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Israel - Global Activities 2021
Agribusiness Seminar as well as to students in his Food and Agribusiness MBA elective. “The goal of the case discussion is to help course participants and students understand how economic institutions and corporate strategy interact in a View Details
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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog
segments. In emerging markets, this often represents a majority of people and total spending; in developed economies it comprises the lowest two quintiles of the population. The course focuses on business at the base of the pyramid as a... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
A Binary Formula
buildings, this emphasis on science will affect HBS. The unique challenges of managing and leading science-based businesses — certain to be a driver of this century’s new economy — demand new management paradigms. For a core group of HBS... View Details
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
Not long ago, only 30 companies around the world reported data about their social and sustainability (that is, nonfinancial) endeavors. Today, more than 7,000 organizations do so. While that transparency is undoubtedly a good thing, the... View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Ghemawat The organizational challenges involved in World War II were a vital stimulus to strategic thinking. The problem of allocating scarce resources across the entire economy in wartime led to many... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 May 2020
- News
“Walking a Tightrope”
stratified society—it's not the result of three years of the current administration. It really is something that has been building over years. Between World War II and the 1970s, we had boom-time years. We had a very inclusive capitalist... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
past decade, the world economy has been dominated by a unique geoeconomic constellation that the authors call "Chimerica": a world economic order that combined... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
how individuals can capitalize on the new, equal-opportunity economy and all of its exciting possibilities. Davis and Meyer describe a world in the not-so-distant future in which we will trade everything of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Learning from Global Immersion Experiences
just India—to HBS and the best of HBS to the region.” Anjali Raina (AMP 174, 2008), Executive Director of HBS’s India Research Center With the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund predicting that India will overtake China as the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Book Review: Hooray for the Huddled Masses
some immigrants could add billions to government coffers rather than be a drain on the economy. Nor have fears of immigrants as national security threats been borne out. See Also Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014 Revised immigration policies would boost the View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Robert B. Stobaugh (DBA '68)
experience," states Stobaugh, "because I realized how much I had missed the academic world of discussion and ideas." Encouraged by his professors, Stobaugh entered the Harvard DBA Program in 1965 at the age of 37. He earned his doctorate... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Contributing to a Better Future
School, Harvard University, and the worldwide business community, an undertaking that is ambitious, but with some historical precedent at HBS, Spar says. “When the United States was in World War II, the School played a major role in... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
economy to a support economy. The second of the "three forces" is represented by the new digital medium whose networked intelligence, flexibility, ubiquity, and complexity make it ideally suited to meeting the demands of the new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
private equity, eventually left Lehman to join Oakhill Partners in 1990, and then cofounded an independent investment banking advisory firm, Evercore Partners, in 1995. And while Offensend was building his career in finance, he also stayed in touch with the nonprofit... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
well known for decades: general management. The old way, centered around cases involving the leadership of large corporations, was not working. (I can speak from experience, because I led one of the unsuccessful efforts.) Student interests had shifted to the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
investment budget is only about $20 billion – for all areas of concern in all nations, according to World Bank Information. Further, the entire GDP of Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, is only about... View Details
- 06 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Circularity in Denmark
essays posted on the HBS Business and Environment Initiative’s Blog that highlights their reflections. Learn more about this IFC course on Decarbonization and Sustainable Production by watching this five minute video summary. Waste as Input We live in a View Details
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South Asia - Global Activities 2020
Road Initiative also took students to sites in China and Myanmar, where staff members of the Asia-Pacific Research Center in Hong Kong provided extensive support. The immersion complemented students’ classroom learning and offered hands-on insights—from both an... View Details