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- 01 Mar 2008
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Rags to Riches
difficult.” Ozyegin sees education as Turkey’s major challenge. In addition to his support for public schools, he plans to spend $1 billion over the next 15 years to establish a private university. “My vision is that we can train and View Details
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- 06 Dec 2021
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Elevator Pitch: Power Sourced
local farmers. Mission: Chaku’s sourcing model helps Ghanian farmers mitigate crop loss, which can run as high as 40 percent because of processing and exporting challenges. Okrah lived close to those farmers in Kumasi, an agrarian region...
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- 01 Sep 2014
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The Changing Nature of Research
business and government leaders and visited a variety of companies, including the Merinos rug weaving mill in Gaziantep owned by the Erdemoğlu Group, the world’s leading exporter of machine-made area rugs. The immersion was coordinated by...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
going to produce top-tier investment returns.” Exporting VC Dollars Nor is it enough to focus exclusively on the United States. “When I got into this business in 1979, deals were done in Boston and Silicon Valley and hardly anywhere...
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- 01 Mar 2024
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Turning Point: Eternal Returns
were able to enter a housing lottery and moved to Hong Kong’s first public housing estate when I was two years old. When I was five, I helped my aunt and sister in a factory that made plastic flowers, which was Hong Kong’s main export at...
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- 24 Apr 2020
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Spreading the Love
masks also weren’t an option as Vietnam, where Lovepop sources materials, imposed export restrictions on the masks. They eventually settled on full face shields, which could be made using the industrial laser die-cutters at Lovepop’s...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
James McNerney Jr.
of the President’s Export Council. Do you have any perspectives to share from your work in that particular post? American business is trying to find the most constructive way to engage with the Obama administration. I happen to think that...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
suspect that the economists at the Boston Fed might say that a weaker EU economy suggests somewhat weaker US growth, since many US exporters depend on sales to the EU region. The oil price outlook matters, too, because it affects both the...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
nation like Nigeria provide affordable renewable energy in a depressed economy so dependent on fossil fuels? —Tonye Cole (AMP 186, 2014) KORTENHORST and KORMI: The world of fossil fuels is a volatile one, and exporters of fossil fuels...
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- 01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop
Valley and other more established global tech meccas; Africa can export great ideas, too, he says. “We’re building world-class technology in emerging markets. So our technology can succeed in the States, it can succeed in Europe. And...
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Dan Morrell
- 26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising
on exports and some pre-crisis advice from Professor Dante Roscini, who held senior positions in leading US investment banks before coming to HBS. “He told me that he was surprised by how many companies borrow when they need it and not...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
abruptly when oil prices soared in the 1980s, and the Japanese gained a toehold exporting attractive, low-cost, fuel-efficient vehicles to America. Responding to that change and the subsequent surge in domestically produced Japanese...
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- 01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way
exports to the rest of the continent are up, and foreign investment has increased. Although progress is sometimes disappointing and many challenges are still ahead, South Africa is nonetheless seen by investors from all over the globe as...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka
from hospital turnarounds to policy implementation and consumer product development. And its international unit has been busy exporting services to countries such as China, Russia, and Saudi Arabia. Mediva and Platanus apply the...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 01 Mar 2004
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Chinese Premier Speaks at HBS
solution to the U.S.-China trade deficit lay in an expansion of U.S. exports, rather than restrictions on the Chinese side. He noted that in recent years, U.S. exports to China have increased by a greater percentage than U.S. View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
The Governor’s Admission
estimate that, despite its modest size, Lynch’s Granite State exports more than $2 billion annually in goods and services. Lynch, who was inaugurated in 2005, entered politics after resuscitating national furniture-maker Knoll, Inc.,...
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- 11 May 2021
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Pitching to Win
exported organic snack brands. In the hour-long event, Harvard University President Larry Bacow congratulated the finalists and recognized their role in inspiring change. “Thank you for transforming flashes of inspiration and ingenuity...
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- 17 Mar 2011
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Make or Break for the USA?
Germany, despite having the highest labor costs in the world, also enjoys the world’s largest export surplus, at 7 percent of GDP. The United States, by contrast, ranks lowest among the world’s largest manufacturing nations in “export...
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- 01 Mar 2015
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Fıelds of Gold
red stigma that workers—overwhelmingly women, who are considered more skilled at the delicate task—separate from the yellow “style.” The stigma are then dried. To market Traditional path: Historically, Afghan saffron has been exported to...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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The World According to MTV
and programming. Roedy has schmoozed with a number of world leaders — most recently, China's Jiang Zemin — in order to be granted access to their citizens' TV sets. “We've had little resistance once we explain that we're not in the business of View Details