Emerging Market - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2010
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Money Matters

Indian stock market was booming, and investors had grown accustomed to outsized returns. Then the bottom fell out. The financial crisis spawned in the United States reverberated around the globe during the summer and fall of 2008, and... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the regional cooperatives own SOK, a centralized company that provides services to the regional cooperatives. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, S Group lagged far... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

in expenses. As a result, our net operating surplus more than doubled, enabling us to invest in the School’s emerging strategic priorities while maintaining a healthy unrestricted reserves balance to spur new initiatives. In view of the... View Details

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

non-stereotypical characteristic. A reluctance to discriminate emerges if workers share the gender or birth month of the worker from the worse-performing group, but even then, a small “excuse" counters this reluctance. Thus, our... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 4

emergence or change. Yet the question of identity endurance is equally puzzling. Relying primarily on the analysis of 309 internal bulletins produced at a French aeronautics firm over almost fifty years, we theorize a link between... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

your organization Who Will Benefit Innovative Leaders and Intrapreneurs High-Potential, Mid-Level Managers Experienced Team Leaders Drive innovation within companies of all stages and sizes—whether an established market leader, a... View Details

01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action

hold for businesses all over the world has inspired HBS to establish its own startup here. Last summer the School's California Research Center (CRC) opened its doors in Menlo Park at 3000 Sand Hill Road, an address at the hub of the venture capital community. As the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Feb 1999
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Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

include whether high-performance Asian companies can provide a business model for success in the region, the role of accounting infrastructure in transitional economies, restructuring diversified businesses in emerging markets, and... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Mar 2017
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017

Alumni Books Out of the Desert: My Journey from Nomadic Bedouin to the Heart of Global Oil by Ali Al-Naimi (AMP 82, 1979) (Penguin UK) Until May 7, 2016, Ali Al-Naimi was the Saudi oil minister (and an OPEC kingpin), a position he held for 20 years. As global oil’s... View Details

01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues

modern life." As computer technology emerged in the 1950s, initial reactions in the Bulletin were mixed. "One of the most dramatic developments in the business world is the growth of automatic data processing," wrote a faculty member in... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1996
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Leading In a New Era

have today's senior executives, trained in the days when the pyramidal organization and domestic markets held sway, made the transition to a global, technology-driven economy? For three 1971 classmates and corporate leaders, Donald J.... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Deborah A. Farrington

calls “the biggest success of my venture capital career,” paid off handsomely. NetSuite went public in 2007 and today has a market cap of $8 billion. Netsuite is one of the leading software-as-a-service companies, along with... View Details

01 Dec 1996
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An Entrepreneurial Journey

Steven B. Belkin (MBA '71) began his highly successful travel and financial services marketing enterprise, Trans National Group, a few years out of HBS. G. Peter Bidstrup (MBA '59) started to put together the Doubletree Hotel chain in the... View Details

01 Apr 1996
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Technology for Learning's Sake

IBM-based network built around Lotus Notes in the Advanced Management Program. These two initiatives led to enhanced faculty collaboration and the first use of interactive multimedia teaching tools for case discussion. Just as many companies during this period... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

By the end of the second spin-off regime, Xerox's position in the copier market had begun to improve. While its share of the market would never return to 80 percent levels, Xerox was able to regain more than... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

17 Jun 2021
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Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity

on all levels, personally and professionally. Our theme, Emerge Stronger, really spoke to people. The speakers we attracted were just mind-blowing! I think we hit on something unique here by looking back on the year with positivity and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments

Illustration by Marcos Chin It’s market day in Barrio Curtidores, which means the main thoroughfare is packed with shoppers perusing makeshift stands that offer everything from jeans and blenders to vegetables and tacos. Moto-taxis... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; impact investing; ideas; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

20 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 20, 2007

relies heavily on foreign debt. Access to such debt is suddenly curtailed when there is a downturn in market sentiment regarding the Icelandic economy as a whole. Students will reflect on the essential elements of a communications... View Details