Asia - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

South Asia Institute and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, has been studying and writing about India’s space program for many years and is part of a space research working group led Professor Matt Weinzierl at the... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

31 Aug 2015
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How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

work’s publication history and geographic influence. Recently, the Center for Research Libraries recognized the site with its 2015 Award for Primary Research. Although The Way to Wealth appeared in a few South American editions, and made its way to View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

Janice H. Hammond

Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details

Keywords: apparel; distribution; e-commerce industry; manufacturing; retailing; textiles; transportation

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HBS - The year in Review

C. “Tosh” Barron MBA 1972 Former President, Engineering Systems; Former President, Office Products Division, Xerox Corporation Salman A. Khan MBA 2003 Founder and CEO, Khan Academy Naina Lal Kidwai MBA 1982 Former Executive Director, Board of HSBC View Details

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Governance ; Corporate Accountability ; Leadership ; Change Management ; Mergers and Acquisitions ; Health Industry ; Asia ; India ; Middle East ; United Arab Emirates Citation Educators Related Narayanan, V.G., and Kairavi Dey. "Creating... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony

the Seoul offices of MBK Partners, Kim contemplates shelves of Lucite trophies commemorating some of the many successful deals of the private equity firm he cofounded in 2005. Others stretch back to his days as president of Carlyle Asia... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

04 Feb 2002
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How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

International, 1998). According to Hayes and Vogel, business people, particularly Westerners who work in the Persian Gulf and other Islamic regions such as Asia and North Africa, need to appreciate the extent to which religion and Islamic... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Lynn S. Paine

Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

Randolph B. Cohen

Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details

Keywords: financial services; investment banking industry

Ramana Nanda

Ramana Nanda is Professor of Entrepreneurial Finance and Academic Lead of the Institute for Deep Tech Entrepreneurship at Imperial College London. His research examines financing frictions facing new ventures, with an aim to help entrepreneurs with fundraising and... View Details

Keywords: banking; biotechnology; energy; financial services; green technology; microfinance; nonprofit industry; venture capital industry

Chip Bergh

Chip Bergh is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School. Prior to joining HBS, Chip served as president and chief executive officer of Levi Strauss & Co. (LS&Co.) from September 2011 until January 2024. He also served on the Company’s Board of Directors... View Details

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About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies , the Harvard University Center for African Studies , and the Lakshmi Mittal and Family South Asia Institute at Harvard University to identify new interviewees. In Latin America, the... View Details

February 2016 (Revised April 2020)
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In the Name of Democracy? The Rise and Decline of India's Congress Party

By: Akshay Mangla and Jonathan Schlefer

In 1950 it looked highly doubtful that Indian democracy would hold—typical family income was $6 a month, only about 15% of the population was literate, there were deep religious and ethnic differences, and more than a dozen national languages were spoken. But after a... View Details

Keywords: Congress Party; Economic Development; Democratization; Economic Reform; Economic Systems; Government and Politics; Developing Countries and Economies; Development Economics; India

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Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

Businesses that dismiss TikTok as merely a platform for teenagers looking to create and consume cat and dance videos do so at their own peril. That’s the message of a Harvard Business School case study tracing the video-sharing app’s explosive rise to the world's... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

February 2010 (Revised January 2013)
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The Dabbawala System: On-Time Delivery, Every Time

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Mona Sinha

Describes the Mumbai-based Dabbawala organization, which achieves very high service performance (6 Sigma equivalent or better) with a low-cost and very simple operating system. The case explores all aspects of their system (mission, information management, material... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Logistics; Alignment; Management Systems; Human Resources; Innovation and Invention; Mumbai

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Investors - Entrepreneurship

Capital Partners MBA 1991 Ben Nye Bain Capital Ventures MBA 1992 Swee Ting Pan JAFCO Asia MBA 2007 Neil Rimer Index Ventures MBA 1991 Thomas Roberts Summit Partners MBA 1989 Ryan Schwarz NaviMed Capital MBA 1994 Neil Sequeira General... View Details

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Research Resources - Doctoral

Global Research Activities Africa Asia-Pacific California Europe Japan Latin America Middle East & North Africa South Asia Harvard University Harvard University Libraries HBS Doctoral students have access to the more than 90 libraries... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Keywords: Financial Instruments ; Compensation and Benefits ; Retention ; Ownership ; Africa ; Asia ; Europe ; Latin America ; Middle East ; North and Central America Citation Educators Related Rouen, Ethan, and Jenyfeer Martinez... View Details

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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

Marketing Strategy ; Customer Focus and Relationships ; Asia ; India Citation Educators Purchase Related Zhang, Shunyuan, Kannan Srinivasan, and Malini Sen. "Ather Energy: The Future of Mobility." Harvard Business School Case 525-040,... View Details

Marco Iansiti

Marco Iansiti, David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration,is a codirector of the Laboratory for Information Science at Harvard and of the Digital Initiative at HBS.

Prof. Iansiti's research examines the digital transformation of companies and... View Details

Keywords: automotive; computer; e-commerce industry; electronics; fiber optics; high technology; information; information technology industry; internet; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; venture capital industry

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