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About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

inception, the Creating Emerging Markets project website has had 600,000 visits from scholars in some 200 countries. Faculty Co-chairs Geoffrey G. Jones Isidor Straus Professor of Business View Details

October 2001 (Revised November 2017)
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Japan: The Miracle Years

By: Louis T. Wells

Japan experienced rapid growth in the 1950s and 1960s while following a set of policies that differ from current policies in fashion. Although some observers believe that Japanese growth occurred in spite of the policies rather than because of them, several countries... View Details

Keywords: History; Policy; Economic Growth; Business and Government Relations; Growth and Development Strategy; Japan

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18 Sep 2017
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Chronicling a Legacy of Alumni Social Impact

see is that there is no one path,” says Stevenson. The team’s research has been mined for a book for the HBS community that was released in 2019. View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

01 Dec 2008
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Back to the Future

more balanced energy menu. After examining the pros and cons of various energy sources, such as coal, nuclear, natural gas, wind, and solar, the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections

to indicate competence at the young firm, thereby validating it and its potential for firm-level success," she says. Higgins and Gulati began their research by documenting the career View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Oct 1998
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Answering the Call

in other, more significant ways. The books on his shelves now offer spiritual, not financial, guidance. His office help - a part-time secretary and an answering machine - is minimal compared with his staff... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jan 2004
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16 Dec 2010
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The Emergent Arab World

Hayes (now emeritus) coauthored a book on Islamic finance. To me at the time, it seemed like exotic subject matter and an unusual departure for Hayes, who had built his reputation by being a highly renowned... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government

10 May 2021
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Does Your Team Understand the ‘Big Picture’? Ask 5 Questions to Find Out

17 Apr 2012
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From founder to CEO: How companies' big thinkers transition to the boardroom

09 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

2010) and Karen Dillon, the book uses meaningful corporate and personal anecdotes to extoll the value of theory in finding and creating... View Details

2023
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Suharto's Cold War: Indonesia, Southeast Asia, and the World

By: Mattias Fibiger

After the murder of senior generals in the Indonesian army by elements of the country's communist party in 1965, General Suharto orchestrated the mass killing of some half a million leftists and fellow travelers. But his ambitions spanned far beyond perpetrating a... View Details

Keywords: Indonesia; Cold War; Political Economy; Foreign Aid; International Investment; International Relations; International Finance; History; War; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Indonesia; Southeast Asia

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31 Oct 2023
Research & Ideas

Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

you can still profit while marginalizing groups of workers.” “It's about the fact that there are barriers to inclusion and there has been a history View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

01 Jun 2010
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The MBA at a Crossroads

organized by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Datar, senior associate dean, director of research, discussed his experience recently when I sat... View Details

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

17 Mar 2021
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Managing Diversity, The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

Keywords: Racial justice

July 2021 (Revised October 2023)
Case

K.C. Li: The Tungsten King

By: Geoffrey Jones and Casey Verkamp

This case examines the business career of Kuo-Ching Li, who was born in China in 1892, and built a successful minerals trading business called Wah Chang in the United States during the interwar years. He acquired a prominent role in tungsten, the strongest natural... View Details

Keywords: Immigration Acts; Racial Bias; Globalization; Government and Politics; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Mining Industry; China; United States; Latin America

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20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

small number of rivals—for market power. (Indeed, at the Harvard Business School where I have taught business history to thousands of MBAs,... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

Winter 2013
Article

The New Patent Intermediaries: Platforms, Defensive Aggregators and Super-Aggregators

By: Andrei Hagiu and David B. Yoffie

The patent market consists mainly of privately negotiated, bilateral transactions, either sales or cross-licenses, between large companies. There is no eBay, Amazon, New York Stock Exchange, or Kelley's Blue Book equivalent for patents, and when buyers and sellers do... View Details

Keywords: Intellectual Property; Platforms; Intermediaries; Aggregator; Patents; Digital Platforms; Marketplace Matching; Distribution Channels

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