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- 14 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Few Women on Boards: Is There a Fix?
incorporates a focus on gender issues. His studies include a comprehensive global survey of board members, as well as a series of case studies that approach the issue of women on boards from an individual, an organizational, and a country... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
"structural breaks"-privatization, for example, or globalization-and assess why powerful actors across countries behaved similarly or differently in terms of network properties and corporate governance. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Max Reichel
MMax Reichel's desire to gain a broader horizon stems from his school days. "I left home at 15 to finish my high school in Quebec. I wanted to see something else for a while. And after that I decided to stay a bit longer." After... View Details
- 29 Sep 2022
- News
Securing a Resilient Future for Senegal
countries closed their borders. Diagne’s first task was to work closely with the ministry’s leadership team in crafting an economic response to the pandemic. Worldwide, crisis management involved very similar challenges—layoffs and... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Campaign Regional Events
Once again this year, HBS will be hosting events throughout the country to showcase the School’s intellectual capital and highlight the impact of the campaign. Each event will includea presentation by an HBS faculty member. Watch for... View Details
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
profitable than domestic operations. There's also a growing awareness that not all countries tax their corporations in the same way, and that American firms have to compete with firms that face very different tax regimes, many of which... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Ray A. Goldberg (MBA '50)
companies and countries worldwide and, before retiring in 1997, had taught some seven thousand Harvard MBA students and ten thousand Executive Education participants. Most recently, Goldberg has focused on the impact that advances in... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
negative publicity. What should the country do to polish its image? Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5777.html. Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure The early days of the subprime industry seemed to fulfill a market need, and... View Details
- Profile
Di Bai
Career Services, and the Harvard International Office. As part of her transition to her longer-term ambitions – "to make positive and far-reaching impact in my home country as well as the globe" –... View Details
- Portrait Project
Val Mendeleev
I cannot stand still. Having moved across dozens of countries and industries, I want to continue discovering the world and not ever be bored or a marginal person. Professionally, this means launching and running successful businesses in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
Courtesy Debora Spar “We’re going to start seeing many businesses wanting to bring their supply chain much closer to home in ways that will probably make goods more expensive, but hopefully will help drive employment as we replace... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
brand-name multinationals that contract out the work. “In a sense, global supply chains are serving a regulatory function, with companies imposing an additional layer of rules and investing resources to enforce them,” says Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
demonstrate that supplier factory compliance is associated not only with institutions in the supplier's home country, but also with institutions in the global buyer's home country: suppliers are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Hugh Yoon
"different" from us, not "wrong." Not all the people in my home country share the same feeling. Many of them feel that mentally handicapped people are less deserving of kindness; that... View Details
- Profile
Nicola Leahy-MacManus
career? I am excited to manage growing organizations with social as well as economic missions. I hope ultimately to help shape the business environment in my home country of Ireland. How has HBS prepared you... View Details
Chandler’s Legacies
had integrating the U.S. economy, creating out of necessity new organizational forms, financial instruments and accounting techniques. For my Ph.D. thesis, I decided to study transportation technologies in my home View Details
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
nations have improved since 1980, the new instruments are failing to satisfy the interests of either host countries or their business partners. Protections can be improved by developing a real consensus on the part of investors' View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Africa and as a Bain consultant. She is still actively involved with a Johannesburg home for abused children as a member of its management committee. At HBS, as copresident of the Africa Business Club, Mahlare has become interested in how... View Details