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Emerging Market/Frontier Market Fellowship Resources

data World Development Indicators: Statistics from the World Bank for almost 600 development indicators, dating as far back as 1960. Economist Intelligence Unit: Country reports and a tool to compare economic data across or... View Details

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Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)

Where can I get started with research for my project assignment? Research Task Suggested Resources Consumer & Business Demographics United States Census Bureau - Demographic characteristics, total population,... View Details

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Government data and information sources for public entrepreneurship

Municipal, local and national level financial data, demographics and market information sources to inform and support public sector entrepreneurship Where can I find government data (federal, municipal, city, etc.)? Lists... View Details

Angle of Insight

economic development. While there is some value in studying business in prosperous countries today, the real value comes when we study it at a time when the demographics in the 'now rich' region resembled... View Details

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Managing Service Operations: Research resources for new service design

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Market research reports about various consumer products and industries worldwide from Euromonitor International. Includes economic indicators, View Details

August 2006 (Revised June 2015)
Background Note

Female Entrepreneurship in Developed and Developing Countries

By: Geoffrey Jones and Alexis Lefort

Examines the extent of and challenges facing female entrepreneurs in developing countries. There are higher rates of female entrepreneurship in developing countries than developed countries, but necessity is often the main driver in lower income countries. Explores the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Gender; Developing Countries and Economies

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01 Jun 2024
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Outside Voices

In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

01 Apr 1999
News

HBS Collaboration Helps Management Education for Minority Students

in business education at institutions of higher learning serving primarily African Americans and Hispanic Americans. "It is an issue of national importance that minority communities achieve economic success," Aguilar says. "So we want to... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh

26 Oct 2001
Conference Presentation

Venture Capital Access in the New Economy: Is Gender an Issue?

By: Myra M. Hart, Candida Brush, Nancy Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood and Patricia Greene

Keywords: Venture Capital; Gender; Economy

February 2002 (Revised February 2003)
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Remaking the Rainbow Nation: South Africa 2002

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Debora L. Spar and Katherine E. Cousins

In April 1994, the world witnessed a political milestone in South Africa. After decades of repression and racial segregation, South Africa's black majority came to power at last, as the African National Congress (ANC), led by the celebrated Nelson Mandela, rode into... View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Race; Political Elections; Economic Growth; Business and Government Relations; South Africa

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November 2005
Teaching Note

Japan: Deficits, Demography and Deflation (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Demographics; Inflation and Deflation; Japan

01 Sep 2010
News

Dean Nohria Looks Ahead

economy, we’re living in a world where other spheres of economic activity are also becoming important. Emerging markets are certainly a key piece of it. But the unified European market has also become more important. And it would be a... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

March 2012 (Revised April 2012)
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The Korean Model of Shared Growth, 1960-1990

By: Aldo Musacchio, Rafael Di Tella and Jonathan Schlefer

Keywords: History; Equality and Inequality; Income; Economic Growth; Policy; Economy; South Korea

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18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

produced one of the most exciting papers that I have worked on." The idea for the paper grew from a conundrum that Bohnet faced when she became faculty director of the Kennedy School's Women and Public Policy Program (WAPPP). Although she'd built a career on using... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

September 2022
Article

Regulatory Spillover and Workplace Racial Inequality

By: Letian Zhang

This paper suggests that affirmative action bans in the U.S. public sector may influence racial inequality in the private sector. Since the 1990s, nine states have banned affirmative action practice in public universities and state governments. Though these bans have... View Details

Keywords: Inequality; Regulation; Law; Organizational Norm; CEO; Affirmative Action; Organizations; Private Sector; Equality and Inequality; Diversity; Race; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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May 2020
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Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment

By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn

Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the first evidence on the effects of an intervention... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation; Competency and Skills; Training; Age; Gender; Education; Investment; Outcome or Result; Developing Countries and Economies

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27 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care

Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers Shifting demographics are causing an increasing number of people to act as caregivers for family and friends—but employers seem hardly to notice the trend. The View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Learning from Potentially Biased Statistics: Household Inflation Perceptions and Expectations in Argentina

By: Alberto Cavallo, Guillermo Cruces and Ricardo Perez-Truglia

When forming expectations, households may be influenced by perceived bias in the information they receive. In this paper, we study how individuals learn from potentially biased statistics using data from both a natural experiment and a survey experiment during a... View Details

Keywords: Inflation Expectations; Bayesian Estimation; Inflation and Deflation; Information; Household; Behavior; Argentina