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March 2021 (Revised December 2023)
Case

Capitalism and the Party-State: The People's Republic of China at 70

By: Meg Rithmire and Courtney Han

In 2019, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) turned seventy-years-old and became the longest active authoritarian regime in recent history. By then, China was the world’s second largest economy by GDP (after the United States), and a high-technology industrial... View Details

Keywords: Party-state; Economic Systems; Business and Government Relations; Economy; Society; International Relations; China

August 2013
Case

The Republic of the Philippines: The Next Asian Tiger?

By: Richard H.K. Vietor, Carol Dominguez and Tully Moss

The Philippines, for long a laggard in Asia, is now growing fast in 2012, with a positive current account balance. While it still exports services, it is increasing its assembly of manufactured products and trying to increase mining. For these activities, however, it... View Details

Keywords: Country Strategy; Asia; Outsourcing; Macroeconomics; Foreign Direct Investment; Country; Asia; Philippines

2011
Book

The People's Republic of China at 60--An International Assessment

Keywords: China

October 2005 (Revised October 2005)
Supplement

Microsoft in the People's Republic of China: 2005 Update

By: Tarun Khanna and Elizabeth Raabe

Keywords: Information Technology Industry; China

April 2007
Case

Microfinance in Bolivia: A Meeting with the President of the Republic

By: Michael Chu

Herbert Muller, chair of leading microfinance bank BancoSol, has met with Evo Morales one year after the populist leader's inauguration as president of Bolivia and proceeds to write an email to his fellow board directors. The bank is world famous for pioneering... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Race; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Microfinance; Poverty; Interest Rates; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia; South America

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May 2021
Teaching Note

Capitalism and the Party-State: The People’s Republic of China at 70

By: Meg Rithmire

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-040. View Details

December 2004 (Revised December 2004)
Background Note

Fiscal Policy and the Case of Expansionary Fiscal Contraction in Ireland in the 1980s

By: Huw Pill

Provides a brief introduction to fiscal policy, including the fiscal multiplier. Uses Ireland's experience in the 1980s to explore the possibility that fiscal contractions--tax rises and expenditure costs--can stimulate economic growth (contrary to conventional... View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Policy; Macroeconomics; Economic Growth; Republic of Ireland

December 2008 (Revised June 2010)
Background Note

Political and Economic History of the People's Republic of China: An Annotated Timeline

By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby, Elisabeth Koll and F. Warren McFarlan

Brief political, economic, and social timeline of China from 1949 to present to give context on and provide overview of modern Chinese history. View Details

Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History; Society; China

February 2025
Article

Innovations in Evaluating Ambulatory Costs of Cystic Fibrosis Care: A Comparative Study Across Multidisciplinary Care Centers in Ireland and the United States

By: Emma Brady, Ryan C. Perkins, Kate Cullen, Gregory S. Sawicki, Robert S. Kaplan and Gerardine Doyle

Lead clinicians at two large pediatric cystic fibrosis (CF) centers in the United States and Ireland measured and compared their ambulatory care costs. The clinicians selected three strata of patients (0–11 months, 1–5 years, and 6–17 years of age). Process maps were... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Service Delivery; Resource Allocation; Health Industry

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February 2023 (Revised September 2024)
Case

'The Hope of the World': Cobalt Mining in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)

By: Sophus A. Reinert, Nathaniel Houghton, Quinn Lewis and Andrew Schwab

March 2017 (Revised November 2017)
Case

Iran on the Brink: The Nuclear Deal and the Future of the Islamic Republic

By: Jeremy Friedman

September 1995 (Revised November 2005)
Teaching Note

Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993 & 2005 Update (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna

Teaching Note for (9-795-115) and (9-797-107). View Details

Keywords: Information Technology Industry; China

February 2013
Teaching Note

Kepak and the Future of the Irish Beef Industry (TN)

By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin and Mary Shelman

Keywords: Agribusiness; Ireland; Beef; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

January 2019
Teaching Note

Iran on the Brink: The Nuclear Deal and the Future of the Islamic Republic

By: Jeremy Friedman

Keywords: Iran

May 2001 (Revised March 2008)
Case

"To hell with the future, let's get on with the past." George Mitchell in North Ireland

By: James K. Sebenius and Daniel F. Curran

Examines the strategies and tactics used by U.S. negotiator George Mitchell during his two-year tenure as chairman of the all-party talks in Northern Ireland. His efforts culminated in the signing of the historic Good Friday Accords. View Details

Keywords: Policy; International Relations; Managerial Roles; Negotiation Tactics; Strategy; Northern Ireland

02 Aug 2015
News

Global CEO of CBRE Pops Into Dublin

Keywords: property management; real estate; markets; Ireland; Real Estate

01 Oct 1999
News

Q & A: Jeanne P. Jackson: A New Regime at Banana Republic

President and CEO of Banana Republic since 1995, Jeanne Jackson (MBA '78) has been credited with transforming the faltering safari clothing brand into one of the nation's... View Details

December 1987
Article

Zhonghua minguo shiqide hezi he jishu zhuanrang [Joint ventures and technological development under the Republic of China]

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Information Technology; Research and Development; China