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- November 2008
- Teaching Note
Crossing Borders: MTC's Journey through Africa (TN)
By: Tarun Khanna
Teaching Note for [708477]. View Details
- 30 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Cambridge to Nairobi
2010, and they had long been on my list of “dream companies to work for.” In the spring, I reached out to Ushahidi’s Business Development lead, interviewed, and received an offer. A few formals and five finals later, I found myself on a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Banking, and Mark Schanker-man draw on a large, new database (covering a range of countries in varying stages of development) to provide rigorous economic analysis and systematic economic evidence of the impact of open source software on... View Details
- April 2010
- Teaching Note
Global Talent Management at Novartis (TN)
By: Jordan I. Siegel
Teaching Note for 708486. View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
whether companies here will continue to be competitive in developing flat-panel display innovations. So exporting manufacturing ultimately drains away American innovation? Pisano: Absolutely. That’s the heart of our argument. That’s what... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
Uncovering Bad Factories All three studies were made possible by a social auditing company providing Toffel with data on more than 40,000 inspections in 66 countries that its auditors had conducted over several years. The first study,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Mar 2012
- Article
Shattering the Myths About U.S. Trade Policy
A free and fair global trading system can result in economic win-wins. Open borders allow companies to grow in foreign markets and, simultaneously, ensure that businesses remain competitive at home. That’s why U.S. policy makers have traditionally urged View Details
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Research Is the Foundation
high-tech giant Rakuten’s globalization process for five straight years following an English mandate for thousands of its Japanese employees. “We traveled to eight countries with tremendous assistance from the HBS global research... View Details
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
While all of these countries are part of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and all have high income per capita and advanced health care systems, each was affected differently by the... View Details
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Strategy in Emerging Economies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
think about how to build a business, or in other words, strategy. Typical Strategy Errors in Emerging Economies Companies in developing economies typically have lower costs, such as labor, and this might let them compete temporarily with... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
The New Global Business Manager
There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers,... View Details
Keywords: Management
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
their experience, real estate, and logistics. In exchange, you can expand their product offerings and grow their customer segment. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Here are my quick thoughts based on years of emerging and developed market... View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
- News
Building a Green Energy Grid
I figured the world didn’t need another wind developer as much as it needed someone who could figure out the transmission problem.” The complexity of expanding the US electric grid becomes clear when Skelly describes Clean Line’s $2.5... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Christian Bjelland
to success. “Museums give people a sense of their roots,” he observes, “a chance to look back at their cultural heritage, which is especially important for a small country like ours. But they also give people wings to explore new aspects... View Details
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead to higher funding from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Fast Answer
Health care: consumer expenditure
the Stamps Reading Room International: Eurostat Healthcare expenditure statistics World Development Indicators provides data on health expenditure at country level. (HU PIN) OECD Health... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
1st-Year MBAs Learn from Global Partners
months of classroom preparation, teams of MBAs arrived January 8 in 12 cities in 10 developing countries, where they worked to complete new product or service projects for 140 partner organizations. (A small number of students who could... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China
powerful economic development programs that each is pursuing, these countries are poised to become dominant economic powers in short order. But there is a subtle trend occurring that could make these 2... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2019
- News
The Road to Impact
Library (NYPL) and the education initiative accelerator America Achieves, and he currently serves as president and CEO of Education Development Center (EDC), a nonprofit based in Waltham, Mass., that for more than 60 years has View Details