Least Developed Countries - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2025
News

Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)

vacations, but they won’t necessarily cancel their season tickets.” When Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003) first took a job managing Yankee Stadium for the New York City Parks Department in the 1990s, nearly every professional playing field in the View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations

Coast. “Growing up and moving around, educational media helped me develop multi-culturally; it helped me continue to learn English and see what’s happening in the rest of the world.” Her own parents have held key social sector positions... View Details

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government and the International Economy unit. "It's striking how much work has gone into examining this question—including by many truly outstanding researchers—and how little... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Jul 2017
News

Leadership on a Global Scale

service and leadership on a global stage. He called the summit––now an annual event renamed the Service Academies Global Summit––the ultimate business development and networking opportunity for service academy graduates in Asia.... View Details

30 Sep 2015
News

Looking to Rwanda’s Future

sustainable economy.” To date, Goldstein has made eight trips to Rwanda with his wife, Kaia Miller Goldstein, an economic development consultant who serves on Kagame’s Presidential Advisory Council with HBS Professor Michael Porter, a... View Details

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

do with genes, molecular pathways, and targets should be made openly available, or at least not subject to exclusive licensing. Instead, we should encourage competition around the development of molecules... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

family business field is very international now, too. In most Western countries you now find at least a few people per country very engaged in family business research and... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

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IFC India 2025: From Gray to Green: A Glimpse of the Future of Green Hydrogen in India - 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 Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2024 IFC India 2024 - View Details

23 Oct 2018
News

Coming of Age as the World Comes Apart

really, so I just kind of shuffled back to my seat really ashamed. And that's when I later found out after class that I had been chosen against my will to represent the class in the oratorical competition. And funny enough, in that competition, at View Details

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MOC Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

distinctive course platform developed at Harvard Business School by Professor Michael Porter and a team of colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. The course, which is concerned with the determinants of... View Details

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

entrants, and we wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. 2024 Business Track Winner: Crop Diagnostix - Brandon Chi (MBA 2024), Joseph Swift,... View Details

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

Arrival: Forum participants were greeted at Shanghai’s new international airport. Forum: Dean Clark with GLF chair Andrew Yao (MBA ’92); Han Zheng, Shanghai’s Mayor; Wang Mengkui, state development director. Breakout Sessions: Alumni... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Jun 2016
News

Again in a Great City

history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

07 Apr 2011
What Do You Think?

When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?

While C.J. Cullinane recommends that government "at least monitor the situation," he offers little hope that government intervention can be any more effective than private sector responses. Richard Oxford agrees, noting that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

01 Jun 2012
News

Around the World

of the School’s global journey than Professor Krishna Palepu, who arrived on campus in 1983. At the time, “most of the curriculum was based on materials that were developed using US company experiences in the US context,” recalls Palepu,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 May 2020
Blog Post

Remembering Well and Making Meaning of Memorial Day

As Memorial Day approaches, it’s natural for our minds to drift to summer – thoughts of firing up the grill, getting a boat in the water, or vacation travel would (at least in normal times) tantalize us through workdays that seem to grow... View Details

14 Mar 2019
News

The Merchant of Osaka

sound like a throwback way of delivering care, but paired with a few critical 21st-century upgrades—technology-enabled efficiency and patient-centered design—this community-based care model may represent one of Japan’s best hopes for the future. The View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

Nava, Diego Aycinena, Claudia Martínez A., and Dean Yang Abstract—While remittance flows to developing countries are very large, it is unknown whether migrants desire more control over how remittances are... View Details