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- September 2024
- Case
The China-Pakistan Economic Corridor
By: Meg Rithmire, Hong Zhang and Salaar A. Shaikh
Since the launch of CPEC, two of Pakistan’s Prime Ministers had been removed from office, one by the Supreme Court and the other in a no confidence vote. Historic floods had underscored the country’s vulnerability to climate change, and the country had agreed to two... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
been able to anticipate. As Duncan Philps-Tate noted, “This after all is the nation which elected H’Angus the Monkey (the local soccer team’s mascot) as Mayor of Hartlepool.” Those endorsing the name saw it as a way of popularizing a... View Details
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
International Development Association (IDA). They meet at least weekly; the IBRD board currently has 24 members. (There is a separate board for the IBRD and the IDA, but the latter is basically a 95 percent subset of the former.) Countries are View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
in my MBA elective course International Financial Management, students are required to write a paper. Two really great students—Billy Rahm and Stefan Kowski (both MBA '06)—wrote a paper on the "repotting" of the manufacturer Celanese.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
School MBA Elective Curriculum. Teams of HBS students have traveled to several developing countries to research prospects for private finance and delivery of solutions in traditional energy, renewable energy, urban transit, inter-city... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
there has been enough volatility in recent days to bring that number slightly below 20,000 again. But I think what brought us all the way to 20,000 from about 18,000 just three months ago reflects the impact of the election of Donald... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
unemployed, and demands for police reform and racial justice. But in the wake of one of the most tumultuous presidential elections in US history—marked by outgoing President Donald Trump claiming the View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
second term. He prided himself on being an action- and results-oriented governor. He prided himself on being able to work with both Democrats and Republicans in the state legislature. In the elections of fall 2010, the Republicans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
well-being of society. But those people are not corporate executives. They are elected leaders who are competent and trustworthy.” Is Milton Friedman’s philosophy an invitation, ironicaslly, to more active public governance? Is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
2004, Facebook has built a phenomenally successful business at global scale to become the fifth most valuable public company in the world. The revelation of Cambridge Analytica events in March 2018, where 78 million users' information was leaked in a 2016 U.S. View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
it for the first time last December in the elective course Managing International Trade and Investment. Some said flatly that they would walk away from the deal, while others thought that it was a worthwhile risk to take, particularly... View Details
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
the United States. We've been unable to crack that code of 'courting the poor' in any systematic way, so I wanted to investigate further." Frei, a member of the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, uses the case in the second-year View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
elective Founders' Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. Read an excerpt from The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
affect the bids of higher-ranked advertisers. Consider an advertiser ("A") who obtains the next-to-last slot. The fee paid by the lowest advertiser ("B") is generally set by Google's minimum bid. But A needs to set its bid high enough to prevent B... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
now formally elected as head of state, considers an economic strategy to meet Rwanda's current challenges and increase the country's prosperity over the next decade. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
out. "In Lithuania, the rest of society agreed." The national identity of Lithuania was so coherent, in fact, that no influential political party contradicted Lithuanian nationalists. Even though the LDDP party—the successor party to the Communist Party—won... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2024
- Op-Ed
How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis
Harvard Business School’s Africa Research Center (ARC) and a member of the Finance Unit at HBS. My MBA elective course is called Cities, Structures, and Climate Shocks. This winter, my fellow HBS researchers and I canvassed investors,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Ray A. Goldberg
a neighbor, Goldberg's father insisted that his only son go east to Harvard, where he majored in government and minored in economics. Elected first marshal of the Class of 1948 (an honor he reprised as chief marshal of his 25th Reunion),... View Details
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
derail us." What's the business leaders' mood? It varies by region. In Europe, the feeling is that there will be continued economic progress, that markets will work well, but that there is an unwillingness or inability of democratically View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
to leave sued firms. Overall, shareholders use litigation along with director elections and director retention to hold some independent directors more accountable than others when firms experience financial fraud. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino