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AIDS Is Your Business (Spanish version)
Rosen, Sydney; Simon, Jonathon; Vincent, Jeffrey R.; MacLeod, William; Fox, Matthew; Thea, Donald M.Article HBS-R0302FEconomicsIf your company operates in a developing country, AIDS is your business. Although Africa has received the most attention, AIDS is also spreading swiftly in other parts of the world. Why should executives be concerned about AIDS? Because it is destroying the twin rationales of globalization strategy--cheap labor and fast-growing markets--in countries where people are heavily affected by the epidemic. Fortunately, investments in programs that preve...Starting at €8.20
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Emerging Threat: Human Rights Claims (Spanish version)
Schrage, ElliotArticle HBS-F0308BEconomicsIt's only a matter of time before some company becomes the Enron of human rights abuse, warns the general counsel in this fictional memo to the CEO. Activist U.S. courts are accepting more and more human rights claims against the business practices of global firms in developing countries. Companies should take steps now to avoid ugly and costly legal battles.Starting at €8.20
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New World Disorder (Spanish version)
Checa, Nicolas; Maguire, John; Barney, JonathanArticle HBS-R0308EEconomicsthat a healthy economy and a sound financial system make for political stability and that countries in business together do not fight each other. The number one priority of U.S. foreign policy was, thus, to encourage the former Communist countries of Europe and the developing nations in Latin America, Asia, and Africa to adopt business-friendly policies. Private capital would flow from the developed world into these countries, creating economic ...Starting at €8.20
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Turn Public Problems to Private Account (HBR Classic) (Spanish version)
Rockefeller, Rc; Rockefeller, Rodman C.Article HBS-R0308JEconomicsMany managers face increasing calls to invest corporate resources in charitable causes. How should executives balance a firm's very real economic imperative to maximize profitability with its hypothetical moral imperative to improve society? To provide one answer, the author draws on his experience as president of an economic-development company, IBEC. Viewing profit as "an essential discipline and measurer of economic success" but not "the sole ...Starting at €8.20
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Abraham Lincoln and the Global Economy (Spanish version)
Hormats, Robert D.Article HBS-R0308DEconomicsAbraham Lincoln would have well understood the challenges facing many modern emerging nations. In Lincoln's America, as in many developing nations today, sweeping economic change threatened older industries, traditional ways of living, and social and national cohesion by exposing economies and societies to new and powerful competitive forces. Yet even in the midst of the brutal and expensive American Civil war--and in part because of it--Lincoln ...Starting at €8.20
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Bottom-Up Economics (Spanish version)
Quadir, Iqbal; Morse, GardinerArticle HBS-F0308CEconomicsIqbal Quadir, the founder of Bangladesh's GrameenPhone, discusses the failure of foreign aid to rescue moribund third-world economies and the need to empower local entrepreneurs. The most important feature of his company, he explains, isn't the phone system itself but the microloans that mobilize an army of individual entrepreneurs to meet an unsatisfied need profitably.Starting at €8.20
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Making the World Safe for Markets (Spanish version)
Chua, AmyArticle HBS-F0308AEconomicsUnleashing free-market democracy in developing countries breeds ethnic hatred and instability--yet that's the very prescription wealthy democracies have promoted for healing the ills of underdevelopment. One solution is to give poor majorities a stake in local corporations and capital markets.Starting at €8.20
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Thriving Locally in the Global Economy (HBR Classic) (Spanish version)
Kanter, Rosabeth MossArticle HBS-R0308HEconomicsMore and more small and midsize companies are joining corporate giants in striving to exploit international growth markets. At the same time, civic leaders worry about their communities' economic future in light of the impact of global forces on the operation and survival of businesses. How can communities retain local vitality yet still link their businesses to the global economy? Harvard professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter addresses that question in...Starting at €8.20
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Microcapitalism and the Megacorporation (Spanish version)
Dunn, Debra; Yamashita, KeithArticle HBS-R0308CEconomicsMore than 100 miles from Bangalore, India, there's a rural area called Kuppam where one in three citizens is illiterate, more than half of the households have no electricity, and there's a high rate of AIDS. It's exactly this challenging atmosphere that prompted Hewlett-Packard to choose Kuppam as one of its first "i-communities" initiatives. Through the program, HP creates public-private partnerships to accelerate economic development through th...Starting at €8.20
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ITC eChoupal Initiative (Spanish version)
Upton, David M.; Fuller, Virginia A.Case HBS-606S02Service and Operations ManagementSoybean farmers in India have traditionally sold their product through ineffective and frequently dishonest physical marketplaces (mandi). Farmers are generally poor and often illiterate and are forced to be "price-takers" after an arduous journey to the mandi. They also have very limited access to information and education on farming techniques. Describes the use of Internet technologies to reach these farmers and, in particular, examines a new ...Starting at €8.20