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- 12 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 12
to create an electric vehicle industry is a bold experiment in local and system-level innovation. It also provides a window into understanding the promise and peril of economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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In The Community | About
$ 884 k in funding for the Summer Fellows program , supporting 202 local partners 86 students engaged with local partners, delivering over 3,300 hours of consulting as part of MBA FIELD courses Leadership... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
CEO of Competitiveness.com, he brings experience in nearly 200 economic development initiatives in Europe and Latin America to his World Bank job. Comparing his previous View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
the National Math and Science Initiative to share its successful teacher development and advanced placement initiatives with hundreds of partners across the country. Formulating strategy. Concerned about the quality of his state's... View Details
- 12 Nov 2020
- News
All in the Neighborhood
Photo courtesy of Angela Hicks Photo courtesy of Angela Hicks As native Hoosiers, Angie’s List cofounders Angela Hicks (MBA 2000) and Bill Oesterle (MBA 1992) knew they wanted to ground themselves in a community where their business could not only grow, but foster... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
In the Shadows? Informal Enterprise in Non-Democracies
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
possibilities." Though developed as a program for Harvard alumnae, Charting Your Course could become a model for similar programs offered to interested women elsewhere. Data collected from women in the reunion classes of 1981, 1986,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
spanned various stages of computing evolution — from mainframe to personal computer to local area network to the Internet. After working in a grassroots community organizing project ("One of those social experiments," says Rudden with her... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Releases
business? Howard Raiffa, the Frank Plumpton Ramsey Professor of Managerial Economics, Emeritus, at HBS, is a pioneer in the development of decision and negotiations analysis. In Smart Choices: A Practical Guide to Making Better Decisions,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Mark Fuller
globalization; they wanted help and advice,” says Fuller. Seeing an opportunity, Monitor opened offices abroad and hired local staffs. As Monitor grew, it developed its own unique culture. The firm is... View Details
- 16 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities
improvement and offer new methods to city planners and real estate developers looking to identify areas in need of improvement. The collaborators reveal their findings in a May 2017 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of... View Details
- August 1997 (Revised September 2004)
- Case
South Africa: Getting in GEAR
In 1997, Thabo Mbeki is contemplating South Africa's performance since the end of Apartheid in 1994. The economy has done fairly well, but the government's macroeconomic strategy calls for higher growth and employment creation. The case describes the country's history,... View Details
Vietor, Richard H.K. "South Africa: Getting in GEAR." Harvard Business School Case 798-012, August 1997. (Revised September 2004.)
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
some, but not all of these predictions. A relatively high economic value of adaptation at the establishment has a strong association with delegation to local managers, as do View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Mar 2010
- Other Presentation
The Cluster Observatory Classroom
By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Örjan Sölvell and Göran Lindqvist
The European Cluster Observatory offers a free educational video series: ON CLUSTERS. The series covers three programs: 1.Cluster Dynamics, 2.Cluster Policy, 3.Cluster Management View Details
Ketels, Christian H.M., Örjan Sölvell, and Göran Lindqvist. "The Cluster Observatory Classroom." European Cluster Observatory, March 2010.
- 16 Jun 2004
- Other Presentation
European Competitiveness in 2004
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's articles and books, in particular, The Competitive Advantage of Nations (The Free Press, 1990), "Building the Microeconomic Foundations of Competitiveness," in The Global Competitiveness Report 2003-2004, (Oxford... View Details
Ketels, Christian H.M. "European Competitiveness in 2004." MBA Lecture, Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Ekonomski fakultet, June 16, 2004.
- 19 Aug 2013
- News
Bees Make a Sweet Deal for African Farmers
environmental value simultaneously through its activities," Keshavjee explains. "It is now embarking on a massive investment with equity partners and scaling up its activities." HCA, in partnership with a number of local NGOs and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Think Locally, Act Globally
appeared more similar to India’s and a more logical move than expansion into so many disparate African countries. Mittal begs to differ: “Africa’s improving political climate, encouraging social and economic View Details
- January 2006 (Revised July 2006)
- Case
Drug Testing in Nigeria (A)
By: Debora L. Spar
In 1996, a meningitis epidemic swept across Nigeria. Thousands of children were struck and, lacking appropriate medicine, were liable to die from the disease. Doctors at Pfizer had an antibiotic that could probably save most of these children's lives. The drug was new,... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Health Pandemics; Health Testing and Trials; Developing Countries and Economies; Pharmaceutical Industry; Nigeria
Spar, Debora L., and Adam Day. "Drug Testing in Nigeria (A)." Harvard Business School Case 706-033, January 2006. (Revised July 2006.)
- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Why I’m Donating One Billion Dollars to Save the Planet
Walter Diaz/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images In an effort to help accelerate land and ocean conservation across the globe, Hansjörg Wyss (MBA 1965) announced in a New York Times opinion piece that he is giving $1 billion over the next decade to support View Details