China In Africa - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Consumers Value Global Brands

conduct business. In fact, consumers vote with their checkbooks if they feel that transnational companies aren't acting as stewards of public health, worker rights, and the environment. As infamous cases have filled the airwaves—Nestlé's... View Details

Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

three months—have died. The lives that he and his Payatas neighbors lead resemble those of other inhabitants of the chaotic megacities of Latin America, Asia, and Africa whose daily existence, in the words... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

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Providing Scholarships for Impact on a Sector | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Providing Scholarships for Impact on a Sector In debating how to approach its support of nonprofit leaders to attend HBS executive education programs, the Harvard Club of Australia–Victoria decided the best strategy was to make an impact... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Ideas: Books

Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles View Details

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

11 May 2018
News

Nigerian Tech Startup has Local—and Global—Impact

in 10 years we would have helped to empower 100,000 developers in Africa which takes us to 2024," Sulyman told CBS. Andela’s early returns caught the attention of Mark... View Details

Portrait Project

Tomiwa Igun

electricity supply in Nigeria. Boundless opportunities exist if businesses can be unshackled from exorbitant costs of self-generated electricity. Imagine Nigeria — electrified. All of West Africa — powered.... View Details

01 Jun 2004
News

Alumni Bookshelf

by Scott Green (MBA 1989)(Wiley) A practical approach for managers who want to improve internal controls to prevent fraud. Learning to Love Africa by Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) (HarperBusiness) Maddy’s memoir chronicles her journey from a... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

part time. ”I have now been to 10 countries in Africa in three years, and often times feel more comfortable here than I do in my other home, the... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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UrSure, Inc. wins 2016 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a... View Details

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Tomato Jos 2014 social enterprise track Runner-Up | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference. While... View Details

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The Entrepreneurial Journey through NVC | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference. While working... Values... View Details

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Making an Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference.... View Details

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HBS NVC: One Simple Idea Can Change Everything | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference.... View Details

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Flare Wins 2017 New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important in the summer between his first and second years at HBS: He loves to build things that make a difference. While... View Details

Career Coach

Liuna Fekravar

Liuna began her career in investment banking, working at Credit Suisse’s Houston and London offices. Post-banking, she spent three years with an Egyptian family office focusing on PE-style investment across Sub-Saharan View Details

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

opportunities arise at home and abroad. Before inking a deal these days, venture firms need a global perspective on competition, if not a global presence, especially in China and India. Meanwhile, industry... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

2023
Working Paper

Toward Decision-Useful Carbon Information

By: Gunther Glenk

Companies are increasingly viewed as crucial drivers for timely decarbonization. Current accounting practices for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, however, often leave corporate carbon disclosures and abatement obscured. Here I introduce a taxonomy for assuring the... View Details

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01 Dec 2002
News

Think Globally, Teach Locally

abroad, he now has plenty of company: More than half of the School's faculty conducts research overseas each year. HBS professor Thomas R. Piper, who also taught in the ISMP program, currently heads two Senior Executive Programs View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

In the late 1970s, the Chicago Police Department noticed that the city's crime rate increased when cops stopped walking the beat and started driving around in patrol cars instead. They wondered why, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

22 Sep 2015
News

Promoting a Healthy Policy Agenda

and grew up in South Africa during the Apartheid (an Afrikaans word meaning ‘the state of being apart,’ literally ‘apart-hood’) years, so issues of human rights and social justice have always been important... View Details

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