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- 10 Aug 2017
- News
Into the Light
began its work in the region around Kumasi, Ghana, where Poindexter saw need, interest, and opportunity, but the company now has bigger plans in that country and throughout the... View Details
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
policies; others maintain that circumstances beyond the government's control had placed the country in an unsustainable situation, and that the successful renegotiation opens up new opportunities. The case... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
technology is revolutionizing the global banking and payment industry. It offers new opportunities for banks to provide added convenience to their existing customers in developed View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
enormous upheaval in the Communist Revolution that firmly established the Chinese Communist Party in charge of all things political and economic. If China is to live up to its promise, argues the new book Can China Lead?: Reaching the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia
Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
English-language conference calls of non-U.S. firms, we find that the calls of firms in countries with greater language barriers are more likely to contain non-plain English and erroneous expressions. For... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2017
- Blog Post
Changing How You Think at HBS
My name is Gilles Oubuih and I’m an EC student at HBS. I’m French (by my mother) Moroccan (by my father) and grew up in both countries prior to going to Essec School in Paris.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Climate Finance SIP
wide range of critical topics emphasizing the roles of financial institutions in addressing the risks and opportunities of climate change. Topics included climate and the economy, incorporating climate View Details
- 16 Dec 2016
- News
An Environmental Epiphany
to make the transition from a communist planned economy to a market economy. And we felt incredibly privileged to be part of that process. We became good friends with the then, Prime Minister Philip... View Details
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
their economies opened up, reducing the competitiveness between them and enhancing the complementarities. Some companies have already developed strategies that make use of both... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
among many consumers than any political party, trade union, church, or mosque. Indeed, Starbucks founder Howard Schultz sought to make his coffee shops the "third place" in our lives, after home and work. Marketing is an... View Details
- 10 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!
development projects, some with predictable sales results, others more risky. The former pay for the company's daily bread and butter and fund R&D on future blockbusters.... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home country tax regimes and weak host View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
and acrimony in Scotland, with those wishing their country to remain part of the UK often accused of being traitors and sellouts. The referendum on staying or leaving the... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
of tomorrow's innovative new products, arguing that companies must reinvest in new product and process development in the U.S. industrial sector. Only by reviving this "industrial commons" can the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
the GDP. Are there any lessons from other countries that have gone through this? How can Nigeria revive its economy through agriculture? —Suleiman Yakasai (PLDA 22, 2016) BRUNELL: Nigeria typifies the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
L. Paul Bremer: In His Own Words
and bring steady growth to the economy of Iraq. The legacy of Saddam hangs like a black cloud over every aspect of the lives of the Iraqi people, and that black cloud extends... View Details