Difficult Middles - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

but it is all too easy to fill in the 'facts' after history takes place, and then very difficult to duplicate in another arena." Gerald Nanninga added " capitalism has a bias for making money Hence, one needs to make social good more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

savings difficult by changing the savings decision-making process, the time and place for savings, or the cost-benefit of savings itself. Such ideas could help low- to moderate-income households, and anyone else, build assets and put... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

12 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Student Portraits - Armed Forces Alumni Association

the fight for Mosul in 2016-2017. At the same time, there is a tremendous bill that is paid, not just in terms of life and health, but also in time that is spent away from family. Before HBS, I do not think that I have ever adequately reflected on the immense value of... View Details

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

Patients with resources can easily go where care is provided. "Historically doctors moved from Africa and India to London and New York to provide care. Now we are basically flipping it around and saying, 'Why don't the patients move? It's not as View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

09 Jun 2024
Blog Post

The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back

did you decide to pursue an MBA?Pre-HBS I worked in Kenya, the Middle East, and South Africa. In the English-speaking world, the video game industry is known to be prominent in the West Coast of the US. In general, finding a way to enter... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

many stocks in a lot of countries and weighting the countries more or less equally. It's simply too difficult to predict which market's going to be down 67 percent and which one's going to be up 102 percent in any given year.” Biggest... View Details

Teaching Interest

Managing Human Capital

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

Enterprise Fund was doing on the ground and to see what else I could do in Egypt—and that was too difficult to judge from the United States.” In September 2018, she returned to Cairo. At Consoleya, a Cairo coworking space: “I’m cautious... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

talk, most people would rather do anything but fail. Failure, it seems, is fine in theory, and fine for other people, but difficult to accept for ourselves. Moreover, our efforts to learn from failure skew towards the self-serving and... View Details

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how challenging their business environments were even two decades ago,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

01 Dec 2018
News

Trade Off

at how much of that has gone to the new middle class in Asia, India, and China, and not to the working middle class in the already developed world—that’s where you see the revolt. Given the importance of... View Details

11 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Free Trade Needs Nurturing—and Other Lessons from History

over the past few decades has generated more wealth than any previous period in human history. But if you look, percentage-wise, at how much of that has gone to the new middle class in Asia, India, and China, and not to the working View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto; Aerospace; Chemical; Consumer Products; Electronics; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing; Shipping; Transportation

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Global Activities 2020-2021 - Global Activities 2021

industry in Lebanon rife with corruption. Professor Nien-hê Hsieh wrote the case “Cedar Environmental: Innovation vs. Corruption” with HBS’s Middle East and North Africa Research Center to explore the “gray area” of leadership—that... View Details

02 Sep 2021
News

Back to School

investment banking to become a seventh-grade math teacher at Harlem West Middle School, teaching for three years before taking positions in school leadership at Success Academy Midtown West and Harlem Central View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

the mass merchants have gone after the middle class, but as income bifurcation happens and the middle class tends to disappear, you don't have the disposable income to take advantage of. In just about any... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

huge loss of capital. And, in fact, a lot of knowledge was lost in that transition. Many people had to figure out new things, had to learn how to operate under difficult circumstances. But for Akın, who was as an outsider in the previous... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
News

Selling Digital Privacy

a middle ground, says Deighton, but it will take a new kind of institution, a personal data clearinghouse, to give consumers back their marketplace identities. In proposing a market-based solution to the consumer-privacy problem, Deighton... View Details

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

Profile

Diane Esber

community," Dianne says. "The classes I saw were incredibly dynamic. And you get to know people from all over the world, very well – that would be difficult to do without the sections." Opportunities for growth If there is... View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

Case Study: A Place at the Table

several professors who never called on a woman in class "unless it was a discussion of a 'woman's product.'" A Class of 1973 alumna recalls professors "who, in the middle of a class, would look at the women and the African Americans and... View Details