Emerging Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Nov 2019
Blog Post

The Power of Business in the Energy Transition

from firms such as Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Marathon Capital, and FullCycle discussed the need for patient capital to be aligned on the longer timelines it may take for alternative energy investments to fully develop a return. As one example, waste to energy is... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Energy / Cleantech

30 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Africa Rising: Understanding Business, Entrepreneurship, and the Complexities of a Continent with Professor Hakeem Belo-Osagie

to the class the African context and peculiarities. Many of these peculiarities also apply to emerging markets in general. By inviting leaders and practitioners from the continent there is a sense of... View Details

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Site Credits - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

EXHIBIT EXPLORE x HOME EMERGENCE OF A NEW TECHNOLOGY The Invention of the Polarizer A RESEARCH & MANUFACTURING COMPANY Commercialization of the Polarizer Innovation and the War Effort A Rewarding Working Life INSTANT PHOTOGRAPHY The Idea... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Entertainment Moguls Ponder the Future at HBS Conference

States and from international markets and skyrocketing production costs pose huge challenges to the movie industry. Film- production costs alone, Vogel pointed out, have risen 9.5 percent annually since 1980. Strauss Zelnick agreed,... View Details

Keywords: Paula Maute

01 Dec 2013
News

Faculty Books

power and shale gas are on the right side of the fight against climate change, and why markets have a better shot at winning the fight than governments do. Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation Clear communication is critical for a... View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

decades, then, the feverish M&A; activity of the Go-Go Eighties and the Roaring Nineties may, in retrospect, appear modest and localized compared to what will happen when the vast potential of the emerging View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Sep 2004
News

Whit Sears (MBA 1959)

emergency short-term placement for troubled teens in McHenry County. Before we were licensed, the only options the county had for teens who could not go home were sending them to jail or a hospital. Over seven years, we took in more than... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

March 2021
Supplement

Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (B)

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski

In 2018, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya (known as Krungsri), was considering whether to participate in the first issue of a new financial instrument from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), known as a gender bond. Building on the success of the Green Bond program... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investment; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Instruments; Gender; Financial Services Industry; Thailand

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01 Mar 2008
News

Innovation, Inc.

entirely new industries is another course focus. In a new case about Linear Air, founded by William Herp (MBA ’89), Tripsas explores the emergence of “air taxis,” a novel service based on a new class of light, economical jet aircraft that... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

catalog and online channels. We show that the emergence and strength of cannibalizing and complementary effects vary over time, across type of channel, and by type of customer and provides insight into when and where managers can expect... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

http://www.emeraldinsight.com/journals.htm?articleid=1876547&show=html Unleashing the Power of Marketing Authors:Beth Comstock, Ranjay Gulati, and Stephen A. Liguori Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 10 (October 2010)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2011
Supplement

Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Hospital

By: Tarun Khanna and Tanya Bijlani

Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH) is one of the world's busiest heart hospitals, where surgeons perform 30-35 complex cardiac surgeries daily. With an average cost of $1,800 per surgery, the hospital treats patients at affordable prices, and does not turn away even the poorest... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Experience and Expertise; Cost Management; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Resource Allocation; Time Management; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Cooperative Ownership; Quality; Social Enterprise; Health Industry; Karnataka

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12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

bearers of bad news is mitigated when recipients are made aware of the benevolence of the messenger’s motives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55611 March 2019 Enterprise & Society Oral History and the Business History of View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

Preetham commented. Omer E. put it this way: "What this suggests is nothing more than the emergence of changing political tides." In fact, in M. F. Procaccini's words, "the whole 'mixed economy' models of the 20th Century... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

in moving out of lower-value into higher-value paths as technologies and markets changed. Before World War II those managers became proficient in monitoring the processes of production and marketing in each... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

01 Oct 2000
News

Willoughby G. Walling II: A Learning Experience

marketable and visually pleasing, but he also intends them to be intellectual exercises. The works in his recent show ranged from a pop art portrait of his wife, to paintings with theological underpinnings, to a series of intricate "web"... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

21 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

out of keeping with the spirit of America and harmful in the long run. "Outsiders keep our commercial markets vital by offering perspectives that differ from the prevailing view" After all, what is the secret sauce of US... View Details

Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology

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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

manufacturing operations, new product development, advertising and marketing strategies, and year-end financial statements. The Dewey Library, MIT Libraries and the Thomas J. Watson Library of Business Economics, Columbia University... View Details

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

commons, which emerged well after Hardin wrote his seminal article. Unlike the physical world Hardin wrote about, the digital world is essentially infinitely abundant, which leads to a very different tragedy and many new opportunities.... View Details