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Evolution of the Social Enterprise Conference | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

catalyzing solutions around them. If you read the front page of the newspaper any day, it's increasingly obvious that social and environmental externalities cannot be separated from the business and market opportunities that create them,... View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Covering All Corners

the pharmaceutical needs of emerging markets and has a strong presence in more than 40 countries throughout Africa and the Middle East-North Africa region. “We are a very purpose-driven team and believe in... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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Q&A: John Quelch

regional business schools. One aspect of this effort is our annual Colloquium on Participant-Centered Learning, which brings faculty and business school leaders from universities in emerging economies to HBS to learn about case and course... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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Europe - Global Activities 2020

even though differences may not seem like much, what matters most is how people themselves perceive those differences.” Muneeb Ahmed MBA 2020 Reinert taught the case in his fall 2019 Globalization and Emerging View Details

05 Nov 2013
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Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

of effort on his part. Wilkins moved to the Crescent City four years ago from Boston with his wife, New Orleans native Ginny Wise, and three sons. Prior to his arrival, he had been a brand manager for Proctor & Gamble, a marketing vice... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2002
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Books

Adam Smith's free markets notwithstanding, Moss reminds the reader that government involvement in the management of private-sector risks is nothing new in the United States. “Policymakers have long played a vital role in helping to manage... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

investing billions of dollars and tens of thousands of employees and contractors to implement it. The market capitalization of the company dropped over $100 billion in one day, now roughly back to the pre-crisis level. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

01 Sep 2015
First Look

First Look -- September 1, 2015

Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries has increased dramatically over the past... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608081 Blogging at BzzAgent Harvard Business School Case 508-102 BzzAgent is a word-of-mouth marketing firm. The founder, Dave Balter, sees blogs as an important way to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2303862 Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets By: Marquis, Christopher, and Mia Raynard Abstract—We review and integrate a wide range of literature... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

computer science, actually emerge in regions that import less expensive goods from China. Service jobs like retail and restaurants fall slightly, but not in a statistically significant way, the researchers found. Robots on the march... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

30 May 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

diverse methodology to understand the relationships between firm boundaries, firm activities, and geographic borders. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52688 2017 Geography, Location, and Strategy. Multinational Activity in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Global - Global Activities 2020

Activities The following highlights illustrate the breadth of HBS’s global activities before and during the pandemic. Africa Research Center The Africa Research Center contributed to HBS’s Creating Emerging View Details

01 Jan 2007
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Donna L. Dubinsky, MBA 1981

When Donna Dubinsky joined Palm Computing in 1992, the eight-person start-up was one of several companies developing a personal digital assistant. Under her leadership, Palm introduced the first successful PDA, creating a multi-billion dollar View Details

22 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23

determinants underlying the global economic geography of multinational firms. In particular, we run a horserace between two distinct economic forces: location fundamentals and agglomeration economies. We find that location fundamentals, including View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

are many companies with which to partner. Being part of a cluster facilitates change and speeds innovation—both fundamental to modern, knowledge-based competition. Q: Over the next ten or twenty years, what new clusters do you think will View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Energy & Environment Club’s Icelandic Adventure! - Blog - Business & Environment

Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC... View Details

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

characterized by underdeveloped institutions and frequent environmental shifts. Yet they also contain many firms that have survived over generations. How are firms in weak institutional environments able to persist over time? Motivated by 69 interviews with leaders of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2008
News

The Levitt Brand

“The Globalization of Markets.” In it, he described “a new commercial reality — the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude.” In a world... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

February 2018 (Revised July 2025)
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Hikma Pharmaceuticals Governance Journey

By: Lynn Paine, Suraj Srinivasan and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens with Said Darwazah, chairman and CEO of Hikma Pharmaceuticals, the multinational generics company, anticipating the company’s 2017 AGM and reflecting on changes made over the previous year to address concerns expressed by proxy advisors and some... View Details