Open Economy - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 26

settings, reflects risk neutrality in choice among low-magnitude mixed gambles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-056.pdf PublicationsConstructing the International Economy Editors:Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Nneka Ezeigwe

different kinds of industries on the ground, looking at what drives change and takes an economy to the next level. I’ll be able to work with policy makers and business leaders who are expanding Nigeria’s View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page TIMELINE 1970 Born, Oakland, California 1993 Earns BA, Political Economy, UC Berkeley 1993 Joins McKinsey, Business Analyst 1998 Earns MBA/MPA 1998 Joins Consolidation Capital Corp., VP Strategy 1999 Founds Bluemercury,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Facing the New World Order

currency-management issues. The microeconomic reforms have to do with really getting the micro institutions and rules in the economy right. Instituting strong antitrust policy, opening up competition,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 18

J.C. Cuddy, Caroline A. Wilmuth, and Dana R. Carney Abstract The current experiment tested whether changing one's nonverbal behavior prior to a high-stakes social evaluation could improve performance in the evaluated task. Participants adopted expansive, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
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Euro Vision

Neil Rimer (MBA 1991) could have been a San Francisco venture capitalist. He worked there once; it would have been easy enough to open his own shop and join the horde converging on the town's buzziest tech companies. But instead, he went... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer

13 Nov 2020
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Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students

and entertainment had to broaden their searches.” To support students facing this uncertainty, the flexible resources of the HBS Fund enabled the School to triple funding for its Summer Fellowship Program and open it up to graduating as... View Details

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Damali Brown

After her first full year of college at Spelman, Damali Brown returned to her hometown, as many students do, to find summer employment. But in Buffalo, New York, Damali says, "The best-paying job available was at a local brass mill, doing blue-collar work. That... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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From the Classroom to Casablanca

Issami, who oversees the university’s involvement with Blue Space. By 2020, Bank of Africa had opened the center and ISCAE was ready to launch its program. However, due to the pandemic, they had to adopt a digital approach to working with... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Europe - Global Activities 2020

peacekeeping in the region during the Balkan Wars (1991–2001). Pictured: House of the National Assembly of the Republic of Serbia “Serbia makes for an excellent Business, Government, and the International Economy case study,” he says,... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong

widespread belief that Greater China which encompasses the People's Republic of China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong is a huge, open market of 1.2 billion consumers who will buy anything that any business has ever wanted to sell. That is not the... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

24 Apr 2014
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From a ‘blank slate’ to ‘Mr. China’

experience who were open to new ideas. A self-confessed “blank slate” upon his arrival—he had never been to China and didn’t speak Chinese—Perkowski used $150 million in US investor capital to launch ASIMCO, an auto parts manufacturing... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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The World's Banker

was named chairman of Salomon Brothers International and remained with Salomon until 1981, when he opened his own Wall Street investment banking boutique, James D. Wolfensohn, Inc. From 1980 to 1986, in addition to his full-time Wall... View Details

01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero

democratic regimes and have adopted market-based stabilization programs, opening up their economies to foreign trade. And just as in the United States, another strong and exciting phenomenon has been the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2007
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Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

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 unfilled because of a lack of... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

Economic Growth, believes that it does. Friedman asserts that economic growth fosters "moral societies" characterized by openness of opportunity, tolerance, economic and social mobility, fairness, and democracy. Similarly, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2009
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Faculty Books

Mexico Since 1980 by Stephen Haber, Herbert S. Klein, Noel Maurer, and Kevin J. Middlebrook (Cambridge University Press) Associate Professor Maurer and his co-authors address two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico’s current economic and political... View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

economy, Russia is not a good analogy. The risk of a sudden disruption in China is much lower. Patrik Akerman articulated the argument in this way: "The European Communists opened up their economies... View Details