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Greater China Club | MBA
practices related to the Greater China region; (3)To spread best management practices, channel global talents, and promote economic and social transformation in the world's most populous region. Annual... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
accessible in other parts of the world can take on greater sensitivity at this stage of the Asia Pacific's economic restructuring. The challenge is to balance this sensitivity. We must make firms aware that the research cannot be released... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
boundaries, a six-member faculty working group, established in November, invited the entire faculty to a half-day discussion of the crisis. Afterward, the group launched a Friday series of in-depth presentations on topics related to View Details
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Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks - Course Catalog
the context of increasing pressures of global urbanization, resource scarcity, and perils relating to climate change. The course takes a finance and real assets point of view focusing on houses, buildings, infrastructure, and cities as... View Details
- 2007
- Chapter
The Complete Business of Serving the Poor: Insights from Unilever's Project Shakti in India
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Dalip Sehgal and Rohithari Rajan
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; India
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Dalip Sehgal, and Rohithari Rajan. "The Complete Business of Serving the Poor: Insights from Unilever's Project Shakti in India." Chap. 13 in Business Solutions for the Global Poor: Creating Social and Economic Value, edited by V. Kasturi Rangan, John A. Quelch, Gustavo Herrero, and Brooke Barton, 144–154. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
- April 2011
- Module Note
Financing International Trade
By: C. Fritz Foley
This module note summarizes the key insights covered in the Financing International Trade module of the International Financial Management course. It also provides a framework that guides decisions about which financing terms should be used in which situations. View Details
Keywords: Trade; International Finance; Decisions; Situation or Environment; Framework; Globalization
Foley, C. Fritz. "Financing International Trade." Harvard Business School Module Note 211-089, April 2011.
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Getting Security Right
seven-year collaboration with University of North Carolina economics professor Steven Rosefielde. Their impressively researched volume challenges global leaders in government and business alike to push... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Profiting from the World’s Economic Crisis: Finding Investment Opportunities by Tracking Global Market Trends by Bud Conrad (MBA ’71) (Wiley) Conrad predicts a rough road ahead, due to View Details
- 08 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance
State Street Global Advisers is responding the expanding influence of impact investing. What Jane Austen and Mel Brooks Can Teach Us About Finance A new book links the fundamentals of finance to several centuries of literature, history,... View Details
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
called upon to play increasingly broader roles. Let me start my analysis with the barrel. I think our economic system has proven phenomenally successful at bringing growth, innovation, productivity, and a rising standard of living to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
Empowering Rural Communities
it be limited by the financial restrictions that govern nonprofit electrical cooperatives. Instead, the company would have both the incentive and the flexibility to bring renewable power to communities that would benefit economically from... View Details
- October 1986 (Revised November 1988)
- Case
B-W Footwear
By: David B. Yoffie
As import penetration into the American footwear market reached 81% in 1986, B-W Footwear, along with all of its American competitors, was struggling. Supply lines were deteriorating, retailers and importers were gaining power, and the government had rejected two... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Management; Globalization; Government and Politics; Business Strategy; Trade; Apparel and Accessories Industry; United States
Yoffie, David B. "B-W Footwear." Harvard Business School Case 387-022, October 1986. (Revised November 1988.)
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care
PORTER WITH RWANDA’S PRESIDENT PAUL KAGAME: Beyond best practices, understanding principles of global health-care delivery. It’s no surprise to find HBS professor Michael Porter meeting with powerful people who seek his ear and prize his... View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Property Rights and Urban Form
By: Simeon Djankov, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti and Andrei Shleifer
How do the different elements in the standard bundle of property rights, including those of possession and transfer, influence the shape of cities? This paper incorporates insecure property rights into a standard model of urban land prices and density, and makes... View Details
Djankov, Simeon, Edward L. Glaeser, Valeria Perotti, and Andrei Shleifer. "Property Rights and Urban Form." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28793, May 2021.
- October 1988 (Revised December 1994)
- Supplement
Major Home Appliance Industry in 1988
By: David J. Collis and Nancy Donohue
Updates developments in the industry. Included among these are GE's reinvestment program, GE and Whirlpool's bidding war for Roper, Sears' expansion into selling brand names, Whirlpool's expansion into the European markets, and a number of other examples of this kind... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Investment; Globalization; Brands and Branding; Bids and Bidding; Expansion; Europe
Collis, David J., and Nancy Donohue. "Major Home Appliance Industry in 1988." Harvard Business School Supplement 389-056, October 1988. (Revised December 1994.)
- January 2003 (Revised June 2005)
- Case
Multinationals as Engines of Growth?
Reviews the issues surrounding estimating the impact over time of multinationals on host economies. Uses a series of short historical case studies, including the role of United Fruit in the "banana" republics of Central America, oil and banking in Iran before the... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Trade; Growth and Development; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Globalized Economies and Regions; Iran; United States; Malaysia; Japan
Jones, Geoffrey G. "Multinationals as Engines of Growth?" Harvard Business School Case 803-108, January 2003. (Revised June 2005.)
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
IBM: The Corporate Service Corps (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis, Alison Comings and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [409106]. View Details
Keywords: Service Operations; Employees; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Programs; Global Strategy; Computer Industry; Information Technology Industry; Ghana; Tanzania; Romania; Philippines; Viet Nam
- 08 Jan 2001
- What Do You Think?
Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?
obtaining full disclosure, and in general exercising oversight in such relationships. Coase's ideas were thought to be so valuable that they earned him the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991. One of the most important phenomena of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Accelerating Research in China
of the world will be critical for future economic growth. “Harvard Business School can play a key role in shaping aspects of these global economic relationships,” says Plummer,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Alumni Books
A Vision for Venture Capital: Realizing the Promise of Global Venture Capital & Private Equity by Peter A. Brooke (MBA ’54) with Daniel Penrice (New Ventures) This book chronicles the career of Peter Brooke, who has been called “the... View Details