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- 2021
- Working Paper
The Business of K-12 Education in China
By: Geoffrey Jones and Yuhai Wu
This working paper examines the evolution of K-12 education in China, especially between 1985 and the present day, drawing extensive interviews with participants in the educational sector. China has been hugely successful in reaching almost 100 percent literacy,... View Details
Keywords: K-12 Education; China; Real Estate; Early Childhood Education; Performance Evaluation; Teaching; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Personal Development and Career; Social Issues; Nonprofit Organizations; Private Sector; Education Industry; Real Estate Industry; China
Jones, Geoffrey, and Yuhai Wu. "The Business of K-12 Education in China." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-022, October 2021.
- 2012
- Book
The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment
By: Pratima Bansal and Andrew J. Hoffman
Environmental issues now loom large on the social, political, and business agenda. Over the past four decades, "corporate environmentalism" has emerged and been constantly redefined, from regulatory compliance to more recent management conceptions such as pollution... View Details
Bansal, Pratima, and Andrew J. Hoffman, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Business and the Natural Environment. Oxford University Press, 2012.
- 07 Jan 2016
- News
What the Fed’s Rate Hike Means for America’s Small Businesses
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The Harvard-Radcliffe Program in Business Administration - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
(LEFA login for full access.) Harvard Business Review HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS Working Knowledge Jobs Harvard University Privacy Policy Trademarks Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College Harvard... View Details
- 25 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business
Software Platforms Drive Innovation and Transform Industries, available October 4 from MIT Press. Evans is Managing Director of the Global Competitive Policy Practice at LEGC LLC. Hagiu is a professor in the Strategy unit at Harvard View Details
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Business in Global Society - Alumni
Climate Rising podcast In a podcast produced by HBS’s Business & Environment Initiative, business and policy leaders join faculty members to discuss what View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
an interesting concept of the importance of a "national brand."—Jim Heskett Others, while agreeing with this thesis, were not so sanguine about whether this will happen without greater efforts to influence foreign policy by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
competitiveness of her exports and the costs of her imported inputs. In a microeconomic sense, the business person also cares about tariffs (which affect trade), industrial policies, tax policies (on View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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HBS Working Knowledge – Harvard Business School Faculty Research
help companies open new markets and build communities. Scott Duke Kominers and Steve Kaczynski go beyond the NFT hype in their book, The Everything Token. Sign up for our weekly newsletter Interested in improving your business? Learn about fresh research and ideas from... View Details
- Research Summary
International business and political risk in West Africa
This project, based on confidential corporate archives, explores the response of foreign companies to political decolonization and the threat of expropriation in Ghana and Nigeria. Foreign companies in Ghana and Nigeria, especially those from Britain, had a... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Customer-Driven Misconduct: How Competition Corrupts Business Practices
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Global Business Course | HBS Online
Unidentified Countries Beyond a Country's Borders Featured Exercises Unidentified Countries Exercise (Measuring and Interpreting Economic Indicators) 6-8 hrs Module 2 Economic Conditions and Your Business Understand the effects of... View Details
- 20 Feb 2017
- News
MBAs in space: rocket science absorbs business school thinking
- 27 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Opportunities for Green Entrepreneurship in the Face of Policy Inaction
entrepreneurship has risen to confront environmental challenges that policy alone been unable to address. Bypassing the political fluctuations that lead to inconsistent and unreliable international promises, she discusses ways that... View Details
- 1986
- Book
Business Policy: Text and Cases
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
knowledge, and an appropriate public policy framework. At the broadest level, the history of globalization warns against easy assumptions on the linearity of globalization, as business historians have shown... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
and the business world has long been a central focus of our research at HBS – from Richard Vietor ’s study of business-government relations in U.S. energy policy in the 1980’s to Michael Porter ’s new... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective
By: Ann-Kristin Bergquist and Geoffrey Jones
Private regulatory systems, including voluntary efforts by firms to restrain their own behavior are the primary form of global climate change governance. However, when environmental challenges first rose up on the scientific and political agendas during the 1970s, the... View Details
Keywords: Certification; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Business History; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy
Bergquist, Ann-Kristin, and Geoffrey Jones. "Private Regulation, Institutional Entrepreneurship and Climate Change: A Business History Perspective." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-041, January 2024.
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
government’s policies to favor Muslim business over those of Armenian, Greek, and Jewish minorities. These new data sets and analytical techniques, enabled by new tools in computational data science, have... View Details
- 1991
- Book
Business Policy: Text and Cases
By: J. L. Bower, Christopher A. Bartlett, C. Roland Christensen, Andrall E. Pearson and Kenneth R. Andrews
Bower, J. L., Christopher A. Bartlett, C. Roland Christensen, Andrall E. Pearson, and Kenneth R. Andrews. Business Policy: Text and Cases. 7th ed. Homewood, IL: Irwin, 1991.