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Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

02 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 2

at the Highest Levels By: Groysberg, Boris, and Deborah Bell Abstract—The article examines the gender gap that is present in boardrooms in U.S. corporations and internationally in 2013 as more women attempt to reach executive-level positions. View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

different organizations, areas of expertise, and countries in an extraordinary mission that overcame impossible odds. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/07/leadership-lessons-from-the-chilean-mine-rescue/ar/1 2013 pub Reputational... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by allowing access to telemedicine and pharmaceuticals by mail and by redefining care of the View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

effectively enforced money-laundering laws? For one thing, the flow of illegal drugs into this country would be significantly curtailed. At first, drug profits might simply be laundered elsewhere. Good!... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

Elizabeth Arden

Through her salons and cosmetics line, Arden was a pioneer in the development of the personal care industry. By 1929, Arden owned 150 salons throughout the world, sold her 1,000 different products in 25 countries and generated over $4... View Details

Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

Student-Profile

Fanele Mashwama

Fanele Mashwama (he/him) first arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate. While earning his philosophy degree, he simultaneously worked in the central bank of his home country of eSwatini, where he became more... View Details

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

renaissance." The Role of Alumni Leadership The African continent is home to some five hundred HBS alumni; more than three hundred reside in South Africa, occupying senior positions in virtually every industry in the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

U.S. firms and foreign firms from strong rule of law countries show a positive association between restatement frequency and internal control weaknesses. Firms from weak rule of law countries show no... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Europe and Africa because property rights are more difficult to enforce there. —Walter Kuemmerle The first difference is the development of capital markets and the transparency of these markets. In countries... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Sep 2018
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Turning Point: Power Outlet

officer in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. There had been a number of other police killings of black males leading up to that point, including Eric Garner and John Crawford, as well as 12-year-old Tamir Rice. I flew home to New York and went to... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

1.1 billion citizens surviving on less than $2 a day. Education remains inaccessible or insufficient for millions, and the country has the world’s second-largest HIV-positive population. Mumbai’s airport is emblematic of the country’s... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1999
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Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town

bottom line: "Climate does affect in a fundamental way the basic picture of global development," said Sachs. Thus, the "harsh physical environment" of most of the countries in Africa "provides a tremendously difficult backdrop for... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

disturbed that nobody had mentioned the non-compete before he accepted the job, Marx signed willingly, assuming such documents were commonplace. “It's clear that that inventors are leaving states that enforce non-competes for states that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

rights. Protection of property rights in the country is still poor and a major deterrent to investment. Greece scores just a 3 out of 12 on a World Bank's strength-of-legal-rights index, actually decreasing from 4 in 2007. Tellingly, the... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

01 Sep 2017
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City of Dreams

planning and implementation for a 15-year, $40 billion initiative with the goal of creating sustainable development and economic revitalization for Colombo and its surrounding provinces, population 5.8 million. It’s why he has returned to a View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

22 Apr 2019
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Keeping an Eye on Things

combating terrorism. “We are responsible for maintaining a gallery of biometric information and then performing the matching and the analysis, sometimes within milliseconds. And we do know that much of the work that we do verifying does help law View Details

Keywords: Biometrics

25 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

recalcitrant" negotiating strategy. Until the 1970s, the act of lending to a foreign country was little more than "an act of faith," as economic advisor Herbert Feis said in 1930. Given that sovereign immunity prevented... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro

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Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

currently developed countries when they first emerged. The course should, in short, appeal to anyone considering spending part of their career working, investing, or thinking outside of the major developed markets. Educational Objectives... View Details

26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from the home country. This is not... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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