Middle East - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2004
News

New Horizons for Iraq

most recently as a Middle East expert at Oxford University and as chairman of Falcon Intercapital in Geneva, Switzerland. “Most of the Iraqi Governing Council and Cabinet believe in free market principles... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

13 Feb 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Students Reflect on COP28

Some of the best connections were serendipitous, sitting down at a lunch bench next to solar engineers who taught me about the necessity of tracking panels for Middle East projects or investors in South... View Details

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

assistant director of the School's Middle East and North Africa Research Center. Robin Abrahams is a research associate at HBS. [Image: Shutterstock/Christian Horz] What steps are you taking to cope with the... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

05 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 5

GDP, trade, and the budget. Internationally, Saudi Arabia's Middle East region was a mess; troubles as always with Israel and Palestine, but also with Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Iran. In all of this, a central... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

February 2023
Supplement

Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details

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Purchase

01 Jun 2006
News

One-on-One with Tom Oreck

Oreck’s guidance, New Orleans–based Oreck Corporation had steadily grown into a national brand known for its lightweight, powerful vacuums. As it prospered, the company acquired a manufacturing plant eighty miles east in coastal Long... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

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Year in Review | Annual Report 2024

Ohnouna, Rebecca Sichel, and Daniel Silberwasser) and Middle East and North Africa Club (Loujaine AlMoallim, Line Hachem, and Abdullah Mahomed), along with Teresa Danso-Danquah—all members of the MBA Class... View Details

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

Housing costs too much for working-class families. Young adults are forced to live with parents, or cram together. Households spend more money on housing than they can afford. For Americans, the news is depressingly familiar. Israel, a land that outsiders see only as... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate

October 2024
Case

Allurion: Competing in the Age of GLP-1

By: Satish Tadikonda, Rajiv Lal, David Lane and Sarah Sasso

Shantanu Gaur had built Allurion into a formidable business internationally, providing obesity patients with a less invasive option long before GLP-1 drugs became the latest craze. Selling Allurion's medical device across 60+ countries, he awaited FDA approval to bring... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; United States; United Kingdom; France; India; Brazil; Middle East

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Educators

01 Jun 2007
News

Profiles from the class of 2007

After HBS, Hussein will work and gain experience in private equity and venture capital in New York or London, with the long-term goal of setting up his own firm in the Middle East to connect Israeli and Arab... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

is the only way to identify the whereabouts of the otherwise invisible virus, similar to collecting enemy intelligence in time of war. From its experience with the Middle East Respiratory Syndrome (MERS)... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

performance, even after controlling for current performance, and that this relation is driven by the perceptions of middle management and professional staff rather than senior executives, hourly, or commissioned workers. Taken together,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

finance-related issues and the experiences they go through. Saad Hashmi Associate Corporate Relationship Mangaer at HSBC Bank Middle East Limited Forecast financial success in the near and long term and... View Details

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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

published in Organization Science , Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies, Contexts, and Idafat: Arab Journal of Sociology (in Arabic). Her current book project, The Messy View Details

07 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

School Case 708-477 This is the story of MTC, a Kuwaiti telecom company that has grown from a sleepy, state monopoly to become one of the fastest growing telecom companies in the world, with the largest regional footprint across the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2001
News

September 11: A Community Reflects

United States in 1984 and graduated from Stanford University in 1989. He was a Baker Scholar at HBS. At Monitor, he worked extensively in the United States, Korea, and Europe. He established the firm's Istanbul office, helped develop Monitor's Central/ Eastern European... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

to enroll at a local university. University was the bridge to who I am today. Frank Magwegwe (AMP 185, 2013) Segment Head, Momentum Retail A dream grounded I’ve been intrigued by aviation since childhood. After HBS I spent several years in the View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

Career Coach

Carole Carlson

Carole (HBS '98) has a wide ranging business background, with particular expertise coaching MBAs and executives. She has a passion for helping individuals develop their career vision and implement it via practical job search skills, including strategy development,... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Education; Entrepreneurship; Government; Health Care; Hospitality; Real Estate; Social Enterprise

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

If you are an executive of a multinational looking for geographies in which to expand your markets, operations, and investments, is China more attractive than India? South Africa better than Mexico? Does Russia have more promise than the United States? The answer you... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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