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- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Protecting conservation land while turning a profit
lands with important conservation attributes, usually in partnership with regional and national land trusts and conservation organizations. Through the conservation transactions we structure, the public gets the assurance that the...
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- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Capitalizing Poetry
Lawrence. Barr told the New York Times (October 7, 2004) that the foundation intends to launch “the biggest and baddest Web site for poetry out there,” sponsor regional contests (patterned after the National Spelling Bee), and undertake...
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- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers
Williams had nearly $8 billion in sales. The oil industry is becoming more competitive in part because of such cast-off purchases by companies like Williams. Stay Home. For many companies, it still makes a lot more sense to grow domestically or View Details
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by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar
- 16 Oct 2018
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
still has lots of potential outside the U.S. Given my background and my passion to contributing to my home country and the Asian region in general, this role is very appealing to me.” Mizuho has three objectives for her Fellowship year....
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Nonprofit / Government
- October 2014 (Revised December 2015)
- Background Note
China's Environmental Challenge
By: William C. Kirby, Nora Bynum, Erica M. Zendell and Brittany Crow
China faces enormous environmental challenges. This background note looks at the historical, economic and political origins of the environmental crisis that faces the world's fastest-growing economy.
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
History;
Crisis Management;
Environmental Sustainability;
China
Kirby, William C., Nora Bynum, Erica M. Zendell, and Brittany Crow. "China's Environmental Challenge." Harvard Business School Background Note 315-026, October 2014. (Revised December 2015.)
- November 2004 (Revised February 2008)
- Case
Jerry Rao: Diaspora and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy
Focusing on one entrepreneur, Jerry Rao, this case examines the international career paths of Indian business professionals and engineers since the development of public policies beginning in the 1960s to attract them to developed countries like the United States....
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Business Startups;
Diasporas;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Personal Development and Career;
Opportunities;
Information Technology Industry;
India
Wadhwani, R. Daniel. "Jerry Rao: Diaspora and Entrepreneurship in the Global Economy." Harvard Business School Case 805-017, November 2004. (Revised February 2008.)
- 28 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking
can grow. It is important to recognize the reality of investment banking recruiting with regards to location. While students interested in specific geographic areas have been drawn to roles across the US and internationally, recruiting can be more challenging for View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)
rescue, transportation – as ‘feeding the line’ because it’s meeting acute hunger needs across our 59-county region in Minnesota and western Wisconsin. We also work to ‘shorten the line’ (prevent need for emergency hunger services) through...
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- 17 Apr 2014
- News
A Family Investment
Reunion. “I wanted to help HBS continue to have an impact on people,” says Özyeg in of his gift, which will support the School’s new research center in Istanbul. “Turkey is a region ripe for study,” he observes. “I have no doubt that...
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- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
dismantled a lot of trade barriers, which has led to global prosperity. The only big barrier remaining is movement of humankind to regions which offer better prospects." A number of respondents took issue with this. Some equated...
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by Jim Heskett
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Case Study: The Speed of Light
states across the country and in some cases abroad (Canada, the Caribbean, Europe). Expansion to markets like California—which has five times the solar capacity of New Jersey—is potentially very lucrative. But we’ve been hesitant to take on opportunities outside our...
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- Portrait Project
Ana Kotevska Tracey
debated our ethnicity and right to self-determine. My national identity has been questioned and negated. Scornful customs officers scoffed at the name on my passport. Kids I met in the region kept telling me my country shouldn’t exist....
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
local farmers. Mission: Chaku’s sourcing model helps Ghanian farmers mitigate crop loss, which can run as high as 40 percent because of processing and exporting challenges. Okrah lived close to those farmers in Kumasi, an agrarian region...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Local Customs
“We want to be the Sam Adams of the auto world.” Rogers launched his Massachusetts-based company, Local Motors, with $4 million in start-up capital; its online contest (LocalMotors.com/competition.php) invites the public in various cities and View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
MBAs go down the road less traveled to work with entrepreneurs
company, a regional brewery, and a human-computer interaction firm. Singer says that MBAxAmerica is expanding in 2014 to include eight teams at HBS and other schools, and aims to create a roving volunteer corps of MBAs who want to work...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Piloting new career horizons for women in aviation
speak at schools and career fairs and try to help women get into aviation," she says. "I see a lot of myself in the girls I meet." Eaton also serves on the board of the Eastern Region Helicopter Council and several aviation organizations,...
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- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
Silicon Valley. We focused our research on these two regions because they're both technologically dynamic and because of previous research on the influence of networks on regional innovation. As we expected,...
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- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Turkey’s economic development story has always been something of a black box for scholars to understand, perhaps in part because many of the most successful business enterprises there have been in family hands and largely closed to public scrutiny. The authors of a new...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
A Pathway to Pursue Aspirations
still has lots of potential outside the U.S. Given my background and my passion for contributing to my home country and the Asian region in general, this role is very appealing to me.” Mizuho has three objectives for her Fellowship year....
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Global Perspectives
Understanding Southeast Asia’s New Business Frontier From cosmopolitan Bangkok and Singapore to the Sumatran rainforest, participants in the June 2017 HBS faculty immersion explored the diverse industries of Southeast Asia. “This region...
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