Globalized Economies and Regions - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Nov 2015
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Carbon Neutral

implement a “cap-and-trade” framework—capping the total amount of emissions and allowing companies to trade permits to pollute on the open market—fell apart in the midst of partisan bickering. As Washington fiddles, the world suffers... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding

26 Jun 2025
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The Vinyl Revival

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

disabilities, and lower-wage workers, the cost to build simply cannot be covered by the rents they can pay—there has to be a subsidy of some kind. In regions like the Bay Area, middle-income rents can’t... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Feb 1999
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New Releases

Bartlett and Ghoshal presented in their earlier work have become realities for today's global business firm. As deregulation, privatization, and information technology are... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Oct 2001
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Helping Hands for HBS

says. "The classroom sessions at the recent Executive Education program at China's Tsinghua University also really inspired me." Yang has contributed her expertise to HBS through involvement in the YPO/HBS Hong Kong program and the View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

12 Jul 2019
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The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

to the world. And so it’s great for recruiting because people can use it. And if we only service the Global 2,000 then those engineers or those salespeople or those product... View Details

12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

the imperative to improve school quality and its key importance to the health of a regional economy. She also cited her work in the US Treasury during the financial crisis: “I witnessed that it’s possible to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

16 Sep 2015
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Built for Speed

efficiency? What if cars weren’t made up of 25,000 different parts? What if, instead of giant factories that operate on economies of scale, forced to produce millions of the same cars to make a profit, we produced cars in small batches,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Apr 1997
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A Conversation with Dean Clark

such as Howard Stevenson and Bill Sahlman, is growing, and their work is timely and exciting. If I had to summarize the School's mission in ten words or less, I'd say it was to... View Details

08 Mar 2013
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The Accidental Innovator

that Khan finds himself turning to science fiction to try to make sense of it all. Meanwhile, financial backers such as the Gates Foundation, Google, and venture capital’s Ann and John Doerr (MBA 1976) are... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

about the idea of the global economy returning to "business as usual." On the HBS Working Knowledge Web portal, Professor Emeritus James L. Heskett asked readers reflecting on September 11 to ponder "the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

“We can bail out the economy — we cannot bail out the environment.” —John Doerr (MBA ’76), Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers “Our position on immigration right now is more a manifestation of our lack of confidence as a country... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

preclinical studies in animal models including Alzheimer’s disease, cardiovascular disease, multiple sclerosis, melanoma, and breast cancer. Skouras launched Olatec in 2008 after founding Global Reach... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

Issue Focus: Leadership Issue Focus Li & Fung's Global Footprint Reimagining the MBA Leaders come in all colors, ages, shapes, and sizes, with all manner of skills and... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Green Day

Companhia Brasileira de Distribuição (where she continues to serve as a board member), Diniz had already launched a consulting business but was ready to move on. “I’m very results-oriented, very practical,” she says. “I wanted to invest in something that was... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

spending a large amount of time and resources on activities that do not create any value for stakeholders or customers.” The World Bank’s annual report on global business regulation, Doing Business 2010,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

moments of a boy’s life. Silent Winds, Dry Seas is a poetic, powerful, and universal novel of identity and place, of the legacies of colonialism, tradition, modernity, and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

the country’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Morales recently asked club members to share stories of how they are leveraging their networks, leadership strategies, corporate resources during this unprecedented global crisis to aid... View Details