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Breaking the Cycle of Intergenerational Poverty | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

the privilege, who didn't have the opportunity? What can I do, whether small or large, to make a difference? Impact For me, such a big piece of my work is the intellectual challenge of what I do. At Eos Foundation we collaborate with companies and people around the... View Details

18 Mar 2015
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9 Alumni Named Young Global Leaders

members are: Ruzwana Bashir (MBA 2011), founder and CEO, Peek.com, United Kingdom Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009), CEO, Pampered Chef, United States Sadiq Gillani (MBA 2006), senior vice president and chief strategy officer, Lufthansa,... View Details

Keywords: World Economic Forum

01 Apr 1996
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Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World

shaping the business environment and, in turn, influencing performance at the industry and firm level. Since joining the faculty in 1989, Emmons has conducted extensive research on the interaction between government policy and business interests both in this View Details

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

of IFRS Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten Abstract If the differences in accounting standards across countries reflect relatively stable institutional differences (e.g., auditing technology, the rule of law, etc.), why did several... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1997
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Banking on HBS

Challenge Indeed, the Bank's stated mission is to reduce poverty and improve living standards by promoting sustainable growth and investments in people. To those ends, it provides loans, technical assistance, and policy guidance for its member View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country to try to address hunger and... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

09 May 2017
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New Research and Ideas, May 9

develop institutional structures for the industry as a whole. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52613 April 10, 2017 Harvard Business Review The Different Approaches Firms Use to Set Strategy By: Teti,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

international objectives are in jeopardy today. To the extent that business strategies are based on these same erroneous notions, they are also at great risk. Q: What can a business executive learn about leadership from your research? A:... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2016
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Maiden Voyage

More than 80 countries have national space programs, spending a collective $64.5 billion in 2014, according to Euroconsult, a global consulting firm specializing in space markets. Approximately a dozen countries—if you count the 22... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Space Research and Technology; Government

07 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India

some areas of strength and key insights from our Log9 site visit. Overall, all ventures should use this framework to ensure that they have found “Product-Market-Fit”; this is even more critical in resource-constrained developing countries... View Details

March 1998
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On the Sequencing of Privatization in Transition Economies

By: Gautam Ahuja and Sumit K. Majumdar

This paper presents an empirical criterion for establishing privatization priorities for state-owned enteiprises. The approach uses firm performance, defined as productive efficiency, as the basis for deciding the sequence in which firms are privatized. Sequencing is... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Privatization; Developing Countries and Economies; Planning; Service Industry; India

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09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact

need,” Offensend says. EDC partnered with U.S. VETS to create a marketing strategy to reach out to the 19,000 female veterans in the Southern California area, through an online portal. Responding to how vets used the site over the course... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2006
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Chinese CEOs, Professors Study at HBS

environment, managing across business disciplines and country borders, and providing organization-wide leadership,” says HBS professor Krishna Palepu, who codirects GCPC along with colleagues from the other two institutions. “HBS is proud... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

media and in the classroom. Global Entrepreneurship develops strategies for entrepreneurs and investors in these emerging ecosystems around the globe. The course will have cases from 26 different countries... View Details

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

internal strategy group to determine the appropriate efficient scale for country offices. Explored interactive media approaches for an organization focused on expanding access to financial services for... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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More Alumni Books

Odds by Gerald C. Leader (MBA ’61) with Amy F. Stern (Harvard Education Press) Strategy and the Fat Smoker: Doing What’s Obvious But Not Easy by David Maister (DBA ’76) (Spangle Press) Fuel: Catholic Men Living the Faith, A Small Group... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2011
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A Modest Tax Proposal

profits, as most industrialized countries use.Â In a pure territorial system, the profits of multinational companies based in the United States would be taxed only by the country in which the profit is... View Details

Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays

29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

Panelists believe that strategies of various kinds—to differentiate, to locate and hire in foreign countries and cultures, to build trust, even about whether to go global or not—are a necessity now that the... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

01 Mar 2006
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Faculty Research Online

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time Is Not on Your Side Even as time pressures increase in corporate life, the need for creative thinking has never been greater, says Professor Teresa Amabile in this Q&A. IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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Nathalie du Preez

For Nathalie du Preez, passion for her country has also been the driving force behind leaving it — at least temporarily. "I love South Africa," she says, "but as a legacy of apartheid, it's very separated from the rest of... View Details

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