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- 01 Mar 2023
- News
March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created...
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MOC Course at Harvard - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
factors affect the potential for competitiveness, wealth is actually created at the microeconomic level. The MOC course focuses on the sources of national or regional productivity, which are rooted in the strategies View Details
- 28 Sep 2023
- News
What Ray Dalio Can Teach Us About Global Venture and Startups
Ray Dalio (photo via Bridgewater Associates) and Alex Lazarow (photo by Lindsay Upson) In a recent conversation with Bridgewater Associates Founder Ray Dalio (MBA 1973), Alex Lazarow (MBA 2010) gleaned three insights (and one bonus) from the global hedge fund leader on...
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- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
historical scholarship and address a wealth of questions emanating from them, Global History, Globally is a must-read book for all students and scholars of global history....
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Sean Silverthorne
- December 1974 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Andrew Carnegie
Concerns the life and wealth of Andrew Carnegie.
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Zaleznik, Abraham. "Andrew Carnegie." Harvard Business School Case 475-068, December 1974. (Revised May 1999.)
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
between immigrants and natives. Results in this paper indicate that, even when diversity is economically beneficial, it may nonetheless be socially hard to manage. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55981...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
platforms, crowdsourcing, and the gig economy. Building upon the knowledge-based view of the firm, we argue that these increasingly common governance models offer a wealth of opportunities but require...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
enormous resources of oil, gold, and diamonds, it also has some of the most fertile remaining untilled land in Africa. However, since the end of fighting in 2002, Angola’s vast wealth has been squandered by...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
levels of punishment and their enforcement against corporations and individuals. Organizations face pressure to design and implement effective ethics View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
issues in business history concerned how business enterprises innovated and created wealth as well as patterns of success and failure in that process. There now exists, after a...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
experiencing slowdowns, investors, entrepreneurs, and multinationals are looking elsewhere. They’ve been eyeing frontier economies such as Nigeria and Pakistan with great interest—and enormous trepidation....
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
and outline options for how readers can participate and prosper in the coming Fifth Era. Through the inspiring stories in this book, you’ll understand this age of unprecedented change, discover the greatest...
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- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Reunited and It Feels So Good
During several days of engaging academic programs and lively social events held in October both on and off campus, more than fifteen hundred alumni and guests from the MBA...
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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Investment This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
healing modalities including becoming a Reiki Master Teacher. Investing for the Smarter Sex: Wealth Building Tips and Secrets Sophisticated Women Know (But Wall Street Won’t Tell You) By Tiffany Kent (MBA...
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Margie Kelley
- 2011
- Working Paper
Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
This paper presents a model in which anonymous charitable donations are rationalized by two human tendencies drawn from the psychology literature. The first is people's disproportionate disposition to help those they agree with while the second is the dependence of...
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Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Mathematical Methods;
Attitudes;
Interests;
Perception;
Wealth and Poverty
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Charitable Giving When Altruism and Similarity Are Linked." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17585, November 2011.
- 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
are also shown to be actors in periodic deglobalization waves. This was because their function was to reinforce the gaps in wealth and income rather than disrupt them. Business enterprises proved...
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Dina Gerdeman
- February 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Merck: Global Health and Access to Medicines
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
The case describes the effort of Merck, a global leader in pharmaceuticals, in making available its medicines to the poor. The challenge for the company (or for that matter, any pharmaceutical company) is how to integrate its business strategy with its corporate social...
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Globalized Firms and Management;
Health Care and Treatment;
Emerging Markets;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Poverty;
Business Strategy;
Pharmaceutical Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "Merck: Global Health and Access to Medicines." Harvard Business School Case 509-048, February 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
skills, she notes, she is thankful for every day. As a senior executive, Marshall works to balance -- and satisfy -- the needs of her shareholders, customers, and employees. Her work with CARE often gives...
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Susan Young
- January 2007 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico
By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
Farmacias Similares, serving Mexico's low-income sector, grew to $600 million sales and 3,400 drugstores while deep reforms to help the poor swept the public health system. Adjacent to each store, for $2 per visit, medical clinics provided access to doctors for 2.3...
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Private Sector;
Public Sector;
Health Care and Treatment;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Poverty;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Retail Industry;
Mexico
Chu, Michael, and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Farmacias Similares: Private and Public Health Care for the Base of the Pyramid in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 307-092, January 2007. (Revised April 2011.)