Developing Markets - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2017
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The Business of Lego Batman

big movies with Warner Bros and I'm making middle market movies with Netflix, because people now are able to get what they want when they want it, which wasn't the case when I first started the business. Hanna: Can you tell me about your... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

20 Oct 2022
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Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

2019, so we're excited to get a large turnout to help us build further momentum as we move out of COVID.” A historian by training, Professor Fibiger’s work focuses on Asia’s 20th century. Professor Robertson’s research centers on the history of financial View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 1997
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Critical Information: MIS Monitors the Ever-Changing World of IT

MIS faculty, as well as faculty from other units whose research is related to MIS, are currently engaged in research to track the evolution of information technology and to determine how IT infrastructure can create value in the marketplace. Nolan, who View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb

01 Jan 2009
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Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985

Jorge Paulo Lemann, Carlos Sicupira, and Marcel Telles have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than 30 years. The three friends and business partners have much in common: remarkable business acumen, a strong... View Details

01 Jun 2010
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Alumni Books

how companies use innovative business models to achieve transformational growth by fulfilling customer needs in current markets; serving new customers and creating new markets; and responding to shifts in market demand, government policy,... View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

14 Mar 2019
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The Merchant of Osaka

government is building on communitybased care models across the country—as are foreign governments, from Myanmar to Saudi Arabia. Oishi is an unlikely hero for the country’s health care crisis: a marketing expert pushing to enact sweeping... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

Warnock, cofounder, chairman, and CEO of Adobe Systems, and Alan Taffel, vice president for marketing and sales at UUNET Technologies, discussed some of the most sweeping implications of today's information technology at a plenary session... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight

to lose faith in the rationality of the market and closed his fund. Next-step options, such as a CFO or director of corporate development position, filled his head as he left the top-floor co-op of the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

22 Feb 2022
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Savings and Loam

Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but also retailers, processors, distributors, or even adjacent... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

compromising their way of life? The author provides surprising answers and helps readers develop a new understanding of the full ramifications of climate change, including the discovery that they have far more control over the impacts of... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

have apparently not been greatly injurious to the steamships. Both forms of transport have prospered. Air transport has developed a separate travel market among passengers with only limited time. Though the... View Details

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

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

engineering consulting company, and his mother started four businesses, ranging from a video game store to a bakery—Kehinde was exposed early on to the pains of capital constraints. “I grew up seeing how difficult it is,” he says. Working in an emerging View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

23 May 2019
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Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, MBA 1995

Gentera into the largest microfinance firm in the Americas. Rodríguez’s interest in using microloans to invest in developing economies was first sparked at HBS in 1994 when he helped organize the Latin American Conference. Through a... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership

the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Oct 1996
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Lasting Impressions

grown men! I was out of my element and much too scared to talk in class." "I had a sense from the first day that ours was going to be a class in transition," says Mike Feeley, chairman of the Sino-American Development Corporation, who... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

01 Sep 2013
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Who Are We?

in Asia but in the Middle East that really got Kondo excited about social media. After a stint as a World Fellow at Yale (where he developed Table for Two, a nonprofit he cofounded to fight both hunger and obesity internationally), he... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Julia Hanna; Dan Morrell; social media,; Twitter; SodaStream; consulting; consultant; CEO; farming; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Agriculture; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2016
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Case Study: On the Table

their experience, real estate, and logistics. In exchange, you can expand their product offerings and grow their customer segment. —Cindy Park (PLDA 12, 2013) Here are my quick thoughts based on years of emerging and developed View Details

15 Jun 2021
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HBS Addresses Racial Equity

the Racial Equity Plan (REP), which was developed last summer by members of the Dean’s Anti-Racism Task Force and launched in September. “There always have been people dedicated to diversity, equity, and inclusion at HBS, and the new... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

08 Nov 2024
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Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection

Pereira, Taylor Margis-Noguera (MBA 2003), Liz Montano (MBA 2009), Dr. Phyllis Fineman Schlesinger, Prof. Len Schlesinger, Gabe Esparza (MBA 2000) “We always find this gathering to be a great time for learning,” says HBSLAA Board Member Milagros Carter (MBA 2013), who... View Details