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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Charting the Year Ahead
percentage takes advantage of them. Insightful demographic and psychographic profiles have been developed from alumni survey data that will enable the committee, chaired by Jim Rice (MBA 1986), to recommend segment-specific marketing and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
Coast. “Growing up and moving around, educational media helped me develop multi-culturally; it helped me continue to learn English and see what’s happening in the rest of the world.” Her own parents have held key social sector positions... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Outsourcing for Radical Change
were transformed by outsourcing were also more prevalent overseas. If I had to guess why, I would suggest that the approach to partnerships in other countries tends to be more collaborative and less adversarial. It may have as much to do... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Where the Jobs Are
developing nations as an engine for job creation back home (see article). Innovation is also the ticket to survival for smaller manufacturers, reports Senior Associate Editor Garry Emmons, who talked with the proprietors of family-owned... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
Christopher Parsons Abstract—The global distribution of talent is highly skewed and the resources available to countries to develop and utilize their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
beneficiary was European banks that had big operations here. The globalization of the top end of the financial services industry means that the Fed is everyone's central banker. The reactions we've seen in developing markets recently to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market
By: Paul A. Gompers and Ahmed Dahawy
Karim Nour, the founder of Kashat, an Egyptian nano-lending fintech company, is contemplating how to manage the growth of his startup. Over the summer of 2022, Kashat's loan disbursements had grown by nearly 40%, fueled by macroeconomic instability in Egypt. However,... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Business Model; Developing Countries and Economies; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Capital; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Egypt
Gompers, Paul A., and Ahmed Dahawy. "Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market." Harvard Business School Case 824-055, March 2024. (Revised June 2024.)
- March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry
By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
Abdelal, Rawi E., Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer, and Aldo Musacchio. "The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry." Harvard Business School Case 706-043, March 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 21 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Renewable Energy - CleanMax
of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
throughout its history, but the fundamental purpose of the Global Initiative is to ensure our intellectual leadership through the development of research and course materials that are truly international in scope and impact. We're... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
above are numerous in a channel that includes, in your comments, food and tobacco producers of unhealthy products (Christy Hitchens, Tom Dolembo); lifestyle equipment and service providers; developers and manufacturers of high-cost... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
prosperity that has been generated by the functioning of market capitalism. Across the board, however, the primary concern was that the way the system currently functioned was associated with a great disparity of wealth and income in many View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
among the first to develop comprehensive historical data on the incidence and length of financial and banking crises. KEY THEMES Greenwood conducted research into financial bubbles, called “Bubbles for Fama,” with colleagues Andrei... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India
attend HBS. Earning her MBA, she says, will enable her “to look at myself and my home country from a very different perspective.” In the first-year Required Curriculum, she found Business, Government, and the International Economy to be... View Details
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
target of success in their new book Just Enough: Tools for Creating Success in Your Work and Life (Wiley, 2004). After conducting hundreds of interviews with high achievers, they developed a framework for thinking about integrating four... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
to underinvest in investees with greater accounting distance significantly weakens when accounting distance is reduced either from an investee's IFRS adoption or from IFRS adoption in the investor's country. The latter finding holds despite the fact that IFRS adoption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
How to Look at Globalization Now
proponent of product life cycle theory, the late Raymond Vernon, disavowed it on the grounds that developing countries no longer remained focused on old, low-tech products. Traditional trading companies may... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Carol Lauson
promise for Brazil and countries like it," she says. "But they're caught between development stages — where do they put their resources for maximum growth with minimal disruption?" For her own... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Management: Setting Employees Up for Success Chinenye C. Offor Ogunro (PhD) 2017 Network Administrative Organizations: Using Centralized External Governance to Improve the Performance of Health Care Networks in a Developing View Details