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  • October 2014 (Revised December 2015)
  • Background Note

China's Environmental Challenge

By: William C. Kirby, Nora Bynum, Erica M. Zendell and Brittany Crow
China faces enormous environmental challenges. This background note looks at the historical, economic and political origins of the environmental crisis that faces the world's fastest-growing economy. View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Globalized Economies and Regions; History; Crisis Management; Environmental Sustainability; China
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    Chiara Farronato

    Chiara Farronato is Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School, and co-Principal Investigator of the Platform Lab at the Digital... View Details

    • August 2010 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Rupert Murdoch: The Last Tycoon

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Hari Balkrishna
    The case examines the entrepreneurial career of Rupert Murdoch and the growth of News Corporation from a small Australian newspaper to a global media giant. It shows how he expanded geographically to Europe, the United States, and Asia and from newspapers to the film... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Entrepreneurship; Media; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Power and Influence; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; Journalism and News Industry; Europe; United States; Australia
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    • 22 Mar 2018
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Trump’s Populism: What Business Leaders Need To Understand

    Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella
    • 20 Apr 2021
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China

    Keywords: by Meg Rithmire and Hao Chen
    • 2025
    • Article

    Humor as a Window into Generative AI Bias

    By: Roger Samure, Julian De Freitas and Stefano Puntoni
    A preregistered audit of 600 images by generative AI across 150 different prompts explores the link between humor and discrimination in consumer-facing AI solutions. When ChatGPT updates images to make them “funnier”, the prevalence of stereotyped groups changes. While... View Details
    Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Demographics; Prejudice and Bias
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      Dennis A. Yao

      Dennis Yao is the Lawrence E. Fouraker Professor of Business Administration and Chair of the Doctoral Programs at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2004 after having been at the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. From 1991-1994 he served as... View Details

      Keywords: automotive; defense; federal government; high technology
      • 16 Dec 2016
      • News

      Harvard's Porter on a 'Truly' Divided United States

      • Forthcoming
      • Article

      Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

      By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
      How did southern whites respond to the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we document that... View Details
      Keywords: Government Legislation; Race; Behavior; Voting; Prejudice and Bias
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      • 28 Mar 2011
      • News

      Starting up in hard times

      • 17 Jan 2023
      • Cold Call Podcast

      Nestlé’s KitKat Diplomacy: Neutrality vs. Shared Value

      Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones; Consumer Products
      • 08 Apr 2016
      • News

      Corporate Activism and the Rise of the Outspoken CEO

      • January 1999 (Revised March 1999)
      • Background Note

      Note on Rules

      By: Debora L. Spar
      A central document for the Managing International Trade and Investment (MITI) course and its cases. Provides a conceptual framework for the course and a systematic way of analyzing the political circumstances that confront firms engaged in international trade and... View Details
      Keywords: Trade; Government and Politics
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      • 2012
      • Working Paper

      Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

      By: Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger and Se Yan
      Our paper provides a comparative perspective on the development of public primary education in four of the largest developing economies circa 1910: Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC). These four countries encompassed more than 50% of the world's population in 1910,... View Details
      Keywords: History; Middle School Education; Data and Data Sets; Residency; Integration; Perspective; Surveys; Geographic Location; Welfare or Wellbeing; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development; China; India; Brazil; Russia
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      • 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 14 Nov 2017
      • Webinars: Trending@HBS

      Use Your Strengths to Stand Out in the Admissions Process

      Are you a musical athlete or dancing doctor? Are you a political junkie or junior entrepreneur? The college admissions process has become increasingly competitive, and so students who understand their strengths and focus on finding the best fit have a clear advantage. View Details
      • 01 Jun 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Spreading the Health: Americans' Estimated and Ideal Distributions of Death and Health(care)

      Keywords: by Sorapop Kiatpongsan and Michael I. Norton; Health
      • Video

      Nicky Newton-King

      Nicky Newton-King, former CEO of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, reflects on South Africa’s social and political environment during her university studies at Stellenbosch University in the mid-1980’s. View Details
      • March 2011
      • Module Note

      Varieties of Capitalism

      By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
      This module, part of the second year HBS course MITI, introduces a political economy approach to analyzing national economic strategies, with a primary focus on German economic policy. View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Markets; Curriculum and Courses; Policy; Competitive Advantage; Goals and Objectives; Geographic Location; Strategy; Germany
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      • 26 Jul 2013
      • News

      Is Tribalism Inevitable?

      • 22 Oct 2019
      • News

      Mills and boom