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- 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 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
10 percent of GDP, per capita GDP is just shy of $500, and it has slightly more than one billion people. It is a relatively closed economy without a great deal of foreign investment. Today, the globalization imperative is driving Western... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
How to Close the Health Gap
higher rates in poor countries. You’ve heard of the wealth gap. Welcome to the health gap. The people who need the medicines most in the world are the least likely to receive them. “Now that we have such extraordinary capabilities, what... View Details
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
had been closed to the outside world for nearly 30 years. “That trip changed how I thought about things,” recalls McFarlan, who estimates that he’s traveled to China 70 times since then. His most recent foray was in June, when he led a... 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
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Meeting the Challenges of Third-World Development
markets, credit, and other vital links necessary to sustain their enterprises. "There are large numbers of very poor people who depend on the informal economy for their survival," says Lu. "Enterprises provide a working solution for the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Student Conferences Tackle Business Issues
academics for an exploration of new economy themes ranging from getting back to sustainable business models to the emerging wireless landscape. “Over the past year, we have seen a flight to quality in the technology market, where MBA... View Details
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
center of the country and to move goods from the factory to customer. The prosperity that began on the coast spread inland in the first decade of the new century. Q: What were the first red flags that indicated to you that China’s economy... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
untapped power of smallholders—increasing their yields, rebuilding supply chains, and opening access to economies of scale—Masha believes he is on the way to helping more than a million Nigerian farmers climb out of poverty. Ibrahim... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?
via the exercise and the subsequent discussion." Seventeen faculty members from the Business, Government, and the International Economy course and the Strategy course were involved in the exercise and discussion. “The offshoring... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
around the world could improve responses to the next global financial catastrophe. Work done recently by dozens of Harvard Business School students under Alberto Cavallo, the Edgerley Family Associate Professor of Business Administration... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 16 Oct 2014
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Can China Lead?
Can China sustain its remarkable emergence of the past 35 years? Surely No, for multiple reasons. China will be a leader, but not the leader. Professor McFarlan will talk about both the challenges and opportunities for those seeking to do business with and within China... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Business History at Harvard Business School. Jones talked with us about the book. Sean Silverthorne: Given the growth of the Turkish economy and the country’s importance in geopolitical circles, it seems surprising that this book appears... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Conference Brings Global Perspective to Cape Town
growth that South Africa is leading in the region." The Burden of Geography Economist Jeffrey D. Sachs, director of the Harvard Institute for International Development, delivered the first keynote address, a captivating presentation titled "Developing Nations in the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Photo Courtesy MATTHEW R. SIMMONS In his new book, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy (John Wiley & Sons, 2005), Matthew Simmons (MBA ’67) sounds an alarm about a finite... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Latin America's Decade
In One Hundred Years of Solitude, his epic allegory of Latin American history and sensibility, novelist Gabriel García Márquez describes how a revolutionary technology from the outside world is brought to the sleepy, archetypal hamlet of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
says. “Now manufacturing is back. We can compete with the best in the world because we tightened our belts during a difficult time.” “The economy has truly opened up,” Mittal remarks. “The main challenge of... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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Economic reports
Forecasting Service (Economist Intelligence Unit) U.S. Economy at a Glance (U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA)) See also Survey of Current... View Details
- 14 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant
The Tata Group is celebrating its acquisition of the Anglo-Dutch steel firm Corus, and the catapulting of Tata Steel into world steel's big-five status (by revenue). It should. The $11 billion deal is a marker in the ground. Not that it... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
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Capitalism: Past, Present, Future - Course Catalog
journey to explore the past, present, and future of various forms of capitalisms, globally and beyond, introducing them to theories and frameworks to help make sense of the world in which they live, and where it might be headed. The View Details