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- December 2002
- Article
Business Enterprises and Global Worlds
By: G. Jones
The role of business enterprise in integrating economies is one of the central historical themes of the last two centuries. Although globalization—both in its current iteration and in its nineteenth-century form—has been widely studied, the role of the firm, as opposed... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Multinational Firms and Management; Organizations; Emerging Markets; Behavior; Business Ventures; United States
Jones, G. "Business Enterprises and Global Worlds." Enterprise & Society 3, no. 4 (December 2002): 581–605.
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
Europe and Africa because property rights are more difficult to enforce there. —Walter Kuemmerle The first difference is the development of capital markets and the transparency of these markets. In countries where family-owned... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 15 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Building Bridges to Sustainable Infrastructure with Allied Climate Partners
The summer between my first year and second year at HBS, I joined Allied Climate Partners (ACP) as a Summer Associate in New York. ACP, a philanthropy-backed investment firm, dedicates itself to catalyzing climate-related infrastructure projects in emerging View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- September 2018
- Article
Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com
By: Weijia Dai, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee and Michael Luca
Because consumer reviews leverage the wisdom of the crowd, the way in which they are aggregated is a central decision faced by platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in... View Details
Keywords: User Generated Content; Crowdsourcing; Yelp; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information; Internet and the Web; Learning; Mathematical Methods; E-commerce
Dai, Weijia, Ginger Jin, Jungmin Lee, and Michael Luca. "Aggregation of Consumer Ratings: An Application to Yelp.com." Quantitative Marketing and Economics 16, no. 3 (September 2018): 289–339.
- Profile
Creighton Taylor
me to business, because as a business person, you need to adapt to new environments quite a bit.” Even as Creighton majored in music in college, he nurtured his interest in numbers. After graduation, he spent three years in a variety of sales and View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020
brings to light the often invisible reality and irreparable damage of childhood poverty in America. Madrick examines the roots of the problem, including the toothless remnants of our social welfare system, entrenched racism, and a... View Details
- 21 Dec 2015
- Op-Ed
Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google
out of keeping with the spirit of America and harmful in the long run. "Outsiders keep our commercial markets vital by offering perspectives that differ from the prevailing view" After all, what is the secret sauce of US... View Details
- 01 Jan 2008
- News
Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
that has redefined commerce. Since stepping down from eBay last spring, Whitman’s focus now lies in the public and social sectors. When Meg Whitman joined eBay in 1998, the two-year-old private company had thirty employees and $4.7... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
3 Projects, 1 Priceless Picture
the Women’s Training team better understand Nike’s position against global competitors and identify gaps or opportunities to consider in their business plan. Working with the group’s Strategic Planner, I also developed a ‘War Games’ activity to provide a simulation... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Case Study: Power Nappy
Illustration by Alvaro Dominguez Before she had a baby of her own, Amrita Saigal (MBA 2014) kept hearing from friends that the “natural” diapers on the market didn’t hold up as well as the old standards, like Pampers. Trained as a mechanical engineer, Saigal knew her... View Details
- 23 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Chicago
Personally, I got to meet alumni working on electrifying our transportation system, setting up software platforms to help with ESG reporting, advising berry farmers, and an entrepreneur who created a marketing firm focused on key View Details
- Web
AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network AllWorld Network AllWorld Network... View Details
- Student-Profile
Erica Moszkowski
to inform our understanding of social and economic networks. “Working every day with PhD-trained economists taught me to be an effective consumer of economic research,” she explains. “I wanted a doctoral program that would let me do... View Details
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
since the term ESG has been politicized and even weaponized during the on-going climate debate. Nisha cited an article by Jacqueline van den Ende, co-founder and CEO of Carbon Equity, who wrote: “ESG has been marketed as a means to have... View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Power of Business in the Energy Transition
management systems for buildings. Tying in a policy perspective, Former US Energy Secretary and MIT Professor emeritus, Dr. Ernest Moniz, presented a perspective of a Green Real Deal that simultaneously must achieve a lower carbon future, while addressing View Details
- Profile
Eric Chavez
to a new product engineer. “I loved the responsibility and challenge,” he says, “but it felt repetitive: same problems on different products.” Seeking a new challenge, Eric moved into marketing so that, “I could be closer to the products... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
From Sweetheart to Scapegoat: Brand Selfie-Taking Shapes Consumer Behavior
- March 2004
- Teaching Note
ApproTEC Kenya: Technologies to Fight Poverty and Create Wealth (TN)
Teaching Note to (9-503-007). View Details
- May 2003
- Case
International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
By: John A. Quelch
Didier Cherpitel, CEO of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC), is implementing a new strategy that will fundamentally change the role of its International Secretariat. The organization is in the early stages of implementing a best... View Details
Quelch, John A., and Nathalie Laidler. "International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies." Harvard Business School Case 503-059, May 2003.
- 17 Sep 2020
- News
HBS Goes Back To School
Photo: Hensley Carrasco SEPTEMBER 17 The HBS Social Enterprise community welcomed first-year students with a welcome video which features insights and advice from students, administrative leaders, and second-year students. “The Kick-off,”... View Details