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  • July–August 2013
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Leadership Lessons from the Chilean Mine Rescue

By: Faaiza Rashid, Amy C. Edmondson and Herman B. Leonard
Three years ago, when a cave-in at the San José mine in Chile trapped 33 men under 700,000 metric tons of rock, experts estimated the probability of getting them out alive at less than 1%. Yet, after spending a record 69 days underground, all 33 were hoisted up to... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Learning; Mining; Mining Industry; Chile
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Multinationals and Linkages: an Empirical Investigation (joint with Andres Rodriguez-Clare)

By: Laura Alfaro
Several recent papers have used plant-level data and panel econometric techniques to carefully explore the existence FDI externalities. One conclusion that emerges from this literature is that it is difficult to find evidence of positive externalities from... View Details
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Why Does Business Invest in Education in Emerging Markets? Why Does It Matter?

By: Valeria Giacomin, G. Jones and Erica Salvaj
This working paper examines why a significant number of businesses have made non-profit investments in education in emerging markets between the 1960s and the present day. Using a sample of 110 interviews with business leaders from an oral history database at the... View Details
Keywords: Philanthropy; CSR; Oral History; Emerging Markets; Education; Reputation; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business History
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  • 14 Mar 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

No Taxation without Information: Deterrence and Self-Enforcement in the Value Added Tax

Keywords: by Dina Pomeranz

    Michael E. Porter

    Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government
    • 29 Jan 2018
    • Book

    How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

    Workers test the NASA-engineered capsule used to lift trapped miners to the surface. Hugo Infante/Government of Chile via Wikimedia Commons (Editor's Note: Amy Edmondson advises managers to think of teams as a verb, "teaming," which means... View Details
    Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining
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    Interviews - Creating Emerging Markets

    Diversified) “Something we have always understood and appreciated was the strength that each and every brother brings to the table. You learn from everyone – It was a roundtable.” Download Transcript Chile Roberto de Andraca Chair, Cap... View Details

      Tarun Khanna

      Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

        Max H. Bazerman

        Max H. Bazerman is Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. His recent books... View Details
        Keywords: accounting industry; management consulting; pharmaceuticals

          V.G. Narayanan

          Professor Narayanan is the Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, and Senior Associate Dean of Executive Education and HBS Online. His research focuses on management accounting with an interest in performance evaluation and incentives... View Details

          Keywords: accounting industry; banking; service industry; telecommunications; health care

            Rohit Deshpande

            Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details

            Keywords: advertising; agribusiness; airline; banking; beauty products; beverage; financial services; home video games; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; telecommunications; tourism; video games

              Krishna G. Palepu

              KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean at the... View Details

              Keywords: accounting industry; banking; financial services; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing

                William A. Sahlman

                William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

                Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

                Keywords: airline; beverage; biotechnology; broadcasting; clothing; communications; computer; consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; electronics; energy; entertainment; fiber optics; financial services; food processing; furniture; grocery; health care; high technology; hotels ＆ motels; information; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; management consulting; manufacturing; marketing industry; medical supplies; motorcycles; nonprofit industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; publishing industry; real estate; recreation; restaurant; retailing; semiconductor; service industry; soft drink; software; telecommunications; toy; transportation; travel; venture capital industry; video games

                  Howard H. Stevenson

                  Howard H. Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Baker Foundation Professor emeritus, former Senior Associate Dean, Director of Publishing, and Chair of the Harvard Business Publishing Company board. The Sarofim-Rock Chair was established in 1982 to provide a continuing base for... View Details

                  Keywords: broadcasting; communications; computer; construction; financial services; forest products; health care; high technology; industrial goods; insurance industry; investment banking industry; manufacturing; paper; professional services; real estate; service industry; software; venture capital industry
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                  National Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

                  Vietnam Central & South America, Caribbean Argentina Brazil Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador Guatemala Honduras Nicaragua Panama Peru Trinidad and Tobago Asia-Pacific Australia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Japan... View Details

                    W. Carl Kester

                    Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

                    Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)

                      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
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                      NVC Regions - Alumni

                      Barcelona Denmark France Greece Iceland Ireland Italy Israel Spain Norway Sweden The Netherlands International Countries Argentina Chile Columbia Nigeria Brazil Egypt Lebanon Mexico Peru South Africa Turkey Gulf Cooperation Counsil... View Details
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                      Hiring International Students

                      Free Trade Agreement Individuals from: Canada (TN) Mexico (TN) Australia (E-3) Singapore (H-1B1) Chile (H-1B1) No limit on the amount of time a person can work in a TN or E-3 status A total of 6 years permitted for H-1B1 professionals L-1... View Details
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                      Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

                      indicate about the respective market environments? How did business leaders in India, Chile and the Gulf respond to the liberalization of regulation in their respective countries? What challenges did liberalization present, and what... View Details