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  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

the demands of highly defined and idiosyncratic groups such as “Newly Released Ex-Cons” and “Christian Zionists.” The country may have been built on the idea of individualism, but we have come to expect that it be factored into... View Details
Keywords: Government
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FIELD Global Immersion Resources: India

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  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage

United States, rather than investing massive sums to regain technological preeminence, is much better off becoming the best country at incorporating such advances in new products and services, no matter where the ingredients are produced.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Jun 2000
  • News

World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector

by bilateral agencies, regional banks, government-sponsored development agencies, and civil society. In this time period, the flow of funds to developing countries has grown from $30 billion to $300 billion. So you have no longer just the... View Details
  • 24 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because no one wants to talk about it,"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • November 2021 (Revised January 2022)
  • Case

KFA, Inc.: Building the Future

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth M. Adams
In 2021, Greg Bush, Jr., owner, president, and CEO of KFA, Inc. is working with his leadership team to plan for the future. KFA provides consulting services on software and project management needs for infrastructure projects. Bush and his team have just debuted a new... View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Communication Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Infrastructure; Consulting Industry; Information Technology Industry; Chicago; United States
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  • April 2016 (Revised May 2016)
  • Case

Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, Partners In Health in Haiti

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Bipin Mistry and Karla Bertrand
The case describes the application of Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) at a new tertiary hospital, operated by Partners in Health in Mirebelais, Haiti. A project team mapped the clinical processes for use in estimating the direct costs of personnel,... View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Haiti
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  • 2004
  • Other Unpublished Work

Just Jobs? China and the Geopolitics of Virtuous Production

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Production; Globalized Economies and Regions; International Relations; Trade; China
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  • March 2008 (Revised November 2008)
  • Case

Databank in Africa

By: Jordan Siegel and Yi Kwan Chu
This case tackles issues of regional strategy and strategic institutional arbitrage. Databank is a financial services firm designing its regional strategy for Africa and seeking to benefit from institutional arbitrage. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Local Range; Emerging Markets; Service Operations; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Africa
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  • 2008
  • Book

Mexico Since 1980

By: Stephen Haber, Herb Klein, Noel Maurer and Kevin Middlebrook
This book addresses two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Law Enforcement; Welfare or Wellbeing; Mexico
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  • 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
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Taking MBA know-how on tour across America

entrepreneurs functioned in their natural habitats of Washington, DC, New Orleans, Albuquerque, and Asheville, among other cities. “MBAs Across America isn't about know-it-alls going out into the country to ‘fix’ things,” says Gerald, CEO... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

Steel Tax

When President George W. Bush (MBA '75) imposed a tariff of up to 30 percent on most types of steel imported into the United States, the Boston Globe (March 10, 2002) turned to HBS professor Debora Spar to explain the implications. Noting that there are a lot of View Details
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Preparing Our Students for a Changing World

go-to-market projects in sectors ranging from social impact venture capital to artificial intelligence. “Having the chance to deepen my learning in such a hotbed of technological innovation, all while engaging with a dynamic country and... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Tatsuyuki Saeki: Putting Stock in New Options at Nasdaq Japan

country but to encourage it to be more competitive,” he explains. What Saeki is bringing to Japan is Nasdaq’s emphasis on good governance and transparency. “We force issuers to disclose accurate information quarterly,” he explains. Many... View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

recalcitrant" negotiating strategy. Until the 1970s, the act of lending to a foreign country was little more than "an act of faith," as economic advisor Herbert Feis said in 1930. Given that sovereign immunity prevented... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
  • Profile

Andrew Kletzing

see an alternative point of view. In turn, they've impressed me by the quality of their thinking. My sectionmates force me to perform at a higher level." Continued service to country For his summer internship, Andrew will join... View Details

    Richard S. Reynolds, Jr.

    After a successful, but brief career in investment banking, Richard Jr. joined his father's company in 1938. Under his leadership, Reynolds Corporation expanded tremendously, buying more government plants and establishing facilities across the globe in such View Details
    Keywords: Metals
    • 24 Mar 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

    Asked which institutions must be in place in order for African countries to grow, experts on a panel at the Africa Business Conference had no shortage of suggestions. One panelist, representing the International Monetary Fund, voted for a... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace

      John L. Collyer

      off from its crude rubber sources. Summoned by the nation, Collyer developed and executed a program to provide the armed forces and the country with critical man-made rubber products. View Details
      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace