Liberia - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2020
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A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

26 Sep 2014
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The Ebola Crisis: What can economists do?

31 Mar 2020
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Cambridge announces COVID-19 Expert Advisory Panel

01 Jun 2013
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Africa Looks Ahead

OKONJO-IWEALA: Providing basic infrastructure is the way to transform people's lives. At a UN meeting in Liberia to discuss a framework for development after the UN's millennium goals expire in 2015, Nigeria's finance minister, Dr. Ngozi... View Details

Keywords: United Nations; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

01 Dec 2000
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In War-Torn Liberia, Student Gains a Wealth of Experience

"We were never in any imminent danger, but there was always this question mark, a feeling that something big could happen," reports second-year MBA student Daniella Ballou, who spent last summer in Liberia as an intern with the... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

DOWNING: In one of the world’s poorest countries, the rain forest is key. At A Glance Total Area: 111,369 sq. km. Population: 3,441,790 Per Capita GDP: $500 All maps by Robert Littleford; Country Data: Cia World Factbook Thomas Downing (MBA ’81): View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government

01 Mar 2014
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Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid

Eric Werker You spent much of 2009 to 2011 in Liberia advising President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf while on leave from HBS. What did you learn from that experience? Good ideas and great strategies are cheap and easy; what's expensive and... View Details

Keywords: foreign aid; Government

01 Jun 2004
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Alumni Bookshelf

by Scott Green (MBA 1989)(Wiley) A practical approach for managers who want to improve internal controls to prevent fraud. Learning to Love Africa by Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) (HarperBusiness) Maddy’s memoir chronicles her journey from a remote village in View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business

significant factor in my decision to return after graduation,” she says. As a student, Ballou-Aares worked in Liberia with the International Rescue Committee (Bulletin, December 2000) and conducted a field research project on delivering... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

11 May 2020
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Better Than Cash

Nepal, households headed by women with digital savings accounts increased their education spending by 20 percent. On the other side of the equation, digitizing teacher salary payments in Liberia reduced the time and cost of collecting a... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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Robert Goodwin

assistance in developing countries. The nonprofit’s inspiration came from Goodwin’s HBS classmate Sam MacHour, whose experiences in Liberia and Burundi convinced him of the need to confront the underlying causes of poverty. While at HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

07 May 2018
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What I Learned from Visiting All 54 African Countries

those types of things, it's just bad news that we hear, or AIDS and epidemics and things like that, Sierra Leone, Liberia with Ebola. So what I'm trying to do is talk about things that are outside those things that we always hear about.... View Details

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

Liberia designing public health responses to the then-ongoing Ebola epidemic.” MARCH 30 Andrew Slavitt (MBA 1993), founder of Project N95.org, a medical clearinghouse matching donors and sellers of medical equipment to hospitals in need,... View Details

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