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  • 03 Apr 2019
  • Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

challenges and opportunities facing small businesses, the rise of fintech innovation, and the policy implications for regulation. Martha Lagace: How do you define small business? Karen Mills: Small businesses are all different, of course.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities

described President Clinton's Partnership for Economic Growth and Opportunity in Africa, a plan to stimulate trade with the continent, spur greater private-sector investment, and provide debt relief and... View Details
  • August 2009 (Revised September 2009)
  • Case

Tenova: Mining for Growth in an Economic Crisis

By: Gary P. Pisano, Elena Corsi and Elisa Farri
In December 2008, Gianluigi Nova, CEO of Tenova SpA, a technology and equipment supplier to the metals and mining industry, had to choose between two options. The first was to continue growing in the company's core business: equipment for the steel production. The... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Leadership; Crisis Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Diversification; Industrial Products Industry; Mining Industry
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  • 2022
  • White Paper

The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement

By: Matt Sigelman, Joseph Fuller, Nik Dawson and Gad Levanon
The American Opportunity Index: A Corporate Scorecard of Worker Advancement is a new effort to give companies and other stakeholders a set of robust tools that measure how well major employers are doing in fostering economic mobility for workers and how they could do... View Details
Keywords: Upward Mobility; Career Advancement; Personal Development and Career; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Wages; Human Capital; Recruitment
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  • 01 Sep 2015
  • News

Opening Minds Through Expanded Learning Opportunities

their financial knowledge to highlight economic dimensions of the debates." Moskowitz, who is interested in someday entering politics, says it was "extraordinary to push beyond finance, operations, and strategy and have the chance to... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Getting Laid Off: An Opportunity for Reinvention

of a wave of economic growth. And the job came with all the trappings, like a flexible schedule, unlimited paid time off, and access to Peloton bikes for morning or lunchtime workouts at the office gym. Then COVID-19 happened, and on... View Details
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Finance and the Economic Recovery

Illustration by Michael Austin A pandemic that has caused public health and economic crises also has afforded business leaders the opportunity to better understand and lead through disruptions affecting... View Details
  • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 13 Dec 2016
  • Webinars: Trending@HBS

Buying a Small Business: How to Take Advantage of Big Opportunities

There are over 1 million smaller firms in North America and each year thousands and thousands come up for sale, principally as founders retire. Acquiring the right kind of smaller firm offers very compelling economic rewards, and you can become CEO of one of these... View Details
  • 19 Jan 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

opportunity to develop and grow. Key concepts include: In a crisis, remember your internal compass of values: When crisis strikes, leaders often look for an "at-any-cost" quick fix in attempting to save face, says George. To ensure that... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics

negotiation. His latest book is Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop. Here, they talk about how the confluence of behavioral ethics and behavioral economics can help shape our understanding of these questions and inform... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 28 Sep 2021
  • News

Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

which was how the pandemic would affect their careers. In response, CPD made it a priority to ensure that students would still have the breadth of internship and full-time opportunities available to them as did previous classes—a near... View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
  • December 1982 (Revised August 1986)
  • Case

Farmland Industries, Inc.: Opportunities in Barter Trade

By: Ray A. Goldberg
Keywords: Cooperative Ownership; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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  • 23 Apr 2014
  • News

Providing Advantage and Opportunities for Disadvantaged Youths

deficits or liabilities. They perceive the challenges they’d face as adversities that weaken them,” he says. “My perception, having now served over a decade and 5,000 young people, is: one, they are assets; two, they are critical components of our US View Details
  • 25 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

In part, that’s due to the difficulty of calculating the economic cost of all of the factors involved. For instance, some studies have associated burnout with an increase in medical errors, but calculating those costs are nearly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

    Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa

    This review article seeks to build bridges between mainstream African history and the more historically oriented branch of the ‘new’ economic history of Africa. We survey four central topics of the new economic history of Africa — growth, trade, labor, and... View Details
    • 2023
    • Article

    Bridging the Gap with the ‘New’ Economic History of Africa

    By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
    This review article seeks to build bridges between mainstream African history and the more historically oriented branch of the ‘new’ economic history of Africa. We survey four central topics of the new economic history of Africa—growth, trade, labor, and inequality—and... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Labor; Equality and Inequality; Development Economics; History; Africa
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    • 2025
    • Book

    Space to Grow: Unlocking the Final Economic Frontier

    By: Matthew Weinzierl and Brendan Rosseau
    Your guide--using the compelling stories of changemakers and the tools of economics--to the transformation and future possibilities of the business and economics of space.

    Space is a place of unparalleled possibility for humanity, and it's undergoing a... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Economics; Innovation and Invention; Market Entry and Exit; Aerospace Industry
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    • Feb 2014
    • Case

    Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities

    This overview describes how the United States funds and finances infrastructure investment to maintain its economic competitiveness. It considers the roles of taxpayers, users, government allocators and lenders, and private investors in... View Details
    • 17 Jan 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

    a nation still shadowed by Mao Zedong’s controversial legacy institute market-based reforms that have made the country the world’s second-largest economic power. He has helped document that journey as the author of scores of cases,... View Details
    Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
    • 22 Oct 2014
    • News

    Closing the opportunity divide for low-income young adults

    Gerald Chertavian (MBA 1992) founded Year Up to offer technical and professional skills training to arm economically disadvantaged young people with the professional skills they need to contribute to society. In this video he describes... View Details