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  • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
  • Case

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details
Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho
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  • 06 Dec 2010
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

emerging economies? What are the best ways to leverage local resources? How Do I Identify Opportunities In Emerging Markets? Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets How can multinationals, entrepreneurs,... View Details
  • Web

Investment Management and Capital Markets - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Investment Management and Capital Markets Course Number 1446 Professor Luis Viceira Assistant Professor Emil Siriwardane Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits 28 sessions Exam IMCM is suitable for all students interested in gaining a... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Effect of Market Leadership in Business Process Innovation: The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran; Technology
  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

can't seem to get innovation right. When companies keep improving their existing products and services to meet their best customers' needs, they eventually run into the "innovator's dilemma." By doing everything right, they create View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
  • October 2009
  • Article

Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market

By: Julie Wulf
I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be... View Details
Keywords: Capital Markets; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Capital Budgeting; Business Headquarters; Investment; Opportunities; Cost; Value; Motivation and Incentives; Equity
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  • Web

Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

needs and new markets open up opportunities to differentiate , innovate , and grow . A new generation of social entrepreneurs is capturing these opportunities, and mainstream businesses must keep up to stay... View Details
  • 04 Mar 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

Summing Up When Is It In An Employer's Self-Interest to Voluntarily Raise All Wages? A laissez-faire approach to fixing labor market inequality has widespread appeal, judging by responses to this month's column. For some it is an ideal,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 29 Jul 2013
  • News

Opening New Markets for Black South African Winemakers

wine-making. But apartheid had prevented them from owning land or gaining access to capital. Wine had become a $3 billion export industry for South Africa, but just 2 percent of the market was held by black South Africans, who comprise 85... View Details
Keywords: wine; wine making; wine importing; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “We must divorce the three golden balls from the three Furies.” — Charities Review , 1892 Installment plans,... View Details
  • 18 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Innovating in the Hot Market of Cold Brew

this. HBS provided an opportunity to meet willing co-founders, gave us tools for prototyping and hard dollars to fund our work, and connected us with a laundry list of students, alumni, and professors to help hone our idea. The... View Details
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • News

Applying a marketing perspective to the tech world

HBS has helped fellowship recipient Nisha Phatak (MBA 2015) see the variety of opportunities in the technology industry. (Published January 2015) View Details
  • September 2014
  • Case

FormPrint Ortho500

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Alisa Zalosh
The Senior Vice President of FormPrint's Medical Products business unit is considering issues raised by the upcoming introduction of a new 3D printing system, the Ortho500, which could print custom exoskeletal orthopedic splints, braces, and casts that conformed to a... View Details
Keywords: B2B Marketing; Technological Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Product Development; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends

Although plenty has changed for venture capitalists with the slowing of the economy and market upheavals, there are still plenty of opportunities for entrepreneurs and those who fund them, said panelists at... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 2018
  • Chapter

Are Licensing Markets Local? An Analysis of the Geography of Vertical Licensing Agreements in Bio-Pharmaceuticals

By: Juan Alcacer, John Cantwell and Michelle Gittelman
As the value chain of the pharmaceutical industry disaggregates, upstream discovery is increasingly carried out by small research-specialized firms while downstream development, testing and marketing is conducted by global pharmaceutical firms. Licensing plays an... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Rights; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • January 2009 (Revised February 2009)
  • Case

F-Secure Corporation: Software as a Service (SaaS) in the Security Solutions Market

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin, Kalle Lyytinen, Esko Penttinen and Timo Saarinen
Describes the development of a business model based on "software as a service" (SaaS) for security solution distributed through Internet Service Providers (ISPs). F-Secure disruptively entered a mature business with dominant players by executing an innovative new... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Disruptive Innovation; Service Delivery; Internet; Information Technology Industry
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  • 31 Aug 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of Competitive Advantage by Exploiting the Social Divide

Keywords: by Jordan I. Siegel, Lynn Pyun & B.Y. Cheon
  • 12 Feb 2025
  • Video

Strengthening Carbon Claims via the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative (VCMI): A Conversation with Mark Kenber

  • 18 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

increased by 200 percent in the past eight years, rising from 3.5 percent of marketing budgets in 2009 to 10.5 percent in February 2017, according to The CMO Survey 2017. And that upward climb is expected to continue: View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology
  • 15 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

KFC pulled the sandwich off the menu across most of Canada. This move may seem strange in an industry where a pivotal goal—in the words of Coca-Cola's long-standing mantra—is to be "within an arm's reach of desire." According to KFC Canada's chief View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton