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Shimon Attie Night Watch (Victor with Freedom Tower), Hudson River 2018 | About

Watch displayed silent close-up video portraits of twelve new New Yorkers whose lives have been saved by recently being granted political asylum in the US. Most of the individuals are from the international... View Details
  • 28 Sep 2018
  • News

Pushing Progress at Panasonic

transformation, Bloomberg reports, Higuchi is tasked with reconfiguring company culture: During his first week back at Panasonic, Higuchi got a culture shock of his own. At an internal meeting, he took a random chair, only to be informed... View Details
  • 07 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Competition of Countries

Countries, like companies, need development strategies to succeed in a world of growing globalization. Professor Richard H. K. Vietor is an expert on business regulation and the international political... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

unacceptable. Still, Madrick argues, there may be more reason to hope now than ever before. Rather than attempting to treat the symptoms of poverty, we might be able to ameliorate its worst effects through a single, simple, and View Details
  • January 1997
  • Case

World Bank (A1): Rural Development (Revisited)

By: George C. Lodge
Begins with a brief description of the World Bank and its commitment to rural development. Discusses the bank's Northeast rural development program in Brazil, outlining its failure, success, and structural design. The questions raised by the project are left for the... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Development Economics; Rural Scope; Policy; Problems and Challenges; Government Legislation
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  • 2008
  • Report

State of the Region Report 2008: Sustaining Growth at the Top of Europe

By: Christian H.M. Ketels
The 2008 State of the Region Report is the fifth edition in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region. The Report is organized into three parts: Part A of the Report describes the economic, political, and... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Performance Evaluation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Cooperation; Baltic Countries; European Union
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  • September 2005
  • Article

Decolonising Barclays Bank DCO? Corporate Africanisation Programmes in Nigeria, 1945-1969

The reaction of British business to the decolonisation of the Empire has been the focus of much recent research, but few studies have shed light on the continued presence of commercial activities after independence. Barclays Bank DCO in Nigeria began indigenising its... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Macroeconomics; Banking Industry; Great Britain; Nigeria
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  • April 1992 (Revised April 1997)
  • Case

Reconstruction of Zambia

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Examines the causes of decline--economic, social, and political--of the Zambian economy since 1974. It takes place at the time of the election of Frederick Chiluba, in October 1991. Examines the problems of economic development in Africa, and especially, of structural... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Borrowing and Debt; International Finance; Political Elections; Africa; Zambia
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  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

From A to Z

ABEREOJE AND ZOTOVA: Two of the new faces (and new friends) of the Class of 2009. Class of 2009 Class Size 901 Yield 89% Women 36% Minorities 24% International 33% Total Countries 67 Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 36%... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

Africa's Way

leaders have worked to create a democratic society and revamp the economy, improve education, and create jobs. As the country's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela has inspired the nation and emerged as an international... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path out of Polarization

“Everybody Knows: Russia and the Election,” Professors Rawi Abdelal and Rafael Di Tella examine the shifting media landscape and geopolitics that contributed to this moment. Di Tella is an economist who has studied Latin American populism, the media, and the collapse... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51989 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments By: Vallée, Boris, and Christophe Perignon... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 1993
  • Chapter

The Law of the Sea Conference: Lessons for Negotiations to Control Global Warming

By: James K. Sebenius
Keywords: Negotiation; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Agreements and Arrangements; International Relations
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  • 01 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

how are you supposed to negotiate a price with the insurers?" Feeley says. "All these things are phenomenally intertwined." Measuring Outcomes Michael Porter's Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness co-founded the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 23 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

natural gas production thanks to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) applied to abundant supplies of shale. Harvard Business School Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the School's Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses on the View Details
Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities
  • 29 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

said. (To learn more about Edmondson's research on speaking up, see the Harvard Business Review article, Why Employees are Afraid to Speak.) Thin Political Markets Karthik Ramanna's presentation focused on "Thin View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
  • 30 Jul 2008
  • Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

relative to local firms. In countries with weak capital markets and burdensome regulatory regimes, multinational firms can use their internal capital and product markets to access global resources while local firms can't. In effect, these... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 2023
  • Chapter

Discussion of Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the Future of Multilateralism

By: Laura Alfaro
Keywords: Global Range; Economics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalization; International Relations; Policy
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  • 02 Jun 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

by Marc Hinterschweiger, The Global Outlook for Government Debt Over the Next 25 Years: Implications for the Economy and Public Policy (Washington, D. C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011) See also Gretchen Morgenson,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

Faculty Books

Banks as Multinationals edited by Geoffrey Jones (Routledge) This comparative, international study, edited by Geoffrey Jones, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, looks at the origins and business strategies of multinational... View Details