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Chris Hurst

“Infrastructure remains deficient in the Middle East,” Chris says, “but often there’s a significant economic element in conflict. People frequently view the legitimacy of a state as a function of their View Details
  • 01 Jun 2017
  • News

The Exchange: Venture Forth

and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and Professor Ramana Nanda’s study of the View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Jun 2016
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Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street

and capital only serve to stifle economic growth and opportunity, Nohria wrote. He also took note of critics who point to instances of global financial misdeeds, mistakes, or crises over the past decade and... View Details
Keywords: Wall Street; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 18 Jan 2017
  • News

HBS Gains New Insight Into Africa

politically, and economically diverse countries, Africa has become a dynamic frontier for business and entrepreneurship. In response to HBS faculty, student, and alumni interest, the School is broadening its work focused on Africa by... View Details
  • January 2014
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Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: Scaling an Innovative Start-up Financing Venture

By: Joan Farre-Mensa, William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
EFL provides credit-scoring services in developing countries using psychometric assessment, but the potential loss of a large customer makes them reconsider their scaling narrative. View Details
Keywords: Finance; Developing Countries; Lending; Psychometrics; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Credit; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Latin America
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  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

distill a lifetime of cutting-edge scholarship into short, accessible essays about Chinese identity, culture, environment, society, history, or policy. Can China’s economic growth continue apace? Can China... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29

innovations never been invented or adopted. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern11-1 Hybrid Innovation in Meiji Japan Authors:Nicholas, Tom Publication:International Economic Review Abstract Japan's hybrid innovation system during the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

coincided with the creation of the modern corporation, the mass market, and America's economic preeminence. Given this vast sweep of time, Koehn's narrations—in a series of original essays and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Entrepreneur’s Rwandan Start-Up Gets HBS Support

miss school each year for this reason, estimates UNICEF. “Our goal is to turn what has been an obstacle into a business opportunity and vehicle for economic growth in Africa, Asia, and Central America,” says... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

    Angle of Insight

    economic development. While there is some value in studying business in prosperous countries today, the real value comes when we study it at a time when the demographics in the 'now rich' region resembled that of today's poor countries. I... View Details
    • April 2010 (Revised May 2013)
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    Mexico: Crisis and Competitiveness

    By: Aldo Musacchio, Richard H.K. Vietor and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
    In 2010, the bicentennial anniversary of Mexico's revolution against Spain, President Felipe Calderon hoped he could orchestrate several crucial reforms that Mexico needed. Mexico had not grown much over the course of the last decade, losing competitiveness to China... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Mexico
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    • 08 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

    Even before the recent earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown in Japan, many parts of Asia had already begun investing in "green" energy. But the disaster has certainly upped the urgency of the discussions. “It's driven a lot of people to have a bit of a... View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities
    • 08 Apr 2011
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    Management Matters In Health Care, Too

    Harvard Medical School. He has shown that detailed checklists can improve surgical patient outcomes. Gawande told the audience that traditional practices with individual doctors can’t meet the complex challenges of modern medicine.... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance
    • 14 Aug 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

    forthcoming Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth By: Edmondson, Amy C. Abstract—The Fearless Organization offers practical... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 Apr 2019
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Government Technology Policy, Social Value, and National Competitiveness

    Keywords: by Frank Nagle
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    IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

    governance issues that have slowed economic growth, especially since the global financial crisis. Having suffered heavily from COVID-19 in part because of its large elderly population (Italy has one of the highest life expectancies in... View Details
    • January 1981 (Revised February 1982)
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    People's Republic of China: Development Strategies and Performance

    By: James E. Austin
    Keywords: Development Economics; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; China
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    • 15 Jan 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: January 15

    case:http://hbr.org/search/713050-PDF-ENG Brazil's Enigma: Sustaining Long-Term Growth Alfaro, Laura, and Hilary WhiteHarvard Business School Case 713-040 Over the past decade, Brazil's future as a leading world View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Nov 2015
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    November 17, 2015

    prowess, productivity, and ultimately prosperity. This chapter describes recent work in economics and management scholarship on how firms grow, with specific focus on questions surrounding the types of innovations that large and small... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 Oct 2002
    • News

    Pearson Hunt Remembered

    Hunt: an influential figure in the shaping of financial management practices. Courtesy HBS Communications Professor emeritus Pearson Hunt, an authority on corporate finance whose research helped shape modern financial management... View Details