Emerging Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

Life in Lockdown

a kitten dangling from a tree limb. One visit to Google kills that idea; there are already dozens of companies catering to premenstrual women. What about a service that can make a visit to an urgent care clinic more efficient and draw people there rather than to an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

01 Sep 2009
News

Read All About It!

American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
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Mercado Libre: The Best Is Yet to Come

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Fernando Fragueiro, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal

In 2024, Marcos Galperín, CEO and co-founder of Mercado Libre, reflected on its 25-year rise as Latin America’s largest marketplace, fintech leader, and most valuable public company. With operations spanning 18 countries and a robust ecosystem combining e-commerce,... View Details

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21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

rating systems have emerged to reward good service and integrity. Plan Several Moves Ahead Bob Kraft owns the New England Patriots, one of the most successful franchises in professional sports. Notably, he didn't get the team by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

01 Jun 2008
News

Kash Rangan

a realistic view of the work of nonprofits in general. If you look at social service organizations working at the cutting edge of where markets have failed, the idea of venture philanthropy clicking is a little hard for me to buy into.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

03 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 3

1990s to the 2000s and how the emergence of SecondMarket provided liquidity to privately held companies like iContact, an email and social marketing software-as-a-service (SaaS) company. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
News

Mission Possible

tap the best minds in genetic research. Fresh out of HBS, Cindy Ko (MBA ’05) joined a nonprofit economic-development organization dedicated to supporting entrepreneurs in emerging markets. Although their missions are different, these... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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Credential of Digitial Innovation and Strategy, participants must complete the following requirements: Successfully complete Leading in the Digital World. Earn a Certificate of Completion in Design Thinking and Innovation, Winning with Digital Platforms, and Digital... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

emerging when they begin thinking in terms of what it means to create deeper meaning in the workplace. "Rather than defining spirituality for people," says Whiteley, "I ask them to think of a time, be it at work,... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

14 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina

quality when networks of schools cooperate with each other. When school districts work well, they create these scale advantages; when they do not work well, they are cumbersome bureaucracies. Because of the number of independent charter schools in New Orleans, a View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education

04 Aug 2020
News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

businesses that were going to be a source for good, and that really aspired to both, to profit and to purpose. You know, the whole premise or conceit, if you will, that's sort of taught in business schools, is that the private sector and the free View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

From the Editors

briefly when Bates left in 1928, and former newspaper correspondent John Hunter Sedgwick (MBA '22), who began his ten-year assignment in 1929. In the first of his trademark editorials on world events, Sedgwick commented on the recent stock View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

Capitol Hill. The Case for More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that targeted government regulation of financial markets has worked in the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. “From the... View Details

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

01 Mar 2013
News

A Conversation with Dean Nohria

teach the Brazilians about Brazil—we'll rarely replicate the sort of expertise that can be developed regionally. Instead, we offer cases on India, China, and other emerging markets to help the participants... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

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

04 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 4, 2007

and Consumer Expectations Authors:Feng Zhu and Marco Iansiti Abstract This paper seeks to answer three questions. First, which drives the success of a platform, installed base, platform quality or consumer expectations? Second, when does a monopoly View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

change in global opportunities and risks. With increasing regulation and fierce competition between banks, the Western hemisphere was going to be a tougher place to do business. Emerging markets, however, offered many opportunities.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

30 Jan 2018
First Look

January 30, 2018

Flying J. Flying J owned and operated hundreds of truck stops—which it called Travel Plazas—nationwide and was a growing multi-billion dollar business, but broader problems in the oil and credit markets in late 2008 forced it to declare... View Details