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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive... View Details
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
in the advertising business. It worked for everyone. We all acquired a slight accent at that time.” A: India got its independence in 1947, and even in the 1960s the country was still very heavily influenced by the British Raj. I learned... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
Tella, Rafael, Javier Donna, and Robert MacCulloch Abstract—At the beginning of the twentieth century Venezuela had one of the poorest economies in Latin America, but by 1970 it had become the richest country in the region and one of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
related to per capita income. We also find that economic conditions affect conflict dynamics, as poorer countries are likely to experience longer and more intense spells of fighting after the onset of conflict. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 19
differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several countries rapidly, albeit in a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
and investing leaders in countries including Ethiopia and Tanzania as well as field research in Ghana, Kenya, and Rwanda. (Several students have shared insights from their field studies here: IFC Africa: Building Cities.) I believe the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
Seligman gives the reasons why she loves living in Israel, among which are that it is difficult to be bored there and that the country is so informal. Israel is also where she raised her children and found work that widened her horizons.... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
because it draws upon the power of the founding myths of the country (the myth of success, the frontier myth, the city on a hill) and reinterprets these myths in a way that provides meaning for men who work in large companies in an... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
just in the U.S. The rise of the charismatic CEO, escalating pay, and the consequences of Tyco or Global Crossing—these have reverberations across the world. It undermines the medium-term and long-term prospects of countries that are now... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
should have a natural home at HBS. How is BiGS already shaping education at the School? It’s very early, but already we’re seeing some really interesting pieces of the program come together, one of which is bringing in visiting faculty.... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 May 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
country where we knew not a single soul. I still remember the evening we moved into our new home. We could not figure out why children with scary costumes were roaming menacingly around the neighborhood, or worse, knocking on our door and... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
effort to elevate the at-times contentious public debate over the conduct and operation of multinational corporations, this edited volume examines key questions about their role, both in their home countries... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
call failed. For nearly two hours my father lay on the frozen driveway, his body temperature dropping while trying to reach first responders. Yet due to weakness of cell phone reception, it wasn’t until my mother came home from work to... View Details
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Orin C. Smith (MBA '67)
Starbucks the world's fastest- growing global brand. "We're fortunate because coffee and the coffeehouse concept have cross-cultural relevance," Smith observes, predicting that the company will have a presence in fifty countries by 2005.... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
Tjada D’Oyen McKenna (MBA 2002) sits in front of a photo mural on the walls of the Mercy Corps offices in Washington, DC After a full-on morning of Zoom sessions from her home office in Potomac, Maryland, Tjada D’Oyen McKenna (MBA 2002)... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old due to its one-child policy.”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
relationship between FDI and growth. We use 'quality' to mean the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth. However, this is difficult to establish because it is a function of many different country and project characteristics which are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Blog
Emerging from the Pandemic: Insights from South Asia and ASEAN
have heard about the on-campus experience from friends or colleagues and want to experience that for themselves—including the opportunity to learn and network with senior executives from all over the globe. Learning from peers who represent so many View Details
- 21 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset
different resources and needs to the table. Second, over time, Lucci built a reputation as someone who could get things done. There are lots of sporting-goods stores in Greater Boston and lots of radar guns, too. Yet Lucci went to the game while others watched it at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
of home buyers, investors, and regulators. Using the latest research in psychology and behavioral economics, they present a new theory of belief formation that explains why the financial crisis came as such a shock to so many people—and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman