Least Developed Countries - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

Black students in our community have spent the last few weeks grappling with the weight of a devastating truth: that our country and society has undeniably and systemically failed Black communities – and the false narrative that being... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS

needed in today’s global economy.” The GCPC addresses current business and management demands on Chinese CEOs, focusing on the effects of country differences on decision-making and organizational competitiveness. The program aims to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

2007
Chapter

The Complete Business of Serving the Poor: Insights from Unilever's Project Shakti in India

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Dalip Sehgal and Rohithari Rajan

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Entrepreneurship; Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; India

Citation

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

hire roughly two-thirds of all graduates from top-ranked MBA programs, increasingly have in-house programs for developing and promoting talented employees who have only undergraduate degrees. One anecdote drove the point home. When Datar... View Details

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

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

average firm in his state cut back capital expenditures by roughly 15 percent, according to their working paper, "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" "It was an enormous surprise, at least to us, to learn... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Ravi Belani

were more than eighty South Asians in my class, and a huge number of entrepreneurs, at least a hundred. Every idiosyncratic interest you have is represented in significant numbers – no other school can match them.” As a venture... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Faculty Books

and the United States survey the evolution of multinational banks and offer a framework by which this development can be understood. They analyze the multinational banking strategies of selected countries... View Details

06 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 6, 2007

(Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Experts agreed that for Brazil to grow like other BRIC countries, the Brazilian government would have to reduce the cost of doing business in the country ("Brazil cost"). At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni Books

Angst, Awareness, Action by Jay P. Desai (AMP 180, 2011) (Pearson) Accountability, the bedrock of governance, is under siege in India. Widespread unaccountability is preventing the country from unlocking its full economic and social... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

Alumni Books The Saudi Kingdom by Ali Al Shihabi (MBA 1985) (Markus Wiener Publishers) Al Shihabi presents an analysis of Saudi Arabia’s political stability in light of mounting domestic and international challenges facing the country... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Maiden Voyage

More than 80 countries have national space programs, spending a collective $64.5 billion in 2014, according to Euroconsult, a global consulting firm specializing in space markets. Approximately a dozen countries—if you count the 22... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Space Research and Technology; Government

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

Stephen Johnston (photo by Gary Laufman) For a mobile-focused business entrepreneur, Stephen Johnston (MBA 2002) is more than a bit of a contrarian. Unlike many of his peers, Johnston, 41, has his sights set not on emerging nations but on the View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

to underinvest in investees with greater accounting distance significantly weakens when accounting distance is reduced either from an investee's IFRS adoption or from IFRS adoption in the investor's country. The latter finding holds despite the fact that IFRS adoption... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
News

Vision: Learning Curve

children and parents alike. “Our interests really aligned on early childhood education,” Mahajan says. Recognizing that more than 50 percent of Indians have smartphones—and that mobile internet penetration is high, even among low-income groups—Gupta and Mahajan View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; education; entrepreneurship; startup; India; Educational Services

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

10 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

for fresh fruit and vegetables and a third-party certification system to monitor compliance. By 2008, the GLOBALGAP standard had expanded to cover coffee, tea, livestock, and aquaculture. Over 90,000 producers in 87 countries had been... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

FAQ - U.S. Competitiveness

the U.S. can (1) compete successfully in the global economy while also (2) supporting high and rising living standards for the average American. Company success without worker prosperity is not true competitiveness and is unsustainable. HBS faculty members View Details

Fast Answer

Water: reserves and usage

production with a thematic focus on different strategic water issues. Selected data tables from World’s Water series by Pacific Institute. AQUASTAT: Water usage database from the FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations); provides water... View Details

Profile

Joe Khoury

Business School is an immersion experience and a continuous self-discovery process. At HBS, I was able to hone my leadership skills and develop life-long relationships with classmates, professors and alumni. HBS offered me a range of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consulting; Investment Banking

01 Dec 2017
News

Enhancing Students’ Cultural Intelligence

his classmates’ FIELD Global Immersion (FGI) projects. But in retrospect, he says, conducting field research in Mexico and developing and presenting innovative product ideas to senior executives at Colgate’s Consumer Innovation Center... View Details

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