Publications

2012
Chapter

Is Private Equity in Emerging Markets Coming of Age?: Evidence of the Mexican Private Equity Market

By: Roberto Charvel and Darek Klonowski

This chapters reviews the potential of the private equity and alternative assets industry in Mexico. View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Emerging Markets; Latin America; Mexico; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Ventures; Economics; Finance; Market Design; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; Mexico

18 Sep 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets

Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Mia Raynard

17 Jun 2010
News

The Most Emerging of Emerging Markets

Keywords: Professor Tarun Khanna; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

October 2018
Case

Corruption and Business in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna and Nataliya Langburd Wright

The case is built around video clips from top business leaders in emerging markets who were interviewed for Harvard Business School’s innovative Creating Emerging Markets oral history project. Corruption is a widespread problem in emerging markets, and this case is... View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Emerging Markets

20 Sep 2011
News

Filling "Institutional Voids" in Emerging Markets

April 2019 (Revised July 2019)
Case

Innovation and Business in Emerging Markets

By: Geoffrey Jones, Tarun Khanna, Nataliya Langburd Wright and Morgan Spencer

The case is built around video clips from top business leaders in emerging markets who were interviewed for Harvard Business School’s innovative Creating Emerging Markets oral history project. The case is focused on the issue of innovation in emerging markets from a... View Details

Keywords: Oral History; Innovation and Invention; Business Ventures; Emerging Markets; Problems and Challenges

economies, including issues of corporate reputation and responsibility in business. Right now I’m working on business involvement in education CSR initiatives, using the unique dataset from the Business History Initiative’s Creating View Details

August 2005 (Revised March 2024)
Background Note

Spotting Institutional Voids in Emerging Markets

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu

With the demise of communism, many countries in the world are striving to build their economic activity around markets and to participate in free trade arrangements, such as the World Trade Organization (WTO), European Union (EU), and North American Free Trade... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

Emerging markets such as the BRIC countries—Brazil, Russia, India, and China—entice and intimidate. When managers are asked what is special about emerging markets, they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Dec 2010
News

Innovations from Emerging Markets

Keywords: Professor Tarun Khanna; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

30 May 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza; Banking

2012
Article

Organizational Identity as an Anchor for Adaptation: An Emerging Market Perspective

By: Andres Hatum, Luciana Silvestri, Roberto Vassolo and Andrew Pettigrew

There is little doubt that organizational identity—that which is central, distinctive, and enduring about an organization—mediates in adaptive processes. Exactly how this mediation takes place, and whether it is favorable or unfavorable to adaptation, must still be... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Identity; Emerging Economies; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture

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14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

The growth and competiveness of emerging markets is a fundamental reality in global business today. Yet it is often forgotten just how much these countries have changed in a short period of time, how... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

11 May 2015
News

How Emerging Markets Can Finally Arrive

November 2020
Background Note

Valuation in Emerging Markets

By: Paul A. Gompers

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Real estate: emerging markets

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05 Sep 2018
Video

James Mwangi Creating Emerging Markets Full Interview

2017
Working Paper

Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets

By: Laura Alfaro, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari and Ugo Panizza

This paper documents a set of new stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the Asian Financial Crisis (AFC) attributed to corporate... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Debt; Financial Fragility; Firm-level Data; Large Firms; Emerging Markets; Borrowing and Debt; Corporate Finance; Financial Condition