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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Investing in businesses and charities brings jobs and stability

Kathleen Danoher (MBA 1998) talks about the impact of investing in businesses and charitable organizations in South Africa. (Published April 2014) View Details
  • July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
  • Case

Property Finder's Strategy for Online Classifieds in the MENA Region

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Gamze Yucaoglu and Fares Khrais
The case opens in 2020 as Michael Lahyani, founder and CEO of Property Finder, Dubai’s leading online real estate classifieds portal, contemplates the company’s five-year growth strategy.
Since its founding in 2005 in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Property... View Details
Keywords: General Business; Real Estate; Entrepreneurship; Property; Strategy; Emerging Markets; Growth Management; Online Technology; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry; United Arab Emirates; Saudi Arabia; Egypt; Turkey
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  • 2013
  • Other Unpublished Work

Household Bargaining and Excess Fertility: An Experimental Study in Zambia

By: Nava Ashraf, Erica Field and Jean Lee
We posit that household decision-making over fertility is characterized by moral hazard due to the fact that most contraception can only be perfectly observed by the woman. Using an experiment in Zambia that varied whether women were given access to contraceptives... View Details
Keywords: Family and Family Relationships; Negotiation; Developing Countries and Economies; Zambia
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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Subjectivity in Tournaments: Implicit Rewards and Penalties and Subsequent Performance

Keywords: by Wei Cai and Susanna Gallani; Manufacturing
  • February 2014
  • Teaching Note

Community Health Workers in Zambia: Incentive Design and Management

By: Nava Ashraf and Kristin Johnson
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Training; Health Care and Treatment; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Mission and Purpose; Non-Governmental Organizations; Motivation and Incentives; Health Industry; Zambia
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  • January 2009 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

KenCall - Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya?

Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact center startup to a group of angel investors visiting for the first time. The task has given him cause for some soul searching: has it been worth it to battle the impoverished infrastructure and... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Kenya
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  • Web

Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details
  • 2014
  • Discussion Paper

The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?

By: Dina D. Pomeranz
The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Women's Empowerment; Entrepreneurs; Saving; Savings; Credit; Credit Supply; Insurance; Development Economics; Development Finance; Behavioral Economics; Gender; Microfinance; Social Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Latin America; Kenya; Chile; India; Asia; Africa
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  • 03 May 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China, 1880-1930

Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan

    Hakeem Belo-Osagie

    Keywords: Financial services
    • Web

    Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan - MBA

    Los Angeles, California Shenzhen, China Taichung, Taiwan Taipei, Taiwan Tohoku, Japan Tokyo, Japan 31 Jan 2017 Day in IFC: Meghana Dhar (MBA 2017), Japan Meghana Dhar Author MBA Students tag Culture... View Details
    • January 2023
    • Supplement

    Junson Capital (B): Digital Transparency In the Family Office

    By: Lauren Cohen, Hao Gao, Trang Duong, Grace Headinger and Keven Wang
    Keywords: China; Hong Kong
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    • 2013
    • Chapter

    Vietnam through Chinese Eyes: Divergent Accountability in Single-Party Regimes

    By: Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky and Yu Zheng
    Keywords: Government and Politics; Perception; Governance; China
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    • October 2005 (Revised October 2005)
    • Supplement

    Microsoft in the People's Republic of China: 2005 Update

    By: Tarun Khanna and Elizabeth Raabe
    Keywords: Information Technology Industry; China
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    • March 2004
    • Supplement

    Growing Up in China: The Financing of BabyCare Ltd.

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
    Spreadsheet to (9-204-029). Selected case exhibits. Download only. View Details
    Keywords: China
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    • 2017
    • Book

    Managing Risk in Reinsurance: From City Fires to Global Warming

    By: Niels Viggo Hauter and Geoffrey Jones
    This is the first book to provide a comprehensive history of the reinsurance industry from the nineteenth century to the present day. Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert... View Details
    Keywords: Insurance; Risk Management; Business History; Globalization; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; Africa; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Asia
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    • September 2005
    • Article

    Decolonising Barclays Bank DCO? Corporate Africanisation Programmes in Nigeria, 1945-1969

    The reaction of British business to the decolonisation of the Empire has been the focus of much recent research, but few studies have shed light on the continued presence of commercial activities after independence. Barclays Bank DCO in Nigeria began indigenising its... View Details
    Keywords: International Relations; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Macroeconomics; Banking Industry; Great Britain; Nigeria
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    • July 2012 (Revised March 2013)
    • Supplement

    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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    • Web

    Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

    role in the Africa Business Club as co-leader of the Africa Business Conference . Leading the conference provided Nneka with a window into how her interests and skills could... View Details
    • 08 Jul 2021
    • Video

    Peter Wharton-Hood

    Peter Wharton-Hood, a former senior executive at Standard Bank and Deutsche Bank in South Africa, discusses Standard Bank’s expansion in Africa beyond South Africa during the 2000s, which involved a heavy focus on expanding lending in markets in which it entered. View Details