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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
industrial economy. That economy was Germany’s. Then, as today, there was a fine line between symbiosis and rivalry. Could anything trigger another breakdown of globalization like the one that happened in 1914? The obvious answer is a... View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
to make the transition from a communist planned economy to a market economy. And we felt incredibly privileged to be part of that process. We became good friends with the then, Prime Minister Philip Dimitrov. We started the View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
The World's Banker
was named chairman of Salomon Brothers International and remained with Salomon until 1981, when he opened his own Wall Street investment banking boutique, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. From 1980 to 1986, in addition to his full-time Wall... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
When HBS launched the US Competitiveness Project in 2011, the American economy was struggling to recover from the Great Recession, Washington was in gridlock, and the nation was caught in the hype of a presidential election. Against this... View Details
Chandler’s Legacies
I was delighted to have the opportunity to visit HBS as the 2019 Alfred D. Chandler Jr. International Visiting Scholar. Alfred Chandler Jr has played a very important role in my academic life. The first time I read the railroad chapters... View Details
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
suspend the emissions reduction law until the state's unemployment rate falls below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. "The cost curves you see in renewable energy are falling fairly predictably," Lassiter says. "But public policy is remarkably... View Details
- Feb 2013
- Survey
Competitiveness at a Crossroads
business leaders and policymakers can take to improve U.S. competitiveness. For example, across the political spectrum, business leaders and the general public strongly called on the President and Congress to put the federal budget on a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Chai Ling
"China's democracy and free-market economy will require people with a solid understanding of capital markets, advanced management skills, and experience in global competition," she says. After developing her skills and establishing a... View Details
- Profile
Spencer Copeland
your section contributed to your understanding of business concepts, leadership, and/or problem solving? The diversity within the classroom is what makes HBS so special. The diversity especially shines in our Business, Government, and the View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
prolific outpouring of twelve books as well as a host of cases and articles (including two McKinsey Awards for best article of the year in Harvard Business Review). In addition, he was one of the chief architects of Business, Government, and the View Details
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- 23 May 2019
- News
Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998
books, and worked in a clothing boutique during high school. After studying political economy at UC Berkeley and working for McKinsey, she came to Harvard to earn her MBA and MPA. At HBS, where she helped... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 17 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
What to Expect from your First Week at HBS
that thrive through diversity of opinions and the discourse of the classroom (particularly in our Business, Government and the International Economy class in the spring semester (BGIE)!) Socially – building... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
contacts with practitioners and academics in emerging economies is crucial if we are to contribute to international understanding. We have begun some exciting initiatives in executive education in the Middle... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
with positive consequences on business evaluation only for female-led ventures, for which increased perceptions of warmth attenuate female entrepreneurs’ gender role incongruity. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54067 2018 The Palgrave... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
a product of the international Communist movement’s model of revolution in the developing world that envisioned new states following a “non-capitalist path of development.” In Iran, this was compounded by the use of Allende-era Chile as a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
In the search for culprits in the global financial meltdown, bloated executive pay and the excessive risk-taking behavior it fueled stand out as prime suspects. Of the two, pay dominates the headlines and provokes the most public and View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
and observable stability using reduced form regressions. The other is an institutional economics conception of how to measure performance. It is focused on understanding whether foreign entry gave rise to difficult-to-reverse changes in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
Using Competition to Reform Healthcare
that they think in terms of service lines, normally define them in terms of specialties such as internal medicine, radiology, urology, surgery, and so on. Both of these prevailing modes of business definition in health care providers... View Details
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Nneka Ezeigwe
different kinds of industries on the ground, looking at what drives change and takes an economy to the next level. I’ll be able to work with policy makers and business leaders who are expanding Nigeria’s View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy