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Food & Agriculture - Business & Environment

experiencing more extreme temperatures, increasing droughts and floods, more violent storms, and new plant diseases and insect pests. The United Nations forecasts that by 2050 the world’s population will grow by more than two billion people, mostly in sub-Saharan View Details

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Research Resources - Doctoral

Global Research Activities Africa Asia-Pacific California Europe Japan Latin America Middle East & North Africa South Asia Harvard University Harvard University Libraries HBS Doctoral students have access to... View Details

August 2023
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Floward

By: Krishna Palepu and Namrata Arora

In 2022, Abdulaziz B. Al Loughani, CEO and co-founder of Floward, an online flower and gifting company established in Kuwait in 2017, contemplated the firm's growth trajectory. Floward, an e-commerce enterprise that offered fresh-cut flowers sourced directly from... View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Expansion; Growth and Development Strategy; E-commerce; Information Technology Industry; Middle East; North Africa; Saudi Arabia; Kuwait; United Arab Emirates; Jordan

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01 Sep 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Futures Investor

lesson.” Invest locally: “My State Department job in Africa taught me that small investments informed by local knowledge are more effective than big projects launched in Washington.” Favorite book: William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom! “It... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; climate change; investment banking; leadership; carbon tax

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

back roads of destinations such as Tasmania, Baja Mexico, or South Africa on adventure motorcycles. "The novelist Milan Kundera said that when you're riding a motorcycle, there's no past or future, there's only the present," Zobel... View Details

22 Aug 2005
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Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

Africa had accounted for 33 percent of global liabilities. In the 1990s, they accounted for 11 percent.2 World trade barriers were reduced under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) signed in 1947. This... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

27 Jun 2016
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These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

productivity, with the United States, Germany, and Sweden at the top; Southern Europe countries in the middle; and emerging economies such as China, India, Brazil, and Africa at the bottom. What was equally striking to Sadun, however, was... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Merve Ciplak

As a management consultant with Bain & Co. in Istanbul, Merve Ciplak had “almost complete freedom” to work for up to six months, without penalty, in any industry of her choice on an ‘externship’ from the firm. Merve applied the opportunity to serve the U.N.’s World... View Details

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About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

able to reflect back over three or four decades in business. “As President of the Africa Business Club, I felt privileged to help make the connections which enabled African business leaders to be participants in the Creating Emerging... View Details

November 2021 (Revised December 2022)
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Babban Gona: Great Farm

By: Kristin Fabbe, Tarun Khanna, Caroline M. Elkins, Zeke Gillman, Eleni Kyrkopoulou and Thomaz Teodorovicz

In 2020, Babban Gona was one of the world’s largest farming operations with over 140,000 acres of maize farms, an area over ten times as large as Manhattan, and over 80,000 member-farmers in Nigeria. According to the company, the average Nigerian farmer’s net income... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Value Creation; Agribusiness; Capital Budgeting; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria; Africa

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A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

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Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine

James I. Cash

Professor Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information... View Details

Keywords: accounting industry; computer; e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; information technology industry; software

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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Kim-Parker (M... Riding the WAVE Misan Rewane MBA 2013 When describing the experience of running WAVE (West Africa Vocational... Starting a For Profit Social Enterprise at HBS Philip Blackett MBA 2016 Figuring Out Her Mission Ming Min Hui... View Details

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National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Kyrgyzstan Latvia Luxembourg Macedonia Monaco Netherlands Nordic Region Norway Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Middle East & North View Details

18 Jul 2023
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Will Global Demand for Oil Peak This Decade?

Is the globe’s thirst for oil finally topping out? A major international energy watcher says yes, predicting last month that demand for global oil for transport will peak around 2026, plateau for all uses by 2028, and possibly hit a zenith by the end of the decade.... View Details

Keywords: by Alvin Powell, Harvard Gazette; Energy; Industrial Products; Auto; Green Technology

Dante Roscini

Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

John A. Deighton

John Deighton is The Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is an authority on consumer behavior and marketing, with a focus on digital and direct marketing. He teaches in the area of Big Data in Marketing,... View Details

Keywords: advertising; banking; beverage; communications; computer; consumer products; credit card; e-commerce industry; financial services; grocery; hotels ＆ motels; information technology industry; marketing industry; music; pharmaceuticals; professional services

01 Sep 2023
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Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

01 Aug 2023
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Can Business Transform Primary Health Care Across Africa?

Keywords: Re: Regina E. Herzlinger; Pharmaceutical; Health

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their ... Re: Susan Myers (MBA 1978); Richard Myers (MBA 1984); By: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustrations by Maria Jesus... View Details

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