Filter Results:
(238)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(238)
- People (2)
- News (72)
- Research (89)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (55)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(238)
- People (2)
- News (72)
- Research (89)
- Multimedia (1)
- Faculty Publications (55)
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Faculty News
books, Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumer's Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire. A member of the HBS faculty since 1991, Koehn is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of... View Details
- Profile
Jonathan Bailey
two years at McKinsey & Co. in London, where Jonathan had a chance to "build core skills in business and management" and work on the firm's Climate Change Special Initiative, he worked with Tony Blair in establishing the former Prime Minister's View Details
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
programs than the entire budget of the WHO and has played a major role in aiding recovery in the Ebola-hit economies of West Africa. The Commission's report hints at but never quite concedes that the World Bank should take a more... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree
Tell us a little about your background and what your interest in climate related issues are. Energy has always been at the forefront of my world, from growing up in southern West Virginia, where my dad worked for a coal company and my... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
prosperity,” says Elumelu. “That is at the heart of Africapitalism.” The retired chief executive officer, now chairman of the United Bank of Africa (UBA) and the founder of Heirs Holdings, Elumelu has put the tenet of this... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Finance in Africa: Health, Self-Interest, Avoided Future Cost
and I visited multiple sites and businesses in Dakar, Senegal in West Africa culminating in an alumni event in Dakar entitled, Climate Adaptation and Urban Economic Development. Here is what we learned:... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
of the faculty from every unit across the School, the interviews are a resource to teach business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as at HBS. Here, Jones and Khanna discuss what makes these leaders so effective and what the View Details
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
the 1970s. She wanted to give families in these villages the same educational opportunities she had enjoyed in America. Offering fair prices, as well as educational and retirement benefits, to her shea-nut pickers in West View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- Web
Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First Big Business View Details
- 21 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
The Power of Business in the Energy Transition
plants with deep root systems), so that businesses and governments across the world can select a mix of approaches that work best for each unique situation. On the social justice side, recent discoveries of large natural gas deposits off the East and View Details
- Profile
Nneka Ezeigwe
are still at the forefront of the African story. I can see myself working in a range of capacities, perhaps in public policy or in a large corporation, making investments that directly improve lives and reduce poverty. I’m going to be the co-chairman of the View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- Web
Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>
HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Railroads: The Transformation of Capitalism Introduction The Pre-Industrial Era The First Big Business View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
On Eve of Transition, Alumni Conference Set for Hong Kong
The final stages of one of the most significant events in Asia this century Hong Kong's transformation from British colony to Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China will be witnessed firsthand by attendees of the... View Details
Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb
- 2009
- Chapter
Third World Multinationals: A Look Back
By: L. T. Wells Jr.
Keywords: Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Oceania; West Indies
Wells, L. T., Jr. "Third World Multinationals: A Look Back." Chap. 2 in Emerging Multinationals in Emerging Markets, edited by Jitendra V. Singh and Ravi Ramamurti. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
postdoctoral fellow. Her research focuses on how people can work fruitfully across social divides. Prior to her academic career, Ramarajan worked in international development in West Africa focusing on... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- News
What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries
Africa or more, they tend to just know one area. So somebody who went in Kenya or Nairobi, they may not know too much about West Africa. So there's a lot of unseen pockets of View Details
- Career Coach
Phillip Andrews
Phillip (MPA, New Hampshire ’06; JD, Suffolk Law ’09) is formerly a Corporate Relations Director in HBS Career & Professional Development responsible for employer relations in Africa, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East, as well as the Energy, Cleantech,... View Details
Keywords: Consulting; Education; Emerging Markets; Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Government; Social Enterprise; Clean Technology; Energy; Telecommunications; Impact Investing; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Auto/Transportation/Logistics
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
the national microfinance markets of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru within the context of global microfinance. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307060 Foreign Direct Investment and South View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
mobs rose up against migrants from other parts of Africa in March 2023, a few weeks after President Kais Saied delivered an inflammatory speech blaming the Black foreign-born population for bringing crime to the country and changing its... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- Profile
Limor Moshkovich
we bring twenty to forty people," says Limor. "This year it will be eighty. I want to share what my country is all about with some of the brightest and most talented people in the business world." During the summer, Limor will intern with View Details