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  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Turning Away from the State: Trade Shocks and Informal Insurance in Brazil

By: Paula Rettl
How does economic globalization affect vote choices? Conventional wisdom holds that voters who lose from economic integration support parties that propose expanding the welfare state. However, in the Global South, where the state is frequently weak or under-resourced,... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Governance; Government Administration; Political Elections; Voting; Latin America; Brazil; South America
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  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

Spring Reunions: Milestones and Memories

development in the United States following her graduation from HBS. She fell in love with what was then Czechoslovakia during a visit to Central Europe and moved to Prague in 1991. "I worked in economic development View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Advisory Boards Help HBS Assess and Attain Its Goals

As the Harvard Business School confronts the challenges of the 21st century, the support and guidance of its graduates are more critical than ever. Three advisory boards, staffed by volunteer alumni View Details
Keywords: Elena N. Berg; boards; alumni; planning; leadership; advice; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 07 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

pandemic. Consumers consider the brands they use to be trusted partners and look to them for information about the crisis and how it is affecting their companies, employees, View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
  • 08 Sep 2022
  • Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

leadership and the role of serving others through collaboration. At the video services provider Vimeo, Anjali Sud persuaded both managers and employees to follow her insight... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • May 2016
  • Case

Revitalizing State Bank of India

By: Srikant M. Datar, N. M. Bhatta, Rishikesha T. Krishnan and Rachna Tahilyani
State Bank of India is India’s oldest and largest bank with the government of India as its majority shareholder. Arundhati Bhattacharya, a 35-year veteran of the bank, is appointed as its chairman in October 2013. Her appointment coincides with Moody’s downgrading the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Human Resources; Employees; Compensation And Benefits; Recruiting; Capital Markets; Performance Expectations; Financial Services Industry; Asia; India
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  • 04 Feb 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Risk Preferences and Misconduct: Evidence from Politicians

Keywords: by Dylan Minor; Public Administration; Public Administration
  • 11 Jun 2015
  • News

Making connections at Harvard and beyond

included a number of senior administrative roles at HBS, as well as 10 years in the private sector as president and COO of the First Marblehead Corporation. “The world’s critical problems are not... View Details
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

organization during “bad times”? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from U.S. administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Visualizing and Measuring Software Portfolio Architectures: A Flexibility Analysis

Keywords: by Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack & David Dreyfus; Web Services; Web Services
  • March 2017
  • Supplement

Microfinance in India 2010-2016: Crisis and Recovery

By: Shawn Cole, Vikram Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers and Yannick Saleman
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices. View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Government Administration; Policy; Capital Markets; Crisis Management; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; India
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  • 17 Aug 2022
  • News

To Serve and Protect the Markets

life-changing. HBS made my entire experience.” Jones’s career took off after earning a doctorate degree in law along with her MBA. She worked in both private law firms and in public service roles, at one... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • Article

Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
This article examines the emergence and development of what became the largest business group in Turkey, the Koç Group. This venture was an important factor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; History; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
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  • October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

Twiga Foods: Revolutionizing African Retail (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Pippa Tubman Amerding and Wale Lawal
Twiga is a leading agricultural produce supplier in Kenya offering services to mostly informal retailers. Under Peter Njonjo, a co-founder and Twiga’s new CEO, the company is considering multiple options for expanding its business, including offering packaged foods and... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Retail Industry; Nairobi
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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Driving economic growth and job creation

Karen Gordon Mills (AB 1975, MBA 1977) served in President Barack Obama’s cabinet as administrator of the US Small Business Administration, which is focused on economic growth and View Details
  • Fast Answer

Energy data sources: consumption and efficiency

by US Department of Commerce, US Census Bureau. You may search this site for more surveys on the topic. Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency®  -- A source of information on incentives and policies... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

games themselves. Then mix in the strong support of global brands and count the extensive television coverage (over 5,500 hours in this country alone) and record audiences that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

use biometric identification technology to improve the reliability of administrative information and deliver social services more efficiently. This paper exploits the random... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 10 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Taking Advantage of Life’s (Few and Far Between) Inflection Points

Her boss, the head of their department, had been a mentor and champion throughout Michelle's time at the company. Michelle had worked for this boss for almost ten years and credited the woman's View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson