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Mira Mehta

offers much more than a purely academic learning experience. I came to school with a clear vision of what I cared about, but without a strong sense of what path I should or could take to achieve my goals. My friends from the HBS Africa... View Details

November 2012
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Bharti Airtel in Africa/Sunil Mittal, Chairman, Bharti Airtel

By: Krishna G. Palepu

Remarks by the Chairman of Bharti Airtel about the company's expansion into Africa. View Details

Keywords: Mergers ＆Acquisitions; Innovation; Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Emerging Markets; Innovation and Invention; Africa

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01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Demola Gbadegesin - In the Right Direction

entrepreneurs. “If you don't give it a try, you can't know if it's possible.” “If you don't give it a try, you can't know if it's possible.” Gbadegesin and two Nigerian classmates, all of whom were officers in the HBS View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; democracy; family; technology; Finance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services

July 2012 (Revised March 2013)
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Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (B)

By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang

Shanghai Diligence Law Firm continued with its approach to grow through a merger, rather than organically, and was eventually merged into a bigger law firm in China. After the merger, a refined A-B-C-D model is still in use as compensation system, although the... View Details

Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Compensation; Law Firms; Motivating Professionals; Client Management; Developing Professionals; Entrepreneurship; China; Mergers and Acquisitions; Employee Relationship Management; Compensation and Benefits; Groups and Teams; Legal Services Industry; China

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October 2012 (Revised March 2014)
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Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (B)

By: Eric Werker, Onyechi Ezekwueche, Olatomiwa Igun and Alice Wei

Keywords: Privatization; Energy; Nigeria

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22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

helped pay for scholarships and faculty salaries. But when protestors in the 1980s challenged the board to end investments in companies operating in South View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2020
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Community-Level Postmaterialism and Anti-Migrant Attitudes: An Original Survey on Opposition to Sub-Saharan African Migrants in the Middle East

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

obligations, but by 2009 it was rated America's most livable city by the Economist Intelligence Unit. Countries, like cities, have gone through their own bankruptcies on the path to recovery. Liberia, a small country in West View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

16 Mar 2017
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Making Rapid Progress in the Fight Against Cancer

in 2 chance of developing cancer in their lifetimes. That’s pretty similar to the figures here in the US and in most of the western world. But... View Details

21 Nov 2019
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The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

School. With a theme of The Power of Business in the Energy Transition, event co-presidents Lori Harrington (HBS 2020) and Nathan Nemon (HBS 2020) gathered more than 300 business leaders, policy makers, and students together for a full... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech

01 Dec 2015
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In My Humble Opinion: Joss Kent (MBA 1997)

with that.” Home: West Sussex, England. “As close to Africa as I can get in an English environment. It’s an overgrown farmhouse with horses and rabbits and dogs and many children.” On safari: “I was View Details

Keywords: April White

30 Nov 2016
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Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

guy who looked like he might have worked in finance (yes!). It turned out that he had, before going to medical school and traveling to Africa where he worked on a ship that docked View Details

September 2022 (Revised August 2023)
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Audrey Tang: Using Technology to Strengthen Democracy in Taiwan

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai

Since the early days of the internet, Taiwan had a vibrant community of civic hackers and open-source programmers who engaged with social issues. Audrey Tang was one of them. She spearheaded the 2014 Sunflower Student Movement in Taiwan, where protestors peacefully... View Details

Keywords: Democracy; Internet; Web Technology; Digital Transformation; Digital Platform; COVID; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Taiwan; China; Asia

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Evolution of firm structure in vertical specialized technology supply chains

By: Willy C. Shih

The global market in many everyday products has been transformed by the internationalization of production. In many industries, semiconductors and electronic products in particular, a sequential mode of production has evolved in which goods are produced... View Details

Keywords: Globalization Of Supply Chain; Globalization; Technological Innovation; Manufacturing Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Auto Industry; United States; Asia; China

23 Mar 2021
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A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS

in new ways with incomplete information, which can be uncomfortable, since I was used to having all the pieces to solve for X in the equation. What has HBS been like so far, including the View Details

14 Feb 2017
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Capturing Value from IP in a Global Environment

Keywords: by Juan Alcácer, Karin Beukel, and Bruno Cassiman

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Technocratic Organization and Technological Development in China, 1928-1953

By: William C. Kirby

Keywords: History; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; Developing Countries and Economies; China

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A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih & Michael W. Toffel; Agriculture & Agribusiness

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

December 2012 (Revised May 2014)
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Hotel Ivory

By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas P. Retsinas and Jonathan Lo

Cheick Sanankoua is an MBA student who believes that he has found the perfect investment property, a small, independently owned hotel, on the Ivory Coast. However, he has had trouble raising money for the investment beyond friends and family. Through contacts in the... View Details