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- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
increasing connectedness and the impact of our actions in one place on the situation in another. "We cannot deal without understanding the connections we're making," said Stevenson. "You may want to look at these four points," he said, "and see... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Case
Kickstarting Tomato Jos in Nigeria
By: Sophus A. Reinert and Risa Kavalercik
In the spring of 2016, Mira Mehta (HBS 2014), faced a difficult decision. Following a successful Kickstarter campaign and winning the second place in the HBS New Venture Competition—Social Enterprise Track, she had moved to Northern Nigeria, where she founded the... View Details
Keywords: Nigeria; Entrepreneurs; Import Substitution; China In Africa; Killer Tomato Paste; Mira Mehta; Tomato Jos; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government Legislation; Business History; Emerging Markets; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Nigeria
Reinert, Sophus A., and Risa Kavalercik. "Kickstarting Tomato Jos in Nigeria." Harvard Business School Case 718-027, February 2018. (Revised March 2018.)
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
costs. A variety of coverage plans have emerged in response to a desire for lower-cost insurance, as would be expected in a consumer-driven market. BRIC countries are home to many health-service innovations,... View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
problem. If entrepreneurial interests try to skew the response, in the form of an agreement, in one direction or another, it could limit the range of possible responses to be encouraged, thereby limiting innovation. This is a debate more pertinent to View Details
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
News about the Greek economy continues on the front page of every major newspaper, as the country continues its six-year struggle to reenergize its economy. On Friday, Eurozone finance ministers will decide whether to release View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
America the Difficult
bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American companies. In short, America is a beautiful country for stock portfolio investors and a very difficult one for direct investors. Why is it so... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Advancing the Mission
Growing up in India as the children of government workers, Azeez Gupta (MBA 2019) and Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) had an innate sense of the inequalities and problems facing their country and an optimism to want to do something about them. Together, the siblings cofounded... View Details
- Web
IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog
its prominence on the global stage. While Saudi Arabia has tended to be seen through a set of limited lenses in the West, like any other society it is multifaceted and should be understood through diverse lenses. Over the past few years, the View Details
- Profile
Shantanu Rege
"Investors from China, the U.S., Japan, India, and other countries are competing for the same pool of capital. I want to look at the macroeconomic trends to see how you should allocate capital in a globalized world. An HBS MBA pulls... View Details
- 09 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 9
two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not primarily the consequence of its culture of consumption, as many writers have observed, nor directly a consequence of its less generous welfare state. It View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
leadership of Deng Xiaoping, there was an energy that you could feel—the possibility of stability and maybe a different face toward the outside world. But there was also the reality that it was a country that had only begun to View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
A defining global experience before college can unlock a lifetime of potential
Believing in the importance of a global experience for young people, Abby Falik (MBA 2008) created Global Citizen Year, a nonprofit social enterprise that is forging a new educational pathway for America’s emerging leaders. By immersing a... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the world,” the View Details
- Profile
Brighton Mudzingwa
to be part of a sustainable economic system." But, Brighton says, "By the time I left the country in 2003, it was effectively unraveling. Agriculture was the backbone of our country. But a controversial land-distribution... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
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Global Reach | Baker Library
Global Reach Businessmen and governments in nearly all countries have recognized the need for capable administrators, trained to act in a complex, fast-changing, and increasingly interdependent world, as the best means of assuring... View Details
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Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
the privilege, who didn't have the opportunity? What can I do, whether small or large, to make a difference? Impact For me, such a big piece of my work is the intellectual challenge of what I do. At Eos Foundation we collaborate with companies and people around the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Beantown as a Beacon
help boost America's performance in the global economy. The May event was part of a series of city-specific "Paths Forward" programs held across the country that brought together expert panels to weigh in on how the national business... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
accurately determine a caller’s location in an emergency. After an early career spent helping to commercialize new technologies, I entered HBS committed to finding a better way to utilize all of the technologies that we carry in our pockets to assist View Details
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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising
salesmen went door to door distributing trade cards, trade catalogs, and souvenir publications. A change in advertising occurred at the turn of the century when the reduction in postal rates for periodicals resulted in the emergence of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Campaign Ends, Exceeds Expectations
students from almost seventy countries discuss a curriculum rich in international cases, many written with the support of the School’s global research centers. The names of several buildings honor recent gifts supporting key research... View Details