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- 01 Jun 2001
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Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
and their role in emerging markets has been part of a larger effort to understand how local business environments influence company strategy. Strategy scholars have often emphasized how industry- and firm-specific characteristics affect... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
essence, doing the right thing. Each major character in the epic embodies a moral failing or virtue. Das compares their successes and failures with those of prominent contemporary players in economics, business, and politics and finds... View Details
- 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,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
phenomenon it pretty much created. “From the foundation of yoga wear, we started a category that before us did not exist,” says Vivien Yeung (MBA 2001), Lululemon’s chief strategy officer. Understanding the public consumption ritual around yoga offers View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 30 Sep 2010
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Can’t We All Just Get Along?
Kosovo in 2005-2006. Talk about making a difference in the world! With the United States mired in partisan and dysfunctional political gridlock, negotiation seems a dying art — in Washington at least — and neither this nation nor any... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices
For a long time, the United States was striving to become energy self-sufficient; now the country is self-sufficient and is becoming a net exporter of energy. That has pretty profound global economic and political implications, and we’ve... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Letters to the Editor
“bestseller” of 1979 makes too strong a case that his policy recommendations should have been heeded. The basic shortcoming: We first need to agree on the priority of the problems and what viable solutions exist. Viability includes technical and financial feasibility... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
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A Man of Influence
encompass political consulting. After doing some work for LBJ, the vice president asked Valenti to run President Kennedy’s reelection campaign fundraiser in Houston — hardly friendly territory for an Irish-Catholic Yankee. Pleased with... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Charged Up
Shanghai Automotive Industry Corporation (SAIC) to manufacture battery systems for the Chinese market presents its own questions, Vietor notes. For one, the joint venture is considered a foreign subsidiary, so A123 can only report its... View Details
- 04 May 2017
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How Sheryl Sandberg’s Sharing Manifesto Drives Facebook
A recent BloombergBusinessweek magazine profile of Sheryl Sandberg (MBA 1995) offers an in-depth look at the Facebook COO’s philosophy of sharing and how that vision guides the company—now the world’s fifth largest by market value. The... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
Baker returned to the United States and was involved for many years in a variety of trading activities that took him to some two dozen countries in Africa, Latin America, and Asia. Observing further how corruption could subvert markets... View Details
- 24 May 2017
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Angie Hicks, MBA 2000
Excellence in Entrepreneurship 2011 Angie’s List IPO 2011 Joins DePauw University Board of Visitors 2014 Joins Indianapolis Chamber of Commerce Board 2017 Angie’s List has more than 5 million members Cofounder and Chief Marketing Officer,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Oct 1998
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Putting on the Wheels
the political and economic turmoil following the fall of the Berlin Wall, he urged GM's senior management to locate a new plant for the company's Opel line in the East German town of Eisenach. Eisenach seemed a long shot at best. Even... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- 01 Dec 1998
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Faculty Retirements
Samuel Hayes and Hugo Uyterhoeven, two longtime HBS faculty members, retired in June. Summaries of their distinguished careers follow. Samuel L. Hayes, III, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, joined the HBS faculty in 1972. An expert on capital View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
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Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers
part that will shift the balance between states, firms, and society," Spar predicted. Professor Spar's research is the subject of a forthcoming book, Pirates, Prophets, and Pioneers: Business and Politics along the Technological Edge, to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
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Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference
between the high cost of developing prescription drugs and patient demand for lower prices. Speaking on “The Politics of Innovation,” McClellan acknowledged that many patients have resorted to buying drugs outside the FDA’s regulatory... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future
Future has three major premises: The 1970s oil shocks were not anomalies but part of a major transition for energy users and producers; the “externalities” of energy use (its environmental, social, and geopolitical costs) had to be factored in to energy policy; and a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
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Globalization Revisited
intellectual fiefdom of the School’s legendary marketing professor emeritus, Theodore Levitt. The colloquium was pegged to the twentieth anniversary of Levitt’s seminal article, “The Globalization of Markets” (Harvard Business Review,... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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The Entrepreneurial Venture
entrepreneurial activity, which drew people away from large companies and encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
Below the surface of the roller coaster political negotiations in the Middle East, a new process is quietly being played out. It is a process in which economics, not politics, is the focus, in which companies, not governments, are the... View Details