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and Connecticut General Insurance Corporation, where Jones became the first African American board member. Otis Gates III MBA 1963 Otis Gates grew up in Roxbury and graduated from both Harvard College and HBS. In 1968, Gates began his career in View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large economies of scale generally have higher... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Post-Soviet Purpose
of Slavic Studies. The book describes how national identities influence the world economy and explains patterns of economic disintegration and reintegration among Russia and the other fourteen states that composed the Soviet Union View Details
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The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- January 2016
- Case
Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
Edmondson, Amy C., and Jean-François Harvey. "Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 616-040, January 2016.
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Emerging Research on Emerging Markets
Is significant foreign direct investment in China a good thing? Conventional wisdom says yes, but HBS associate professor Yasheng Huang disagrees. "Large-scale absorption of foreign direct investment by China is not a sign of the strengths of its View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
as the economy shifted from a mainly rural, agrarian model, to a city focused, factory based one We are witnessing the same happening now as we shift to the post information era. Not clear if enough new jobs... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
lives. A Political Economy of Justice Edited By Danielle Allen; Yochai Benkler; Leah Downey; Rebecca Henderson, the John and Natty McArthur University Professor; and Joshua Simons University of Chicago Press If we can agree that our... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
Asia-based old economy and new economy firms. The development of supplier and client relationship management in Japanese companies. Business frontiers are being pushed back in countries throughout the... View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
and the period from the mid-1950s to the mid-1970s. During another productivity bonanza, the one that extended from 1995 to about 2005, we speculated in one of these first columns on the possibility that organizations producing new View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
HBS faculty engage in a panel discussion in Beijing. A visit to China Merchant Bank will inform BGIE and other courses at HBS. When Baker Foundation Professor F. Warren McFarlan first visited China in 1979, he traveled there with his wife... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Ideas: Books
the last 200 years: how they pursued resources and markets across borders in the 19th century, coped with the global economy’s collapse between the two world wars, and are driving the world economy as the colossal enterprises of today.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Ink: Talking Shop
specializes in retail turnarounds and transformation. Here, Bines shares a few words about his new book and two other indispensable texts about the trade. The Metail Economy 6 Strategies for Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa, newly rising from years of... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
marks clear dividing lines between China’s domestic economy and the rest of the world. It shows how China seeks to manage the links between the two just when western countries are also focusing on decoupling. In order to prosper, business... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in the ways in which Mexico’s long history with authoritarian... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Broken Link
internet was in the computer lab,” Marwell says, “and it was really hard for teachers to integrate technology into their curriculums.” While the American economy was being transformed by 21st-century high-speed internet, Wi-Fi, and a... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
A Stitch in Time (Second Edition) by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond, and David Weil (Oxford University Press) Spurred on by advances in information technology, a retailing revolution has been taking place during... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
Looking to Rwanda’s Future
investing where the country has a natural competitive advantage,” Goldstein explains. That strategy has led to significant advances in areas such as tourism, coffee and tea production, and incubators and maker spaces for start-up businesses. “Rwanda has one of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Frank Blethen (PMD 35, 1978)
shouldn't be that way. THERE IS ONLY ONE decision I would change. In 2007, when we knew the economy was starting to go south, we talked about selling our papers in Maine. Every rational thought I had said, "Sell them, or you'll be sorry."... View Details
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