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  • March 2021 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (A)

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski
In 2017, the International Finance Corporation (IFC) faced the first big investment decision in its new Scaling Solar project. Founded in 1956, IFC was an international investment body with national governments as shareholders, whose mission was to promote economic... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Investment; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry; Zambia
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  • Research Summary

Railroads and the Making of Modern China

My current book project is entitled Railroads and the Making of the Modern China and explores China’s economic and socio-political transformation from the last decades of the empire to the present using railroad infrastructure as a focus. Based on a large... View Details

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We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
    • Case

    Russia: The End of a Time of Troubles?

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal
    Describes Russia's troubled economic transition since 1991, highlights the problem of institutional development, and surveys the challenges President Vladimir Putin faced in 2000. The first section provides a brief synopsis of liberalization, stabilization, and... View Details
    Keywords: Transition; Public Sector; Privatization; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Russia
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    • January 2013
    • Supplement

    Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B)

    By: William C. Kirby, Nancy Hua Dai and Erica M. Zendell
    Supplements the A Case 308-058. With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different political and economic changes in China to succeed as a global leader in the auto parts industry, and to... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Global Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Vertical Integration; Goals and Objectives; Mergers and Acquisitions; Auto Industry; China; United States
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    • 2023
    • Book

    Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia

    By: Meg Rithmire
    Developing Asia has been the site of some of the last century's fastest growing economies as well as some of the world's most durable authoritarian regimes. Many accounts of rapid growth alongside monopolies on political power have focused on crony relationships... View Details
    Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; China; Indonesia; Malaysia
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    • January 2007
    • Case

    Robert E. Rubin (A)

    By: Nitin Nohria, Robert Steven Kaplan and Nicole Davison
    Bob Rubin was a businessman given the task of setting up and running the National Economic Council for the Clinton Administration. Unfamiliar with management in a political climate, Rubin worked hard to design, staff, and position the Council to make better economic... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Government and Politics; Managerial Roles; Macroeconomics; Organizational Design; Economy
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    • October 2024
    • Background Note

    Outsourcing Primer

    By: Willy C. Shih
    This note provides some background on one of the key resource allocation decisions managers make as they develop and produce products and services: what should they do with the walls of their own firm, and what they should depend upon suppliers or contractors to... View Details
    Keywords: Outsourcing; Offshoring And Outsourcing; Production; Product Development; Resource Allocation; Supply Chain Management; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Asia
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    • January 1993 (Revised October 1993)
    • Case

    Medtronic, Inc.

    In 1991, Bill George, CEO of Medtronic, the world's largest manufacturer of pacemakers, was evaluating his strategic options in light of the changing economic environment. In the United States, Europe, and Japan, governments were considering regulatory changes to... View Details
    Keywords: Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Policy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • 16 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Strategy and the Internet

    applications makes it more difficult to sustain operational advantages than ever. In previous generations of information technology, application development was often complex, arduous, time consuming, and hugely expensive. These traits... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
    • 2018
    • Book

    New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy

    By: Robert Fredona and Sophus A. Reinert
    This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end... View Details
    Keywords: Economics; Government and Politics; History
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    • 14 Nov 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: November 14, 2007

    Supplements the case "Nestle's Milk District Model: Economic Development for a Value-Added Food Chain and Improved Nutrition." Purchase this supplement:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Black Out-Migration and Southern Political Realignment

    By: Leah Boustan and Marco Tabellini
    Can emigration from less democratic and economically less developed areas induce political and economic change? We study this question in the context of the second Great Migration of African Americans (1940–1970), when more than 4 million blacks left the U.S. South and... View Details
    Keywords: Great Migration; Immigration; Race; Government and Politics; Economics; United States
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    • June 2002
    • Case

    "One Country, Two Systems"? Italy and the Mezzogiorno (B)

    By: Bruce R. Scott and Jamie Matthews
    In 1992, a corruption investigation and two assassinations created a crisis that prompted the Italian government to dispatch 7,000 troops to Sicily to "retake the island" from the Mafia. This case examines the crisis and the efforts of both the Italian state and the... View Details
    Keywords: History; National Security; Crime and Corruption; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Italy
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    • January 2001
    • Background Note

    Country Analysis in a "Global Village"

    By: Bruce R. Scott
    Substantially rewritten to establish the relevance of countries in the global context. It does so in terms of their differing economic performance in recent decades, and also by contrasting those that have "converged" toward the rich country norm (as theory would... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Macroeconomics; Trade; Business Strategy; Performance Evaluation; Industry Growth; Currency; Policy; Development Economics
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      Joseph B. Lassiter

      Joe is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired. He focuses on one of the world’s most pressing problems: developing clean, secure and carbon-neutral supplies of reliable, low-cost energy all around the world. He... View Details

      Keywords: green technology; high technology; internet; oil ＆ gas; private equity (LBO funds); utilities; software; energy
      • 02 Nov 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Kevin Boudreau, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School

      • June 2001
      • Teaching Note

      Teaching IT Executive Education Courses TN

      By: Richard L. Nolan
      In the information age, it is important that IT be addressed in an effective way accessible to practicing executives. Teaching IT to executives continues to change in concepts and content as IT penetrates deeply into every area of business. Driven by Moore's Law, the... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Developing Countries and Economies; Business Education; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Improvement; Information Technology
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      • 28 Jan 2022
      • HBS Seminar

      Julie Battilana, HBS