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Finance - Faculty & Research

Tess Scharlemann, Ishita Sen and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva 2025 | Working Paper | Faculty Research In a world with rising risk, how much are U.S. households willing to pay for homeowners insurance, and what does their demand imply for the... View Details
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

we measure better versus worse? Even more simply, How do we keep score? "At the economy wide or social level," he continues, "the issue is the following: If we could dictate the criterion or objective function to be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 27 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Asian and American Leadership Styles: How Are They Unique?

what is done. The differences in styles most markedly reflect the stage of development of the economies and companies of Asia. As Asian companies seek access to world capital markets, they will move toward... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 2014
  • Discussion Paper

The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?

By: Dina D. Pomeranz
The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Women's Empowerment; Entrepreneurs; Saving; Savings; Credit; Credit Supply; Insurance; Development Economics; Development Finance; Behavioral Economics; Gender; Microfinance; Social Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Latin America; Kenya; Chile; India; Asia; Africa
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  • 07 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

"One of the truly big differences between growing economies and economies that stagnate is the acceptance of failure. If you don't let forests burn, if you don't let the old trees die out and the new... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2023
  • Working Paper

The International Price of Remote Work

By: Agostina Brinatti, Alberto Cavallo, Javier Cravino and Andres Drenik
We study how the price of remote work is determined in a globalized labor market using data from a large web-based job platform, where workers from around the world compete for remote jobs. Despite the global nature of the platform, we find that remote wages are higher... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Exchange Rates; Purchasing Power Parity; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Macroeconomics; Developing Countries and Economies; Wages; Trade; Globalization; Marketplace Matching; Currency Exchange Rate; Service Industry; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry
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  • September 2007 (Revised February 2008)
  • Case

Partners in Health: The PACT Project

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Josh Friedman
Partners in Health is a Boston-based, not-for-profit that provides health care to people in some of the poorest regions of the world, including Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda, and Peru. In 1998, PIH established a program (PACT) in Boston to bring care to AIDS and TB patients... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Nonprofit Organizations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Developing Countries and Economies; Service Delivery; Health Industry
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  • January 2025 (Revised March 2025)
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Gavi and the 'Next' Pandemic

By: Tarun Khanna and Kerry Herman
In 2025, CEO Dr. Sania Nishtar and her team consider the lessons the Global Alliance for Vaccine and Immunizations (GAVI) learned from the pandemic. GAVI successfully brought COVID-19 vaccines to large swaths of the undeveloped and under-developed world by pooling... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Success; Innovation and Invention; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Pharmaceutical Industry; Africa
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Faculty & Research - Global

Faculty & Research Facilitating faculty research and case development on an international scale Our unprecedented network of research centers and regional offices in key areas of the world enable faculty to work with leaders, industry,... View Details
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Skydeck - Alumni

Programs & Events Skydeck Skydeck is the HBS alumni podcast series that features interviews with HBS alumni from across the world of business, sharing lessons learned and their own life experiences. Subscribe on iTunes , Spotify , or... View Details
  • 10 Feb 2009
  • First Look

First Look: February 10, 2009

so-called "resource curse," as its economy focused on fossil fuels and little else. Not only would Abu Dhabi's economy continue to be subjected to the vagaries of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Fellowships - Business History

Business School. The fellowship enables established scholars from around the world whose primary interest is the business and economic history of the United States to spend time in residence at Harvard Business School. The main activities... View Details
  • July–August 2015
  • Article

The Secret of Singapore: Why Cuba Should Look to Lee Kuan Yew's Thriving City-State for Economic Inspiration

By: Debora L. Spar
Between 1965 and 1991, Singapore grew at an astonishing compound annual growth rate of nearly 14%. Critics of the island's performance accused its celebrated leader, Lee Kuan Yew, of thinly veiled tendencies toward communism and authoritarianism; they argued that the... View Details
Keywords: Economic Models; Communism; Economic Policy; Economic Reform; Angel Investors; Authoritarianism; Economic Systems; Economy; Policy; Government and Politics; Singapore; Cuba
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  • 07 Aug 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones
  • 21 Jun 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

therefore focus their research worldwide, not just on the BRICs. “Often the main prize today is the emerging middle class, which aspires to consume world class products at lower price points." -Krishna G. Palepu "We have been studying... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Business History - Faculty & Research

and traces the evolution of their environmental strategies in response to growing evidence of pollution and resulting political pressures. The variety of capitalism literature has suggested that the German coordinated market economy model... View Details
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 14 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

Crossroads.” HBS research associate Julia M. Comeau contributed to the study, along with the School’s Europe Research Center. While the country’s well-paid, high-tech economy is humming, and the country continues to generate an outsized... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies and societies, including market... View Details
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

The reactions and feedback from the 21,000+ school leaders globally who have taken the courses. Excerpts from the courses will be shared. Business Development in a World that Never Stops Changing Senior Lecturer Frank Cespedes + More Info... View Details