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- 24 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers
or countries that might want to invest in Botswana? Is it a land of opportunity? Much of the continent still faces massive problems of disease, conflict, and resource depletion—but the world is turning its attention back to Africa.—Debora... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
trade barriers but because gasoline prices were so much lower than in other auto-producing countries. With no serious challenge from abroad, and only relatively benign competition among themselves, the Big 3 and their stakeholders were... View Details
- 21 Jul 2022
- News
How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail
as a meteorologist for the Amy Air Forces during World War II before attending HBS. There he joined the class of 1949—which also included “James E. Burke, who later headed Johnson & Johnson; C. Peter McColough of Xerox Corp.; Thomas S.... View Details
- Portrait Project
Thomas Rajan
I believe I can fly. Comfortably. And so should everyone else. Only a half-century ago, it took my grandfather over a month to make the journey here from India by ship. It was the only means of travel he could afford. Today, I can travel half way around the View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
U.S - he was struck by the owners’ lament that they just couldn’t hire enough skilled trades people, industrial painters and welders, for example. Their pain point led Sam to start researching the world of... View Details
- Web
Collection Areas | Baker Library
records of innovative companies and leaders who have shaped the world economy. Harvard Business School Archives The HBS Archives include the records of Harvard Business School from its founding in 1908 to the present day. The archives are... View Details
- Web
Arab American Heritage Month | Baker Library
Encyclopedia of Associations to locate Arab American-affiliated organizations, such as professional societies and trade associations. Research 30 years worth of publications from The Arab American News . Review these data visuals from... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Can a Digital Platform Open Up the Opaque Metals Industry?
them to downsize and slash jobs. “It was a commodity price down cycle across almost all metals. We were obviously expecting a large negative impact,” recalls Chernilovskiy, then an asset manager at Kazakhstani zinc-producer Kazzinc, a subsidiary of Swiss commodity... View Details
Keywords: Nicole Torres
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
thinks, “God, don’t let there be more.” That day’s events signaled for Cohen, the Undersecretary of State for Management, and for other State Department employees, that the world had changed. The two embassy attacks killed more than 220... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
relationship. In this paper we look at this era as economic historians, trying to set events in a longer-term perspective. In some ways China's economic model in the decade 1998-2007 was similar to the one adopted by West Germany and Japan after View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Lyn Baranowski
At age 15, I spent the summer as an exchange student in France, and the world of a small-town girl from New Hampshire opened up. The experience catalyzed in me a fundamental belief in the importance of building relationships across... View Details
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Alumni Books Ptaath’s Hammer by Wim Baren, i.e., Barry Wemple (MBA 1973) Westminster & York Ltd. A 17,000-year-old city is discovered, predating all other known civilizations. A nightmarish blight threatens to spread over the world and... View Details
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Warren Buffett Speaks at HBS
from his Burden Hall audience. Asked about outsourcing and whether the U.S. government should offer tax inducements to counter it, Buffett replied that he saw outsourcing as “a small part of a much, much bigger problem.” He explained that the country's principal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
to Sell in a World That Never Stops Changing Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
What I Do: Philippe Hellich (MBA 1996)
ever-present too, be it a customer tripping on a display or an entire country divorcing itself from established trading protocols. “The diversity of risks is what makes this job so exciting,” says the man whose task it is to prevent... View Details
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Emerging Market/Frontier Market Fellowship Resources
data World Development Indicators: Statistics from the World Bank for almost 600 development indicators, dating as far back as 1960. Economist Intelligence Unit: Country reports and a tool to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
deputy minister and as the country’s chief World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiator. After three decades of communist central planning, “China’s economy was on the brink of bankruptcy,” he told a first-day... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
of social responsibility." CURRENT READING In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington, by Robert E. Rubin and Jacob Weisberg When Minoru Makihara was named president and CEO of Mitsubishi Corporation in 1992, Japan's largest View Details