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- 26 Jan 2017
- News
Finding a Path out of Poverty
he says. BGIE also drove home the idea for him that a well-educated country will be better able to compete in the global economy. Magwegwe immediately set about deploying all that he had learned in the AMP... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
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Fatou Bintou Sagnang
In Dakar, Fatou Bintou Sagnang, MBA 2015, liked to look to the heavens with her father, who hoped his children would be able to fulfill ambitions in aerospace that were beyond his reach. Fatou, who came to the United States in 2001, found herself in a View Details
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Program through another university or educational institution with which you are associated (your “Home Institution”), Harvard Business School Online may provide a record to your Home Institution concerning your performance in the... View Details
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
requires turning away from what made them successful. The tightly integrated business systems that have worked in their home markets are unlikely to secure their future in global markets. Samsung has steadily navigated this paradox to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Marwan Chaar
energy, we as a society of Muslims are responsible for addressing these challenges. It's ironic that the first time I entered a mosque was when I left the Muslim world and came to America. Countries in the Gulf are in need of a spiritual... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Action Plan: Finding Fluency
accidental timeline of the COVID era: Duolingo saw a 101 percent increase in users in March 2020, as many countries put travel restrictions in place. In the United States, new downloads jumped by 66 percent the week of March 16. In the... View Details
- 14 Jul 2021
- Blog Post
From Colombia to the District of Columbia: Making an Impact with Paulina Llano (MBA 2022)
Paulina Llano (MBA 2022) has traveled the world for education and business, but Cali, Colombia will always be home. In fact, it has been her family’s home for the past 300 years, so the city, and the country... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
accountability at the project and policy levels since the early 1990s, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But there remain major shortfalls.... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
Publication:Academy of Management Perspectives 23, no. 1 (February 2009) Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated and influential paradigms in the management literature. Hundreds of studies conducted in numerous countries and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Action Plan: Net Proceeds
Philippines are a few countries where they operate, ensuring chain of custody of materials and ethical collection, with no child or forced labor. OceanCycle has worked with Patagonia, Herman Miller, and Dell Computer to make products out... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
disruptive business model: an online site that requires customers to register, featuring flash sales of discounted luxury goods for men and women in categories including designer clothing, accessories, home goods, food and wine, and... View Details
- 05 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade
Making the best international trading decisions may be as easy as taking a stroll around the local neighborhood. A recent research paper states that it's possible to predict whether a US firm will trade with any given country by studying... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
is extremely impractical, especially when everything comes in plastic and sometimes that's really useful for hygiene. But there are certain ways that are new and different that we can think about reducing our waste, given the fact that we're all living at home, for... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
Cohen At Around 4 a.m. on August 7, 1998, a telephone wakens Bonnie Cohen in her Washington, D.C., home. It’s not the bedside phone but the secure phone upstairs in her home office not a good sign. A young operations officer reports that... 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
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
of a Leadership Team BrightStar Care was a rapidly growing franchise of home health care agencies. Founded by husband and wife team JD and Shelly Sun as a single agency near Chicago in 2002, BrightStar had opened nearly 300 franchises... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
luster. Much more important was the changing world around the United States. Many countries like China and India, and especially some of their leading cities, made substantial economic gains over the last few decades. This rising... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: I Like This Waste Incinerator in My Backyard!
In January 2024, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led 45 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in the second year of their Immersive Field Course... View Details
- 05 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Learning to fail at HBS
hit home the importance of failing fast and failing often versus failing over a long period of time. I’ve learned a lot about myself. I’ve learned how to cope with the vagaries and uncertainties of startups. I’ve learned the dangers and... View Details