Country Strategy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2006
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Fast Lane to Country Lane

TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to launching her husband’s... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Furniture and Home Furnishings Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2016
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How DC is Taxing the Country

(photo by Brooks Kraft/Getty) Sunny jobs reports and shrinking unemployment numbers might give the impression that the US economic recovery is complete. Scratch beneath that surface, though, and a much bleaker trend emerges, says a new report from three HBS professors:... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

28 Sep 2015
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Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

13 Dec 2009
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The lucky country that found its own way

18 Apr 2014
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Helping developing countries learn how to solve their problems

Catherine Bouvier d'Yvoire (MBA 1982), director of the Global Strategy Advisory of Citi, sees her role as showing developing countries solutions to their problems. (Published April 2014) View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

22 Apr 2020
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Covid-19 in Africa: Navigating Short and Long Term Strategies

25 Apr 2014
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Harnessing for-profit strategies for social good

on social and environmental returns, in addition to financial returns." It became a blueprint for her career. Seegull was vice president of business development at Novica, an e-commerce company connecting artisans in developing countries... View Details

25 Feb 2020
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Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy

written numerous cases on other companies that have forged a new path for workforce management, such as Honeywell, which chose to institute furloughs during the 2008 recession instead of layoffs, and Nokia, which built its Bridge program to help 18,000 employees in 13... View Details

Keywords: April White; Telecommunications; Information

10 Aug 2009
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Executives Sharpen Their Nonprofit Strategy at HBS Executive Education Program

30 May 2008
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Máximo experto mundial critica que Chile no tenga una estrategia de competitividad de país (Maximum global expert criticizes Chile does not have a country competitiveness strategy)

12 Feb 2021
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How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

the lackluster progress and had decided that maybe they should seek a new CEO. Luckily, months before that, we really had come to understand, or at least I did as CEO, some of the problems I had in terms of wrong strategy and changed it,... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade