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- October 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Case
PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico
By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Regina Garcia-Cuellar and Lauren Sarah Margulies
Primedic is a Mexican start-up that aims to deliver affordable primary and preventative healthcare to those at the base of the economic pyramid. The company is about to exhaust its first round of venture capital funding and the business model has yet to gain traction.... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Health Care and Treatment; Social Enterprise; Health Industry; Mexico
Hamermesh, Richard G., Regina Garcia-Cuellar, and Lauren Sarah Margulies. "PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 811-040, October 2010. (Revised July 2011.)
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
Image by John Ritter In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98 percent. Those... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
to reform, which reflects where the country is in its competitive development. Another point I would end on, and this is something I know Jeffrey Sachs cares deeply about, is the need for the advanced View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
simultaneously shifting away from dirty diesel to clean solar generation. So I think there's a great opportunity for us, in more developed countries, to bring in investment and relatively basic finance... View Details
- July 1998
- Case
Westport: Spearheading Malaysia's Economic Challenge (B)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Ambar Agustono Bin Machfoedy
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Ambar Agustono Bin Machfoedy. "Westport: Spearheading Malaysia's Economic Challenge (B)." Harvard Business School Case 599-019, July 1998.
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
prominence to the role of dynamic clusters as a key to regional and national economic success. He defines clusters as geographic concentrations of interconnected companies and institutions in a particular... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting
and 1920—and also a time of substantial demographic change, as the country moved from being predominantly agricultural to being industrial and urban. Click on the image to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- May 2024
- Case
SofMedica Group: Managing Growth
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
SofMedica Group had expanded from its origins as a medical equipment distributor in Romania to a holding company with four business lines operating in six countries. This expansion had been driven by SofMedica’s mission: to make cutting edge medical technology... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Healthcare Access; Healthcare; Medical Devices; Medical Equipment ＆ Devices; Medical Care; Eastern Europe; Quality Management System; Health Care and Treatment; Growth Management; Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Europe; Romania
Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "SofMedica Group: Managing Growth." Harvard Business School Case 424-027, May 2024.
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
accusations of price gouging and calls for generic alternatives. The few big companies still investing in vaccines saw their fortunes take an upward turn in the mid-2010s, as countries with growing... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Delivering the Power to Dream Big
Bart Howe (MBA 2011) envisions a time when tablet computers are self-charging and when buildings will generate their own power. Ubiquitous Energy, a company he cofounded that is creating a new generation of solar cells, puts these... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: The Future of Foreign Aid
worked for the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Is the MCC development model an effective one? The MCC, a US agency established in 2004, is viewed by many as a success, in part because it aims to depoliticize aid. To be eligible for MCC... View Details
- May 2020
- Article
Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment
By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn
Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the first evidence on the effects of an intervention... View Details
Keywords: Negotiation; Competency and Skills; Training; Age; Gender; Education; Investment; Outcome or Result; Developing Countries and Economies
Ashraf, Nava, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low, and Kathleen McGinn. "Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment." Quarterly Journal of Economics 135, no. 2 (May 2020): 1095–1151.
- 04 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets
leaders and governments do instead? We believe the answer is to encourage business groups in the short term to pursue alternative internal reforms that improve their performance and their ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
(photos by Jennifer Heffner) As lead private-sector specialist at the World Bank Group’s Trade and Competitiveness Global Practice, Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) draws on 25 years of experience in helping View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 2001
- Other Unpublished Work
Clusters of Innovation Initiative: Wichita
This study contains a conceptual framework for assessing the competitiveness of regional economies, an analysis of the Wichita region overall, as well as detailed assessments of two representative clusters—aerospace vehicles and defense and plastics. The report... View Details
Keywords: Clusters; Economics; Industry Clusters; Economy; Growth and Development; Industrial Products Industry; Aerospace Industry; Kansas
Porter, Michael E. "Clusters of Innovation Initiative: Wichita." Council on Competitiveness, Washington, DC, October 2001. (Report.)
- January 2010 (Revised November 2017)
- Background Note
GUIDES: Insight through Indicators
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Jonathan Schlefer and Ann Cullen
GUIDES is an easily remembered framework that can help the business leader and student to confidently and quickly identify, organize, and interpret a country's key economic indicators. Alternatively, it can help them to evaluate third-party analyses and to compare such... View Details
Weinzierl, Matthew, Jonathan Schlefer, and Ann Cullen. "GUIDES: Insight through Indicators." Harvard Business School Background Note 710-044, January 2010. (Revised November 2017.)
- July 1998 (Revised February 1999)
- Case
Westport: Spearheading Malaysia's Economic Challenge (A)
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Ambar Agustono Bin Machfoedy
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Ambar Agustono Bin Machfoedy. "Westport: Spearheading Malaysia's Economic Challenge (A)." Harvard Business School Case 599-018, July 1998. (Revised February 1999.)
- March 2009 (Revised July 2010)
- Case
IBM: The Corporate Service Corps
By: Christopher Marquis and Rosabeth M. Kanter
Describes the conception, development, and implementation of the Corporate Services Corps (CSC), an international community service assignment for high-potential IBM employees. The year 2008 was the pilot year of the CSC program, and 100 of IBM's best global employees... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Global Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Partners and Partnerships; Non-Governmental Organizations
Marquis, Christopher, and Rosabeth M. Kanter. "IBM: The Corporate Service Corps." Harvard Business School Case 409-106, March 2009. (Revised July 2010.)