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- 19 Jun 2013
- News
Your Guide to Social Enterprise
paths." Keohane's career in the nonprofit sector began just after she graduated from Yale in 1994. She worked at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, earned a master's degree in development from the London School of Economics... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Eight Join HBS Faculty
capital markets and firms’ social, environmental, and governance performance. Lakshmi Ramarajan, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit, also had ties to HBS before joining the faculty. After earning her doctorate in... View Details
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Mallika Ahluwalia
school system, Mallika accepted her first international development challenge. Working in a small team, Mallika helped run a United Nations World Food Program project in Namibia that fed 90,000 AIDS-affected orphans. "I got closely... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
Texas to Lithuania's West Virginia) and in economic might (second only to Russia in the region) has tried to tread—apparently with ambivalence—a middle ground between Russia and the West. As Abdelal points out, the choices of these post-Soviet View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Books
overlooked question: If Japanese government policies and practices accounted for the nation's extraordinary competitiveness, then why wasn't Japan competitive in many of the industries where those policies had been prominently... View Details
- 01 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are Free Trade and Free Markets Quaint Ideas From the Past?
maximize the purchasing power of consumers or if it is to reinforce certain government favoured industries and, indirectly, the people who work and invest in those industries. After more than thirty years when broad View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- October 2002 (Revised March 2009)
- Background Note
Foreign Direct Investment
By: Laura Alfaro and Esteban Clavell
Briefly reviews motivations and trends behind foreign direct investment and multinational corporations as well as the policy debate that surrounds them. View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Business and Government Relations
Alfaro, Laura, and Esteban Clavell. "Foreign Direct Investment." Harvard Business School Background Note 703-018, October 2002. (Revised March 2009.)
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
international markets, they’re developing ambitious plans for their producers.” Lack of infrastructure makes follow-through on those plans challenging in Haiti, the third-poorest country in the world and the site of a catastrophic... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-021.pdf Coerced Confessions: Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators and industry, novel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2010 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
Barclays Wealth: Reignite WAR or Launch AlphaStream?
By: Lena G. Goldberg and Elisa Farri
In late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, managing director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays Wealth's most promising offshore funds of hedge funds, and halted the Fund's... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Liquidity; International Finance; Investment Funds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; London
Goldberg, Lena G., and Elisa Farri. "Barclays Wealth: Reignite WAR or Launch AlphaStream?" Harvard Business School Case 310-090, February 2010. (Revised July 2010.)
- September 2010 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel
By: Karthik Ramanna and Rachna Tahilyani
The case describes the challenges faced by Tata Steel, India's largest private sector steel company, as it transitions from Indian GAAP to IFRS. It first describes those challenges in the context of the institutional voids that make IFRS adoption difficult in India.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Multinational Firms and Management; Policy; Leadership; Emerging Markets; Standards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Steel Industry; India
Ramanna, Karthik, and Rachna Tahilyani. "Leadership in Corporate Reporting Policy at Tata Steel." Harvard Business School Case 111-028, September 2010. (Revised May 2011.)
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
How to Take a Stand On UBS and Climate Change
the less government involvement there is, the better,” says Oberholzer-Gee. “In fact, a number of the competitive advantages enjoyed by companies have come from the regulations that governments impose on... View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
government bond yields, stabilized until the fall of 2008, when they showed dramatic declines. The paper asks to what extent short-term real interest rates, bond risks, and liquidity explain the trends before 2008 and the unusual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
development in Africa and in other low-income countries. Provides a brief political and economic history of Rwanda, but focuses on the country preceding and after the genocide. A description of government policies since 1994 enables... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
regulatory requirements, and some existing taxi booking vendors feel threatened by SaferTaxi's efforts to enter the market. As SaferTaxi attempts to satisfy these diverse constituents, international competition looms. What should... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
Working PapersExplaining International Differences in Entrepreneurship: The Role of Individual Characteristics and Regulatory Constraints Authors:Silvia Ardagna and Annamaria Lusardi Abstract We use a micro dataset that collects... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania
receiving a Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship from HBS in 2021, DeBere received one in 2020, which enabled him to serve as a research intern for OpenUp, a civic technology company based in South Africa that shares Afya Pamoja’s vision... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
only—measure of success. But recent forces are pushing CEOs to adopt long-term and broader considerations, which requires consideration of various outcomes related to sustainability. For example, a growing number of companies around the world voluntarily report... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Three Promoted to Full Professor
Entrepreneurial Finance elective in the MBA curriculum. In the Executive Education Program, he has developed materials for and served as codirector of courses in Conflict and Evolution in Private Equity, Corporate Venture Capital, and View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Assets: Matchup
Photo: Allison Sepanek Meg Rithmire first visited China in 2001, the summer after her first year of college. “I remember thinking it would be an interesting country to study because it was so hard for me to understand it,” she recalls. “I figured I would never get... View Details