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Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: AFRICA - Alumni

Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Sanctions; or to individuals identified by name, or related to or connected with anyone on the Specially Designated Nationals List. TAX TREATMENT: GO Fellowship awards are reportable to... View Details
  • 2010
  • Book

The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal

By: Noel Maurer and Carlos Yu
On August 15, 1914, the Panama Canal was officially opened for business, thus changing the face of both world trade and military power and playing a pivotal role in the rise of the United States on the world stage. Today we view the creation of the Panama Canal as a... View Details
Keywords: Political History; For-Profit Firms; Development Economics; Infrastructure; State Ownership; Ship Transportation; Panama; United States
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Health Care Curriculum - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Health Care Curriculum Health Care Curriculum Value-Based Health Care Delivery (VBHCD) is a distinctive curriculum developed at Harvard Business School by Professor Michael Porter and a team of colleagues. The VBHCD curriculum, designed... View Details
  • 09 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

issue, managers at buyers and suppliers are faced with hundreds of different supply chain programs—from labeling schemes like Fair Trade and organics, to industry association programs like Responsible Care and Sustainable Slopes, to a variety of programs View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • June 2021
  • Case

One Family Textiles: Stepping Back to Move Forward?

By: V.G. Narayanan, Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais
This case explores how a family business builds a board that includes independent directors that helps to professionalize and strengthen governance in the company. The case relates to One Family Textiles, an Abu Dhabi-headquartered manufacturer of garments. The company... View Details
Keywords: Governance; Growth and Development Strategy; Operations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business History; Decision Making; Accounting
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  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

  PublicationsConcentrating on Governance Authors:Dalida Kadyrzhanova, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract This paper develops a novel trade-off view of corporate governance. Using a simple model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Matthew C. Weinzierl | About

Matthew C. Weinzierl Senior Associate Dean, Faculty Development and Research Unit Business, Government and the International Economy Contact Phone Bio Matt Weinzierl is Senior Associate Dean and Chair of the MBA Program at Harvard... View Details
  • 09 Nov 2022
  • In Practice

COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?

The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
  • 16 Dec 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

other economists offers a new way of thinking about this puzzle. Published in September by the National Bureau of Economic Research, On Her Own Account: How Strengthening Women’s Financial Control Affects Labor Supply and Gender... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
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Globalization - Faculty & Research

heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We consider MFIs as a mechanism to overcome the institutional void of credit for small entrepreneurs in developing... View Details
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Participating Institutions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

University (Riyadh) Lebanon American University of Beirut (Beirut) Lebanese American University (Beirut) Lithuania ISM University of Management and Economics (Vilnius) Malaysia National University of Malaysia (Selangor) Mexico CETYS... View Details
  • 04 Mar 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

peterhowell Summing Up: Can Single Nations Counter the Threat of Surveillance Capitalism? We’re on our own, with the possible support of government, in any efforts to counter the effects of surveillance capitalism. It’s only natural that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

Spangler Family Gift Endows New Campus Center

and real-estate firm and in banking, where, among other achievements, he led a merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation - now NationsBank - in the early 1980s. With the enrollment of his two... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

The War Within

Great Famine, it is believed to have led to the deaths of nearly 4 million Ukrainians. “There were people who were carrying profound mental illness burdens from 50 years before,” Ames says. “Through the intensity of the experience, I View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; illustration by Daniel Bejar
  • 05 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

high switching cost channels are retained with greater frequency. Managerial implications of these findings are discussed, as well as opportunities for future research. Putting Patients First: Social Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Competitiveness & Economic Development CED Competitiveness & Economic Development Frameworks & Key Concepts Research & Applications Research & Applications Research & Applications View Details
  • 25 Oct 2010
  • HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

makes ideal Harvard Business School case material for teaching everything from multinational strategy to on-the-ground logistics. Marketing professor John A. Quelch recently introduced Tesco PLC: Fresh & Easy in the United States, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
  • Case

City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City... View Details
Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
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  • 12 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Business Administration and co-head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Consider that between the 1950s and 1980s, Uncle Sam’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose fivefold from less than $20 billion to more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Partners & Fellows | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Center Boston Planning and Development Agency (BPDA) Boston Redevelopment Authority Boston Symphony Orchestra BRAC USA Bridges Outcomes Partnerships Calvert Foundation The Children's Investment Fund Foundation Citizen Schools City of... View Details