developing nations - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Jun 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: The Future of Market Capitalism

Finance, and Industry; Senior Lecturer, HBSSir Ronald M. Cohen, Chairman, Portland Capital LLP, Portland Trust, Bridges VenturesLawrence H. Summers, Director of the White House's National Economic Council; Charles W. Eliot University... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage

member of Chile's national volleyball team, the trilingual Gonzalez had traveled widely, graduated from Catholic University in Santiago with a degree in industrial engineering, weathered a failed entrepreneurial venture, and worked in... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; courage; sports; illness; cancer; international students; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

12 Mar 2019
Blog Post

What I Learned in the Africa Rising Short Intensive Program

building relational goodwill in the markets in which the ventures were meant to operate. In years past, African nations have (sadly) needed to repeat the refrain that “Africa is not a country”. In the 21st century, people seeking to... View Details

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Europe is seething with nationalism and racism. There are large and growing extreme right wing parties from Sweden to Greece, many of which enjoy waving Nazi flags. Fascist parties are in power in Hungary and Poland. There is a huge... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

troubles, HBS's Paul M. Healy, the James R. Williston Professor and Senior Associate Dean for Research, saw a unique opportunity to examine an elephant in the room in the business world. The United Nations estimates that roughly a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

its human capital," says Rivkin. "So if we're really falling down in that arena, we have an economic problem so important that business leaders can't sit on the sidelines." On the positive side, this could be a promising moment for American education.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

ebnem Kalemli-Özcan, professor at the University of Maryland; Luc Laeven, director at the European Central Bank Research Department; and Karsten Müller, assistant professor at the National University of Singapore. Data ‘unprecedented in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

22 Nov 2024
News

Deep Reading

Photos by Sandra Singh Last year, while taking classes on the Mishna, the first written collection of Jewish oral traditions, Antoine Leboyer (MBA 1992) wanted to dive deeper into the material. He found while there was a flood of additional texts and commentaries,... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

18 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

Participation, and Economic Incentives By: Zhou, Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Exploitive working conditions have spurred the development of formal organizational structures that deploy mechanisms including... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
News

September 2021 Alumni Books

focus on large-scale beverage technology, sections cover starter cultures, regulatory challenges, genetic engineering, quality, and safety. From practical issues of developing probiotic beverages, to the marketing of these drinks to the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Feb 2014
News

Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

and philanthropy and executive director of the Mattel Children's Foundation, based in El Segundo, California.) “Business can be the greatest force for good on this planet.” At ExecWB, Goodwin and his team recruit for-profit partners to reach into View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

Profile

Mallika Ahluwalia

school system, Mallika accepted her first international development challenge. Working in a small team, Mallika helped run a United Nations World Food Program project in Namibia that fed 90,000 AIDS-affected... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Hit Radio Show and HBS Alumni Help Young Classical Musicians

Slavet, a nonprofit arts entrepreneur and partner in a real estate development and management firm. “But we want to be more than that. Through our radio show, Web site, education programs, and upcoming TV special, we’re establishing an... View Details

Keywords: Arts, Entertainment; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

and continues to be a lack of good leadership! . . . The politics of international labor interaction are extremely complex and will require tremendous leadership ability to negotiate win-win deals across countries so that employees of corporations in diverse View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Web

Robert Reiss | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Making a Case for Women

business school cases feature male executives. In the fall, a new initiative was launched to support the development of case studies featuring women business leaders in key roles. The effort, the Marjorie Alfus/Committee of 200 Fund at... View Details

25 Apr 2014
News

Disrupting criminal enterprises that prey on children

Kayla Brochu (MBA/JD 1999) deployed business and legal strategies to combat some of the world's worst crimes as the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Expert on Technology-Facilitated Child Abuse, Exploitation, and Trafficking.... View Details

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

in press Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Compared to Men, Women View Professional Advancement as Equally Attainable, but Less Desirable By: Gino, Francesca, Caroline A. Wilmuth, and Alison... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

another significant advance. For if the mutual fund first empowered the "little guy" by encouraging him to visit Wall Street, the Internet has captured the Street and placed it at his disposal, inside his personal computer. A Nation of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

Profile

Ann Chao

when a beautiful piece of writing or music has inexplicably moved them. I want to make such stories and art available to a greater audience, transcending national borders, language and other dividing lines. It is unfortunate that the... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media

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