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- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Business Review To Increase Sales, Get Customers to Commit a Little at a Time By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Hoffeld Abstract—This article discusses what behavioral research does and does not tell us about factors that aid the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency. In its early stages, a typical project would have to be commercially oriented and driven by private funds, though public funding from development banks or foreign View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 13 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 13
against foreign monopolies and cartels. In the article we examine how the Norwegian authorities interacted with international cartels and trusts in seven different cases in the interwar period. The study shows that although there was a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
million relief and recovery fundraising effort to a $50 million goal that will aid partner organizations in Atlanta, Chicago, Detroit, Minneapolis, Newark, and Oakland. (Thanks to Owusu-Kesse’s seven-minute TED talk, HCZ raised $26... View Details
- 06 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 6
PublicationsDoes Foreign Direct Investment Promote Growth? Exploring the Role of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, Areendam Chanda, and Selin Sayek Publication:Journal of Development Economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Changing Face of American Innovation
development and manufacturing growth of their home countries. The most recent work here, with my HBS colleague Fritz Foley, studies how U.S. ethnic inventors aid the FDI and foreign R&D sourcing of U.S.... View Details
- 12 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Marketing of a President
fundraising prowess was aided by his appreciation and use of all communications media, notably the Internet, to engage voters. Obama picked up where Howard Dean left off. He leveraged his website, the blogosphere, and even user-generated... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 20 Feb 2014
- News
Managing the World’s Trouble Spots
their health and education programs. Goodwin’s days as a global citizen began in the air force. In his early years as a second lieutenant, during the mid-1990s, he worked in foreign military sales in Saudi Arabia, then in Colombia setting... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
article in a business journal that gives as strong, comprehensive, and accurate a depiction of corrupt business practices as “Show Me the Money.” My own career was mostly in the Foreign Service when I had occasion to see and lament most... View Details
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
community to rally support and aid for the victims of this tragic event. If you have a story or news to share, please email us at alumni_communications@hbs.edu. WHERE TO GIVE We offer the following suggestions of organizations for those... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
conditions. In this case, Western consumers were taking responsibility not for their own health but for the health and safety of workers in a foreign land thousands of miles away. Consumer power has not been that evident as a criterion in... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power to tax, it had no means to repay them. The Founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
economy began to improve and the livelihood of many Chinese rose with it, their tastes began to change. Exposed to more luxurious foreign brands, many Chinese strived to purchase a Swiss or Japanese watch. How could Fiyta build up its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
skin the proverbial cat: Some emerging-market companies compete in several countries, but others sell only at home. Purchase this article: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b02/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=R0610C How Much Is a Seat on the Security Council Worth? View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
from investment opportunities in developed countries. Nari Kannan suggests that it is a product of "thoughtless consumerism ... (the thirst for cheap Chinese goods) ... and dependence on foreign oil," particularly in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
four of the years from 1876 to 1910. Indeed, he built roads and railroads, and he instituted liberal land, labor, and credit laws that favored agricultural commerce for large landowners. But the transportation infrastructure efforts didn't reach the rural Soconusco.... View Details
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Delving Deeper into Development with the Joint MBA/MPA-ID Program | MBA
fall into poverty because the outbreak was taking away lives, sources of income, foreign investment, and community stability. My short-term response to the outbreak was to coordinate donations in cash and volunteer hours to organizations... View Details
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
ramifications of mid-life. What would it take to remain a viable competitor in China in a new industry? Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/309060-PDF-ENG Competing Through Business Models: Introductory Note for Students Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
he’s hosting a tour of the space—and assigning McKenna a key card. Ten months in as CEO of the humanitarian aid organization, it’s finally her first day in the office. One by one, a few other senior leaders assemble in the lobby for the 1... View Details
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
of spending on traditional aid programs in areas such as health care and food access in developing countries, GiveDirectly transfers cash directly to the poor. As experiments have shown this approach to be an effective and efficient way... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne