Publications

July 1989 (Revised December 1990)
Case

CIBA-GEIGY Pharmaceuticals: Pharma International

By: John A. Quelch

Examines the decision by Pharma International on whether to launch an antimalarial product in Nigeria and, if so, how that should be implemented. Involves commercial, ethical, and policy considerations. Rich in situation assessment data, the case refers to criticism of... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Launch; Policy; Developing Countries and Economies; Pharmaceutical Industry; Nigeria

July 1998
Case

Westport: Spearheading Malaysia's Economic Challenge (B)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Ambar Agustono Bin Machfoedy

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Problems and Challenges; Malaysia

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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

December 2011
Article

EXEMPLARY CONTRIBUTION: Transforming Mental Models on Emerging Markets

By: Charles Dhanaraj and Tarun Khanna

Economic growth in the Western world increasingly depends on meaningful engagement with emerging markets such as Brazil, China, India, South Africa, and Turkey. Business schools are responding with increased attention to these markets in their research and curricula.... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Business Model; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Research; Business Education; Learning; Financial Institutions; Framework; Transformation; Perspective; India; China; Brazil; South Africa; Turkey

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01 Dec 1997
News

The World's Banker

that the Bank has an indispensable development role: to help finance and assist the desperately poor countries that seldom see private capital. But he also believes the... View Details

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

understood in a lot of discussions. Willy and I would characterize it as a naive view that innovation is just about R&D and separate from manufacturing. People in the United States View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

July 1998 (Revised February 1999)
Case

Westport: Spearheading Malaysia's Economic Challenge (A)

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Ambar Agustono Bin Machfoedy

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Competition; Malaysia

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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

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

admissions office to develop and implement new strategies for attracting more students from the continent. Both always knew they would ultimately return to their home country... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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

May 1996 (Revised September 1997)
Supplement

China (A): Supplement

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Eilene Zimmerman

Updates China (A): The Great Awakening. To be handed out in class following discussion of the case. View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; China

March 2024 (Revised February 2025)
Case

Doing Business in São Paulo, Brazil

By: Laura Alfaro, Hise O. Gibson, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Pedro Levindo

The case gives readers an overview of key factors of doing business in Brazil, including Brazil’s economic transformation since its colonial years until 2023, when leftist President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva was sworn in for his third term, after the most polarized... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economy; Macroeconomics; Business History; International Relations; Political Elections; Taxation; Consumer Behavior; Brazil; Latin America; Sao Paulo

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

Keywords: solar power; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

28 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

Comparing India and China is to embark on an old puzzle that has fascinated smart people for centuries. The newer question of economic leadership, however—"Which country will overtake the other in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

officials took steps to speed vaccine development last year, the United States and other countries could have paid to build manufacturing infrastructure View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

July 2012
Case

Generation Investment Management

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Matthew Preble

Examines the investment process of Generation Investment Management, a "sustainable" investing firm established in 2004 by David Blood and U.S. Vice President Al Gore. Places students in the position of David Lowish, director of global industrials, who must decide... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Generation; Investment; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Welfare; Financial Services Industry; India; United Kingdom

2001
Other Unpublished Work

Clusters of Innovation: Regional Foundations of U.S. Competitiveness

By: Michael E. Porter

Competitiveness has tended to be seen primarily from a federal perspective, and national policies and circumstances surely affect the prosperity of our economy. However, the Clusters of Innovation Initiative was undertaken with the realization that the real work of... View Details

Keywords: Clusters; Economics; Industry Clusters; Economy; Growth and Development; United States