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IFC India 2025: Sustainability in Action: Inside Hindustan Unilever’s Public Sanitation and Plastic Recycling Facilities - Blog - Business & Environment
Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
democratic governments respond better to salient emergencies than to less conspicuous ones. Even so, the results suggest that even the most responsive government will fare worse in the subsequent election than had there been no disaster.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
pre-production stage. This summer, Elkins will be focusing on her latest research project, which will become her next book. It’s a deep dive into the recent history of violence in several former British colonies; she has set up research sites in 14 View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist
countries improve trade conditions and build sustainable practices. Back then, fair trade essentially referred to a system of price-fixing, using Resale Price Maintenance contracts to help smaller businesses and associations compete... View Details
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies of multilateral institutions, such as the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank, this case also questions whether aid... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24
scenarios and with expert opinions on emerging risk issues. In order to explain the dynamics of these alternative plots, I show that risk experts engage in various kinds of boundary-work (Gieryn, 1983, 1999), sometimes to expand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery
the disaster recedes into the past, the students are shifting focus. During trips in earlier years, they studied the emergency response and rebuilding of companies. Now the emphasis is transitioning from business recovery to business... View Details
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
content of the work, the context in which I worked, the issues that I was dealing with, the unfolding of the global financial markets, as well as the political and economic situation that shaped especially the emerging markets of Latin... View Details
- 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25
negative outcomes in knowledge and technology transfer. Business enterprises emerge both as important drivers of international economic growth and as significant agents in the divergent patterns of wealth and poverty that have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
countries. The book draws on literatures and archives that have previously only been available in Spanish, while the concluding chapter makes use of Harvard Business School's new project known as “Creating Emerging Markets,” which... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
pre-COVID financial markets were unstable and trade wars were intensifying. Public health in developing countries was improving thanks primarily to the work of NGOs. But in the US, men between 30 and 50 were dying fast enough to reduce... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
stirred up and targets solving the preeminent problem that emerges as the mud settles. Disruptive leverage lies in the hands of an astute follower." Thornton Parker carried this line of thinking a bit further in commenting, "As... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
"made in Belgium" brand position. Provenance paradox, a problem faced by companies in emerging countries trying to establish their brands in developed markets, had not become a problem for Yildiz... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2012
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First Look: May 22
firms-triggered a global initiative that eventually spanned more than 900 BCG teams in 30 countries across five continents. These teams confronted their nonstop workweeks and changed the way they worked, becoming more efficient and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9
manage the Canal better than its powerful patron to the north, the story of the Canal since its handover has been that the Panamanians have ultimately proved better at running it. Under the distant governance of a large country not... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
Asia," as one LEGO executive put it. Uncertainties of Asian retail. Many Asian countries lack a developed retail network. And while big chains like Walmart and Tesco are growing in China, the country... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Bringing Hope to a Violent Land
keep me going,” she says. “You feel like you are making a difference. Without UNICEF, for example, Maqboola would never have gone to school at all.” The largest country in Africa, Sudan gained independence from Britain in 1956. Civil... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
had spent a lot of it on a motorbike, selling pots and pans. Haryopratomo: It wasn't about the glamour of being in a startup because it wasn't glamorous to be in a startup at the time. Morrell: Very few people in his home country... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
evident, once again, last summer. The country was mired in the fifth year of a costly, bloody war in the Middle East, a conflict many believed was driven in part by a desire to secure access to Iraq’s petroleum reserves. “Black gold”... View Details
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
(NBS) institutional framework (Whitley 1997, 1999), we theorize about and empirically investigate the impact of nation-level institutions on firms' corporate social performance (CSP). Using a sample of firms from 42 countries spanning... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne