Least Developed Countries - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jun 2021
News

The NBA's African Expansion

basketball being a top sport throughout Africa in 10 years,” according to coverage on CNBC. The effort is led by NBA Africa CEO Victor Williams (MBA 1998), who described the organization’s strategy to accelerate the development of the... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

10 Feb 2016
News

Putting Faith in a Good Education

“The lack of access to good education in developing countries is one of the greatest problems in the world today,” says Chris Crane (MBA 1976), who founded and leads Edify, a nonprofit that furnishes... View Details

17 Dec 2014
News

Facilitating an understanding of business and society in Turkey and the surrounding region

As executive director of HBS’s Istanbul Research Center, Esel Çekin (AMP 184, 2013) serves as a bridge between the business world in Turkey and, more frequently, the broader Middle East with HBS faculty, alumni, and students. The Istanbul native’s deep knowledge of her... View Details

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-081.pdf Brides for Sale: Cross-Border Marriages and Female Immigration Authors:Daiji Kawaguchi and Soohyung Lee Abstract Every year, a large number of women migrate as brides from developing View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Profile

Anthony Tan

launched in 17 cities in five countries, including Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, and has been downloaded more than 3.3 million times. At least 650,000 people are using it to get taxis at View Details

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

biggest impact in alleviating financing constraints in Africa, developing the local private sector, and ultimately shifting countries away from foreign aid into more sustainable sources of financing.... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Sep 2009
News

Robert McNamara Dies at 93

New York Times wrote (July 6, 2009), “McNamara became president of the World Bank and devoted evangelical energies to the belief that improving life in rural communities in developing countries was a more... View Details

29 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

While all of these countries are part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and all have high income per capita and advanced health care systems, each was affected differently by the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

March 1997 (Revised October 1999)
Case

Stone Container in Honduras (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Hannah Bowles

Chicago-based Stone Container Corp., a leading producer of cardboard containers and paper bags, proposes a large-scale pine forest management and utilization program in the La Mosquitia region of Honduras. A framework agreement with the government is strongly endorsed... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Types; Environmental Sustainability; Conflict of Interests; Globalized Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Manufacturing Industry; Pulp and Paper Industry; Honduras; Chicago

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01 Dec 2004
News

Himalayan Journey

independent Buddhist country and destination of the HBS alumni travel program in October. “Visions of Bhutan,” a twelve-day trip that originated and concluded in Bangkok, brought together eighteen alumni, family, and friends spanning six... View Details

Keywords: Janet Sanders; Hospitality

01 Mar 2004
News

The New Global Business Manager

There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers,... View Details

Keywords: Management

18 Apr 2022
News

Home Grown

kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if... View Details

20 May 2016
Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

for bureaucrats. A sample recommendation is that the WHO should “devise a regular, independent, transparent and objective assessment mechanism to evaluate country performance” against precise benchmarks defined in conjunction with member... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Health

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

to an even higher expectation on the part of those obsessed with "scorekeeping," regardless of their performance. In their new book, Just Enough, Laura Nash and Howard Stevenson of Harvard Business School suggest a definition of success gleaned from... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2020
News

Wide Angle

deeper-seated reforms—if we're going to be able to get the economy back strongly on track. [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt is someone who's been on my mind a lot recently. In a moment of great crisis, Roosevelt—at least as the short version... View Details

22 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 22

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47651 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Where to Launch in Africa? By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—A case study in the management of new business enterprises in developing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Mar 2012
Article

Choosing the United States

A location decision is, in many respects, a referendum on a nation's competitiveness. When a company decides, say, to build a new plant in China rather than in the United States, it is effectively voting on the question of which country... View Details

05 Jun 2017
News

Women on Boards: A Course Becomes a Movement

is filling a need in the market. That is due, in no small way, to the fact that top-performing senior executive women remain critically underrepresented in corporate governance across all industries. Currently only about 19 percent of governance boards in the S&P 500... View Details

Keywords: Margaret Kelley

November 1999 (Revised April 2003)
Case

Financing the Mozal Project

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Fuaad Qureshi

It is June 1997, and a team from the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is recommending that the board approve a $120 million investment in a $1.4 billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique, known as the Mozal project. Four factors make the investment controversial: it... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Projects; Financial Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Developing Countries and Economies; Metals and Minerals; Financial Strategy; Government and Politics; International Finance; Infrastructure; Mozambique