China In Africa - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

01 Dec 1999
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South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency

improved infrastructure for water and for jobs, notes Meyer. There is much at stake for Mbeki - only the second black president of South Africa - as he follows in the footsteps of Mandela. Meyer is careful... View Details

Keywords: Morgan Baker

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

25 Jan 2016
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Helping Young African Managers Find Their Way Home

there are no continent-wide studies of this, a report last year by Adcorp, a workforce management company, found that in South Africa there were an estimated 470,000 private-sector job openings remain... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

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

01 Mar 2008
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An American Odyssey

Africa within the space of a couple of weeks, Richard America (MBA ’63) appears upbeat and none the worse for jet lag. Dressed in a crisp suit and tie, the tall and affable Georgetown University Business... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance

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 Oct 2013
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Banking on Africa's Future

development." "I want to demonstrate that in Africa we're no different from anybody else in any fundamental way," Lawani elaborates. "We're just at a different point View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene

Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) When Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) cofounded the grocery delivery platform BulkWhiz in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in spring 2017, she joined a nascent startup... View Details

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Riding the WAVE | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

people are included in the labor market today,” says Rewane. “This is not just a West Africa problem—it’s a global problem. We’re learning from on-the-ground implementation, looking to work View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Energy Sources: Daniel Yergin and the EP Team

global issue; in 1979, India and China were not part of the equation, as they most definitely are today. As for the United States, I do believe it will be more energy-secure ten years from now. But that’s... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

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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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

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Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets

Africa Harvard Iranian Oral History Project The Iranian Oral History Project’s 134 oral histories of individuals active in Iran between the 1920s and the 1970s includes interviews with prominent business... 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

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

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2021

Geographic Regions Series: Alumni Perspectives from Lebanon

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 Lebanon. View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

respect and humility. If you make mistakes, admit them and fix them at every level. Allan W.B. Gray (MBA ’65) Chairman, Orbis Investment Management, Ltd. Gray Read complete profile. Following HBS and eight years at Fidelity, Allan Gray returned to his native South... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

07 Jul 2016
News

A World Without Borders

conduit, by which we do that, is exposing guests to experiences that bring to life the wonder of the land, wildlife, and people,” Kent says. Among those projects, Rhinos Without Borders is an ambitious effort to relocate 100 rhinos from South View Details

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

capitalists The opening session went to the heart of current debates about fake news and authenticity. Mao’s China cultivated a small group of so-called Red Capitalists who were fake capitalists, but used to show off to foreign visitors... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

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