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By: William C. Kirby
A historian by training, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese... View Details
Keywords: China; Internationalization; Educational Policy And Politics; Infrastructure; Government And Business; The Revival Of Family Business In China; China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative; Agribusiness; Education; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Governance; Government and Politics; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Social Enterprise; Auto Industry; Education Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Semiconductor Industry; Asia; Europe; North and Central America
  • January–February 2017
  • Article

Africa's New Generation of Innovators

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Derek van Bever
With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the continent, discouraged by widespread... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Economic Growth; Africa
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    William C. Kirby

    William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; wine
    • August 2020 (Revised August 2023)
    • Case

    Nubank: Democratizing Financial Services

    By: Michael Chu, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
    Nubank, a wholly-digital solution created to disrupt Brazilian banking, with 6 million clients and a $4 billion valuation after five years, must decide whether to expand to Mexico. The company was founded in São Paulo in 2013 by Colombian-born David Vélez to seize what... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Financial Inclusion; Digital Banking; Credit Cards; Banks and Banking; Disruption; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; South America; Brazil; North America; Mexico
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    • 2015
    • Report

    The Challenge of Shared Prosperity: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2015 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness

    By: Jan Rivkin, Karen G. Mills and Michael E. Porter
    In the 2015 survey on U.S. competitiveness, HBS alumni weigh in on the current state and future trajectory of U.S. competitiveness as well as the structural strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. business environment. In addition, alumni delve deeper into two aspects of... View Details
    Keywords: Competitiveness; U.S. Competitiveness; Shared Prosperity; Wealth; Competition; United States
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    • October 2019
    • Case

    Agility Africa

    By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
    This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Business Model; Innovation and Invention; Expansion; Emerging Markets; Decision Choices and Conditions; Real Estate Industry; Distribution Industry; Africa
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      Clayton S. Rose

      Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. He currently teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His research is focused on the how leaders can manage the challenges created by the intense, varied and often... View Details

      Keywords: financial services
      • July 1996 (Revised August 2024)
      • Case

      Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery

      By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
      The purpose of this case is: To familiarize the students with the changing landscape of health care delivery, through chains of retail medical centers and those offering value-based care (VBC).

      To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details
      Keywords: Managed Care; Capitation; Strategy
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      • 03 Jan 2023
      • What Do You Think?

      How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?

      success. They included changing the white, middle-class “Betty Crocker” image of the organization, reversing membership levels, expanding leadership, building diversity, and fundraising. Declining membership was reversed. Leadership ranks... View Details
      Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
      • 14 Jul 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’

      interview consumers of their type of product in neighborhoods near the Harvard Business School campus. Boston. Frequently, however, they found that students would only seek out people much like themselves, such as middle-class students in... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 24 May 2017
      • News

      John J. Brennan, MBA 1980

      is devoted to his family. Brennan often says he’s the luckiest person in the world, but it’s clear that his success involves considerable amounts of intelligence, hard work, and ambition. A middle-class kid whose early jobs included... View Details
      Keywords: Susan Young
      • 01 Dec 2019
      • News

      Bridging the Gap

      running and investing in large companies were doing quite well. But working- and middle-class Americans were struggling, as were many small businesses. The most promising efforts we found to restore shared prosperity were local,... View Details
      Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
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      Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About

      R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Michael Bloomberg’s life story is one of self-made success in finance, business, and politics. The future three-term mayor of New York City grew up in a middle-class home in Medford, Massachusetts, the son of... View Details
      • Profile

      Ahmed Alimi

      platform for middle-class Nigerians." "The resources at HBS have been amazing," says Ahmed. "At the i-lab, I've found a lot of support for the business, especially in the area of tech and product design. Just say 'hi'... View Details
      Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services
      • 15 Jun 2009
      • Research & Ideas

      GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

      history of this American corporate icon. The U.S. cannot afford to lose the thousands of middle-class jobs of GM workers and management, nor the cutting edge R&D that GM does with its suppliers and partner universities. GM faces a... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff; Auto
      • 25 Aug 2014
      • News

      Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983

      and kind—and far ahead of where I was at their age.” His love and respect for Judy, his second wife, also brings him great joy. “In marriage, I’ve been lucky twice. This is something to be thankful for.” Nelson grew up in a middle-class... View Details
      Keywords: Susan Young
      • 17 Dec 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      The Rise of Medical Tourism

      good tertiary-care hospitals. Medical tourism usually refers to the idea of middle-class or wealthy individuals going abroad in search of effective, low-cost treatment. But there is another dimension of medical tourism that is not called... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies
      • 01 Dec 2009
      • News

      One Man Crime Wave

      families — that was one image of postwar America. But to noir writers like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, and MacDonald, now their star heir apparent, middle-class lifestyles and aspirations were flimsy cover for more primal human... View Details
      Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

        Jules S. Bache

        Company. He helped to attract middle-class investors to the brokerage business and prior to World War I, Bache & Company maintained the largest private wire system in the United States. View Details
        Keywords: Finance
        • 04 Jul 2011
        • Research & Ideas

        Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care

        millions of middle-class Americans to receive Medicaid. It's also expected that the creation of so-called Obamacare will be a front-and-center issue debated in the 2012 presidential election. This growing awareness that our current system... View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health