Emerging Country - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2008
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The Levitt Brand

“The Globalization of Markets.” In it, he described “a new commercial reality — the emergence of global markets for standardized consumer products on a previously unimagined scale of magnitude.” In a world made much smaller and more... View Details

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

01 Sep 2018
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September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

intelligence, and marketing. It doesn't take much investment, just a lot of creativity, smart data analysis, and agility. It has now emerged as the new word for growth used by start-ups and entrepreneurs in India and across the world.... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

innovation in the American financial system over much of the 20th century. In fact, for the next fifty years, the country experienced no major financial crises, the longest such period on record (see chart above). Significant financial... View Details

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

01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects

suspended on that day to allow students, faculty, and staff time to follow events as they unfolded and to check on the safety of family and friends. Across the University, emergency grief counseling and other services were made available... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young;Deborah Blagg

01 Mar 2015
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A Boomtown's Echo

have to rely on diesel generators. That is a lot of the same kind of stuff you do in an emerging economy. It’s the same thing you do in a new city in India or China.” Macomber teaches the MBA elective Building Cities: Infrastructure and... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

09 Sep 2016
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MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding

festival in the region. And that then, led to a conversation I had with Richard Branson, to start the Extreme Tech Challenge, which is a worldwide startup competition, where we have entrants, really, from like 100 countries in the world... View Details

01 Jun 2009
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Dispatches from the Global Classroom

in small groups to spend an early January weekend at one of four villages outside Oaxaca City, 340 miles southeast of Mexico City. Travel in a foreign country is nothing new for this bunch. They come from every corner of North America and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

country has 20 million affluent households, growing at 15 percent per year, with an annual income of $10,000 to $60,000. While deregulation in recent years had created an explosion in financial products to choose from, distribution... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Dec 2011
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Li & Fung's Global Footprint

didn’t work so well when I got back to Asia. There, the sense of individualism is much less. The sense of units—whether it’s a family, or a company, or a country unit—is much stronger. I really learned that from my father. He taught me... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

eventually drew the interest of all of Switzerland and neighboring countries to Holderbank, which suddenly became famous for more than cement and concrete. Small Victories: One Couple’s Surprising Adventures Building an Unrivaled... View Details

17 Jun 2020
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Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines

through its Filinvest City Foundation, has pledged to donate $2 million worth of Personal Protective Equipment to front-liners, ventilators and PCR testing equipment to hospitals, provided a temporary shelter at The Palms Country Club for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2000
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A Place in the Sun

in a culture where it's very difficult for people to tell other people what to do. It's not the usual supervisory manager-submanager structure found in the United States." Before coming to Turtle Island, Evanson was involved in the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

vision for the organization of the future; reveals the workplace innovations that emerged during the pandemic; and defines the new model of leadership for sustaining continuous change throughout the coming years of opportunity and... View Details

01 Dec 2013
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Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

products of countries where those sports were already widely popular and enjoyed high-caliber infrastructure and player-development systems. The success of these star imports to North America created demand back home, and globally, for... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

III (AMP 45, 1967) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) Reflecting on his 63 years as a geophysicist in the global petroleum industry, Dallas oilman Al Hrubetz traces his journey from the collapse of coal to the emergence of oil... View Details

01 Apr 1997
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Facing the Music

the bizarre," says Boberg. Labels' "artist and repertoire" (A&R) staffs, he explains, continually fly all over the country and the world to major festivals, grungy clubs, and obscure coffeehouses in search of that diamond in the rough.... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Mar 2017
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Big Blue’s Big Bet

with Watson today, across 45 countries and 20 industries. For Kenny, the genius of Watson is not that it tries to be one service for every sector, but that it specializes, just as the experts in various fields specialize. So today there... View Details

Keywords: Paul Kix; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Apr 1999
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Spirit at Work

"I wouldn't want a Fortune 500 company bringing me religion." Echoes Vaill: "Talking about spirituality in the business context feels risky and awkward, and people tend to question the motivation behind it." Still, companies around the View Details