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- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
If capitalism was a stock, the market would appear rather bearish on its future. Bank failures, economic crises, and middle-class riots across the globe appear symptomatic of large systemic weaknesses in the market system, highlighted by...
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by Maggie Starvish
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By: William C. Kirby
A historian by training, Professor Kirby examines contemporary China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He writes and teaches on the growth of modern companies in China (Chinese and foreign; state-owned and private); Chinese...
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Keywords:
China;
Internationalization;
Educational Policy And Politics;
Infrastructure;
Government And Business;
The Revival Of Family Business In China;
China’s Infrastructure Exports: The ‘Belt And Road’ Initiative;
Agribusiness;
Education;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalization;
Governance;
Government and Politics;
History;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Social Enterprise;
Auto Industry;
Education Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Health Industry;
Semiconductor Industry;
Asia;
Europe;
North and Central America
- January–February 2017
- Article
Africa's New Generation of Innovators
By: Clayton M. Christensen, Efosa Ojomo and Derek van Bever
With a young, urbanizing population, abundant natural resources, and a growing middle class, Africa seems to have all the ingredients necessary for huge growth. Nevertheless, a number of multinationals have recently left the continent, discouraged by widespread...
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Christensen, Clayton M., Efosa Ojomo, and Derek van Bever. "Africa's New Generation of Innovators." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 1 (January–February 2017): 129–136.
- August 2020 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Nubank: Democratizing Financial Services
By: Michael Chu, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
Nubank, a wholly-digital solution created to disrupt Brazilian banking, with 6 million clients and a $4 billion valuation after five years, must decide whether to expand to Mexico. The company was founded in São Paulo in 2013 by Colombian-born David Vélez to seize what...
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Fintech;
Financial Inclusion;
Digital Banking;
Credit Cards;
Banks and Banking;
Disruption;
Expansion;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
South America;
Brazil;
North America;
Mexico
Chu, Michael, Carla Larangeira, and Pedro Levindo. "Nubank: Democratizing Financial Services." Harvard Business School Case 321-068, August 2020. (Revised August 2023.)
- 2015
- Report
The Challenge of Shared Prosperity: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2015 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
In the 2015 survey on U.S. competitiveness, HBS alumni weigh in on the current state and future trajectory of U.S. competitiveness as well as the structural strengths and weaknesses of the U.S. business environment. In addition, alumni delve deeper into two aspects of...
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Keywords:
Competitiveness;
U.S. Competitiveness;
Shared Prosperity;
Wealth;
Competition;
United States
Rivkin, Jan, Karen G. Mills, and Michael E. Porter. "The Challenge of Shared Prosperity: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2015 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness." Report, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2015 (With contributions from Michael I. Norton and Mitchell B. Weiss.)
William C. Kirby
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details
- October 2019
- Case
Agility Africa
By: Juan Alcacer, Caroline M. Elkins and Esel Çekin
This case illustrates the challenge and opportunities that firms face when developing and executing new business models in high-risk, low-infrastructure, low-trust countries. It features a global logistics group, Agility, that aimed to become the leader in supplying...
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Strategy;
Business Model;
Innovation and Invention;
Expansion;
Emerging Markets;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Real Estate Industry;
Distribution Industry;
Africa
Alcacer, Juan, Caroline M. Elkins, and Esel Çekin. "Agility Africa." Harvard Business School Case 720-357, October 2019.
Clayton S. Rose
Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice. From 2015 until 2023 he served as president of Bowdoin College. Prior to Bowdoin, beginning in 2007, he was a member of the HBS faculty, teaching and writing on issues of... View Details
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financial services
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Research - U.S. Competitiveness
improve living standards for the average American. Alumni see issues like inequality, middle-class stagnation, and economic immobility, as social as well as business challenges. Sep 2015 Report Business Aligning for Students: The Promise...
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Middle Skills - U.S. Competitiveness
performance More from “Bridge the Gap: Rebuilding America's Middle Skills” In the News 13 Nov 2014 Bloomberg Businessweek Network Admins Wanted: New Ideas for Filling 'Middle-Skill' Jobs Re: Joseph Fuller 12 Nov 2014 Wall Street Journal Where Are All the Middle-Skill...
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- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
success. They included changing the white, middle-class “Betty Crocker” image of the organization, reversing membership levels, expanding leadership, building diversity, and fundraising. Declining membership was reversed. Leadership ranks...
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Re: James L. Heskett
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
interview consumers of their type of product in neighborhoods near the Harvard Business School campus. Boston. Frequently, however, they found that students would only seek out people much like themselves, such as middle-class students in...
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by Michael Blanding
- 24 May 2017
- News
John J. Brennan, MBA 1980
is devoted to his family. Brennan often says he’s the luckiest person in the world, but it’s clear that his success involves considerable amounts of intelligence, hard work, and ambition. A middle-class kid whose early jobs included...
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Susan Young
- Profile
Ahmed Alimi
platform for middle-class Nigerians." "The resources at HBS have been amazing," says Ahmed. "At the i-lab, I've found a lot of support for the business, especially in the area of tech and product design. Just say 'hi'...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
running and investing in large companies were doing quite well. But working- and middle-class Americans were struggling, as were many small businesses. The most promising efforts we found to restore shared prosperity were local,...
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
Baker name. Michael R. Bloomberg (MBA 1966) Michael Bloomberg’s life story is one of self-made success in finance, business, and politics. The future three-term mayor of New York City grew up in a middle-class home in Medford,...
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- 03 Apr 2017
- What Do You Think?
How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?
Sitaraman, The Crisis of the Middle-Class Constitution: Why Economic Inequality Threatens Our Republic (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017) ORIGINAL COLUMN: There is increasing talk about stimulating $1 trillion in spending on the aging...
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- 15 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next
history of this American corporate icon. The U.S. cannot afford to lose the thousands of middle-class jobs of GM workers and management, nor the cutting edge R&D that GM does with its suppliers and partner universities. GM faces a...
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- 25 Aug 2014
- News
Jonathan M. Nelson, MBA 1983
and kind—and far ahead of where I was at their age.” His love and respect for Judy, his second wife, also brings him great joy. “In marriage, I’ve been lucky twice. This is something to be thankful for.” Nelson grew up in a middle-class...
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Susan Young
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
good tertiary-care hospitals. Medical tourism usually refers to the idea of middle-class or wealthy individuals going abroad in search of effective, low-cost treatment. But there is another dimension of medical tourism that is not called...
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