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Middle East & North Africa - Global Activities 2021
Abi Chaker, the founder and CEO of a Lebanese recycling company, to understand the challenges he faces. Abi Chaker launched Cedar Environmental as a sorting and composting company in 1999, but quickly realized that the waste management View Details
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
In many emerging economies, the need to give people in poverty better access to financial services seems obvious. The mobile phone is a perfect vehicle, given their widespread adoption, even among the financially less well off. Designing... View Details
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Aaron Chadbourne
first day after high school graduation, I got my real estate license," Aaron says. The business was not only a way to earn summer income throughout college, but another way of learning. "Real estate is an industry where you can... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
presence of strategic interactions between content distributors and content providers. We provide a model of bargaining and price competition within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Entrepreneurs Speak at HBS
enterprises - "We start from scratch each time as a way of making sure it's really ours" - in industries where he believes customers are being ill-served or have few choices. Growth is financed by revenues, and companies are kept... View Details
- 21 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Consumer Products
do the work to find those companies and help them grow.” A Dynamic Industry Needs Dynamic Recruiting Consumer Products is a dynamic and ever changing industry that attracts students who relate to, and are... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
European economy. Firm-level investment sensitivity to cash flow is used to identify financing constraints. We find that the sensitivities are significantly positive, on average, controlling for country and industry fixed effects, as well... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
largest insurance program. To meet this target, the government will rely on technology to effectively scale services, monitor quality, and ensure accountability. While India has seen great strides in informational technology development and outsourcing, cellular View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Q & A: Pat Russo - Focused on the Future at Lucent Technologies
Fortune magazine's "Fifty Most Powerful Women in American Business." Why has Lucent performed so well since its divestiture from AT&T? We have been growing globally faster than our markets. Our ability to focus on the hottest growth segments in the communications View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Sky’s the Limit
he recalls. “What I kept thinking about was that I absolutely love flying.” So Hamilton set about figuring out a way to get into the aviation industry and make a living. He renewed his pilot’s license, bought a Diamond Star four-seater... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Business of Biotech
is not a postdoc lab, this is a business. It's not enough just to do the experiment; somebody's got to take the ball and run with it." Lately, competition in the biotech industry has become more heated than ever, as a steadily increasing... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
hesitation to treat companies in an unequal fashion. In the cell phone market, the Turkish government sets both minimum and maximum prices. And the prices set for Turkcell are different than those for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
The FBI has ordered Apple’s help unlocking an alleged terrorist’s iPhone. The company has opposed the request and turned to the court of public opinion for help with a verdict. As a House Judiciary Committee hearing gets underway this week, customers, lawmakers, and... View Details
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A Rewarding Work Life - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
work. Business historian Harold Livesay writes that Land "advocated a belief in the harmony and symbiosis among work, virtue, profit, beauty, technology, and progress." 32 Addressing the future of industrial research in 1944, Land... View Details
- 31 May 2018
- Blog Post
Yes, Introverts CAN Network Successfully: A Brief How-To for People Who "Hate" Networking
industry they are interested in; 2) the role or function they would like to have; 3) the location they prefer. Knowing what you want allows you to identify the potential mentors with whom you want to network: people in the industries,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
Straughn-Turner learned a great deal, and was eager to continue his education. Applying to business school felt like the natural next step for this lifelong learner, and an ideal way to pivot into another industry he was drawn to – real... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 08 Nov 2023
- Blog Post
Zone Defense: These self-driving, AI-powered drones do recon so soldiers don’t have to
idea,’” Tseng recalls his older brother, Ryan, telling him. Ryan Tseng had already started two successful companies, and where Brandon saw a business opportunity in building AI software to operate unmanned systems for the military, Ryan saw a behemoth defense View Details
- 30 Apr 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World
overlap in executive authority slows down the approval of new projects and reduces coordination across initiatives. Delegating more planning authority to local wards and communities could help accelerate climate action, especially because each ward has different View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details