International Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2012 (Revised November 2013)
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Persephone's Pomegranate: Crédit Agricole and Emporiki

By: Dante Roscini, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Jerome Lenhardt

In 2006 the French bank Crédit Agricole bought the Greek Emporiki bank, for €2.8 billion, at the peak of a bull market for bank takeovers. Six years, a major financial crisis, and €5.2 billion of losses later, in a context of great uncertainty in the European banking... View Details

Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Currency; Development Economics; International Finance; International Relations; Banking Industry; Greece

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01 Oct 2000
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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

16 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Taking Your Shot in the Sports Industry with Adam Laitsas (MBA 2016), SVP, Head of Marketing for Madison Square Garden Sports

an inflection point. Laitsas found that he had learned a great deal from investment banking but didn’t see himself in the industry long-term. As a way to hit the reset button on his career path, Laitsas turned his attention towards obtaining his MBA at Harvard Business... View Details

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

tools and frameworks they’ve developed themselves or learned from professional training.” Internal coach Internal coaches (sometimes called “Talent Development”) usually have... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

Education staff.EE: What led you to develop the "Women Leading Business" forum? Hart: I'd observed in the School's Executive Education programs—AMP, PMD, and OPM, for example—that the women attending them loved meeting each... View Details

Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery

11 Mar 2001
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Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

New economy companies may be moving at the speed of light, but they still need managers who can get the job done, according to career development experts who spoke at the African-American Student Union conference, "The Digital... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

01 Mar 2013
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Sizing Up Social Impact

and investments to modernize the Bureau of Internal Revenue, expand and improve small-scale, community-driven development projects in rural areas, and rehabilitate a secondary national road in Samar province... View Details

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Working Paper

Henry A. Kissinger as Negotiator: Background and Key Accomplishments

By: James K. Sebenius, Laurence A. Green and Eugene B. Kogan

Following a brief summary of Henry A. Kissinger’s career, this paper describes six of his most pivotal negotiations: the historic establishment of U.S. diplomatic relations with the People’s Republic of China, the easing of geopolitical tension with the Soviet Union,... View Details

Keywords: Kissinger; Bargaining; Diplomacy; Multiparty Negotiations; Dispute Resolution; Mediation; Coercive Diplomacy; Negotiation; International Relations; Personal Development and Career; United States

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27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

world," notes Simons. The topic of marketing, taught by Professor John Quelch, is brought up to the executive boardroom level, says Simons. “There's a realization that they only have so much time left.” Professor Julio Rotemberg provides an View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

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Kanwaljit Bakshi

work. "The models of law enforcement and international public policy are not strategic by nature," she explains. "There are no other Harvard MBAs working there. Just having that perspective has been very valuable both to me... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

08 Nov 2011
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Saluting Our HBS Veterans

Blake Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Related links Learn how alumni apply military experience to leadership in nonprofits, industry, education, and more. Maura Sullivan (MBA 2009), PepsiCo Robert Goodwin (GMP 3, 2007), Executives Without Borders... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; veterans; National Security and International Affairs; National Security and International Affairs

01 Sep 2014
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The Changing Nature of Research

The problems facing business and society are increasingly complex. Developing solutions to global challenges requires a faculty adept at field work, cross-sector collaboration, complex data analysis, and intensive laboratory work, as well... View Details

01 Jun 2001
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Books: Judo Strategy

develop the metaphor into a systematic way of thinking about strategy. The approach they describe minimizes the importance of brute size and strength by teaching companies how to make the most of their advantages — and transform their... View Details

Keywords: Microsoft; Netscape; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

while also bolstering private-sector demand for LEED buildings." Leading With Leed There are multiple environmental assessment tools available to governments and building developers in the United States, including the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

25 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Attending HBS to Grow the Family Business

growing up in a family business influence your desire to attend business school? I always knew there were ways to grow the business that we hadn’t thought of yet, or hadn’t created a plan for yet. I felt business school would inspire ideas for growth and also provide... View Details

31 Aug 2011
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Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

Austin, Fearing develops a "fairness" metric that (in the case of severe weather, for example) balances the trade-off between the most efficient and the most equitable allocation of delays. The FAA's current Traffic Flow... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

04 Apr 2019
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Promoting Diversity at Sundance and Beyond

of the Executive Leadership Council, a prestigious membership organization dedicated to developing an inclusive business leadership pipeline for top-level black executives. At Blackhouse, he chairs an initiative that debuted in 2007 with... View Details

05 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Summer Internships in the JD/MBA Program

My name is Charlie Hernandez. I grew up in Los Angeles, California, where I attended Loyola High School, a Catholic, all boys high school located in downtown LA. I attended Harvard College, and after graduating in 2011, I worked in View Details

16 Aug 2017
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Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

improvement and offer new methods to city planners and real estate developers looking to identify areas in need of improvement. The collaborators reveal their findings in a May 2017 paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate