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- 08 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile
at a time when there are many social protests calling for more spending on education and health care. However one needs to keep things in perspective. The unemployment rate, for example, is 6 per cent. Compare that to 7.5 per cent in...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
manufactured consumer goods first used the union label as a way to show solidarity through their purchases. One hundred years later, men and women, and even teenagers, organized to protest sweatshop production in various countries around...
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- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
belong to the right organizations. Doors do not open. Opportunities are beyond their grasp. The number of people who actually surmount the odds is so low that it is little wonder that their achievements and successes (e.g., Horatio Alger) are celebrated. Wealthy,...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019
Christian church. From the earliest female apostle and the two Marys—the Virgin Mary and Mary Magdalene—to the enlightened duties espoused by the nun, the abbess, and the anchorite, and the persecutions of female “witches,” Muir offers broad coverage of both Catholic...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
however, and protest strikes in response to a law proposed by Labor Minister Myriam El Khomri, under President François Hollande, that would make it easier for companies to fire workers and extend the number of hours in a traditional...
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2023 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
2004, March for Women’s Lives in Washington D.C., the largest protest march in U.S. history at that time. She founded the National Center for Human Rights Education (NCHRE) in Atlanta, Georgia, launched the Women of Color Program for the...
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- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
enterprises fuels anti-China sentiment. At Chambishi copper mine, a 2005 explosion, caused by management's shoddy adherence to safety standards, killed nearly 50 miners and sparked outrage among Zambians. The explosion marked the first in a long series of View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
demand for land for urban development? How could it ensure the sustainability of local government finances? Was the growing number of land protests the harbinger of major changes in China's political institutions? How would the challenges...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
George Floyd murder, the protests that we saw at the height of the pandemic. And I think, again, it’s not that these initiatives haven’t existed in government. I think we all see in the private sector and public sector this heightened...
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- 12 Apr 2023
- News
Step Change
she worked under three ministers of finance, sometimes sleeping at the office when protesters demanding reparations for martyrs of the revolution made it impossible to go home. That was when she decided to apply to HBS. "I was young and...
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Julia Hanna;
entrepreneurship;
women;
venture capital;
Egypt;
developing economies;
Finance
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
manufacturing plant in West Bengal state, in the face of widespread farmer protests over land acquisition issues. This meant abandoning a project in which the company had invested $300 million and delaying the launch of the Nano, the...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
From the Chief Financial Officer - Annual Report 2020
spurred global protests for racial justice. On the School’s campus, Dean Nitin Nohria formed an Anti-Racism Task Force composed of faculty, staff, students, and alumni to develop ideas for how the HBS might advance racial equity. In...
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- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
that electric cars constitute 2 percent of all car sales by 1998, the company, along with the rest of the auto industry, protested vigorously. "The role of government should be to provide incentives for people to embrace sustainable...
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- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
largest American investors in that country. His close relationship with Harry Oppenheimer, the head of the Anglo-American Corporation, gave him substantial influence within the South African business system. The case starts with anti-apartheid demonstrators View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Not Throwing Away My Shot
model, to pick the right market to innovate in, will determine to great extent my success. The Bolden story is all about community. He probably couldn't have been successful in Boston or New York. New Orleans was an open community. It had been Catholic and Spanish, not...
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- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Tarun Khanna Abstract—Since the 1990s, several western firms have filed patents based on medicinal herbs from emerging markets, evoking protests from local stakeholders against "bio-piracy." We explore...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
WE RISE
in the first quarter of 2019 were women. The disparate impacts of the pandemic and the protests following the killing of George Floyd have focused national attention on the need for increased racial diversity. 2020 has presented economic...
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- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
“The protests are critical because they create awareness, and we need to sustain that awareness, but the next piece is how do you translate that into action. So what we’ve been doing is working with the corporates to create true training...
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- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
inclusive development, and improved governance. The economy was experiencing a growth slowdown, persistently high inflation, and infrastructure and energy deficits. Policy reforms were hampered by several recent corruption scandals, widespread citizen View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Stanley Investment Management (MSIM) and other investors, holding 28 percent of the company's stock altogether, withheld their votes for the 30 percent of directors that they could vote on as a sign of protest against the management of...
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Sean Silverthorne