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17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007

Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2022
News

Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal

crafting Senegal's post-pandemic economic recovery plan and an emergency youth-jobs plan; working with the country’s health ministry to set up a local vaccine manufacturing plant; securing vaccines for the... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Dec 2002
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Porter Course Goes Abroad

beyond Boston. The Microeconomics of Competitiveness: Firms, Clusters, and Economic Development used Internet technology and digitalized video to make teaching materials, guest speakers, and class lectures... 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

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

Profile

Sorina Casian-Botez

Why was earning your MBA here important to you? HBS has an aura of academic and professional excellence in business. I wanted to be part of this culture, knowing that only in such a challenging environment could I develop the skills and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government; Consulting

08 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

of violations, as well as the dollar amount of penalties, at firms’ local facilities after a local newspaper folded and compared those figures with a control group in an area where a newspaper continued to... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Kaki Ettinger

experienced. How has Harvard Business School prepared you for your current role and your long term career? Every aspect of HBS, from my classmates and professors to Career & Professional Development and the amazingly responsive alumni... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media; Technology; Entrepreneurship

25 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Advancing a More Sustainable World with an MBA/MPA-ID

Working to protect the environment has been my passion for as long as I can remember. My father was my earliest inspiration. As an officer in the Indian Forest Service, he devoted his life to balancing day to day realities of economic... View Details

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

multinational and local firms? A: While it's certainly a disheartening outcome on the surface, there are some silver linings. The costs associated with weak institutions are usually hidden—companies that don't go public, financings that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Jun 1999
News

Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

several of the key issues that were discussed over the next two days. Sachs stressed that "Africa's development challenge is the world's greatest economic challenge." After touching on some of the region's... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

September 1999 (Revised May 2005)
Case

Taiwan: "Only the Paranoid Survive"

By: Bruce R. Scott and James R. Matthews

Taiwan has enjoyed remarkable growth since 1950. This case presents differing views of the role and contribution of the state in this process. Then it explores recent industrial policy in semiconductors. View Details

Keywords: Development Economics; Business and Government Relations; Semiconductor Industry; Taiwan

2007
Other Unpublished Work

A Private Sector without Prerequisites: Ordered Uncertainty in Vietnam and China

By: Regina M. Abrami

Keywords: Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Risk and Uncertainty; China

February 2007
Case

South African Airways (A)

By: Joshua D. Margolis, Laura Morgan Roberts and Laura Winig

Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an impending strike at the struggling company. How should the company address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO... View Details

Keywords: Fairness; Crisis Management; Employees; Employment; Growth and Development; Developing Countries and Economies; Air Transportation Industry; South Africa

Article

A Case for Contextual Intelligence

By: Tarun Khanna

In this perspective, I make a case for entrepreneurs and academics alike to focus on what I have referred to elsewhere as Contextual Intelligence, the ability to understand the limits of our knowledge, and to adapt that knowledge to a context different from the one in... View Details

Keywords: Contextual Intelligence; Institutional Voids; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Situation or Environment; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship

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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley Course Number 1631 Professor Paul Gompers Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Overview: Entrepreneurship has been shown to be a major driver of economic View Details

September 2011 (Revised July 2013)
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Pakistan: Is Foreign Aid Helping or Hindering Development?

By: Aldo Musacchio, Ada Chu, Shahnawaz Nawabi, Jonathan Schlefer and Emil Staykov

Keywords: Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; Pakistan