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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
Financial Literacy, Financial Decisions, and the Demand for Financial Services: Evidence from India and Indonesia Authors:Shawn Cole, Thomas Sampson, and Bilal Zia Abstract Why is demand for formal financial services low in emerging... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
In the severe economic, social, and scientific turbulence churning at the dawn of the twentieth century, people were eager for any semblance of stability and predictability. From this need for certainty emerged a group of entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
IFC India 2025: SELCO - Decentralized Renewable Energy to Develop While Decarbonizing - Blog - Business & Environment
Careers Climate Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production... View Details
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Once the hub of American manufacturing, Detroit is in a long state of economic decline. The rubber finally hit the road last week, when the city filed for bankruptcy protection. The challenges ahead for those that call the Motor City home... View Details
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Staff Directory | Baker Library
reducing the friction of accessing content both through improved physical access and leveraging current and emerging technologies to provide digital access. In addition to experience in library administration, knowledge management,... View Details
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
inherently a platform for performing computations as dictated by their programs. I state and prove five propositions about platform systems, which stand in contrast to the propositions derived for step processes in Chapter 8. The... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- October 2000
- Case
Procter & Gamble Italy: The Pringles Launch (A)
By: Roy D. Shapiro
Procter & Gamble's (P&G) Pringles potato chips have been a very successful brand. This case reviews the development and first launch in the United States, then in markets around the world. Italy is one of the last countries where Pringles will be launched. Should P&G... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Emerging Markets; Product Development; Adoption; Value Creation; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
Shapiro, Roy D. "Procter & Gamble Italy: The Pringles Launch (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-070, October 2000.
- 16 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History
there is nothing new about the globalization of firms. Since the emergence of the first global economy in the nineteenth century and the growth of the first manufacturing multinationals, such as Saint-Gobain, Siemens, and Singer Sewing... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
unelected, "technocratic" national emergency governments. If after Greece, Portugal and Ireland, Italy were to fall into the debt spiral, it might be the domino piece that could bring down the entire European Monetary Union... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
liquidity shock because of the extent of leverage, of debt that had emerged in the system. So the lack of knowledge about financial history, in your view, contributed to the current global financial crisis? I really believe that. It’s... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
One-on-One with William H. Donaldson
of the Yale School of Management; under-secretary of state during the Nixon administration; chairman and CEO of the New York Stock Exchange; and chairman and CEO of Aetna. Along with his impressive résumé, Donaldson brought a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Dean Nohria Looks Ahead
at a time when there are really important contextual changes taking place in the world. Let me highlight five such factors that we discuss in the book. One is the changing nature of the geopolitical economy. When I came to the United View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
than the quarterly bottom line. "In truth, whilst emerging countries continue their inexorable march towards economic supremacy, albeit with a few wobbles on the way, we in the West seem to be sleepwalking towards the edge of a cliff,"... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
Will Hurwitz. McDonald’s emerges from a slump With 40,000 mostly franchised restaurants across the world, McDonald’s serves some 63 million customers daily and employs more than 2 million workers. The brothers who founded the chain in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Around the World
and has transformed itself from a poverty-plagued backwater to an economic powerhouse now ranked second only to the United States in GDP. The Cold War abruptly ended when the Berlin Wall fell and the USSR fractured into 15 sovereign... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Afghanistan’s Hope and Light
agencies focused on development projects and private-sector growth in emerging economies often seen as too risky for most investors. But this new assignment was something else entirely. “I have a phenomenal job and I’m living in a safe... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- September 2021
- Case
Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance
By: David G. Fubini, Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
The two vignettes within “Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance” (HBS No. 122-024) present various issues relating to governance in professional service firms (“PSFs”). In the first, the Managing Director of a U.S. consulting firm contemplates whether to... View Details
Keywords: Consulting Firms; Professional Services; Board Of Directors; Professional Service; Global Firm; Executive Leadership; Globalized Firms and Management; Private Equity; Governing and Advisory Boards; Global Strategy; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Leadership Development; Leading Change; Emerging Markets; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Service Industry; United States; India
Fubini, David G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Li-Kuan Ni. "Vignettes on Professional Service Firm Governance." Harvard Business School Case 122-024, September 2021.
- 23 Apr 2014
- HBS Case
Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?
When electronic cigarettes first appeared a little over a decade ago, they were hailed by many as a godsend: a tool to help smokers quit while mitigating the most harmful effects of tobacco. "The [e-cigarette] market is producing, at no cost to the taxpayer, an... View Details
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Whitney Wilson
business problems they were solving.” After the Chamber, she accepted a consulting position with Deloitte in Washington DC where she “worked in the strategy and analytics practice for public sector clients. I focused my work around View Details