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- 23 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Globalization: Little Impact on the Continent
percent of the world's economic output, and only 1 percent of the investment. "Africa has still not played the role we'd expect it to play in this messy phenomenon of globalization," Spar said. Pandora's Box Mark Shuttleworth,... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 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
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
as a virtue. "It was a remarkably nimble organization," she explains, "with revolutionary principles and a transformational agenda that focused on supporting local organizations and leaders and bringing a business approach to effecting... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
income taxes paid, up to the U.S. statutory rate. In effect, this means that Cummins will ultimately pay a total of the U.S. statutory rate on its overseas activities in lower tax countries and pay the local rate in higher tax countries.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
Osaka, Japan. Trump said on Twitter last week that he would have an "extended meeting" with President Xi Jinping of China at the summit, a welcome development for rattled investors and other world leaders. Cavallo's research... View Details
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
California pharmacist and drugstore owner who balked at the price-slashing practices of chain store competitors and spearheaded a local price-control movement to protect her own bottom line—a crusade that would ultimately gain such... View Details
- 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
Scott, Bruce R., and James R. Matthews. Taiwan: "Only the Paranoid Survive". Harvard Business School Case 700-039, September 1999. (Revised May 2005.)
- Career Coach
Sasha Grinshpun
Company), Product Development and Innovation Consulting (IDEO), Economic Development (Michael Porter's C-MECS), VP of Sales and Business View Details
- Profile
Jeremy Andrus
chain, and selling. I worked for a while as a hotel developer for a Marriott franchisee. Before HBS, I was a management consultant at Monitor, which sharpened my perspective on business and industry strategy. I learned a huge amount at... View Details
- 20 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Alumni and Students in Climate Networking Series: Boston
the importance of having both an economic and environmental angle to their projects: “The technology needs to be developed with a business plan in mind. There needs to be collaboration and we need to bring a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
States, but they sometimes deliver superior value in certain emerging markets, where their scope allows them to leverage their own resources to compensate for deficiencies in the economic support system. Second, Khanna’s work suggests... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
emerging markets where local stock exchange listings have grown, liquidity in many Latin American exchanges has diminished in recent years. The purchase of local, family-owned companies and state-owned enterprises by outside... 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
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
the world has many shades of gray." Over the past several decades, thousands of companies have been privatized in both the developed world and emerging markets. While every company in the former Soviet Union was once state-owned, now only... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
vanquish a problem, we have to understand it." Start with the question, "How do people eat?" suggested Chu. People develop economic activities that are of worth to someone else, he continued.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- February 1988 (Revised May 1988)
- Background Note
Note on Debt-Equity Conversions in Latin American Countries
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "Note on Debt-Equity Conversions in Latin American Countries." Harvard Business School Background Note 588-063, February 1988. (Revised May 1988.)
- April 1981
- Case
Mexican Rural Development: SAM and PIDER
By: James E. Austin
Austin, James E. "Mexican Rural Development: SAM and PIDER." Harvard Business School Case 581-139, April 1981.
- Article
Are Crises Good for Long-term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions
By: Alberto Cavallo and Eduardo Cavallo
This paper provides empirical evidence for the importance of institutions in determining the outcome of crises on long-term growth. We show that once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions affect... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Democracy; Macroeconomics; Growth and Development; Financial Crisis; Economic Growth; Government and Politics
Cavallo, Alberto, and Eduardo Cavallo. "Are Crises Good for Long-term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions." Journal of Macroeconomics 32, no. 3 (September 2010): 838–857.
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
more heavily on other industries that tend to collocate with it across local markets. Our results suggest that the transmission of various different types of shocks through economic networks and industry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Market Perspectives - Course Catalog
people with disabilities, and the like. We explore situations in which businesses’ pursuit of profits both positively and negatively affect their communities, including their employees, local physical and social environments. We use a... View Details