New Market Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 May 2019
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Marla Beck, MBA/MPA 1998

for cosmetics needed to be more customer focused, so in 1999 she launched Bluemercury, a retailer of high-end beauty products. Perhaps the most obvious evidence that Beck’s thoughtful strategy and hard work have disrupted the beauty View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2018
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Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

cattle ranching. To learn the value of his crop, a farmer could turn on the radio for regular market updates from commodity exchanges. But prices of the seeds and chemical fertilizer used to grow those crops were not listed anywhere; a... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

11 May 2016
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World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer

markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country’s stock market has almost tripled in size. A... View Details

01 Sep 2011
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Green Day

near the beach on New York’s Long Island and became interested in the ocean and in environmental issues as a teenager. After college and a master’s degree from Yale’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, she worked with a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna;Sarah Auerbach; Agriculture; Manufacturing; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

22 Feb 2022
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An Rx for Small Business Recovery

business-focused products and broaden access to lending,” says Mills. Research suggests that fintechs were responsible for some 50 percent of PPP loans to Black-owned businesses. “As the recovery evolves, adopting new technologies will... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2005
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London Forum Highlights the Best of HBS

leaders. Evenings were filled with events providing exclusive access to some of London’s top cultural attractions. Dean Kim B. Clark’s presentation, coming just six weeks before his departure to become the new president of Brigham Young... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2016
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Taking Care of Business

Winners the HBS New Venture Competition don’t rest on their laurels for long—the ink is hardly dry on those prizewinning checks before it’s time to shift to a higher gear. (This year’s cash prizes in the alumni competition totaled more... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2005
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Answering the Call

still a low-cost producer. HBS professor emeritus Norm Berg, who developed the case along with research assistant Norman Fast (DBA 1977), was at the time course head of Business Policy, the School’s required general management course.... View Details

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

01 Jun 2009
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Bright Future for Green Business

gathered in Cumnock Hall. The world population is exploding, and resource use is skyrocketing, particularly in rapidly developing nations like China and India, said Nordan, president of the analyst group Lux Research. “If you do that math... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Utilities

16 Jul 2013
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Embracing Chaos

Ravi Venkatesan If anyone could write the recipe for business success in emerging markets, it would be Ravi Venkatesan (MBA 1992). After all, he's led not one, but two, major multinational companies—Cummins and Microsoft—in India and brought both to dominate their... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2010
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Beacon of Liberty

Kashmir Photo courtesy Sharjeel Kashmir It’s a beautiful morning in Jersey City as I stretch after my regular jog in Liberty State Park. I marvel that this is my neighborhood and my view. In front of me, the Hudson River lies at the feet of the iconic View Details

Keywords: Sharjeel Kashmir; Islam; 9/11

08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: After leaving England for Australia in late 1830s, John Fairfax began building a media empire. At its height, John Fairfax Limited held the Australian equivalent of the View Details

01 Sep 2020
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Wide Angle

time when the sector was already reeling from a whole range of other problems. I fear that a significant chunk of higher education is not going to survive this moment in time. That’s the bad news. The good news is that the pandemic is... View Details

01 Jun 2012
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What Industrial Policy?

manufacturing in this country might look a lot more attractive.) By subsidizing other industries so generously, we have tilted the scales away from manufacturing. Thus, its decline is not completely a result of “natural” market forces.... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing

04 May 2017
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Going the Distance

governor’s office of economic development in Utah, last year wrapped up an 11-year path of voyage and endurance spanning 38 countries, climbing 14.5 vertical miles, and sailing 35,000 nautical miles. “Real learning and personal growth... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

20 Feb 2014
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Managing the World’s Trouble Spots

assist with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld’s transition team at the Pentagon. After shoring up new leadership, he moved to the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance and helped to create the Global View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Mar 2008
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Negotiating with Wal-Mart

pioneers a new supplier-retailer partnership between P&G and Wal-Mart. Built on proximity (Muccio relocated to Wal-Mart’s turf in Arkansas) and growing trust (both sides eventually eliminated elaborate legal contracts in favor of Letters... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; General Merchandise Stores; Retail Trade

01 Oct 1998
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Value Added

regardless of location. "A handful of senior consultants will go out and open a new office," he says. "They hire the best talent available in that country and train them to assume total responsibility from their mentors within five to ten... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

01 Mar 2016
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Delivering Trust

options.) To develop FertilityIQ’s assessment form, Jake and Deborah sought input from close to 50 other couples as well as three fertility doctors to ensure that they captured a full spectrum of concerns outside their own. In addition to... View Details