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- 30 Aug 2010
- News
New Head of Tennis Jamaica
- April 2011 (Revised February 2016)
- Case
Jamaica's Anemic Growth: The IMF, China and the Debt(th) Trap
By: Rafael Di Tella and Natalie Kindred
This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican economy showed relatively strong growth in the 1960s but stagnated in the 1970s. By the end of that decade,...
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Government Administration;
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
International Finance;
Crime and Corruption;
Poverty;
Private Sector;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Economy;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Borrowing and Debt;
Jamaica
Di Tella, Rafael, and Natalie Kindred. "Jamaica's Anemic Growth: The IMF, China and the Debt(th) Trap." Harvard Business School Case 711-031, April 2011. (Revised February 2016.)
- 15 Aug 2016
- News
Entrepreneurship Needs to Be a Bigger Part of U.S. Foreign Aid
- Web
Request more information | HBS Courses | HBS Online
Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Heard Island and McDonald Islands Holy See Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Ireland Isle of Man...
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Propose an Independent Project - MBA
Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gilbert & Ellice Isl. Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guatemala Guadeloupe Guyana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Ivory Coast View Details
- 16 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Messy Link Between Slave Owners and Modern Management
do we need to think about our responsibility to people?" Absentee Ownership According to Rosenthal, the history of detailed record-keeping on plantations goes back to at least the 1750s in Jamaica and Barbados. When wealthy slave...
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by Katie Johnston
- Web
Request the Data - Leadership
Germany Ghana Uzbekistan Greece Guatemala Guinea Guyana Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Ivory Coast Jamaica Japan Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Korea, North Korea, South Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Latvia...
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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online
Guyana Haiti Heard Island and McDonald Islands Holy See Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iran (Islamic Republic of) Iraq Ireland Isle of Man Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Korea Korea...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)
Above: Rickards on Jamaica’s sense of community: “It’s good to live in a place where the people are expressive and vibrant.” (photo by Marina Burnel) I had a strong sense when I was at HBS that the skills I learned there would have a bigger impact back home in View Details
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Julia Hanna
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Kresge’s Afterlife
Formerly used to store utensils and cookware, the racks now store the club’s arts-and-crafts supplies. Kitchen equipment Haiti and Jamaica Various charities More than three truckloads of pots and pans, ladles, spoons, china, and rolling...
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Dan Morrell
- 19 Dec 2016
- News
Harvard Students Help Mom-and-Pop Shops Get off the Ground
restaurants, and neighborhood bakeries in Dorchester, Jamaica Plain, and Somerville, Mugford told the Boston Globe. And the experience has been eye-opening. “The projects I’ve worked on for boards took months and months,” said Lia...
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retail
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
in Jamaica This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican economy showed relatively strong...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Portrait Project
Kamoy Smalling
pushed pause on our family’s cycle of intergenerational economic hardship. She promoted us from poverty in Jamaica to working class life in New York City. Nestled in a neighborhood where the sounds of gunshots seemed to ring out from...
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- Portrait Project
Anita Gupta
wanted this richness. My year in Jamaica was fleeting, but its impact on me was not. I learned to not get caught up in who the world asks me to be and instead chase my own happiness. I choose to be compassionate, to not watch the clock,...
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- Profile
Brandon Gayle
In the 1970s, Brandon Gayle's family left Jamaica for New York State, where they settled in Rochester. "I watched my mother build her career over time," Brandon says, "from serving as a bookkeeper at a local television...
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Marc Wilson
a propulsion engineer who designed systems for space satellites. "The ones I was excited about," Marc says, "were those destined to other planets and to the sun." Here on Earth, Marc has been most inspired by his parents, who left a financially...
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Nonprofit/Government/Education
- October 1986
- Supplement
Americana (B)
A completely unexpected telephone call comes from the Jamaican Prime Minister. The government's position provides an interesting look into government-business relationships, especially in third-world nations.
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Hart, Christopher. "Americana (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 687-017, October 1986.
- October 1986 (Revised June 1988)
- Case
Americana (A)
Americana Hotels decides to lease a resort hotel on Jamaica's north coast from the Jamaican government. Management must decide whether to operate it as a traditional resort, or as an all-inclusive, club-type resort, similar to those operated by Club Med. The...
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Hart, Christopher. "Americana (A)." Harvard Business School Case 687-016, October 1986. (Revised June 1988.)
- 14 Apr 2014
- News
The Puzzle of Life
partner with Silicon Valley–based InCube Ventures and Venture Health. "When I came to HBS, I didn't know what venture capital meant," says Farquharson, a native of Jamaica who moved to the United States with his family at age 10. "People...
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- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
Sternhell and Oakes on the job. Photos by Jared Leeds One lives in a Manhattan studio five blocks from Wall Street, the other on the second floor of a triple-decker in Jamaica Plain, a culturally diverse neighborhood in Boston. Both are...
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