Harvard Business School

North America

Boston, MA
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative: HBS faculty describe how improved competition in insurance plans could improve value for patients

Boston, MA
American Auto's Troubled Road: HBS Faculty dissect where U.S. auto makers went wrong, and how they might again get on the road to growth

Boston, MA
Thomas K. McCraw: American Business Since 1920: How It Worked [book]

New Orleans, USA
Harvard Business School students help New Orleans

Boston, MA
Charlie Rose broadcasts from the Global Business Summit

Latin America

Honduras
Stephen Haber and Noel Maurer: Anatomy Of A Coup: Parsing events in Honduras [Forbes]

Region-wide
Michael Chu: microfinance on a massive and progressively cheaper scale is the answer to fixing global poverty

Mexico
Mexico Since 1980 — new book by Stephen Haber, Herbert Klein, Noel Maurer, & Kevin Middlebrook

Dispatches from the Global Classroom — an on-the-ground report from Mexico's smallest villages and its multibillion-dollar conglomerates

Europe

Austria
Ambassador to Austria: Who is William Eacho?

London, UK
Michel Anteby, Laura Linard on The Hawthorne Effect [BBC] — what happens when subjects know you're watching

Russia and the Ukraine
In recent HBS case 'The Energy Politics of Russia vs. Ukraine,' Rawi Abdelal finds more than just muscle-flexing

London, UK
Prof. Niall Ferguson on Globalization [video]

Scandinavia
Why Scandinavia can teach us a thing or two about surviving a recession: Christian Ketels in The Guardian

Region-wide
Executive Education: Changing the Game—Europe

Africa

Johannesburg, South Africa
Maria Karaivanova (MBA'09) African opportunity [FT] Most new HBS MBAs are eager to start their biz careers — not this one

Region-wide
Robert Goodwin (GMP '07), CEO of Executives without Borders, makes it easier for the biz comm'ty to give back

Region-wide
In Asian footsteps in Africa (Jordan Times), Tarun Khanna says capitalism emanating from China & India "is reshaping Africa inexorably"

Kenya
Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya

Sudan
China in Africa: The Case of Sudan [Harvard Business Publishing]

South Asia

Region-wide
Tarun Khanna on the Tasks of Leadership in India

Region-wide
Regina Herzlinger on health care in India [Lou Dobbs Tonight, CNN]

Region-wide
Tarun Khanna on "Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China & India are Reshaping Their Futures & Yours"

Mumbai, India
India's Pockets of Prosperity: Profs. Alfaro and Iyer on Special Economic Zones in India

Mumbai, India
Agri-business as a career, in the Hindu features HBS'Agribusiness Seminar: An Asian Offering executive education program

Asia-Pacific

Canberra, Australia
Ian Watt (AMP '99), newly appointed secretary of the Defense Department to cut spending

China
Robert Pozen on the US-China Summit: Chatter about a new global currency is overblown [FT]

Shanghai, China
Executive Education: Driving Corporate Performance: Using the Balanced Scorecard to Link Strategy with Systems at the Harvard Shanghai Center

Beijing, China
William Kirby on China: 'enormous changes' in past 30 years

Beijing, China
Executive Education: Senior Executive Program for China

Singapore
Christopher Marquis on IBM's Corp Service Corps (CSC) prog and the importance of having teams on-the-ground in emerging markets

Tokyo, Japan
Robert Dujarric, Andrei Hagiu: Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan