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Middle East & North Africa - Global

Middle East & North Africa Cairo, Dubai, Istanbul, Tel Aviv HBS continues its efforts to build a deep understanding of and expertise in global business practice and innovation around the world, including throughout the Middle East and... View Details

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Latin America - Global

"Revitalize, Reinvent, Reskill: Unlocking Workforce Productivity" event in Medellín, Colombia, which gathered 80 participants—predominantly C-suite executives from Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay. Key takeaways included the... View Details

12 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted

documents how and why companies are moving operations to low-cost countries like Vietnam, Mexico, and Costa Rica. “They moved into a world where they thought there were no more shocks. Now, they realize there are shocks View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

Portrait Project

Sneha Biswas

once told me that I must study well because men want educated wives. So, I did. But somewhere along the journey, my goal shifted. I wasn’t doing it for a husband, but for the respect that women, like my mother, deserve. I worked on ships in the deep seas View Details

15 May 2015
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Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

stayed that way (Chile, Latvia, Mexico, Philippines, and Russia.) Men tended to report more conservative gender attitudes than women-with the exception of Mexico, where women... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

Keywords: by Stephen Haber & Aldo Musacchio; Banking

01 Jun 2001
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Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

offer was a perfect fit. Meanwhile, however, back in his hometown of Morelia, Mexico, the family business, Organización Ramirez Cinemas, was facing a serious challenge. “My grandfather and my father called... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

04 Feb 2002
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How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

International, 1998). According to Hayes and Vogel, business people, particularly Westerners who work in the Persian Gulf and other Islamic regions such as Asia and North Africa, need to appreciate the extent to which religion and Islamic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2023
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HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Ana Barrera (MBA 2024)

my family immigrated from Mexico, and our experience of learning to navigate a new country as immigrants has significantly shaped my identity and ambitions. I am deeply passionate about dismantling systemic... View Details

03 Oct 2005
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The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping

to maritime trade so phenomenal that he has been compared to the father of the steam engine, Robert Fulton. As a youth growing up on a farm in a small town of Maxton, North Carolina, McLean learned early on... View Details

Keywords: by Anthony J. Mayo & Nitin Nohria; Manufacturing; Transportation; Aerospace

20 Dec 2010
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Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

transporting Asia-bound exports down to the Gulf and through the canal and shipping them out to Seattle by land. Conversely, eastern-bound cargoes no longer consisted of strategic raw materials from... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

01 Jan 2007
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Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

back roads of destinations such as Tasmania, Baja Mexico, or South Africa on adventure motorcycles. "The novelist Milan Kundera said that when you're riding a motorcycle, there's no past or future, there's... View Details

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Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details

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NVC Regions - Alumni

New Venture Competition NVC Regions 11ms Applicants will apply to one of the global regions below. Applicants can apply to their region of choice based on proximity or launch market. However, the... View Details

03 Jun 2022
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In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

The American workforce has always migrated, moving wherever the jobs took them—traditionally, away from small towns and toward big cities. Now, as an increasing number of workplaces embrace remote work and allow people the flexibility to... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

indicate about the respective market environments? How did business leaders in India, Chile and the Gulf respond to the liberalization of regulation in their respective countries? What challenges did... View Details

15 Dec 2003
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Women Leaders and Organizational Change

successes so that people can learn from them. Q: What are you working on now? A: We are currently doing research on offshore oil production platforms in the Gulf of Mexico. These are fascinating to us... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

25 May 2021
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White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

White people who host rental properties on Airbnb earn significantly more per year than Black hosts, but a “race blind” pricing algorithm could help close that income gap, new research shows. Black hosts who rely on Airbnb’s algorithm to set enticing prices instead... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

Army Reserve where he achieved the rank of Captain, Mr. Meakem also volunteered for and served in the 1991 Gulf War. Mr. Meakem holds a B.A. cum laude from Harvard University, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business... View Details

14 Feb 2019
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LOVE At HBS

Love at HBS is a celebration of the diverse expressions of love that exist on our campus and in the world around us. This portrait project showcases stories of love from... View Details

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