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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

structures outmoded, thereby creating both opportunities and risks for firms and households. Representative cases include Margaret Thatcher and the Blair wealth project; Latvia navigating the strait of Messina; Eliot Spitzer pushing Wall Street to reform; and View Details
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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

Israel Addressing Water Scarcity with Precision Irrigation Netafim, founded in Israel, is the global leader in drip irrigation systems—the most efficient way to deliver water to crops. In spite of this, as a case study about the company... View Details
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Strategy and Technology (Elective Curriculum)

By: David B. Yoffie

This course explores the unique aspects of creating effective management and investment strategies for technology-intensive businesses. What strategies can win in markets with strong network effects? How can firms leverage technology to build multi-sided platforms?... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Information Technology; Technology Platform; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Electronics Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; China; Israel; Taiwan
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Executives Convene to Discuss Consumer-Driven Health Care

enthusiastic about the November event. "The presentations by HBS professors were right on the mark," said Allen W. Reedy (MBA '87), director of business planning at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. "They identified the... View Details
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Working Groups, Upcoming Event, and Resources | About

Israel on 10/7 and, in the weeks since, mounting civilian casualties and a humanitarian crisis in Gaza. To date, thousands of innocent lives have been tragically lost. The pain, grief, and fear from these events and a rise in... View Details
  • 2012
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The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics

By: Jon Brookfield, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina
Using comparative data from six major emerging economies — Brazil, Chile, Israel, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan — we examine how ownership networks in those societies responded to a roughly similar “ structural break ” of economic liberalization during the 1990s... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Economies; Ownership; Corporate Governance; Emerging Markets
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  • May 2016
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Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact

By: Shirli Kopelman, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers and Leigh Plunkett Tost
This study examined whether the cultures of low- and high-power negotiators interact to influence cooperative behavior of low-power negotiators. Managers from four different cultural groups (Germany, Hong Kong, Israel, and the United States) negotiated face-to-face in... View Details
Keywords: Global Collaboration; Negotiations; Culture; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Participants; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Hong Kong; Germany; Israel; United States
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  • December 2011
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Negotiating the Path of Abraham

By: James K. Sebenius and Kimberlyn Leary
The Abraham Path Initiative board faces strategic and negotiating challenges in revitalizing a route of Middle East cultural tourism following Abraham's path 4000 years ago. The Path begins in the ancient ruins of Harran, in modern-day Turkey, where Abraham first heard... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Partners and Partnerships; Negotiation; Social Entrepreneurship; Religion; Culture; Tourism Industry; Israel; Syria; Middle East; Turkey; Jordan
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  • 23 Mar 2016
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Curing Parkinson’s Disease

HBS alumni Jonathan Solomon and Hampus Hillerstrom (both MBA 2007) play an important role in Jon Palfreman’s recent book Brain Storms: The Race to Unlock the Mysteries of Parkinson’s Disease. As the cofounders of NeuroPhage Pharmaceuticals, the pair is working to... View Details
  • December 1991
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Bargaining and Market Behavior in Jerusalem, Ljubljana, Pittsburgh, and Tokyo: An Experimental Study

By: A. E. Roth, V. Prasnikar, M. Okuno-Fujiwara and S. Zamir
Keywords: Markets; Behavior; Information; Israel; Pittsburgh; Tokyo; Slovenia
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  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

inflation with a devalued currency, despite massive capital inflows and a huge current account deficit. At home, the government has carefully managed between Islamicization, democracy, and secularism. And abroad, it deals with a difficult neighborhood-Syria, Iran,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 02 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Story #19: Nicole Neeman Brady (MBA 2008): The Critical Role of Business in Tackling Water Challenges

new energy technologies; in the water field, it was $28 million. If we want to know how to solve water challenges, we can look at what the energy sector has done.” Nicole feels that the United States could, and should, emulate the excellent water examples of View Details
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

John F. Kennedy School of Government and Northwestern University's Transportation Center. He has also been a member of Harvard's Committee on University Resources, vice chairman of the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston, and... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

Europe in order to ensure compatibility of UK produced products with European markets. And it will be essential to maintain the strong ties that have led to much EU research funding going to the UK. Britain needs to follow the lead of Norway and View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Sep 2005
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Making History, Starting Over

Returning to his roots in the Middle East, Cohen created The Portland Trust in 2003 to fund investments aimed at easing tensions between Israel and its neighbors. For example, the trust is working to secure loan guarantees for Palestinian... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2001
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Christina Ehrenberg: The Examined Life

For Christina Ehrenberg (MBA 2001), HBS is only the latest in a series of remarkable learning experiences — the world itself has been her greatest teacher, imparting to her a wisdom and composure that belie her years. An only child whose father, now retired, was a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 20 Aug 2014
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With No Time to Lose

community for ALS research news and resources. “Prize4Life has proven very successful in its strategy,” says Kremer, who lives with his family in his native Israel and stays in touch with his Prize4Life teams via Skype and by using... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 26 Aug 2016
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Connecting with the Past

legal inheritance cases as well as property recovery. In March, JRI-Poland enabled Guinness World Records to confirm Israel Kristal, a 112-year-old Holocaust survivor, as the world’s oldest man. “He couldn’t produce a birth certificate,... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

GDP, trade, and the budget. Internationally, Saudi Arabia's Middle East region was a mess; troubles as always with Israel and Palestine, but also with Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Iran. In all of this, a central question loomed: could Saudi... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

as Egyptian and Syrian disengagement accords with Israel following their 1973 war. Along with diverse political leaders, diplomats, and business executives, every U.S. President since John F. Kennedy—including President-elect Donald Trump... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne