Country Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Aug 2017
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Into the Light

began its work in the region around Kumasi, Ghana, where Poindexter saw need, interest, and opportunity, but the company now has bigger plans in that country and throughout the continent. “This is a 600 million–person market. We could be... View Details

Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

17 Aug 2021
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Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

diseases in low-and middle-income countries. I am part of CHAI’s Global Malaria Strategy and Financing team, a team that provides direct technical and operational support to countries to strengthen their... View Details

01 Jun 2007
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Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler (HBS Press) Acknowledging that people may feel stuck or psychologically paralyzed at times in their lives, Butler, director of Career Development Programs, offers View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

July 2000 (Revised June 2009)
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Embraer: The Global Leader in Regional Jets

By: Pankaj Ghemawat, Gustavo A. Herrero and Luiz Felipe Monteiro

Embraer is the story of a company from a developing country, Brazil, that has become the leader in a high-tech field, regional passenger jets. Embraer's first family of regional jets has been highly successful and, at the time of the case, it is embarking on a major... View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Capital Structure; Corporate Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Air Transportation Industry; Brazil

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22 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

An Economic Principle For Us All: Comparative Advantage

world output and thus consumption and living standards. On the basis of a simple model with just two countries and two goods, he showed that every country—even one enjoying an absolute productivity advantage in both goods—would benefit... View Details

Keywords: Re: David A. Moss

01 Mar 2007
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Porter Ranks Competitiveness

The United States and Germany remain at the top of the latest global Business Competitiveness Index produced by University Professor Michael Porter and two colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. China slipped nine... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 2001
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Porter Appointed to University Professorship

His books can be found on the shelves of CEOs, heads of state, academicians, and business school students alike. Countries and companies all over the world have embraced his theories on competition and View Details

Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter

22 Nov 2020
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Kazakh Fintech a Pandemic Bright Spot

Keywords: fintech; IPO; developing markets; COVID-19; Finance

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

Editor's note: When did America's declining global competitiveness begin? One starting spot might be 2008, the last year the country topped the World Economic Forum's list of most globally competitive nations. Four years later, the US has... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

01 Jun 2016
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Ink

Future-proof Handling his first consulting job after years of experience in accounting and academics, Vijay “VG” Govindarajan (MBA 1976, DBA 1978) sat down to sketch out a strategy for his client. Literally written on the back of an... View Details

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

21 Jan 2010
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Dubai: Unlike Anywhere Else

Keywords: Finance; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Real Estate; Air Transportation; Transportation

March 1998
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On the Sequencing of Privatization in Transition Economies

By: Gautam Ahuja and Sumit K. Majumdar

This paper presents an empirical criterion for establishing privatization priorities for state-owned enteiprises. The approach uses firm performance, defined as productive efficiency, as the basis for deciding the sequence in which firms are privatized. Sequencing is... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Privatization; Developing Countries and Economies; Planning; Service Industry; India

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08 Apr 2015
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Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

prescription for more commoditized products that can have little value-added and need to be produced in the countries with the lowest costs." Does Parker have something here? What's the downside to disruption in high tech? What do... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

media and in the classroom. Global Entrepreneurship develops strategies for entrepreneurs and investors in these emerging ecosystems around the globe. The course will have cases from 26 different countries... View Details

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

176, 2009), president of Siemens Industry's Building Technologies Division. Fortunately, for most of those buildings, there's the potential to cut down electricity usage by up to 75 percent via various readily available energy-saving measures, noted Philippe Delorme,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2009
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Consumption Is America’s Competitive Advantage

United States, rather than investing massive sums to regain technological preeminence, is much better off becoming the best country at incorporating such advances in new products and services, no matter where the ingredients are produced.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

four times over the last hundred years they've been in existence." But he said they still offer customers a variety that many value. "It's hard to find a store today in the country where you can go in and buy multiple brands... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

18 Mar 2015
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9 Alumni Named Young Global Leaders

members are: Ruzwana Bashir (MBA 2011), founder and CEO, Peek.com, United Kingdom Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009), CEO, Pampered Chef, United States Sadiq Gillani (MBA 2006), senior vice president and chief strategy officer, Lufthansa,... View Details

Keywords: World Economic Forum

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

internal strategy group to determine the appropriate efficient scale for country offices. Explored interactive media approaches for an organization focused on expanding access to financial services for... View Details

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