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01 Jan 2012
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Cynthia Carroll, MBA 1989

on the entire mining industry as well. Carroll’s mettle was tested early on when she was visiting South Africa and learned that another death had occurred in a nearby platinum mine. “That’s enough,” she... View Details

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John Smith-Ricco

In college, John Smith-Ricco did not have business ambitions; instead, he intended to pursue advanced degrees in history aimed at a career as an academic. But a research fellowship View Details

01 Dec 1998
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From Wildlife to Winetasting

visiting Mala Mala, where one is likely to see the "big five" - elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion, and leopard. Other tours within South Africa include golf excursions, a luxury ride aboard the elegant Blue Train, and a desert safari View Details

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

management, marketing management, and governance. These chapters are combined with seventeen field cases written in China by members of the HBS/Tsinghua faculty, which illustrate the complexity of problems... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

2016 Boston: Cengage Learning Management: An Integrated Approach By: Gulati, Ranjay, Anthony Mayo, and Nitin Nohria Abstract—The goal of Management: An Integrated Approach, 2nd ed., is to prepare students for leadership positions in 21st... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

president and CEO of grocery chain Stop & Shop. In 2007, certain brands of pet food manufactured in China and sold at several locations were found to be contaminated with... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail

03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409022 Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A) Harvard Business School Case 207-017 tKenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2021
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No Time Like the Present

give its leaders what they need to lead,” says Delle, who had the opportunity to work with his former Design Thinking professor, Dean Srikant Datar, when Datar led a group of faculty members on an immersion trip to Africa View Details

01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint

some point change or reinvent the business, it would be history. Every generation of my family went through some kind of a major business crisis. My grandfather started the company in 1906 in View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

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Club Women in Investing Conference November 17, 2024 Women in Investing Club Health Care Conference December 8, 2024 Health Care Club 2025 VCPE Conference February 1, 2025 Venture Capital & Private Equity... View Details

October 2023
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Stock Market Stimulus

By: Robin Greenwood, Toomas Laarits and Jeffrey Wurgler

We study the stock market effects of the arrival of the three rounds of “stimulus checks” to U.S. taxpayers and the single round of direct payments to Hong Kong citizens. The first two rounds of U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of... View Details

Keywords: Stock Market; COVID-19 Pandemic; Fiscal Stimulus; Stimulus Payments; Impact; Stocks; System Shocks; Price; Spending; United States; Hong Kong

2022
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Luxury Tourism and Environmentalism

By: Geoffrey Jones

This chapter examines the evolution of luxury tourism and its environmental impact. Whilst mass tourism is widely seen as environmentally damaging, the impact of luxury tourism is nuanced. During the first stage of the growth in the nineteenth century, the numbers of... View Details

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07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

global citizens, and better representatives of Harvard,” she says. “It’s a huge bonus when their professor knows Africa really well.” With regard to her African studies, Elkins is a case study on how to turn academic knowledge into... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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International Job Search Resources

Creating a target list of multinational company locations. Creating a target list of companies headquartered in one country with operations in another country. Capital IQ Example: Companies... View Details

14 Dec 2020

Geographic Regions Webinar Series: Alumni Perspectives from Alumni Perspectives from GCC

Join the HBS Middle East & North Africa (MENA) Research Center as they moderate a panel of fellow alumni discussing their MBA experiences and the incredible HBS network in the Gulf Coast countries. View Details

01 Mar 2006
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Faculty Books

changes in China have been more dramatic than people realize. Second, democracy in China is inevitable. Third, these economic reforms have been... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

mobs rose up against migrants from other parts of Africa in March 2023, a few weeks after President Kais Saied delivered an inflammatory speech blaming the Black foreign-born population for bringing crime to... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

10 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

“Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a great deal. At a time of rancorous divisions in American... View Details