International Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2020
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How Sports Should Use Its Timeout

could communicate to your fans, "This is what we've done. This is what it'll look like. This is the expectation to come back, and what we'll do to protect you." So I think it's a whole host of things in terms of your internal staffing,... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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Four Professors to Retire

Early in his career, for example, he revived the Investment Management course, developing new and timely materials that soon attracted approximately five hundred students per year. As Associate Dean for Executive Education and External Affairs from 1972 to 1977, Crum... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

15 Sep 2020
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How To Make Diversity a Reality

their Competition and Strategy professor Michael Porter. The group thought it would be a good opportunity to take some of Porter’s ideas about what makes a nation competitive and apply those on a city level. Two organizations spun out of... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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In Africa, Porter Sees Lessons for Health Care

researchers and professors from HBS, Harvard Medical School (HMS), and other Harvard schools. In 1994, in about 100 days of internecine violence, some 800,000 of Rwanda’s 9 million people were murdered, 1 million were internally... View Details

Keywords: HIV/AIDS; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2008
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Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?

leveraged, interconnected, and therefore vulnerable to shocks; inadequate rule of law and protection for property rights and contracts; underperforming education systems; massive internal and international... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2023
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The Exchange: The Tech Leader’s Tightrope

driven by a strategy to distinguish itself from its competitors. And the other issue, which further complicates things, is how Apple should deal with governments around the world that have different views around privacy regarding their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

01 Mar 2008
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Where Have All the Leaders Gone?

Goldman Sachs International Vice Chairman Bob Hormats has noted, this is the first major conflict since the Revolutionary War that has not been accompanied by higher taxes and lower spending for nonessential domestic programs. The only... View Details

Keywords: Government

01 Sep 2006
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Light Years Ahead

investment. In addition, he worked half-time with a Boston-based management consulting firm on the strategy problems of several important corporate clients. He soon decided to focus his full attention on HBS. As the first graduate of the... View Details

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

10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

research and strategy nonprofit founded by HBS professor Michael E. Porter, that strengthens inner-city economies. “It was my first introduction into the idea that business can propel social impact,” Kapila says. Her time at ICIC... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Dec 2004
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Retirement's Changing Face

full-time — is their own clearly articulated definition of fulfillment and success. While each emphasized that there is no single strategy for achieving balance between work, family, and spiritual/personal growth, their stories are food... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

companies like International Harvester and US Steel. But over time, automation steadily reduced the number of workers required to extract the mineral, while competition from natural gas and cheap, low-sulfur coal from out west did the... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Jun 1999
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Sheila Lirio Marcelo

majoring in economics and international relations, and shortly thereafter met her future husband, Ron Marcelo (MBA '98), at a Filipino student conference he had organized at Yale. The subsequent birth of their son, Ryan (now seven), did... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

the mafia. Every criminal trope imaginable is trying to get a piece of this. All told, online crime inflicted $445 billion in damage to the global economy in 2014, according to a study by the Center for Strategic and International... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

01 Jun 2024
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The Exchange: Chance Encounters

Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

23 Oct 2019
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Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East

a self-taught painter and sculptor. “I want to democratize it . . . make it available and accessible to everyone . . . strengthen it so the region can be recognized by the international arts scene.” To do that, Halwani realized he needed... View Details

Keywords: Inclusion

01 Dec 2010
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Eight Join HBS Faculty

postdoctoral fellow. Her research focuses on how people can work fruitfully across social divides. Prior to her academic career, Ramarajan worked in international development in West Africa focusing on conflict resolution. Douglas... View Details

01 Mar 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2015

demonstrates how this framework works in practice. Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs by David B. Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano (HarperBusiness) In less than a decade, Bill Gates, Steve... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

leaders have worked to create a democratic society and revamp the economy, improve education, and create jobs. As the country's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela has inspired the nation and emerged as an international... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

05 Apr 2018
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A Philanthropic Eye Reframes African American Abstract Art

of African American artists,” she says. Over time, Joyner’s collecting has evolved to include pieces by mid-career American artists such as Mark Bradford, Glenn Ligon, Julie Mehretu, and Lorna Simpson. More recently, she has sought out View Details