International Investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2021
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Alumni Achievement Awards 2021

Virts (GMP 11, 2011) Retired NASA astronaut and International Space Station Commander The first book I read in kindergarten was about the Apollo astronauts who went to the moon, and I was hooked. Growing up, I had posters of airplanes and... View Details

10 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 10

widely, and research shows that it's often tough to increase profits by investing abroad. A new study of the grocery retail industry reveals that with a few exceptions globalization's benefits have not accrued to retailers. Local... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 1998
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Diversity and Community

business with, an evermore diverse domestic and international customer base." READ MORE HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector How the Ron Brown Award Was Born READ MORE HBS Forum: Business Leadership in the Social Sector How... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

the production of white blood cells lost during chemotherapy. Led by these two products, Amgen's annual revenues now approach $2 billion. Noting recently that Amgen currently employs some 4,600 people (up from 200 in 1985), investment... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

11 Aug 2016
Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

Education.” I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you're listening to Cold Call. Bill Kirby is a historian who examines contemporary China's business, economic and political development in an international context. In addition to many books and... View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education

29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

Western and white beauty ideals emerged as the global standard. The momentum of this standard was reinforced by the impact of Hollywood and other drivers of an international consumer culture from the interwar years. However the study... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2007
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First Look: May 8, 2007

is invested and aid has a small but insignificant effect on growth. Aid has no effect on the financial account, but does raise holdings of foreign reserves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases &... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

sophisticated and obscured forms. This fear of an empowered and strong Black America is further illustrated by the likes of J. Edgar Hoover, the founding director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who once labeled the Black Panther Party as, “the greatest threat... View Details

01 Jun 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

which employees act like free agents. The solution? Think of employees not as family or free agents but as allies. Both managers and employees must trust each other enough to commit to mutual investment and benefit. Such trust can be... View Details

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

Case 516-059 Ocado In 2015, U.K.–based Ocado was the world's largest pure player in the online home-delivery grocery business and was gaining a growing share of the highly competitive U.K. grocery market. Ocado had made heavy investments... View Details

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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

thirty years. He first sailed to China at the age of sixteen, and later became the sole agent in Canton for Perkins & Co. He became the wealthiest foreign agent in China and for a time served as the American consul there. The collection contains material relating to... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

says Bond, who, prior to her Motown career, served as a financial analyst for several corporations and investment firms. "The songs are as fresh today as they were 25 years ago." Candace Bond, vice president of catalog development and... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

inspire curiosity in my kids and read to them every day, I call that a win. Peter: The first thing I’ve learned is that you have to be intentional by using calendars and Outlook or Google docs to stay on top of everything. Whether it’s an View Details

01 Jun 1996
News

Class Acts

intends to maintain a strong connection with her WSA network as she faces her next great challenge: a new job as a consultant at McKinsey & Co. in Hong Kong, where she interned last summer. "When I started college, I'd never even heard of... View Details

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

MBA 1988) is a professor of management practice at Harvard Business School. For two decades, he ran equity capital markets for Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley. His casework focuses on international investment, sovereign... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

being called out. There was a randomness and arbitrariness to it that was disorienting. Similarly, companies with significant international operations would find themselves suddenly disrupted. Companies were concerned about being caught... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

research gives the field an advantage over other disciplines and will allow us to answer big questions, such as, "What explains the success and failure of entrepreneurs?" If business historians invest in reestablishing the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

If a strong, trustworthy keystone is present in the niche player's ecosystem, there may be no apparent reason for the niche player to connect to multiple platforms. However, because of the risk of keystone collapse and keystone hold-up, niche players may want to... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

01 Jun 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

The techniques include creating a demand-space map to predict how big a share can be won with the proper mix of emotional and functional benefits; determining a strategic direction for where to place investment bets; delivering the core... View Details

15 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 15

reflect a lower burden of crime, but rather a higher investment in crime avoidance. Moreover, protection activities by one group can displace crime onto another group. We take advantage of a dramatic increase in crime rates in Argentina... View Details