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- 24 Apr 2014
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The power of storytelling can be a catalyst in advocating for the rights of women
Khana and a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations’ Women and Foreign Policy program, Lemmon uses this power to make the case that investing in women is an economic,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Alfaro Named Young Global Leader
HBS associate professor Laura Alfaro, an expert on international capital flows, foreign direct investment, and sovereign debt, has been named a Young Global Leader 2008 by the World Economic Forum. The honor... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
I’m the CEO of Invest Macedonia, the primary institution in the country responsible for attracting foreign investments. The prime minister asked me to take the job, and I report directly to him. It’s the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
the form of direct investment. That meant that instead of borrowing from Western banks to finance their industrial development, as many other emerging markets did, they got foreigners to build factories in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Laura Alfaro to Costa Rican Post
country’s new president, Laura Chinchilla. An expert on international economics, including foreign direct investment, financial markets, and sovereign debt, Alfaro, who holds a Ph.D. in economics from UCLA,... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
startup evolve into Banco Pactual, which today is a full-service investment bank with a net worth of $700 million. Jakurski has found contrarian skepticism useful for analyzing emerging-market turbulence. "The government will enact a... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Short Takes
recent development for multinationals, notes Spar, who is an authority on business-government relations and foreign direct investment. The traditional corporate reaction toward distant countries' and... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 31 Jul 2015
- News
Sam Adams Could Turn Benedict Arnold Because of Taxes
- 02 Dec 2018
- News
Fostering Great Leadership
the University of California, Olivier set his sights on HBS. He was attracted by the School’s reputation, the alumni network, and the location. “I was born and raised on the West Coast, so Boston was a foreign part of the world to me,” he... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- News
Show Time
be represented at the gala. One of this year’s nominees for Best Picture, Winter’s Bone, and Biutiful, nominated for Best Foreign Language Film, are both distributed by Roadside Attractions, cofounded by Eric D’Arbeloff (MBA ’93). A... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 10 Jan 2013
- News
From Wall Street to Visual Art
investment banker who, while in her early 20s, was working at Goldman Sachs where a set of paintings she admired gave her the urge to paint. She began to explore painting, but remained in the business world. "After Goldman, I went to HBS,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in the ways in which Mexico’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
revenue-neutral reform: A much-reduced rate, to facilitate US domestic investment and discourage transfer pricing games. A transition to a territorial regime of taxation with only US-earned profits subject to taxation and View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Rediscovering America
thinking. You see a pattern through a kaleidoscope, but it’s not fixed. Imagination and the ability to change the pattern have been main elements in the prosperity that Americans have enjoyed, and we need to value them highly. Science is central, and we must View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
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Q & A: Gustavo Herrero
democratic regimes and have adopted market-based stabilization programs, opening up their economies to foreign trade. And just as in the United States, another strong and exciting phenomenon has been the impact of the new economy... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 May 2013
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Thompson Dean, MBA 1984
Growing up as the son of a foreign service officer, Tom Dean spent much of his youth in Asia and developed a curiosity about American business. After graduating from the University of Virginia and working at Irving Trust Company in New... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
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Researching Business and Politics in China and Southeast Asia
years,” she says, “there has been a massive increase in overseas investments and overseas mergers and acquisitions.” “Historically,” she adds, “we thought of China as a place where foreign firms go to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
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Arthur Rock (MBA '51)
California, Rock became a believer in the group's vision and set out to sell their idea to potential investors. Thirty-five companies turned him down; investing in something at the idea stage was too foreign... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?
base. As a result, they get cost savings, and we get sales.” Welcome to the new reality in U.S. manufacturing, where, more than ever, intense foreign competition is driving product and strategy innovations. Even those firms without View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
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This Is What I Do
clinical trials, and unabashedly forces cooperation, collaboration, and openness in and among fields that are sometimes traditionally slow to do that. “We work to see the big picture and then invest our capital in ways that will best... View Details