Emerging Industries - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2020
News

A Creator in the Era of Disruption

of his native Indonesia. The first iteration of the company was a network of community leaders who sold “top-up”—or these additional cell phone minutes. The top-up industry was not unusual, but the network approach was. Ruma would train... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead

rebrand as Gordon Gekko or Lumbergh from Office Space. No, mon frère, I wanted to emerge as a more Rolodexed, numbers-savvy, overall better business journalist. Plus, I’d be riding out a nasty media-sector slump. Three years after my... View Details

Keywords: Roben Farzad; journalism; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

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The Incredible Land of Ice and Fire: Exploring Iceland's Renewable Energy Model for a Changing Planet - Blog - Business & Environment

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

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Her book The Games Black Girls Play: Learning the Ropes from Double-Dutch to Hip-Hop published by NYU Press won of the 2007 Alan Merriam Book Prize awarded by The Society for Ethnomusicology, which contributed to the emergence of black... View Details

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

kitchen; Howard Schultz's early office was the prep room for his first café; and Michael Dell began assembling PCs in his college dorm room. How did they go from these beginnings to creating global organizations that became industry... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

and respond more quickly to emerging issues in the business world. REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES REINVENTING THE FUTURE OF BUSINESS READ MORE STORIES The launch of the Institute in July marked the opening of 12... View Details

March 2004 (Revised October 2013)
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Innocents Abroad: Currencies and International Stock Returns

By: Mihir A. Desai, Kathleen Luchs, Elizabeth A. Meyer and Mark Veblen

What do international stocks contribute to the portfolio of a U.S. investor? How do currencies interact with stock price movements in determining the benefits of international diversification? This case helps students compare the risks and returns of foreign stock... View Details

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01 Jun 2007
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Mission Possible

tap the best minds in genetic research. Fresh out of HBS, Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) joined a nonprofit economic-development organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Although their missions are different, these... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2004
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Promise & Perils

making. In 1979, he was part of the first, small HBS delegation to visit a newly opened China. “It was the single most important trip of our lives,” he recalled. He glimpsed the future, and it now has come to pass: China has emerged as an... View Details

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

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Deborah A. Farrington

assets under management, in the U.S. In an industry where just six percent of the partners in venture capital firms are women, finding a successful firm run by a woman is more than unusual. But unusual is nothing new for Farrington.... View Details

February 2011 (Revised November 2013)
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The Cheezburger Network

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

Cheezburger Network was a Web publisher of humorous, user-contributed content, using social media for dissemination, and selling advertising against the traffic of 1 billion page views per quarter. In January 2011, it raised $30 million in venture capital for the... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Digital Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Venture Capital; Emerging Markets; Strategic Planning; Sales; Internet and the Web; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry

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18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

describe the enormous changes in the markets for therapies for rare diseases that have emerged over recent decades. The most prominent example is the fact that the profit-maximizing price of new orphan drugs appears to be greater today... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

often an essential ingredient of recovery. Detroit has a precedent in Pittsburgh and a variety of other cities and jurisdictions that have seen their trajectory fundamentally shift in the wake of precipitous economic and fiscal decline. Long before the American... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

assets reaching roughly $10 trillion, equivalent to total assets in the entire U.S. banking system. Says Moss: “While new systemic threats had emerged along the way, there was little effort to regulate them, undercutting the original New... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

in a U-Stor-It container in Inglewood, California. After losing his day job, he turns to his “auxiliary emergency backup job” as a “freelance stringer for the CIC, the Central Intelligence Corporation of Langley, Virginia.” He, along with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Prita Kumar

private equity. Her focus was on consumer retail, her personal passion, and all that talk around the dinner table helped shape her vision as an emerging entrepreneur. “It just made sense to start something that was consumer facing... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

Meanwhile, prospective African-American students attended a case discussion led by Professor Linda A. Hill. The day concluded with a career fair featuring representatives from major corporations. Saturday morning began with a seminar led by George E. Curry, editor of... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Five Honored for Missions Accomplished

capacity she helped lead the MBA Silicon Valley Immersion Experience Program. As a newspaper industry analyst at DLJ early in your career, did you anticipate the industry’s decline? I put a “sell” on newspapers in 1988 when I saw threats... View Details

Keywords: awards; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Space Research and Technology; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

01 Sep 2011
News

The City Solution

small percent more is being built brand new). Moreover, the world’s dominant habitation pattern still consists of poor people in emerging nations flocking to urban areas to seek work. Typically, these migrants end up in illegal and... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

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