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- 13 Dec 2022
- News
The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith
Christine Keung (at podium) and Reginald Smith (both MBA 2020) present recommendations for economic development to the West Virginia State Senate in May 2022. How did you meet? Reggie Smith: "We first met... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
India, Peru, Rwanda, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, and Vietnam to observe local economies, study management practices in the field, and interact directly with business and community leaders. In addition, domestic programs took... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- News
Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab
possible by a gift from Judy (MBA 1983) and Steve Pagliuca (MBA 1982), the lab will offer shared space for high-potential life sciences and biotech startups that are founded by Harvard faculty, alumni, students, and postdoctoral scholars. It will provide learning and... View Details
- 11 Jun 2019
- Book
These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway
R. Kerr’s book explores why global talent flows matter to national economic development and security Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Malcolm McClain (MBA/MPP 2023) Named First RISE Career Fellow
through user engagement, will develop approaches and services for employers, community leaders, and others to address user needs. “Malcolm brings BrightUp investing, economic mobility, policy, and... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
than in most other countries. For instance, developed markets such as Sweden and Finland had more muted fiscal responses. They also had different responses on the medical side of the crisis. All these factors are somewhat confounding; the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
for running the family business. With MBA in hand, however, Goldberg put off his return home in order to attend the University of Minnesota, where he completed a Ph.D. in agricultural economics in just two years. From 1952 to 1955,... View Details
- 17 Mar 2020
- News
A Bid for the Future
When the RFP for Amazon’s HQ2 arrived in September 2017, Stephen Moret (MBA 2001) had been on the job as president and chief executive officer of the Virginia Economic Development Partnership (VEDP) for only... View Details
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 1985
- Chapter
Women in Development: A Framework for Project Analysis
By: James E. Austin, C. Overholt, Mary B. Anderson and Kathleen Cloud
Austin, James E., C. Overholt, Mary B. Anderson, and Kathleen Cloud. "Women in Development: A Framework for Project Analysis." In Gender Roles in Development Projects: A Case Book, edited by Catherine Overholt, Mary B. Anderson, Kathleen Cloud, and James E. Austin., 1985.
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Millennial Net worth another round of backing? Purchase this case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=804173 The Pilgrim Assurance Building 206-078 A local real estate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Many observers say that job creation is the key to economic recovery in the United States. Can government investments in entrepreneurial ventures succeed in creating jobs? A number of variables need to come together to make it happen.... View Details
- February 1997 (Revised May 1997)
- Background Note
Modern India
By: Tarun Khanna and Danielle J. Melito
Describes India's move from a controlled economy toward a more market-oriented one, commencing in 1991. Highlights the extent of changes in the product, capital, and labor markets, and the political situation at the central government, as these stood in 1995. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Economy; Macroeconomics; Government and Politics; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; India
Khanna, Tarun, and Danielle J. Melito. "Modern India." Harvard Business School Background Note 797-108, February 1997. (Revised May 1997.)
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
question in a new paper, titled Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints (forthcoming in the Review of Economics and Statistics). “Firms rely on banks a lot in order to... View Details
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
Cost Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business Levitt's work sparked debate on the merits of standardized versus localized advertising campaigns. But what are the economics of firms... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
also a lot to be optimistic about. Just 20 years ago, the economics literature was in a mode of documenting gender differences, whether it was about discrimination or the different outcomes for men and women. But more recently we’ve... View Details
- 2017
- Working Paper
Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence
By: Geoffrey Jones
This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing of that gap. The literature on the timing and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Economics; History; Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth
Jones, Geoffrey. "Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-004, July 2017.
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
provided funds to help develop food system plans across New England and is supporting programs in high-impact regions—Greater Boston, the Connecticut River Valley along Interstate 91, and the state of Rhode Island—that are leading the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley