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  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

to support the company's efforts to continue this success. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208046 Take Advantage of Your Diaspora Network Harvard Business School Note 808-029 View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2007
  • Book

Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism

By: G. Jones and Rohit Daniel Wadhwani
These volumes demonstrates the importance of historical perspectives in the study of entrepreneurship. By exploring the role of entrepreneurship in the history of global capitalism, the authors show that historical knowledge can challenge widely accepted... View Details
Keywords: History; Diasporas; Economic Systems; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Firms and Management; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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  • October 2022 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

Aphro Beverages

By: Frank V. Cespedes and Amram Migdal
This case focuses on distribution, sales, and product decisions as Aphro Beverages reaches an inflection point in its growth trajectory. In 2020, Aphro Beverages, based in Accra, Ghana, successfully launched its brand and brought two new alcoholic spirits products to... View Details
Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Food; Geography; Geographic Scope; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Resource Allocation; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Digital Marketing; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Social Marketing; Operations; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Supply Chain; Sales; Salesforce Management; Food and Beverage Industry; Africa; Ghana
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  • Fall 2017
  • Article

The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets

By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Davila and Geoffrey Jones
This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Developing Countries and Economies; Business History; Asia; Latin America; Africa
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  • August 2005 (Revised July 2014)
  • Case

Can Bollywood Go Global?

By: Geoffrey Jones, Namrata Arora, Surachita Mishra and Alexis Lefort
Considers the opportunities and challenges facing Indian film producers in accessing the global film market. Provides a historical context by describing the history of the cinema and the rise of Hollywood to global dominance by the 1920s. Although film industries... View Details
Keywords: History; Competition; Film Entertainment; Globalized Markets and Industries; Product Development; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; India
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  • March 2022 (Revised May 2022)
  • Case

Reclaiming the Land of Purple: Purpl’s Mission to Unlock Finance in Lebanon

By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
Karl Naim, Co-Founder and CEO of Purpl, embarked on a venture to lower remittance costs for his native Lebanon. Since October 2019, the Lebanese economy had entered a free fall as its banking sector collapsed and large swathes of its population were plunged into... View Details
Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Cross-border Frictions; Remittances; Business Startups; Diasporas; Financial Crisis; Money; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Poverty; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Lebanon
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History

By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila and Geoffrey Jones
This working paper suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Emerging Markets; Developing Countries and Economies
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  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

  PublicationsThe Rise of the Modern Firm Authors:Geoffrey Jones and Walter A. Friedman, eds. Publication:Northampton, Mass: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., 2012 This authoritative volume focuses on the rise of modern firms, from their early history to the present day.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Tarun Khanna

    Tarun Khanna is the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at the Harvard Business School. For almost three decades, he has studied entrepreneurship as a means to social and economic development in emerging markets. At HBS since 1993, after obtaining degrees from Princeton... View Details

    • 19 Sep 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

    Keywords: by William R. Kerr

      Meg Rithmire

      Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details

      Keywords: real estate

        William R. Kerr

        William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research, co-director of Harvard’s Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the... View Details

        Keywords: communications; computer; consulting; high technology; information technology industry; management consulting; manufacturing; telecommunications; venture capital industry
        • 28 Jan 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

        money. They have to be clever experiments, not expensive ones. Q: How does each country treat its diaspora in terms of stoking entrepreneurship at "home"? A: To put it bluntly, China has embraced its diaspora, and India has... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace
        • Web

        Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

        Terrab Melek El Nimer Helmy Abouleish Ghassan E. Nuqul Silvia Gold Christoph Schiess Sanjay Bansal Shamlu Dudeja Patrick Chalhoub Aban Pestonjee Ela Bhatt Fadi Ghandour Anu Aga Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Project Coordinator Tarun Khanna Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor Research... View Details
        • Web

        Alumni - Global

        Career Change At LinkedIn, shifting cultural norms around work in Japan Re: Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003); By: Michelle Cassidy 01 Jun 2024 HBS Alumni Bulletin Outside Voices Organizing the Greek diaspora to help rebuild the country—and create... View Details
        • Web

        HBS - The year in Review

        contemporary art program. The bronze work Sentinel (Mami Wata) by artist Simone Leigh takes inspiration from an animistic deity celebrated throughout Africa and the African diaspora and invites reflection on the way African cultural... View Details
        • Web

        Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

        Development Economics (33) Diasporas (3) Disruption (22) Disruptive Innovation (27) Distribution Channels (20) Distribution (45) Diversification (1) Diversity (248) Duopoly and Oligopoly (2) Early Childhood Education (2) Earnings... View Details
        • Portrait Project

        Sonali Bloom

        apparently disjointed halves into a stronger whole. Today, I thrive at the confluence of the possibly-impossible: using the left- and right-brain in concert, trying to make something out of nothing (but an idea), doing well by doing good. I feel the presence of a View Details
        • Web

        Events - Business History

        25 25 Sep 2017 Business History Seminar Co-ethnic Capital in Coastal China and India: The Developmental Diasporas of Guangdong and Kerala Kellee Tsai, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Jul 14 14 Jul 2017 Conference Oral... View Details
        • 06 Aug 2019
        • Blog Post

        Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism - Discovering the Business of Storytelling

        languages, cities, interests. We’re also American.   So how do we tell our stories? Especially as South Asians become the largest diaspora and the fastest-growing major demographic in the United States. Especially as people increasingly... View Details