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- 23 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power
They saw a stagnant or even declining economy during China's Republican period, divided sharply between the internationally-oriented port cities and the unchanging, "feudal" interior, with its increasingly impoverished... View Details
Keywords: by William C. Kirby
- November 2003 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Enabling Business Strategy with IT at the World Bank
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
World Bank IT provides services (communications, applications, video conferencing, knowledge sharing, distance learning, information sharing, client commerce, crisis management, etc.) on a global basis to the poorest countries in the globe via satellites. This case... View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Globalized Economies and Regions; Information Technology; Global Strategy; Business Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Brian DeLacey. "Enabling Business Strategy with IT at the World Bank." Harvard Business School Case 304-055, November 2003. (Revised December 2003.)
- 11 Jan 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World
and organizations, strategic planning, and operations management as we have come to know them. Professor Christopher Bartlett is faculty chair of the Program for Global Leadership. Executive Education recently invited him to discuss his views on the impact our changing... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 2018
- Book
The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society
By: William R. Kerr
The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best and brightest. Foreign talent has transformed U.S. science and engineering, reshaped the economy, and influenced society at large. But America is bogged down in thorny debates on... View Details
Kerr, William R. The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society. Stanford, CA: Stanford Business Books, 2018.
- 26 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
- 04 Mar 2017
- News
No simple fix to weed out racial bias in the sharing economy
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies
implications for leaders in three distinct areas. First, he stresses, managers should not assume that conventional wisdom based on contemporary U.S. experience will transfer to developing countries unaltered. For example, highly diversified organizations may work... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
to lose much sleep over the question. For example, Shadrick Shaili commented “China’s motive is to make the best out of any economy they have an opportunity to trade or deal with so that the benefits manifest in its people at home ... In... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- June 2002 (Revised August 2002)
- Case
WorldSpace: Digital Radio for the Developing World
By: Debora L. Spar
Describes the evolution of WorldSpace, the world's first major provider of digital radio service to the developing world. The brainchild of Noah Samara, an African-born, American-trained lawyer, WorldSpace has a dual commercial and social mission. Samara wants to... View Details
Keywords: Information; Social Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Asia; Latin America; Africa
Spar, Debora L., Allison Morhaim, and Bharesh Patel. "WorldSpace: Digital Radio for the Developing World." Harvard Business School Case 702-034, June 2002. (Revised August 2002.)
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A Shared Vision for a Better World
Harrold returned home, he earned a master’s degree in political science but ultimately realized academia wasn’t for him. “I decided I was better suited for the business world where strategic and decisive thinking are more valued,” he... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- News
The Book Making Us Re-think the World of Finance
- 11 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Opportunities in the Plant-Based Economy
You both took Prof. Bazerman’s “Opportunities in the Plant-Based Economy” Short Intensive Program (SIP), how would you describe it to someone who hadn’t taken it? In the weeklong session, a classroom of students passionate about the plant-based View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
HBS Faculty Explore Ideas Around the World
website is a public good provided by HBS,” says Jones, “and its success will be measured by the extent to which diverse researchers make use of it.” He credits the project with showing how successful businesses emerged from volatile political View Details
Keywords: faculty research
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Course Number 1180 Assistant Professor Vincent Pons Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Course Overview This is a course about exploiting the opportunities... View Details
- January 2009
- Teaching Note
Bunge: Food, Fuel, and World Markets (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna, Santiago Mingo and Jonathan West
Teaching Note for [708443]. View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
a home, and achieve some level of success, security, and happiness. But how does this vision change in parts of the world where property rights, if they are present at all, are threatened by weak law enforcement, corruption, crime, and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- April 2007 (Revised June 2007)
- Case
Aid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (A)
By: Laura Alfaro, Eric D. Werker and Renee Kim
At the 2005 Group of Eight summit, world leaders agreed to relieve the world's poorest countries' debt burdens and double aid to Africa by 2010. The announcement raised questions whether debt relief would really help the poor. By examining past aid trends and policies... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
How can a company from an emerging economy manage to make waves in global business? Ask Embraer. The Brazilian firm also known as Empresa Brasileira de Aeronautica S.A. is the fourth largest commercial aircraft manufacturer in the world,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News