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- November 2014
- Teaching Plan
Diageo: Innovating for Africa
By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin, Mary Shelman and Andrew Otazo
This teaching plan is designed to help students understand the challenges and opportunities of launching products and building businesses in developing markets. View Details
Keywords: Africa; Diageo; Nigeria; Kenya; Guiness; Sourcing; Supply Chain; Business Government Relations; Developing Markets; General Management; Agribusiness; Supply Chain Management; Business and Government Relations; Marketing; Developing Countries and Economies; Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa; Kenya; Nigeria; United Kingdom
Bell, David E., Damien P. McLoughlin, Mary Shelman, and Andrew Otazo. "Diageo: Innovating for Africa." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 515-056, November 2014.
- Program
Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation
scale Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
caregiving, and the hearts of caregivers. The Long Shot: The Inside Story of the Race to Vaccinate Britain By Kate E. Bingham (MBA 1991) and Tim Hames Oneworld Publications As chair of the UK’s task force... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
business of politics as they would study any company or sector, looking at structural components such as competitors, customers, channels to reach customers, suppliers, and the threat of new entrants into the market using the “five-forces... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- October 2017
- Article
American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950
By: Sven Beckert
During the last third of the nineteenth century, a debate emerged in a number of European countries on the “American danger.” Responding to the rapid rise of the United States as the world’s most important economy, some European observers feared their nations’... View Details
Keywords: Atlantropa; Colonial Expansion; Economic Nationalism; Second Great Divergence; Economics; Global Range; History; United States; Europe; Africa
Beckert, Sven. "American Danger: United States Empire, Eurafrica, and the Territorialization of Industrial Capitalism, 1870–1950." American Historical Review 122, no. 4 (October 2017): 1137–1170.
- December 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Kepak and the Future of the Irish Beef Industry
By: David E. Bell, Damien P. McLoughlin and Mary Shelman
As Ireland's third largest beef processor, Kepak faces new opportunities as well as significant challenges from the collapse of the "Celtic Tiger." The government has identified food and agriculture as one way the country could significantly grow exports. However, the... View Details
Keywords: Animal-Based Agribusiness; Economic Sectors; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing; Competition; Cooperation; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Republic of Ireland
Bell, David E., Damien P. McLoughlin, and Mary Shelman. "Kepak and the Future of the Irish Beef Industry." Harvard Business School Case 511-070, December 2010. (Revised April 2013.)
- December 2002
- Case
National Economic Accounting: Past, Present, and Future
By: David A. Moss and Sarah A. Brennan
Presents the fundamentals of GDP accounting (including definitions, etc.), examines the history of national accounting, and surveys the international debate over "Green GDP." The first section explains the basic rules and definitions of national economic accounting and... View Details
Keywords: History; Natural Environment; Quality; Accounting; Forecasting and Prediction; Environmental Sustainability; Economy; United States
Moss, David A., and Sarah A. Brennan. "National Economic Accounting: Past, Present, and Future." Harvard Business School Case 703-026, December 2002.
- January 2000 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices
By: Debora L. Spar and Jennifer Burns
In the mid-1990s Nike, one of the world's most successful footwear companies, is hit by a spate of alarmingly bad publicity. After years of high-profile media attention as the company that can "just do it," Nike is suddenly being portrayed as a firm that relies on... View Details
Spar, Debora L., and Jennifer Burns. "Hitting the Wall: Nike and International Labor Practices." Harvard Business School Case 700-047, January 2000. (Revised September 2002.)
- August 2020 (Revised July 2021)
- Case
From Farm Boy to Financier: Eiichi Shibusawa and the Creation of Modern Japan
By: Geoffrey Jones, Gabriel Ellsworth and Ryo Takahashi
This case describes the career of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), a serial entrepreneur who is widely known as the “father of Japanese capitalism” and as a pioneer of socially responsible investment. Born in feudal Edo Japan, following the Meiji Restoration in 1868... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Business History; Ethics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economy; Society; Japan
Jones, Geoffrey, Gabriel Ellsworth, and Ryo Takahashi. "From Farm Boy to Financier: Eiichi Shibusawa and the Creation of Modern Japan." Harvard Business School Case 321-043, August 2020. (Revised July 2021.)
- 2021
- Article
Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities
By: Lu Chen, Donovan Guittieres, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar and Stacy Springs
Safe, healthy, and resilient food supply chains are essential to ensuring the livelihood and well-being of humans and societies, as well as local and global economies. However, the ability to provide and sustain access to nutritious and safe food continues to be a... View Details
Keywords: Food Safety; Adulteration; Malnutrition; Supply Chain; Health; Government Administration; Food and Beverage Industry
Chen, Lu, Donovan Guittieres, Retsef Levi, Elisabeth Paulson, Georgia Perakis, Nicholas Renegar, and Stacy Springs. "Public Health Risks Arising from Food Supply Chains: Challenges and Opportunities." Special Issue on OR Models for Developmental Studies. Naval Research Logistics Quarterly 68, no. 8 (2021): 1098–1112.
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
investigates dialog and objects in recurrent social practices. Drawing from both streams, this paper seeks to shed light on the complexity of cross-boundary teaming, while highlighting factors that may enhance its effectiveness. We View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
structure the background against which business operates. The aim is to develop a plausible framework for managerial decision-making that respects the fact of value pluralism in a global economy View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2019
- Working Paper
Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness
By: Frank Nagle
This study seeks to better understand the impact that government technology procurement regulations have on social value and national competitiveness. To do this, it examines the impact of a change in France’s technology procurement policy that required government... View Details
Keywords: Social Value; Competitiveness; Government Administration; Information Technology; Acquisition; Policy; Value
Nagle, Frank. "Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-103, March 2019.
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
social and financial cost of inaction is so high that standing by is not an option, particularly for multinational corporations doing business in countries with high infection rates. “AIDS places a dramatic... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 15 Apr 2020
- Webinars: Career
Is Your Career Recession-Ready?
Dick Vietor, Baker Foundation Professor, and former Unit Head of Business, Government and the International Economy (BGIE), and Lauren Murphy, Director, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD), address what's likely ahead in the global economy and how best to... View Details
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Roadmap for Strategy and Execution
Most books thus far on emerging markets are either investing-oriented (Mobius, Pereiro), or country - or market-specific (Farrell, Lindahl), or descriptive (Friedman, van Agtmael). No book has definitively targeted the corporate strategists who need a practical... View Details
- 25 Mar 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages
- Fall 2012
- Article
Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007
By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
What is the impact of foreign bank entry on the pricing and availability of credit in developing economies? The Mexican banking system provides a quasi-experiment to address this question because in 1997 the Mexican government radically changed the laws governing the... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Ownership; Foreign Direct Investment; Laws and Statutes; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; Mexico
Haber, Stephen, and Aldo Musacchio. "Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007." Economía 13, no. 1 (Fall 2012): 13–37.
- 2008
- Chapter
Where is the Pharmacy to the World? Pharmaceutical Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation
By: Arthur A. Daemmrich
A consumer-oriented model for drug development and use has attracted attention in recent years as an alternative to the much-maligned approach of mass-marketing blockbuster drugs. In a parallel development, patients and disease-based organizations have assumed greater... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Testing and Trials; Demand and Consumers; Pharmaceutical Industry; European Union; Germany; United States
Daemmrich, Arthur A. "Where is the Pharmacy to the World? Pharmaceutical Industry Location and International Regulatory Variation." Chap. 16 in Ways of Regulating: Therapeutic Agents between Plants, Shops, and Consulting Rooms. Vol. 363, edited by Jean Paul Gaudillière and Volker Hess, 271–290. Berlin, Germany: Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2008.
- Web
Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, View Details