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Louis T. Wells
Professor Louis T. Wells is the Herbert F. Johnson Professor of International Management at the Harvard Business School. He has served as consultant to governments of a number of developing countries, as well as to international organizations and private firms. His... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Africa Looks Ahead
OKONJO-IWEALA: Providing basic infrastructure is the way to transform people's lives. At a UN meeting in Liberia to discuss a framework for development after the UN's millennium goals expire in 2015, Nigeria's finance minister, Dr. Ngozi... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience
"We were never in any imminent danger, but there was always this question mark, a feeling that something big could happen," reports second-year MBA student Daniella Ballou, who spent last summer in Liberia as an intern with the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
DOWNING: In one of the world’s poorest countries, the rain forest is key. At A Glance Total Area: 111,369 sq. km. Population: 3,441,790 Per Capita GDP: $500 All maps by Robert Littleford; Country Data: Cia World Factbook Thomas Downing (MBA ’81): View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
Eric Werker You spent much of 2009 to 2011 in Liberia advising President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf while on leave from HBS. What did you learn from that experience? Good ideas and great strategies are cheap and easy; what's expensive and... View Details
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My research aims to understand how prosperity is created in poor countries. My first “chapter” in this larger quest has focused on how rich-country actors have managed to be a force for change in poor-country economies. I have investigated the various attempts of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
by Scott Green (MBA 1989)(Wiley) A practical approach for managers who want to improve internal controls to prevent fraud. Learning to Love Africa by Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) (HarperBusiness) Maddy’s memoir chronicles her journey from a remote village in View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business
significant factor in my decision to return after graduation,” she says. As a student, Ballou-Aares worked in Liberia with the International Rescue Committee (Bulletin, December 2000) and conducted a field research project on delivering... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/718019 Harvard Business School Case 718-029 ArcelorMittal and the Ebola Outbreak in Liberia During the summer of 2014, Alan Knight, general manager of corporate responsibility at the integrated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2020
- News
Better Than Cash
Nepal, households headed by women with digital savings accounts increased their education spending by 20 percent. On the other side of the equation, digitizing teacher salary payments in Liberia reduced the time and cost of collecting a... View Details
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
generally. Paper: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/convergence_in_position_auctions.pdf Assessing Potential Carbon Revenues from Reduced Forest Cover Loss in Liberia Authors:Donovan, Jessica, Keith Lawrence, Christopher Neyor,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
of its post-civil war reconstruction. When Liberia emerged from a decade-and-a-half of war, fiscal obligations were several times higher than income. Its new leaders were able to restructure the country's commercial debt (to three cents... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Robert Goodwin
assistance in developing countries. The nonprofit’s inspiration came from Goodwin’s HBS classmate Sam MacHour, whose experiences in Liberia and Burundi convinced him of the need to confront the underlying causes of poverty. While at HBS,... View Details
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Globalization and Emerging Markets
Globalization and Emerging Markets is designed for students who will be investing, managing a business or nonprofit, or working for a government in an emerging market. The unit of analysis of the course ranges from countries to multinational and domestic companies... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Market; Globalization; BRICS; N11; Resource Allocation; Pakistan; Angola; Dubai; South Korea; South Africa; Turkey; Liberia; China; Brazil; Nigeria
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Liberia in 2005. Both deals have fallen apart as they came under attack by NGOs and as the country took a turn toward democracy. Wisely, both companies have decided that renegotiation is better than defending the indefensible. Q: You... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and unreliable power grids in nations like Liberia and Tanzania. They don’t wait for government to connect the dots. The second and likely more powerful new capability arises from the combined arrival of three technologies all enabled by... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
those types of things, it's just bad news that we hear, or AIDS and epidemics and things like that, Sierra Leone, Liberia with Ebola. So what I'm trying to do is talk about things that are outside those things that we always hear about.... View Details
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
School Case 712-011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410003-PDF-ENG Liberia Eric Werker and Jasmina BeganovicHarvard Business School Case ###-### An abstract is unavailable... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne