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- 02 Dec 2017
- News
A Leveraged Investment
time between the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, and the United States, both stress that attending OPM improved their businesses as well as their personal lives. “HBS enriched...
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- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Power of Cultural Understanding
Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) Majid Jafar (MBA 2004) sees the global influence of HBS as a key to creating change in the world, a view that is informed by his experiences growing up in the United Arab Emirates, his...
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- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Saudi Arabia: Modern Reform, Enduring Stability. Dubai: Global Economy (TN)
Teaching Note for 709042 and 709043.
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Making a World of Difference
Israel's Jewish and Arab citizens. "In order for people to get along, they have to respect each other's differences," says Slifka, a successful Wall Street investor who has applied his business talent to various philanthropic ventures...
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- March 2017 (Revised June 2019)
- Case
Mubadala and EBX: To X or to X It?
By: Nori Gerardo Lietz, Ricardo Andrade and Sayiddah Fatima McCree
In April 2012, Mubadala, Abu Dhabi's sovereign wealth fund invested $2 billion in Brazilian conglomerate EBX, believing the company to be undervalued by the public markets. Shortly thereafter, however, EBX and its multiple business lines began to spiral downward. Hani...
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Keywords:
Sovereign Wealth Funds;
Conglomerates;
Investing;
Corporate Structure;
International;
Sovereign Finance;
Business Conglomerates;
Investment;
Financing and Loans;
Restructuring;
Organizational Structure;
Economy;
Brazil;
Abu Dhabi
Lietz, Nori Gerardo, Ricardo Andrade, and Sayiddah Fatima McCree. "Mubadala and EBX: To X or to X It?" Harvard Business School Case 217-065, March 2017. (Revised June 2019.)
- Portrait Project
Oded Eran
the radio. Fast-forward 6 months. I am working with a group of Arabs and Israelis on a conference promoting peace through economic cooperation. After the conference, I grabbed a beer with Sari, a Palestinian entrepreneur from the West...
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- Portrait Project
Laila Kassis
provided precious livelihood for us Palestinians. Working with my own hands instilled in me a sense of pride and purpose that I now want to inspire in people across the Arab world. Seeing firsthand how the chance to create bestows upon...
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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
rate is 16 percent) and is paying its employees 30 percent to 40 percent above the average Jordanian wage rate in similar fields. Furthermore, the venture has the potential to open up markets to both sides that have hitherto been unreachable - the View Details
- 25 May 2010
- News
Commencement and the Winds of Change
family settled in England. Cohen went on to win a scholarship to Oxford, where he was president of the Oxford Union, before attending HBS. Quite by coincidence as I write this, over the transom comes an update from Forsan Hussein (MBA ’07), who grew up in a small View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Amira Rashad: An Ambidextrous Mind Meets Consumer Needs in the Middle East
while opening up data insights through artificial intelligence. In May 2017, BulkWhiz was born in the United Arab Emirates. "It's a bona fide startup begun with funding from angels, then VC," Amira...
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- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
the same rate as non-Indigenous students. The case concludes as JMB contemplates taking his successful, sophisticated model to the United States. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919411-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Pursuing the Ultimate Deal
lessening of hostilities is achievable. One proposal that was raising hopes in mid-March was the Saudi initiative that offered Israel normalization of relations with Arab countries in exchange for Israel's withdrawal to its pre-1967...
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- 1987
- Book
Banking and Oil
By: Geoffrey Jones
This is the second of two volumes of a business history of a major British bank in the Middle East. Volume 1 traces the history of the bank from its foundation in 1889 as The Imperial Bank of Persia, through the years it was the state bank of Iran, and its...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Economics;
Banks and Banking;
Government and Politics;
Growth and Development;
Business History;
Problems and Challenges;
Iran;
Jordan;
Kuwait;
Oman;
Dubai
Jones, Geoffrey. Banking and Oil. Vol. 2, History of the British Bank of the Middle East. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987.
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
“The variety, nuance, and humanity of the Middle East are being obscured.” — Her Majesty Queen Noor of Jordan, lamenting negative stereotypes of the Middle East, in a keynote address at Burden Auditorium. (Harvard Arab Weekend, November...
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- Web
Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020
Middle East & North Africa Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye A desire to “democratize art in the Middle East” led Yazan Halwani (MBA 2020) to start creating public art—often combining Arabic calligraphy and graffiti—on the drab...
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- January 2018 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Christie's and Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi: The Value of a Brand
By: Jill Avery
A 16th century Renaissance masterpiece, missing for 137 years, believed by many to have been destroyed and then rediscovered less than a decade ago, becomes the most expensive painting ever sold, all the while surrounded by controversy. Did the buyer of Leonardo da...
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Keywords:
Brands;
Brand Valuation;
Art Collector;
Arts Marketing;
Auction House;
Auctions;
Luxury Brand;
Luxury Consumers;
Luxury Goods;
Marketing;
Valuation;
Marketing Strategy;
Arts;
Luxury;
Value;
Brands and Branding;
Fine Arts Industry;
Italy;
United Kingdom;
Europe;
United States;
United Arab Emirates
Avery, Jill. "Christie's and Leonardo da Vinci's Salvator Mundi: The Value of a Brand." Harvard Business School Case 518-066, January 2018. (Revised October 2019.)
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Designing a More Artful Future for the Middle East
led him to start creating public art—often combining Arabic calligraphy and graffiti—on the drab post-civil-war walls of his hometown of Beirut, Lebanon, in 2009. His success with guerilla art eventually led to commissions and exhibitions...
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Keywords:
Inclusion
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Letters to the Editor
Turkey is both European and Anatolian, and since the days of the Ottoman Empire, most Turks have not claimed any kinship to the Arab world. As an American who has lived in Turkey for twenty years, I have been reminded several times by the...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sands of Time
Well before he arrived at HBS, Michel Ray de Carvalho (MBA 1970) had led a charmed life. But it was only destined to get better. Already a veteran child actor at 17, he was tapped to play one of Peter O'Toole's young Arab sidekicks in the...
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