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    Debora L. Spar

    Debora Spar is the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and Senior Associate Dean for Business and Global Society. Her current research focuses on issues of gender and technology, and the interplay between... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; broadcasting; communications; entertainment; federal government; health care; information; internet; music; pharmaceuticals
    • 24 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

    In the long run, even the most fundamental innovations have a way of being influenced by government, says Harvard Business School professor Debora Spar. That's why business leaders need political skills,... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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    Debora L. Spar | About

    Debora L. Spar Senior Associate Dean, Business in Global Society , Unit Head, General Management Unit General Management Contact Phone Bio Debora... View Details
    • 24 Sep 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

    As the technology wave breaks over us, some think the Internet looks to many about to wash out the established order of everything from vacation booking to the nation-state itself. But hold on a minute, Debora View Details
    Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
    • 15 Oct 2001
    • Op-Ed

    Lessons from the Rubble

    whose knowledge and expertise may prove irreplaceable. People resent the United States for its prosperity, for its power, and for the presumption that prosperity and power give it the right to judge and advise others. —Debora L. View Details
    Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
    • 11 Feb 2022
    • News

    Professor Debora Spar: Symphonic

    • 01 Dec 2013
    • News

    Batteries and Chocolates

    Illustration by Adam Niklewicz/theispot.com by Debora L. Spar In 1991, when I joined the HBS faculty, men... View Details
    Keywords: Spar, Debora; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 17 Nov 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Business of Babies

    We prefer to think of babies as cuddly bundles of joy, but they are also products at the center of a multibillion-dollar market in adoptions and scientific conception, a market that few people acknowledge and that functions like no other. Harvard Business School... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
    • 09 Mar 2021
    • News

    Addressing education inequities exacerbated by the pandemic

    • 24 Feb 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

    Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 23 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

    their work. Joining the discussion was Professor Debora Spar, a political scientist who recently traced the historical development of several pioneering technologies. Leading Research: Let's begin by talking... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Aisner
    • 20 Aug 2020
    • Book

    From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

    For centuries, the creation of innovative technology—from steam engines and automobiles to computers and smartphones—has dramatically changed the nature of our work. Less deeply understood has been the impact of technology on the inner currents of our personal lives,... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 22 Sep 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    When Protestors Knock at Your Door

    As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor conditions. The result, say HBS... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 14 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

    of how difficult it’s going to be.” Spar says the Social Democrats “tried to do the right thing,” by welcoming migrants. “But there is a tacit consensus that they went faster and farther than the country... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert
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    Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

    State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern... View Details
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    Courses by Title - Course Catalog

    Credits Capitalism and the State (CATS) Business, Government & the International Economy, General Management Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future... View Details
    • 13 Feb 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    The Hidden Market for Babies

    "It is difficult to conceive of a child as commerce," writes Harvard Business School professor Debora L. Spar in her new book, The Baby Business: How Money, Science,... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
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    Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

    1.5 Robert Simons Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders Accounting & Management, General Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Strategy Execution Accounting & Management Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Emil Siriwardane Investment Management and Capital Markets Finance... View Details
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    Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

    State (CATS) (also listed under General Management) Debora L. Spar Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Capitalism: Past, Present, Future Sophus A. Reinert Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Creating the Modern... View Details
    • 23 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

    illneses take a financial and emotional toll on businesses operating in Africa. "This is not just a disease we're talking about. This is a disease that has the power to destroy economies," said Harvard Business School Professor View Details
    Keywords: by Julie Jette
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