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  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

bankers, board members, or consultants). Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209137 First National Bank's Golden Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 208-072 Executives at First National Bank in South View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • September 2020
  • Article

Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han
Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these... View Details
Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East
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Eisenhower, and Robert McNamara. 08 Nov 2024 Op-Ed How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis by John Macomber Africa faces escalating climate risks that threaten its people and businesses. While governments and... View Details

    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker 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... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
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    Business Investment in Education in Emerging Markets Since the 1960s

    By: Valeria Giacomin, Geoffrey Jones and Erica Salvaj
    This article examines non-profit investments by business in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database, the study shows that more than three-quarters of such... View Details
    Keywords: Economic History; Oral History; Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Business History; Emerging Markets; Reputation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East; India; Chile; Colombia; Sri Lanka; Kenya
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    • September 2021 (Revised December 2021)
    • Case

    STARZPLAY: Shooting for the Stars

    By: Elie Ofek, Marco Bertini and Alpana Thapar
    In mid-2021, Maaz Sheikh, cofounder and CEO of STARZPLAY, a Dubai-based subscription video on demand (SVOD) provider that catered to the Middle East and North Africa region, was wrestling with how to find the right balance between continued subscriber growth and... View Details
    Keywords: Pricing; Growth; Profitability; Subscription Business; Business Model Innovation; Fintech; Subscription; Performance Measurement; Promotions; International Marketing; Streaming; Competition; Marketing; Price; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Business Model; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Middle East; North Africa
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    • February 2023 (Revised July 2023)
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    Moleskine Foundation: Can Creativity Change the World?

    By: Ryan Raffaelli, Alexandra C. Feldberg and Sarah Gulick
    The Italy-based Moleskine Foundation worked with young adults in Africa and Europe to inspire social change through art and creative projects. Adama Sanneh, the newly appointed CEO of the Moleskine Foundation, faced several challenges: First, he had to make his own... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Identity; Strategy; Education Industry; Italy; Africa; Europe; United States
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Bride Price and the Returns to Education

    By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn and Alessandra Voena
    Traditional cultural practices can play an important role in development, but can also inspire condemnation. The custom of bride price, prevalent throughout sub-Saharan Africa and in parts of Asia as a payment of the groom to the family of the bride, is one example. In... View Details
    Keywords: Zambia; Indonesia
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    • January 2019 (Revised December 2019)
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    CrossBoundary Energy

    By: John Macomber
    Almost 500 million people are without electricity in sub-Saharan Africa. Governments and public utilities are challenged to bring generation and distribution to most of them. Considerable promise exists in “off-grid” or “mini-grid” technologies, notably using renewable... View Details
    Keywords: Energy Investing; Economic Development; Renewable Energy; Business Growth and Maturation; Developing Countries and Economies; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Industry Structures; Infrastructure; Segmentation; Private Equity; Decision Choices and Conditions; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Africa; Tanzania; Ghana
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    Placement - Doctoral

    Placement: Duke University, Fuqua School of Business, Post-Doctoral Fellow (2022-2023); Assistant Professor (2023-) Dissertation: Into the Unknown: Exploring Entrepreneurship and Firm Performance in the Minibus Taxi Industry in South View Details
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    Hiring Organizations

    Fierce Whiskers Distillery Fillip Fingo Africa FinTech Collective Fiserv Five Arrows Managers - Rothschild & Co Flyers Cocktail Co FoodCloud Forbright Bank Ford Motor Company ForgePoint Capital Forward Consumer Partners Founder Collective... View Details
    • 18 Feb 2015
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    First Look: February 18

    https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515017-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 715-402 Yara International: Africa Strategy Leading fertilizer producer Yara International demonstrates the concept of creating shared value through the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Global

    Understanding a rapidly changing, Dynamic world Global Research MBA 2025 Woodbridge, United Kingdom Tom Adeyemi 38% of our Class of 2024 MBA students are international. The MBA Experience Regional Activities Africa Asia Pacific Europe... View Details

      Laura Alfaro

      Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International... View Details

      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

      By: Valeria Giacomin, G. Jones and Erica Salvaj
      This working paper examines why a significant number of businesses have made non-profit investments in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database at the... View Details
      Keywords: Philanthropy; CSR; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Education; Reputation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History
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        Tarun Khanna

        Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

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        Global Research Centers - Faculty & Research

        Africa Research Center Johannesburg, Lagos, Nairobi Asia-Pacific Research Center Hong Kong, Shanghai, Singapore California Research Center Silicon Valley Europe Research Center Paris India Research Center Mumbai Israel Research Office Tel... View Details

          Deepak Malhotra

          Deepak Malhotra's teaching, research and advisory work is focused on negotiation, deal-making and conflict resolution. In 2020, Deepak was named MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants. He has won... View Details

          • 11 Feb 2014
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          First Look: February 11

          http://hbr.org/product/multi-sided-platforms-foundations-and-strategy/an/714436-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 313-148 Goldfinger: Charles W. Engelhard Jr. and Apartheid-era South Africa This case considers the strategies of Charles... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

            George Serafeim

            George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

            Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology