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Inside the State: Bureaucratic Norms and Primary Education in Rural India (Book manuscript in progress)

When and how do poor democracies implement primary education effectively? India has earned accolades for its robust democracy. Yet the state’s historic... View Details
Keywords: Education Reform; Bureaucracy; Policy Implementation; India
  • April 2011 (Revised January 2013)
  • Supplement

Felipe Calderón: Leading with Light and Power (C)

By: J. Bruce Harreld and David Lane
This sequence of cases explores how leaders get their team focused on framing, analyzing, and ultimately acting upon complex decisions. The A case provides an inside look as President of Mexico, Felipe Calderon, works with his cabinet ministers to decide how to... View Details
Keywords: Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cases; Leadership Style; Crime and Corruption; State Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Economics; Finance; Performance; Management Teams; Energy Industry; Mexico City
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Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details
  • December 2023
  • Teaching Note

India: Will the Giant Emerge?

By: Christian Ketels
This teaching note outlines a plan for conducting a discussion of the case "India: Will the Giant Emrge?". The case provides information on the Indian economy, a key driver of future global growth,. It discusses how India's challenges in defining an effective... View Details
Keywords: Indian Economy; Development; Policy Making; Competitiveness; Policy; Growth and Development; Economic Growth; Government Administration; India
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Lenders to the Exhibit - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

HBS Quick Links HBS Home MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research View Details

    William R. Kerr

    William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

    Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry

      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
      • 07 Jul 2008
      • Research & Ideas

      Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

      how to preserve ethical discipline when the legal rules of the game are ambiguous and executives stand to reap enormous rewards by exaggerating or camouflaging a company's true economic performance, I... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

        Michael Beer

        MICHAEL BEER

        Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

        • 27 Aug 2019
        • Blog Post

        Meet the PRIDE Club

        during events such as National Coming Out Day, World AIDS Day, and Transgender Day of Visibility. Additionally, we work with the administration to increase the representation and inclusion View Details
        • 2014
        • Working Paper

        Bride Price and the Returns to Education

        By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn and Alessandra Voena
        Traditional cultural practices can play an important role in development, but can also inspire condemnation. The custom of bride price, prevalent throughout sub-Saharan Africa and in parts of Asia as a payment of the groom to the family of the bride, is one example. In... View Details
        Keywords: Zambia; Indonesia
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        • March 2023 (Revised January 2024)
        • Case

        Nigeria: Africa's Giant

        By: Marlous van Waijenburg
        "Nigeria: Africa’s Giant" delves into the economic development and state building record of Africa’s most populous country. Despite being one of the continent’s largest oil-exporters, Nigeria’s economy has been struggling, and poverty is widespread. The country’s... View Details
        Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Government Administration; Poverty; Africa; Nigeria
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        • 10 Jun 2008
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        First Look: June 10, 2008

        governance, voluntary public-private partnerships and self-regulation programs have proliferated. However, because few have been subjected to robust evaluation, little is known about whether these innovative approaches are achieving their... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 06 Oct 2020
        • Blog Post

        2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Curtis Wu (MBA 2018)

        Charles Cooney, taught me that the hardest problems often occur at interfaces between multiple sectors. The 2+2 program offered me a way to learn the language and tools I would need to tackle tough problems at the interface View Details
        • 18 Nov 2021
        • Op-Ed

        5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

        Without leaving the hallways of their public high school, dozens of students from the economically distressed city of Newburgh, New York, have... View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz
        • December 1994 (Revised January 1996)
        • Case

        Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution, 1763-1792

        By: David A. Moss
        Examines the founding of the United States of America during the second half of the eighteenth century. Focuses on: 1) the reasons why the American colonists rebelled against Britain (1763-1774); 2) the problems the new nation confronted during the War of Independence... View Details
        Keywords: History; Economic Systems; Laws and Statutes; Property; Government Administration; United States
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        • 30 Jun 2020
        • What Do You Think?

        Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

        co-op program for potential MBA students? How about greater sharing of teaching or administrative talent, similar to what IBM and other organizations have done in the past—in... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
        • 05 Dec 2006
        • First Look

        First Look: December 5, 2006

        success contrast with anecdotes where the diffusion of CRM into organizations continues to be a slow process and/or where CRM implementation outcomes have fallen short of expectations. Successful... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • May 2006 (Revised November 2006)
        • Case

        IKEA's Global Sourcing Challenge: Indian Rugs and Child Labor (A)

        By: Christopher A. Bartlett, Vincent Marie Dessain and Anders Sjoman
        Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance of a sourcing strategy based on its close relationships with suppliers in developing countries. Details the... View Details
        Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Moral Sensibility; Policy; Employment; Contracts; Supply Chain Management; Organizational Culture; Natural Environment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social Issues
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        • 06 Oct 2016
        • Blog Post

        Takeaways from the Peek Women's Colleges Cohort

        interests, but also in culture, experiences, and personalities. The amazing people that I met at the Peek program were from all sorts of backgrounds with many different stories to tell. What united all View Details