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  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Fellowship Enables Opportunity in Africa

operations head at Peak Investment Capital, an SME investment platform in Accra. Doha Tantawy (MBA 2019), a native of Cairo, Egypt, will work as a strategy and business development associate at Misr Radiology Center in Cairo. The chain of... View Details
  • Web

2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Shenaz Hossein Associate Professor of Global Development, University of Toronto Scarborough Dr. Caroline Shenaz Hossein is Canada Research Chair Tier 2 of Africana Development & Feminist Political Economy... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2019
  • News

A Global Mission

International University in Klaipėda, which he helped to establish in 1991. He’s also working in Mexico, developing an idea for an overland shipping route in southern Mexico to rival the Panama Canal that will bring business opportunities... View Details
  • 22 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

When Protestors Knock at Your Door

Debora points out, it is certainly important for firms to take the time to understand all of the issues involved. In doing so, it may be useful for firms to develop an ongoing dialogue with the NGO (or NGOs) and take a proactive approach... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

whether directly, as an asset manager/investor, advisor or private individual, or indirectly as an entrepreneur or operator receiving investment capital. The course will also provide important learnings for students looking to work in the View Details
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

four-year research program that spanned 25 industries, identifying long-term winners and what they do differently, Capon talked to marketing mavens from across the global economy and presents their insights in five broad groups: picking... View Details
Keywords: Noel Capon; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

multinational investment in host economies, and this chapter reviews this research. The focus is primarily on developing country host economies and more broadly on the global distribution of wealth and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2000 (Revised March 2001)
  • Case

Alphatec Electronics Pcl

By: Stuart C. Gilson, C. Fritz Foley and Perry Fagan
The newly appointed CEO of an important high-technology company in Thailand must lead the company through a complicated debt restructuring. Due to the collapse of the Thai currency, the company's debt burden, like that of most Thai companies, has skyrocketed because it... View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Valuation; Management Teams; Restructuring; Laws and Statutes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; Thailand; United States
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  • 25 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

the book along with Regina M. Abrami, a former HBS professor now at the Wharton School; and F. Warren McFarlan, the HBS Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus. "We think the future of the Chinese economy is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene

by Assistant Professors Katherine Coffman and Christine Exley and MENARC Assistant Director Alpana Thapar), has also helped develop a robust portfolio of case studies on a variety of MENA ventures used in the MBA Program. Included among... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

historians in recent years, academic research on business groups has, to date, remained within the boundary of emerging markets. The major aim of this volume is to explore the long-term evolution of different varieties of large enterprises in today's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2013 (Revised August 2013)
  • Case

Vietnam: Sustaining the Growth of an Asian Tiger

By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
The case tracks Vietnam's economic policy choices and performance from the end of the Vietnam war to the Doi Moi economic reforms and the economic transformation that followed. Throughout this period, the country had become a darling of the international aid community.... View Details
Keywords: Conflict Management; Leadership; Policy; Transformation; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Macroeconomics; Viet Nam
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  • July 2011 (Revised August 2011)
  • Supplement

Renewing GE: The Africa Project (B)

By: David A. Thomas and Stephanie J. Creary
This case continues the story of the evolution of GE's business initiatives Africa. Between November 2010 and March 2011 several significant structural changes and leadership appointments were announced at GE, which reflected the company's commitment to global growth... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Multinational Firms and Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Consumer Products Industry; Hong Kong; Africa; Republic of Ireland
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  • January 2007 (Revised February 2010)
  • Case

Afghanistan 2006: Building a Brand New State

By: Noel Maurer, Debora L. Spar and J. Gunnar Trumbull
In 2006, Afghanistan remains a country in turmoil. It has a newly elected democratic government, a rebounding economy, and considerable economic potential. But the country is still torn by rival factions and dominated by the opium trade. Explores how Afghanistan has... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Policy; Government and Politics; Political Elections; Organizations; Outcome or Result; Afghanistan
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  • 09 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

2018 Redwood City, Stanford Business Books The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 10 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Long-Tail Economics? Give Me Blockbusters!

development projects, some with predictable sales results, others more risky. The former pay for the company's daily bread and butter and fund R&D on future blockbusters. Inverness Medical Innovations, for example, is following... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Entertainment & Recreation; Pharmaceutical
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

NYC Club Hosts Nonprofits

accountability and governance, and development and marketing. Professor Kash Rangan, who cochairs the School’s Social Enterprise Initiative, reviewed his research on nonprofit trends. Professor John Quelch, a marketing expert, focused on... View Details
  • 04 Nov 2016
  • News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping countries and regions to develop... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • Profile

Philipp Schäelli

worked in Pakistan, Chile and China before school, I wanted to go back to another developing market to broaden my understanding for the world. Nigeria for me was the most exciting place to go as it is the fastest growing and largest View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services
  • 01 Jun 1997
  • News

Short Takes

diversification efforts for companies in business environments where big may, in fact, be beautiful. "Focus is successful only when the existing economy provides the necessary institutions to support it. A company's strategy should be... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross