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01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

“Women are well represented in the banking and government sectors in Egypt,” says Enan. But there are still gaps, which is why the decision to pivot Lotus to a support network for women entrepreneurs was easy to make. In partnership with View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

20 Sep 2013
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Historical Origins of Environmental Sustainability in the German Chemical Industry, 1950s-1980s

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Christina Lubinski; Chemical

2013
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International Health Economics

By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson

Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Global Range; Economics

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MBA Program - Alumni

the School is preparing future leaders for the demands of an ever-changing world. HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund HBS’s first student-run Impact Investing Fund focuses on local BIPOC-led and -owned small businesses that have... View Details

2009
Other Unpublished Work

Singapore Competitiveness Report

By: Christian H.M. Ketels, Ashish Lall and Boon Siong Neo

The 2009 Singapore Competitiveness Report, the first in this new series of regular assessments by the Asia Competitiveness Institute (ACI) at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy, provides data and analysis to inform the discussions on the impact of the crisis... View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Competitive Strategy; Singapore

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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

an understanding of common leadership styles, and explore how you can unleash the potential in yourself and others. Access Your Free E-Book Upskill Your Team, Transform Your Organization Whether you represent a large multinational corporation or a small View Details

16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16

http://hbr.org/search/613053-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 413-107 Ibrahim Dabdoub at the National Bank of Kuwait Ibrahim Dabdoub, the group chief executive of the National Bank of Kuwait (NBK), reflects on his past 30 years at the helm of the bank. Under his... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

other countries outside China such as Germany and Sweden before local contagion even started, allowing precious time to acquire personal protective equipment before it became scarce. Second, since the company was able to foresee large... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

second chance. We are responsible for and witnesses to permanent and irreversible damage to our climate, and it is our collective responsibility to respond. As business leaders, we must collaborate with governments at the global, national, state, and View Details

10 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

tightly: performance evaluation and risk management. Everything else is managed loosely, and local leaders get an enormous amount of discretion in figuring out how to get things done. Change leaders need to be prepared to give the same... View Details

Keywords: by Nick Morgan

20 Oct 2003
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Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

created by the swift expansion of local and wide area corporate computer networks (LANS and WANs) and the privatized Internet brought a second Japanese challenge in the early 1990s. Critical here was the development of the workstation... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Article Some of the more interesting writing that is relevant to management these days is found in out-of-the-way places in my local bookstore. In addition to the management and economics sections, you should check out neuroscience,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

reckless gambling of assets. Its hubris was to attempt to commoditize electric power, water, and broadband, despite what Salter called critical points of difference from natural gas. (Electric power and water are politically sensitive at the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Guidelines for Choosing Resources - Research Computing Services

Tips for Choosing RAM: If your code runs on your local machine, start by asking for the same amount of RAM or less (for example, if your laptop has 8GB of RAM, try asking for 8GB). If you are loading in native binary data files, ask for... View Details

06 Feb 2013
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Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

Group, Google, REI, and UPS. All of this sounds like an answer to a "trickle down" philosophy of economics fueled by government favoritism for the most affluent. My introduction to the concept occurred long before I read the book. On a visit to a View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

drivers and alleged evasion of local taxes. The Uber case brings up thorny questions around when pushing legal or policy boundaries becomes a public hazard rather than public benefit. Permission Or Forgiveness "We address this in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Kristen Forbes, "Financial Constraints and Growth: Multinational and Local Firm Responses to Currency Crises" (November 2008). Ranjay Gulati : Elected a fellow of the Strategic Management Society in 2009. Josh Lerner : Second Place Winner... View Details

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

of the problem is that the word "accident" is rather imprecise; not all accidents are equally accidental. If you bump into your neighbor at a local grocery store, without planning to, you might call that an accident. But that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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Harvard Business School

chairman, Americas, as well as an international director and the founder of Jones Lang LaSalle's highly acclaimed Public Institutions Business Unit, specializing in comprehensive real estate solutions for federal, state, and local... View Details

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HBS OnBoard | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

regional board summits, and other networking events. Contact your local club to learn more. 1 Life & Leadership After HBS longitudinal alumni study. Most recent data collection 2021-2022. Interested in learning more about On Board? Sign... View Details

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