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  • September 2009 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

Endeavor: Creating a Global Movement for High-Impact Entrepreneurship

By: William A. Sahlman
This case describes a critical inflection point in the growth of an international development "mentor capitalist" nonprofit, Endeavor. As Endeavor aims to scale its high-impact entrepreneurship model globally, founder Linda Rottenberg must determine what success looks... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Jordan
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    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • June 2005 (Revised February 2006)
    • Case

    TCL Multimedia

    By: Tarun Khanna, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and David Lane
    TCL considers the underlying logic behind the globalization of one of China's most prominent companies. TCL, and similarly prominent companies in China, are in the forefront of China's emergence as one of the world's preeminent economic powers. Allows a discussion of... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Success; Business Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; China
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    • Research Summary

    Game Theory for Business Strategy

    Game theory--the mathematical study of strategic interactions--came of age, in a sense, when three of the field's pioneers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 1994. Yet despite the development of the theory and the widespread use of game-theoretic jargon in... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Macroeconomic management

    By: Richard H.K. Vietor
    Richard H. K. Vietor has been studying how national governments foster economic development and compete in a globalized economy. He has been researching these activities in ten countries, publishing the results first in 2007, in a book entitled How Countries... View Details
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    Mathematical Appendix to "What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns"

    • March 2010 (Revised June 2011)
    • Case

    Mirae Asset: Korea's Mutual Fund Pioneer

    By: Mukti Khaire, Michael Shih-ta Chen and G.A. Donovan
    Park Hyeon-Joo, the founder and chairman of Korea's earliest and largest mutual fund company, plans to expand internationally. After first offering emerging market funds to its Korean customers, the company then began selling local-currency funds in India and Brazil.... View Details
    Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Global Strategy; Emerging Markets; Financial Services Industry; South Korea
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    • October 23, 2013
    • Article

    Banyan Family Business Advisors On The Keys to Long-Term Resilience

    By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
    Family businesses have been found to excel in resilience during economic downturns compared to publicly-traded ones. This is attributed to their focus on resilience over performance. Key qualities of resilient family firms include managing low debt, practicing... View Details
    Keywords: Performance Consistency; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Family Ownership; Family Business; Values and Beliefs; Business Strategy
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    • November 2007 (Revised January 2013)
    • Case

    Indonesia: Attracting Foreign Investment

    By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
    Describes the economic development of Indonesia from independence after World War II to 2006 and the post-Suharto period. The coverage of the post-Suharto period provides evidence of how political and economic conditions are intertwined after a change in the political... View Details
    Keywords: History; Situation or Environment; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Policy; Foreign Direct Investment; Business and Government Relations; Public Administration Industry; Indonesia
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    • 18 Jun 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

    Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details
    Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing
    • December 2001 (Revised February 2004)
    • Case

    Argentina's Convertibility Plan

    By: Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
    Describes the political and economic development in Argentina from 1989 to 1995, with a focus on the role of the currency board. Culminates in Argentine policy makers (Menem in particular) contemplating how to respond to the tequila crisis in the middle of 1995.... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Government and Politics; Interest Rates; Balance and Stability; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Policy; Currency; Macroeconomics; Argentina
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    • 05 Sep 2013
    • News

    Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus John E. Bishop Dead at 93

    • October 2018
    • Article

    Africa Rising? A Historical Perspective

    By: Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg
    Sub-Saharan Africa’s recent economic boom has raised hopes and expectations to lift the regions’ ‘bottom millions’ out of poverty by 2030. How realistic is that goal? We approach this question by comparing the experiences of three front-runners of region-specific... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Economy; Transformation; Poverty; History; Africa
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    • 28 May 2020
    • News

    Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

    • 03 Jun 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: June 3, 2008

      Working PapersAccountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China Authors:Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky, and Yu Zheng Abstract Over the past two decades, no two economies have averaged more rapid View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • September 2020
    • Article

    Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes:: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

    By: Matt Buehler, Kristin Fabbe and Kyung Joon Han
    Why do native citizens of the Middle East and North Africa express greater opposition to certain types of migrants, refugees, and displaced persons? Why, particularly, do they express greater opposition to sub-Saharan African migrants? This article investigates these... View Details
    Keywords: Postmaterialism; Immigration; Attitudes; Prejudice and Bias; Surveys; Africa; Middle East
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    • 16 Dec 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: December 16, 2008

    pursuing either of the latter two avenues for recourse. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309022 New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for Economic View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      Gabe Weinreb

      I am a second-year PhD student in the Health Policy and Management program at Harvard Business School where my advisor is Dr. Rob Huckman. I live in Brookline with my fiance Natalie and our two cats, Joe and Huey. Before grad school I was a research assistant in the... View Details
      • July 2012
      • Supplement

      Generation Investment Management, Video

      By: Sandra J. Sucher
      Examines the Investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Accountability; Investment Management; Social Issues; Investment; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Development Economics; Natural Environment; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry
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      • 25 Jan 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

      on how the economic system works and what history teaches us, business readers might turn to A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics: What Managers, Executives, and Students Need to Know, by Harvard Business School professor David A. Moss, who... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne