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  • 2012
  • Working Paper

An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania

By: Diego A. Comin
Tourism is a tradable service activity that could allow some African countries to generate significant growth. Tanzania, given its unique natural assets, is an ideal candidate. However, despite being so richly endowed in touristic resources, Tanzania receives very few... View Details
Keywords: Natural Environment; Business Ventures; Luxury; Revenue; Price; Developing Countries and Economies; Accommodations Industry; Tourism Industry; Tanzania
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  • September 2007
  • Teaching Note

China and the WTO: What Price Membership? (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note to 707032. View Details
Keywords: Trade; Growth and Development; Problems and Challenges; China; United States
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  • Career Coach

Matt Spielman

Matt (Columbia ’94, HBS ’99)  is the Founder and Managing Partner of Inflection Point Partners, an executive coaching and leadership development firm dedicated to igniting careers and energizing lives. Matt and his team at Inflection... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Sports; Technology; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All)
  • Web

Improving the Local & Regional Business Environment - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

institutions, infrastructure, and regulatory framework. More about economic development and competitiveness The diamond Model Strong clusters, strong communities Building a strong local cluster improves... View Details
  • 2004
  • Chapter

Banking Reform in India

By: Shawn A. Cole, A. Banerjee and E. Duflo
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; India
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  • October 5, 2023
  • Column

A Smarter Way to Design Business Strategies to Serve the Poor

By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Ioanna Popescu, Serguei Netessine and Rowan P. Clarke
Keywords: Poverty Reduction; Technology; Business Model; Strategy; Renewable Energy; Consumer Behavior; Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Africa; Rwanda
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  • January–February 2015
  • Article

Heroic Villains: Are Foreign Investors Problems or Solutions in the Ebola Crisis?

By: Debora L. Spar
For months, the news out of West Africa has been unrelentingly grim. As of early December, the devastating Ebola epidemic had infected a reported 17,942 people and killed 6,388, according to the World Health Organization (WHO); the actual toll, which would also account... View Details
Keywords: Ebola; Multinational Corporation; Epidemics; Foreign Investment; Extractive Industries; Multinational Firms and Management; Health Pandemics; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Africa
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  • November 2002 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
ApproTEC markets a range of technologies to improve the income of subsistence farmers and other small-scale entrepreneurs in East Africa. Having achieved considerable success in its first eight years, the two founders/entrepreneurs are seeking ways to scale the impact... View Details
Keywords: Social Enterprise; Development Economics; Poverty; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Kenya; Africa
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  • 2001
  • Chapter

Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 01 Jun 2001
  • News

Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

States, but they sometimes deliver superior value in certain emerging markets, where their scope allows them to leverage their own resources to compensate for deficiencies in the economic support system. Second, Khanna’s work suggests... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Faculty Retirements

served as senior associate dean for Faculty Planning and Development and coordinated the opening of HBS's research office in Hong Kong in 1999. Hayes has written and published widely. Three of his articles have won McKinsey Awards for the... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2021
  • Blog Post

Trends in Consumer Products

Solstice and Social Club Seltzer. As we head out of Covid, we see long-term trends accelerating. Consumers are now even more interested in health and wellness. Value is even more important due to the economic fallout of Covid. We at... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Ensuring a business’s profitability enables it to serve society

accelerate the development of our products, we are growing and investing more in product and capacity, which in turn contributes to economic solutions around the globe,” said Fields. “Our goal is to serve... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Lessons from a Megacity

Lima toll road in Peru. In Buenos Aires, despite Argentina’s economic difficulties, the team found a model transit system—including a new bus rapid transit system to alleviate congestion—that residents have embraced for its convenience... View Details
Keywords: April White; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

product and service development is changing; creating the potential for higher R&D performance, innovation, and value creation for customers. The choice is simple: Organizations can either ignore these changes or take action and tap... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success

leadership was taken up later in the day by Professor Michael Porter. "Inequality is probably the single biggest problem facing America," he stated in a talk titled "Inner-City Renewal." Noting that the economic plight of inner cities is... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Frank Batten (MBA '52); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

have important implications for leaders in three distinct areas. First, he points out, it is inappropriate for managers in developing countries to assume they can simply transfer American concepts and systems to their own View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
  • Web

South Asia - Global Activities 2020

perspective—about the BRI. The connectivity project, which comprises the overland Silk Road Economic Belt and the Maritime Silk Road, involves a vast collection of development and investment projects... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

The power of storytelling can be a catalyst in advocating for the rights of women

Khana and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy program, Lemmon uses this power to make the case that investing in women is an economic, security and development imperative. “I want to reshape the... View Details