Country Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

team that wrote hundreds of cases for the new school, now flourishing in Costa Rica and Nicaragua. At the same time, Lodge undertook a three-year research project in the remote province of Veraguas in Panama to study the process of change in a developing View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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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

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Is the Foundation

high-tech giant Rakuten’s globalization process for five straight years following an English mandate for thousands of its Japanese employees. “We traveled to eight countries with tremendous assistance from the HBS global research... View Details

18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55004 Shifting Centers of Gravity: Host Country versus Headquarters Influences on MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Mike Horia Teodorescu, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Jul 2019
News

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

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

awareness. We use a network approach to demonstrate that the connections between two countries through joint-membership in the same IGOs are associated with a large positive influence on the foreign direct investment that flows between... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2018
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An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers

improve challenging last-mile distribution on rough terrain. Even before doing any marketing for the Mobius II, Yong reports that they have a couple hundred preorders and are building a sales and service network across the country to... View Details

Keywords: Amy Yee

15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

forthcoming American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Using Online Prices for Measuring Real Consumption Across Countries By: Cavallo, Alberto, Erwin Diewert, Robert C. Feenstra, Robert Inklaar, and Marcel P. Timmer Abstract—We... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

first post-HBS year managing the pilot. Resolving Crisis Situations Mendu and other members of the partnership developed a three-part initiative informed by the best practices they gathered from local stakeholders and officials across the View Details

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

01 Sep 2024
News

Ink: Framing the Full Picture

Filipinos have been in the United States for longer than the country is old. As far back as 1763, sailors from the Philippines started arriving in the Gulf of Mexico as indentured servants on Spanish galleons. Life on board was so brutal... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

developed new product categories such as organic food and wind and solar energy, which explicitly focused on sustainability. Again this process has been traced back to the nineteenth century. With the rise in green consumerism and public policy support in some Western... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2011
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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

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

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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

01 Dec 2001
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HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

my best to emulate! I look forward to the challenges ahead with great anticipation and excitement. These have been extraordinary months for both the country and the HBS community. I have been particularly struck by the way the HBS alumni... View Details

Keywords: Susan Luick Good; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2010
News

Beacon of Liberty

me as an immigrant the same opportunities it did to its own citizens. Today, that is still largely the case, unless your name is Mohammad or if you choose to wear the hijab. Since 9/11, almost every Muslim in this country has a story. And... View Details

Keywords: Sharjeel Kashmir; Islam; 9/11

17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

with a dominant platform that earns more than under compatibility. We also find that incompatibility generates larger total welfare than compatibility when horizontal differences between platforms are small. Download the paper:... View Details