Memorandum - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

advisor to Liberian president and Nobel Peace Prize-winner Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, a 1971 graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School, wrote the policy memorandum at the request of the Liberian government, which seeks fast growth of its own. To... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

Double-Digit Growth Experiences By: Werker, Eric D Abstract—This extended memorandum identifies episodes of sustained double-digit growth in real GDP, defined as a compound annual growth rate of 10% or more over a period of 8 years or... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

10 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

Nicolas P. Retsinas and Justin GinsburghHarvard Business School Case 210-024 A United States private equity fund, The Saboput Group, must decide whether to invest in a new technology park development in Chennai, India. The case provides the reader with a detailed... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

retailers, including Gap Inc., Target, and JCPenney, that took place just a year and a half before the fire: At the meeting in Dhaka, the Bangladesh capital, in April 2011, retailers discussed a contractually enforceable memorandum that... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

Francisco–based home sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's city leadership now had to make the new rules function well. By the summer of 2014, the question of how exactly to do that remained unsettled. A Memorandum of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

us every two to four weeks during that period as we prepared a case study describing his efforts. He also gave us access to his daily calendar, as well as to assorted e-mail correspondence and internal memorandums and reports. From this... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

10 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

considered the communication he had just received. It was from Permira, the leading European buyout fund, and concerned its fourth fund, to which Altoona had made a $100 million commitment. The memorandum offered investors a chance to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

European distribution rights to two highly lucrative drugs. Purchase this exercise:http://hbr.org/search/911044-PDF-ENG Remicade/Simponi: Legal Memorandum Guhan Subramanian and Rhea GhoshHarvard Business School Supplement 911-046... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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