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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
was packed for the keynote address at 8:30 a.m. — well before the usual Sunday start time for most students. I was lured to the event in part by the buildup it had gotten in the press. Weeks beforehand, Forbes named it one of the top business gatherings for 2009,... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive
Dubilier Prize, established in honor of the late Martin Dubilier (MBA '52), cofounder of the LBO firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. The HBS Business Plan Contest was developed by students in 1996 with the cooperation of faculty and MBA Career... View Details
- November 2008
- Teaching Note
Crossing Borders: MTC's Journey through Africa (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna
Teaching Note for [708477]. View Details
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The Green Industrial Strategy Project | Institute for Business in Global Society
have started to view decarbonization as an economic opportunity. They are pursuing strategies to compete in global clean technology markets. How do governments and companies develop strategies that enhance... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- News
Creating more effective content across all media
Associate Professor Thales Teixeira’s research into the economics of attention explores the ways in which companies can better communicate with buyers of goods and services in a marketplace cluttered with messaging across all media.... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
history. As the 68-year-old real estate developer navigates the central business district, he sketches an idiosyncratic map of the city—almost three decades of knowledge of what each piece of property used to be, what it could have been,... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 May 2015
- News
Celebrating and Supporting Leadership
people have been brought into the circle of economic inclusion—but there are still billions more waiting, in America and around the world. Business leaders have a vital role to play in helping to widen this circle of inclusion. Together,... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
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Faculty - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Leadership Journey . An advisor to small and large companies, he serves on the board of PPGL, a company created to privately develop the first special economic zone in India. Profile View Details
- October 1998 (Revised June 2002)
- Case
Austin, Texas: Building a High-Tech Economy
By: Bruce R. Scott and Srinivas Sunder
Members of the community decide to try to diversify the economy of Austin, Texas, by welcoming high-technology firms and by augmenting the electrical engineering faculty at University of Texas--Austin. View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Diversification; Information Technology; Policy; Government and Politics; Engineering; Technological Innovation; Competitive Advantage; Higher Education; Texas
Scott, Bruce R., and Srinivas Sunder. "Austin, Texas: Building a High-Tech Economy." Harvard Business School Case 799-038, October 1998. (Revised June 2002.)
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan
development initiatives. She expects to work closely with Camille Tang Yeh (MBA '80), executive director of the Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong, because of the close economic ties between Japan and... View Details
- February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Kickstarting Tomato Jos in Nigeria
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Risa Kavalercik
In the spring of 2016, Mira Mehta (HBS 2014), faced a difficult decision. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign and winning the second place in the HBS New Venture Competition—Social Enterprise Track, she had moved to Northern Nigeria, where she founded the... View Details
Keywords: Nigeria; Entrepreneurs; Import Substitution; China In Africa; Killer Tomato Paste; Mira Mehta; Tomato Jos; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government Legislation; Business History; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria
Reinert, Sophus A., and Risa Kavalercik. "Kickstarting Tomato Jos in Nigeria." Harvard Business School Case 718-027, February 2018. (Revised March 2018.)
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
New Fitzhugh Professorship Celebrated
Educational Clubs of America, he developed the award-winning "Learn and Earn" program, which introduces high-school students to business through hands-on economic education. As an HBS alumnus, he was the... View Details
- April 2003 (Revised July 2003)
- Teaching Note
Singapore Inc. (TN)
Teaching Note for (9-703-040). View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Porter Directs New Institute at HBS
foster the integration of competition and corporate strategy with economic policy and social development in ways that not only advance theory but also connect with actual practice," Porter observed. "It will... View Details
- January 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Aubrey McClendon's Special Incentive Compensation at Chesapeake Energy (A)
By: Paul Healy, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
Aubrey McClendon, founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy, was, according to Fortune Magazine, the highest paid U.S. CEO in 2008 receiving over $100 million in total compensation. McClendon received this compensation despite a significant drop in the company's stock price... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Price; Stock Options; Valuation; Joint Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Economic Growth; Growth and Development Strategy; Change Management; Energy Industry; United States
Healy, Paul, Clayton S. Rose, and Aldo Sesia. "Aubrey McClendon's Special Incentive Compensation at Chesapeake Energy (A)." Harvard Business School Case 110-047, January 2010. (Revised April 2013.)
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
avoid information about their relative ability. August 2013 NBER Volume on African Economic Successes Evaluating the Effects of Large Scale Health Interventions in Developing Countries: The Zambian Malaria... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2021
- News
A Clean Start
economic, we want to become economic by the scale of mass production.” Rather than scaling up the electrolyzers at OCO, Brix and his team hope to scale out. “Our long-term vision, really, is to dramatically reduce the cost of producing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out
Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) Raffaella Sadun (photo by Russ Campbell) In the face of economic challenges, hospitals in the English National Health Service have turned to a strategy that has proven effective for small private... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 08 May 2015
- News
A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks
lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
market looked behind "the thin film of gold." Our results point to a dichotomy: whereas country-risk premia fell after gold adoption in developed countries, there were no credibility gains in the volatile View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace