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  • 10 Dec 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

State Owned Entity Reform in Absence of Privatization: Reforming Indian National Laboratories and Role of Leadership

Keywords: by Prithwiraj Choudhury & Tarun Khanna
  • 01 Oct 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Team Familiarity, Role Experience, and Performance:Evidence from Indian Software Services

Keywords: by Robert S. Huckman, Bradley R. Staats & David M. Upton; Video Game; Web Services
  • 13 Aug 2007
  • Working Paper Summaries

Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Tarun Khanna; Video Game; Web Services
  • 23 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

As business goes global, pressure is increasing for adoption of a single set of accounting standards worldwide. In this e-mail interview, Harvard Business School professor Gregory S. Miller discusses this trend and India's unique position to be a leader in the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Bride Price and the Returns to Education

By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Nathan Nunn and Alessandra Voena
Traditional cultural practices can play an important role in development, but can also inspire condemnation. The custom of bride price, prevalent throughout sub-Saharan Africa and in parts of Asia as a payment of the groom to the family of the bride, is one example. In... View Details
Keywords: Zambia; Indonesia
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  • 26 Mar 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does disaster change leadership goals? What signals should leaders send during a crisis? How should... View Details
  • Research Summary

Overview

I am currently working on a series of projects that focus on three questions: (1) how currency fluctuations affect different types of firms across countries; (2) how various macroeconomic policies affect manufacturing growth in developing countries; (3) the... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing; Africa; Development Economics; International Trade; Industrial Policy; India; Indonesia; Ethiopia
  • 04 Jun 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accountability and Inequality in Single-Party Regimes: A Comparative Analysis of Vietnam and China

Keywords: by Regina Abrami, Edmund Malesky & Yu Zheng
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

One-on-One with Carter Roberts

Roberts Illustration by PJ Loughran Carter Roberts (MBA ’88) traces his enchantment with nature back to his early childhood in Atlanta, where he roamed a backyard forest and discovered a fascinating world of creatures under rotting logs. “Ask any conservationist to... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • June 1998 (Revised November 1998)
  • Case

TNT Limited's Logistics Services in Asia (D): Managing the "Asian Contagion"

By: Michael Y. Yoshino, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Cate Reavis
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Transportation Industry; Asia; China; Thailand; Indonesia
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  • August 1997 (Revised October 1997)
  • Case

TNT Limited's Logistics Services in Asia (C), "The Grind"

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Transportation Industry; Asia; China; Thailand; Indonesia
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  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue

since HBS, I have been in Asia, residing in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Jakarta. Lewis Rutherfurd (MBA 1971) and I were the only two individuals from our class who went to Asia to make a career. I started developing real estate in Hong Kong (Sheraton Hong Kong) and View Details
Keywords: Jim Hawes; heroism; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Profile

Anthony Tan

launched in 17 cities in five countries, including Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Indonesia and the Philippines, and has been downloaded more than 3.3 million times. At least 650,000 people are using it to get taxis at least once a month... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China

Podcast with: Tarun Khanna Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 14 min., 33 sec. The world has an estimated population of 6.6 billion people. One-third of that total resides in just 2 nations: China (1.3 billion) and India (1.1 billion). On the strength of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2024
  • Case

Xendit: Hiring for Growth

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Steve Castano, Quoc Anh Nguyen and Claire Wu
In 2019, Xendit, a growth-stage Southeast Asia (SEA) fintech venture based in Jakarta, was looking to hire a Head of Sales and Head of Product to lead its next phase of growth. Founded by Moses Lo and Tessa Wijaya, Xendit provided payment infrastructure, modeling... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Financing and Loans; Entrepreneurship; Jobs and Positions; Sales; Product; Growth and Development; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Southeast Asia; Indonesia; Philippines
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  • 17 Jul 2023
  • Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

Indonesia and Nigeria, along with India – could well obliterate all the progress in greenhouse gas emission reductions produced in the global north. Sinha cited three main risks that have choked the financing of green transition projects... View Details
  • 04 May 2017
  • News

Going the Distance

his photo to each summit. Subsequent climbs were Mt. Aconcagua, in South America (2011); Mt. Everest, in Asia (2011); Mt. Elbrus, in Europe (2012); Carstensz Pyramid, in Indonesia (2012); Mt. Vinson, in Antarctica (2012); and Mt.... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Improving Working Conditions in Global Supply Chains: The Role of Institutional Environments and Monitoring Program Design

By: Jodi L. Short, Michael W. Toffel and Andrea R. Hugill
Activism seeking to improve labor conditions in global supply chains has led transnational corporations to adopt codes of conduct and monitor suppliers for compliance, but it is unclear whether these formal organizational structures raise labor standards. Drawing on... View Details
Keywords: Monitoring; Supplier Relationship; Sustainability; Sustainability Management; Sustainable Operations; Sustainable Supply Chains; NGO; Globalization; Corporate Accountability; Operations; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Labor; Working Conditions; Business Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Evaluation; Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Electronics Industry; China; Indonesia; India; Bangladesh
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  • 04 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and regulation by the private... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

McKinsey. Although the company provided a car and driver, Makarim, who had lived in Indonesia as a child, preferred to use the ubiquitous motorcycle taxis. Known as “ojek,” the two-wheelers were informally organized. Most neighborhoods... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran