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  • December 2013 (Revised April 2014)
  • Case

Seeding Growth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo

By: Ray Goldberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Djordjija Petkoski
By 2013, the agricultural sector in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) had long suffered from war, political instability, and dilapidated infrastructure. A country with 75 million inhabitants and the second lowest GDP per capita in the world in 2011, the DRC's... View Details
Keywords: National Agricultural Investment Plan (PNIA); Developing Agriculture; World Bank; Poverty Reduction; Special Economic Zones (SEZs); Small-scale Farmers; Agricultural Business Parks; Agriculture Reform; Agribusiness; Economic Growth; Infrastructure; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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  • 15 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

the sector is poised on the brink of transformation, a topic he enthusiastically expounded upon during a recent interview in his Morgan Hall office. Roger Thompson: The terms "social enterprise" and "nonprofit" seem to... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 17 Nov 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Venture Capitalists and COVID-19

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven N. Kaplan, and Ilya A. Strebulaev; Financial Services
  • 23 Jun 2022
  • News

This State Will Hire You—No College Degree Required

  • 28 Feb 2021
  • Working Paper Summaries

Measuring Employment Impact: Applications and Cases

Keywords: by Katie Panella and George Serafeim
  • February 2024
  • Teaching Note

Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy

By: Kyle Myers, Joshua Lev Krieger, Walter Frick and Jim Matheson
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 624-064. This Teaching Note explores the Fusion Industry Association's efforts to advance commercial fusion energy, highlighting challenges in innovation, regulation, market structure, and financing within the emerging technology sector... View Details
Keywords: Financing and Loans; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Technological Innovation; Industry Growth; Energy Industry
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  • August 2017 (Revised February 2024)
  • Teaching Note

Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal

By: Boris Vallee, Patrick Augustin and Philippe Rich
This case explores a complex swap transaction implemented by Metro do Porto in 2007. It represents an opportunity to study fixed income derivative instruments, such as plain-vanilla swaps and structured swaps, as well as understand the opportunities and challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Swaps; Public Finance; Structured Finance; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Public Sector; Transportation Industry; Rail Industry; Portugal
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  • 17 Jan 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Deregulation, Misallocation, and Size: Evidence from India

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Anusha Chari
  • 14 Apr 2020
  • Video

Perspectives on the COVID-19 Pandemic: Chenault-Mills (Session 1)

  • June 2006
  • Case

Home Equity Protection

Nearly 70% of households in the United States own their own home and, yet, virtually no household is insured against a crash in housing values. Is there a market for an insurance product, home equity protection, that would provide this protection? Focuses on the... View Details
Keywords: Housing; Insurance; Product Design; Equity; Insurance Industry
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  • 31 May 2022
  • Cold Call Podcast

Corruption: New Insights for Fighting an Age-Old Business Problem

Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna & Geoffrey G. Jones
  • 2001
  • Chapter

Publicly Funded Science and the Productivity of the Pharmaceutical Industry

By: Rebecca Henderson and Ian Cockburn
U.S. taxpayers funded $14.8 billion of health related research last year, four times the amount that was spent in 1970 in real terms. In this paper we evaluate the impact of these huge expenditures on the technological performance of the pharmaceutical industry. While... View Details
Keywords: Public Sector; Science-Based Business; Research and Development; Sovereign Finance; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • May 2001 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Jumpstart

By: Allen S. Grossman
Many in the nonprofit sector doubt whether organizational performance can be measured. Jumpstart, a 10-year-old nonprofit, developed performance measurement and management systems from its inception. The organization has experienced explosive growth and attributes a... View Details
Keywords: Management Systems; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • News

El sueño americano está en las fintech

  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Dutch Leonard
Professor Leonard's research focuses on understanding the role of leadership in the development of strategy and processes for execution in private sector and socially-oriented organizations, including an emphasis on innovation, uncertainty, building successful adaptive... View Details
  • 14 Aug 2014
  • News

US-China teamwork could mean a win-win-win for Africa

  • 01 Aug 2019
  • News

China Races Ahead of the U.S. in the Battle for 5G Supremacy

  • August 2024
  • Background Note

Mitigating Climate Change with Machine Learning

By: Michael W. Toffel, Kelsey Carter, Amy Chambers, Avery Park and Susan Pinckney
This note highlights how machine learning is being used to decarbonize (reduce GHG emissions) several key sectors including electricity, transportation, building, industrial processes, and agriculture -- and how machine learning is being used to accelerate efforts to... View Details
Keywords: Climate; Artificial Intelligence; Adaptation; Climate Change; AI and Machine Learning; Innovation and Invention
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  • 14 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

MBAs the financial flexibility to explore careers in high-impact nonprofit or public sector positions for a year at a competitive salary. For Mendu, that meant the chance to work with Detroit’s former Chief Policy Officer Kim Rustem on a... View Details
  • 14 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

Tata-Corus is the largest out of India, and is done by a private sector entity of its own volition, away from the shadow of state influence. For these reasons, it bears noticing. The same euphoria surrounded Shenzhen-based TCL Multimedia... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna