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Asia Pacific - Global Activities 2020

Asia Pacific Spanning China and Southeast Asia to Indonesia and Japan, the School’s Asia-Pacific research outposts further faculty scholarship, support MBA and Executive Education programming, and develop opportunities for local alumni to... View Details

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

in the developing world, Jeffrey Ballinger was the first to criticize Nike's labor policies in Asia. When he arrived in Indonesia in 1988, the country's daily minimum wage was about $0.86. By 1997, it had tripled to just over two dollars.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Portrait Project

Nikhita Raman

down my school building. The unrest roaring across Indonesia had dominated the news for weeks, but I never imagined that it would reach my sleepy town. Growing up Indian amidst Indonesia’s globalization, it marked the beginning of my... View Details

Business of Emerging Markets

of the palm oil cluster in Malaysia and Indonesia and its global implications for corporations, governments, and individual actors, especially in emerging economies. I’ve also reframed key ideas and theoretical contributions underlying my... View Details

November 1973
Article

Men and Machines in Indonesia's Light Manufacturing Industry

By: Louis T Wells Jr

Keywords: Production; Machinery and Machining; Manufacturing Industry; Indonesia

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05 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments

negotiated. Indonesia was, of course, not alone. Argentina is another prominent example where foreign investors in infrastructure found themselves with contracts that could not reasonably be honored. In my view, the most pressing step is... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities

31 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

companies, and in countries characterized by high individualism and high power distance national cultures. Private Power in Indonesia Author:L.T. Wells, Jr. Publication:Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, forthcoming (December 2007).... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jun 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Poverty, Social Divisions and Conflict in Nepal

Keywords: by Quy-Toan Do & Lakshmi Iyer

December 2010
Supplement

Everything or Nothing: Martti Ahtisaari and the Aceh Negotiations (B)

By: James K. Sebenius and Alex Green

Describes Martti Ahtisaari's negotiating strategies and tactics along with the results of his efforts to end the decades-long conflict between Acehnese insurgents and the Indonesian government that had claimed thousands of lives. View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Tactics; Conflict of Interests; Strategy; Indonesia

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April 1998 (Revised October 1998)
Background Note

Indonesia's Pharmaceutical Industry in 1998

By: Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George

This case describes the Indonesian pharmaceutical market in 1997 and the impact on the market of the Indonesian rupiah's 75% devaluation since July 1997. Major foreign and domestic players are described. It raises the issue of how the Indonesian pharmaceutical market... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Pharmaceutical Industry; Indonesia

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April 1992 (Revised June 1994)
Case

Grappling with Garbage: The Bandung Municipal Cleansing Enterprise, P.D. Kerbersihan

By: James E. Austin

Keywords: Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Government Relations; Developing Countries and Economies; Environmental Sustainability; Indonesia

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21 Apr 2015
News

Tech Companies Struggle to Get World on Internet

Keywords: Telecommunications; Information

Dato' Sri Prof. Dr. Tahir

Keywords: Financial Services

20 Nov 2019
Video

Shinta Widjaja Kamdani

Shinta Kamdani, owner of Indonesian-based consumer products and energy company Sintesa Group, describes the changes she made to the organizational structure and culture of the company when she took over leadership from her father. View Details

20 Nov 2019
Video

Shinta Widjaja Kamdani

Shinta Widjaja Kamdani, owner of Indonesian-based consumer products and energy company Sintesa Group, discusses her challenges after inheriting leadership of her father's business. She describes herself as a... View Details

07 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change

coastal cities like Mumbai or Lagos or Bangkok as people seek jobs or flee wars or drought. The fact of migration exposes more people to weather-related disturbances. If sea rise were to accelerate, many of the newcomers would be in peril. There is also the trend of... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber