Global Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
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What We’re Reading

it’s also about overcoming biases and coming out a winner, even when the odds are against you. I am such a fan that I even attended the Jane Austen Festival, in Bath, in 2010. —Fariha Ansari Javed (PLDA 18, 2014) is the chief strategy... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2000
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Latin America's Decade

common issues most Latin American countries are dealing with. It's a factor that constrains business strategy across the region." Latin America's equity markets are thin and capital is scarce, Ghemawat says, with the result that companies... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2023
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Clearing the Air

Alphabet, Shopify, McKinsey, and Meta—committing $925 million to advance carbon removal technologies. There’s a lot of work to do. As of 2022, there were 13 commercial carbon capture and storage facilities in the United States—most associated with the oil and gas... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

car-sharing service that is now a publicly traded, global business. Women are great entrepreneurs, and it takes an entrepreneurial mindset to transform an organization, an industry, and a society. Do you think today's women MBA students... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

01 Sep 2009
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E Ink’s Wild Ride

Chappell Russ Wilcox (MBA ’95) was two years out of HBS, married to classmate Gina Wilcox and working as a strategy consultant following a stint as a product manager at a Boston-area technology firm. But he had always wanted to launch and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; e-books; e-reading; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

30 Apr 2025
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A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

the US following the imposition of steep new tariffs. The new trade policies are sparking a broader re-evaluation of Canada’s economic competitiveness, productivity, regulations, the role of government, taxation, and purpose within the View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 May 2022
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Bidding Up

public, very global moment began quite simply and humbly, in Depression-era Nebraska. BW: I was born in this little town of Geneva where my family had a paint mill, they had a business there. It went bankrupt during the Depression. I was... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

many other matters that should be possible to handle easily becoming intractable.” For Bok’s benefit, McArthur reviewed problems with the School’s appointment processes. He listed faculty areas that had grown unproductive and suggested “emerging fields” that the School... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

01 Mar 2017
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The Middle Way

continued, and environmental groups led a global boycott of paper producers that worked with local logging companies. In the late 1990s, negotiations began between the logging companies and the environmental groups; the tentative... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

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