoliticize aid. To be eligible for MCC... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
Mongolia hard. Mongolia is the least densely populated country in the world. (As far as I know, I am the only Mongolian ever to graduate from HBS! However, our newly elected president, Elbegdorj Tsakhia, is... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Baker returned to the United States and was involved for many years in a variety of trading activities that took him to some two dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Observing further how corruption could subvert markets... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Global Mission
Just in case “global” isn’t an adjective you readily ascribe to HBS, consider this. Nearly 30 percent of the School’s more than 78,000 alumni live abroad, scattered across 167 countries. That means there’s almost no nation you can visit that isn’t home to at View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often... View Details
- 02 Dec 2019
- News
A Long-Standing Commitment to Global Understanding
executive of the Rockefeller family’s global investment company. Intent on narrowing his international focus and extending his impact, Barry founded Zephyr Management in 1994. The firm invests in small and medium- sized businesses in View Details
- 02 Mar 2015
- News
To Market, To Market
looking to transform lives by moving primarily smallholder farmers out of hunger and poverty, toward resilience.” These farmers, in more than 30 countries worldwide, says Ferrari, have the potential to effectively feed about 100 million... View Details
- 19 Jul 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
charity, Elumelu stresses. It is an investment. He believes that these entrepreneurs can create at least 1 million jobs in Africa and contribute at least $10 billion in revenue. “The legacy I want to leave... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
School of Public Health as a way to understand the policies and skills required to address the systemic challenges that many developing countries face. She then moved to Johannesburg to assist with efforts... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Positive impact that hits home
religious heritage. Not least among these is the belief that “you can be a highly performing business executive and also be a very religious person,” observes Seck Mercier. “Those two things can go together without any issue.” She is... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life
automakers tried to avoid investing in radials. This country was not like Europe where they have "little doodlebugs scooting around on cobblestones," they said. According to a top Ford executive at the time, "This is a big View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Bottom-Line Discrepancies
evidence suggests that the large unexplained gaps between tax and book income that have arisen during the late 1990s are at least partly associated with increased sheltering activity,” writes Desai, who adds that it has become necessary... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
among all they’ve accomplished.” As remarkable an achievement as Fass Koffe is, it’s but one of several the Oregon-based nonprofit has completed since its founding in 2008 with a mission to empower poor and displaced communities in the View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Apr 2018
- News
Sowing the Seeds of Leadership
socially responsible development projects in economically challenged communities. Students come from 48 countries, predominately in Latin America and Africa. The admissions team and faculty personally conduct up to 1,000 interviews in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Engaging More Deeply with Business in Africa
Administration—of the trip. “There is so much excellence, ingenuity, innovation, and ideas that we can tap into,” Datar notes. The two professors are not new to the region: They serve as co-chairs of the School’s Senior Executive Program—Africa, an Executive Education... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Deep Dive
joined an even more elite group, those who have also skied at least 60 miles to both the North and South Poles. He was the 54th person in history to achieve what is known as the “Explorer’s Grand Slam.” But Vescovo was already looking for... View Details