Emerging Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2002
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Dot Vertigo

prices and market capitalizations, loss of market share, failure to innovate, and reactionary cost-cutting). Organized in three parts, Dot Vertigo addresses the issue of business disorientation; the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2014
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Ask the Expert: Byte-Testing Bitcoin

Crypto-currency expert Santiago Subotovsky (MBA 2009), principal at Emergence Capital Partners, fields alumni questions on Bitcoin—a digital, virtual, and unregulated currency that allows for anonymous transactions and has quickly moved... View Details

Keywords: alumni; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information

01 Dec 2000
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Everything Old Is New Again: The History of Technological Frontiers

standardization, and regulation. She was careful to clarify the regulation phase. "What I'm talking about are the basic, underlying rules, which are primarily rules of property rights," said Spar. She thinks regulations will likely emerge... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton; Microsoft; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2004
News

A Market-Based Prescription

profitable, while areas such as emergency medicine and burn care are undervalued. In a consumer-driven system, market forces would operate to correct these disparities and create greater incentives for... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

overview of property and casualty insurance, the Chinese insurance market and the challenges that foreign-based insurers have in entering an emerging market. Students are asked to decide what Chubb's China... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 May 2015
News

A Flash of Insight

to lose faith in the rationality of the market and closed his fund. Next-step options, such as a CFO or director of corporate development position, filled his head as he left the top-floor co-op of the Brooklyn Heights town house where he... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2016
News

The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

huge inefficiency.” It was while attending HBS that Makarim formed Go-Jek, a more efficient ojek service that organized 20 or so drivers through a call center; he relied on word of mouth to market the idea to friends and relatives in a... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

01 Jun 2009
News

Big Bailouts, Little Debate

— Internet, housing, private equity, credit, emerging markets — and the only lesson we’ve taken away is that when each one bursts, an eager audience moves on to the next. Those specific bubbles won’t... View Details

Keywords: Charles Duhigg; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

23 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 23

psychology and ethical decision making. Read the paper: http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/caruso_gino_cognition_2011.pdf The Design of Online Advertising Markets Author: Benjamin G. Edelman Publication: In The Handbook... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net

almost four decades ago, this change is clearly more evolutionary than revolutionary. During the last five years, the Internet - and more specifically, its most user-friendly thoroughfare, the World Wide Web - has emerged as a preferred... View Details

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

focusing on disruptive technologies, offers his analysis of the Twitter IPO phenomenon. In our second-year MBA elective Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (a course developed by my colleague Clay Christensen), one of the concepts we study is new View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

December 2006 (Revised February 2009)
Case

China Merchants Bank: Here Just For You

By: F. Warren McFarlan, GuoQing Chen, HengYuan Zhu, Bin Yang, Michael Shih-ta Chen, G.A. Donovan, Waishun Lo and Yan Yang

Founded in 1987, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a pioneer in the use of technical innovation and IT as a competitive tool in the rapidly evolving Chinese banking sector. With a relatively small branch network when compared to its larger competitors, CMB uses an... View Details

Keywords: Credit Cards; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Competitive Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Banking Industry; China; Hong Kong

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18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the reserve accumulation does not play a quantitative important role in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Creighton Taylor

Out of what Creighton Taylor describes as a “turbulent childhood,” he emerged as a self-taught jazz pianist and as a person with dual interests in creativity and practical analysis. “When I was young,” Creighton says, “I learned to adapt... View Details

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Alika Phipps

As a child in Haiti, Alika Phipps watched her family manage its business interests, in margarine production and property insurance, and became “fascinated with markets and finance.” While attending MIT, she took a summer internship at JP... View Details

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Note on January 6 Events at U.S. Capitol | About

we also should be deeply concerned. The rule of law, the separation of powers, and trust in institutions are the foundations on which thriving societies are built. They also are a bedrock of business. As my colleague Rebecca Henderson notes, Free View Details

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Alumni Career Journey: Sophie Levin (MS/MBA 2022) - How Risk Can Be the Key to a Sustainable Future - Blog - Business & Environment

Rising Climate Stories Clubs Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty Faculty Research IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable... View Details

01 Dec 2012
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Alumni Book Briefs

marketplace. Using BCG's proprietary market segmentation of the two nations, the authors dissect the markets based on wealth, education, attitude, geography, age, and gender and tell how to reach these... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

during World War II and the emergence of venture capital firms after the war also fueled the growth of high-tech startups. The greater Boston area flourished into a hub of innovation; many firms would expand out to Route 128, which became... View Details

28 May 2013
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First Look: May 28

to corrupt behavior. Working Papers Carry Trade, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Carry-trade activity and foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in View Details