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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rwanda Provides Students with Hands-On Learning
Brazil and Costa Rica take place in March. This year, for the first time since the IXP was launched in 2007, an international program went beyond observing a country’s business environment and engaged in short-term consulting projects.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
farms of Europe and the US. It helps explain laws to protect small business from the ravages of the A&Ps and Walmarts. It increasingly drives politics as well as government policy. It is especially attractive at times of low growth... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
The son of a small-town banker, Charlie Williams grew up in rural West Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University, and taught for more than 39 years at HBS. The School’s much-revered George Gund Professor of Commercial Banking, Emeritus, he saw 27 former students... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
examine ongoing efforts to forge a public-private partnership between the state government and for-profit developers. The goal is to transform Dharavi into a neighborhood offering desirable, market-rate residential and commercial real... View Details
- March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil
By: Laura Alfaro, Yasheng Huang and Marios S. Kalochoritis
On January 6, 1999, Itamar Franco, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, the second-largest state in Brazil, declared a 90-day moratorium on its debt payment to the federal government. The announcement triggered a run on the Brazilian currency, the Real, and... View Details
Alfaro, Laura, Yasheng Huang, and Marios S. Kalochoritis. Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil. Harvard Business School Case 701-079, March 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
gave government officials enormous power and prestige. In fact, bureaucrats in MITI [the Ministry of International Trade and Industry] were much more powerful than the elected political leaders—who had... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 2023
- Chapter
Discussion of Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the Future of Multilateralism
By: Laura Alfaro
Keywords: Global Range; Economics; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalization; International Relations; Policy
Alfaro, Laura. "Discussion of Geoeconomic Fragmentation and the Future of Multilateralism." Chap. 2 in Geoeconomic Fragmentation: The Economic Risks from a Fractured World Economy, by Shekhar Aliyar, Andrea Presbitero, and Michele Ruta, 19–25. Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), 2023.
- 2013
- Working Paper
What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Involving the U.S. Supreme Court and Cross-Listed Firms
By: Amir N. Licht, Christopher Poliquin, Jordan I. Siegel and Xi Li
On March 29, 2010, the U.S. Supreme Court signaled its intention to geographically limit the reach of the U.S. securities antifraud regime and thus differentially exclude U.S.-listed foreign firms from the ambit of formal U.S. antifraud enforcement. We use this legal... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; International Finance; Investment; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Courts and Trials; Legal Liability; United States
Licht, Amir N., Christopher Poliquin, Jordan I. Siegel, and Xi Li. "What Makes the Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Involving the U.S. Supreme Court and Cross-Listed Firms." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-072, January 2011. (Revised August 2013.)
- 08 May 2019
- Blog Post
In the Business of Flexibility
mothers themselves, Cheney and Davis both realize the value of flexible work situations. After years of national and international travel in their former careers, the former classmates began to craft more sustainable careers around family... View Details
- February 2023
- Case
Nexus Market (A): Ukraine War Ripples into Silicon Valley
By: Tsedal Neeley and Jeff Huizinga
A Silicon Valley start-up executive must navigate tensions between its Ukrainian and Russian sub-contractors as war between the two countries rages. After war erupts between Ukraine and Russia, a team of subcontracted Ukrainian software developers threatens to cut ties... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Problems and Challenges; Conflict and Resolution; Technology Industry; United States
Neeley, Tsedal, and Jeff Huizinga. "Nexus Market (A): Ukraine War Ripples into Silicon Valley." Harvard Business School Case 423-024, February 2023.
- February 2011 (Revised July 2011)
- Supplement
Caterpillar, Inc. (C)
By: David F. Hawkins
IASB proposes new defined benefit plan accounting standard. View Details
Keywords: International Accounting; Governance; Compensation and Benefits; Standards; Manufacturing Industry; Mining Industry; Consumer Products Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Caterpillar, Inc. (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-088, February 2011. (Revised July 2011.)
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
HBS Leadership Fellows, who will sh... Keeping Pace: Innovation in Nonprofit Governance Kay Mathers 19 Oct 2017 It’s not out of the question to wonder if the work we do in the nonprofit sector is creating chan... A Summer Internship with... View Details
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Curriculum | MBA
Also during Year 3, all students complete a year-long capstone exercise at HKS.Participants generally complement their required and elective studies with two summer internships: either a policy, international development or social... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
that the mayor’s beach house was there on exactly the same basis.” At that point it was time to return to MIT, but Mawilmada believes the government eventually granted an upgrade to the settlement. That experience was a turning point.... View Details
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Sustainability in Agriculture and Agribusiness
This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings: Approaches to Sustainable Agriculture This report is published by International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). IUCN is composed of both View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 08 Oct 2013
- News
The Green Giant
including director of scientific and international programs, prior to taking over the World Wildlife Fund. At WWF, Roberts's strategy has been to forge partnerships with major business players and View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
© d20/ZUMA © d20/ZUMA Governments across the globe are getting serious about weaning themselves off of fossil fuels. Denmark has pledged to be powered solely by renewable energy by 2050; Sweden pledged to reach the goal by 2040. Hawaii... View Details
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U.S. Healthcare Strategy - Course Catalog
strategies are likely – or unlikely – to succeed. We will also examine the impact of government policies and regulations, both from a business standpoint and through the broader lens of societal implications. Prominent View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Lerner Honored for Research
Lerner The most esteemed international prize in entrepreneurship research was awarded in February to HBS professor Josh Lerner, author or coauthor of five books, including most recently Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the first in-depth... View Details